This article synthesizes insights from different nonprofit books to provide best practices when managing personnel needs, staff and volunteer recruitment and hiring, orientation and onboarding, and compensation.

This collection of resources provides tools and materials for both existing and new nonprofit organizations, including resources specific to the city of San Francisco.

This collection of resources offer trainings and articles to support the process of starting a nonprofit.

This report presents case profiles of nonprofits that explored merger opportunities with guidance from the Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative (NSI)—a collaborative effort aimed at helping Los Angeles-area nonprofits pursue formal partnerships and restructuring strategies to build sustainability and amplify community impact.

This article provides an overview of common insurance policies and asserts the importance of implementing comprehensive liability insurance to manage potential crises, such as fraud, cyberattack, mismanagement, or discrimination.

This article clarifies the distinction between nonprofit status and tax-exempt status, and explains the complex audit processes the IRS must follow to revoke an organization’s tax-exempt status. Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

This archive of educational videos from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) covers a wide range of topics across various industries and sectors.

The Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT) and related trainings equip nonprofit consultants and organizational development professionals with the tools to assess and strengthen organizational effectiveness.

This collection of documents provides up-to-date guidelines on California's pay-to-play contribution restrictions and prohibitions.

Este paquete le ayudará a crear un plan de preparación familiar, independientemente de su estatus migratorio. Por los retos adicionales que los inmigrantes y familias con status migratorios variados enfrentan, también hay consejos adicionales. Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

This chapter on power mapping illustrates how to visually map relationships between people, organizations, and institutions to better understand and leverage networks for coalition building and citizen lobbying.

This guidance helps organizations determine if and how lobbying rules in California might affect nonprofit organizations, including guidelines, definitions, case study, and additional resources.

This document outlines 33 principles for best practices for charitable organizations and foundations related to legal compliance and public disclosure, effective governance, financial oversight, and responsible fundraising.

This guide provides steps, reflections, and examples for how to manage scaling, building, creating or expanding nonprofit programs.

This case study illustrates how two organizations successfully merged their parent education programs to establish a joint program that reduced duplication, improved service quality, expanded their reach, and attracted greater donor funding.

This article describes the steps that nonprofits can take to reduce its liability in the process of laying off employees.

This brief, free self-paced interactive webinar (including a transcription) provides guidance for which disclosures are required to remain compliant with the IRS as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, including annual return forms, applications for exemption, determination letters, and acknowledgement letters for tax-deductibility of donations.

This tool provides a template for leadership, staff, board, and other stakeholders to reflect on their organization's values and priorities in order to align internally in the face of threats from the Trump administration. Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

This sample code of conduct policy for board members covers several issues, including conflict of interest, sexual harassment, confidentiality, and active participation.

This article provides brief sample job descriptions and responsibilities for various board positions: Board Chair, Vice Chair, Committee Chair, Board Member, Secretary, and Treasurer.

This sample bylaw document outlines which sections are typically needed in a nonprofit's bylaws, which will serve as a guidebook for the board of directors on holding elections, fulfilling quorum requirements, organizing meetings and keeping the meetings orderly.

This local foundation offers fiscal sponsorship opportunities to help neighborhood associations, clubs, groups of citizens, and community-minded people who want to take action to help one or more specific San Jose Parks, or San Jose Parks more broadly.

This community defense project protects immigrant families from deportation threats and provides accompaniment support during and after a community member’s arrest or detention. The webpage offers "Know Your Rights" cards and trainings. Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

These templates are designed to help organizations make informed budgeting and management decisions by planning for various income, expense, and programmatic impact scenarios. Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

This collection of resources from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics offers a wide array of articles and case studies on ethics in the nonprofit sector.

This collection of resources explores the fundamentals of forming nonprofit corporations, the various types of nonprofits, and managing organizational documentation

This toolkit details different childcare options available in case of an absent parent, where to find trusted immigration services in your community, and how to prepare to assert your constitutional rights in the presence of an immigration officer. Este paquete detalla las diferentes opciones de cuidado infantil disponibles en caso de que un padre este ausente, dónde encontrar servicios de inmigración de confianza en su comunidad, y cuáles son sus derechos constitucionales en presencia de un oficial de inmigración.Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

Apply and enroll in this paid week-long in-person course for nonprofit leaders to drive strategic growth and greater impact. Participants will learn how to focus their mission, design effective services, build core capabilities, evaluate scaling options, and implement strong performance and governance systems.

Este sitio web ofrece videos de gratis para preparar y defender de manera segura nuestros derechos durante encuentros con la agencia de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE). Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

This article provides visualization, explanations, and specific examples of the different ways that organizations can join together to achieve a shared goal, including methods of collaboration, alliances, and strategic restructuring.

This guide provides a template for the different sections and items recommended for an employee handbook, including general employment policies, employment status, recruiting and hiring, compensation, employee benefits, organizational property, and workplace conduct.

This resource collection provides up-to-date insights into the executive orders issued in 2025 and how they impact nonprofits' federal grants and contracts; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; 501(c)(3) status; and more. Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

This article provides an overview of the negotiation process involved when two or more nonprofits decide to merge, including steps such as passing formal resolutions, forming a merger committee, and integrating departments across the organizations.

This two-part workbook series offers practical tools and strategic analysis to support nonprofits exploring and implementing mergers.

This study of the U.S. nonprofit arts and cultural subsector (2008–2018) argues that overhead spending is neither inherently good nor bad, but advocates for an optimal level that supports nonprofit sustainability. The findings have implications for charity monitors, donors, scholars, and other stakeholders concerned with nonprofit accountability and effectiveness.

This case study on the partnership between two Bay Area organizations illustrates how leadership behaviors helped create the conditions for successful partnership.

This collaborative promotes, expands, and defends race-explicit grantmaking and programming, ensuring that equity remains at the forefront of philanthropic efforts across diverse communities. Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

This report draws from five years of data from nonprofit organizations to examine how diversity shifts across leadership levels; how diversity among CEOs shifts across nonprofit size, revenue, cause, and location; diversity of board members; and differences between organizations with majority BIPOC leadership and majority white leadership.

This article describes the unique accounting needs of nonprofit organizations and provides an overview of different factors that nonprofits should consider when adopting accounting software.

This organization explains fiscal sponsorship and its various models, including discussion on how these models function generally and specifically within the Tides framework.

This collection provides up-to-date resources tracking federal policy changes and their impacts on nonprofits. Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

This free webinar discusses the distinction between business planning, financial planning, and strategic planning; how to present risks to board members; and frameworks to analyze your model and explain to stakeholders. Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

This article provides guidance for what to include, and exclude, from nonprofit annual reports. It includes visual examples from other annual reports and explains why they were effective.

This report offers a comprehensive analysis of compensation trends within the nonprofit sector. With data from 200+ nonprofit organizations, it examines a spectrum of job roles and pay structures, highlighting key developments, including disparities in compensation, shifts in industry benchmarks, and continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nonprofits.

This website offers free informative videos to prepare for and safely defend our rights during encounters with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

This report illustrates patterns of politically-motivated threats to social justice organizations, how they can distract or weaken an organization, and the steps groups are taking to armor themselves and emerge stronger. Part of SVCN's Resilience Resources: Tools and Information to Manage and Adapt to Federal Policy Shifts.

This article builds on the concept of corporate social responsibility, emphasizing that nonprofits should also commit to socially responsible initiatives.