Key Coalition Issues

Learn how to start a youth-driven organization focused on issues they care about.

What does it mean to incorporate your operations into another organization? ___Another organization absorbs yours as a subsidiary. ___Your organization ceases to exist at all, and its services and activities -- or only some of them -- are taken over by the new organization as part of what it does. How to decide when it's time to incorporate into another entity. ___An internal

Learn how to create and use a logic model, a visual representation of your initiative's activities, outputs, and expected outcomes.

Example #1: A Corps Participant's Weekly Journal Entry Each participant writes an entry for his or her Critical Reflection Journal. Each week's entry is prepared before the end of the week (1-2 double-spaced typed pages total). A journal entry consists of weekly comments on an idea important for building healthy communities, overall reflections on problems or challenges in

Learn the basic principals of Total Quality Management (TQM) and why maintaining quality is important to the target population, to funders, and to the community.

The Long Island Center for Independent Living (LICIL) is a non-residential, consumer-run, community-based organization that provides services by and for people with all types of disabilities within Nassau County on Long Island, New York.

Learn the role of a finance committee in a nonprofit, what its purposes are, why it's necessary, and how to set up and use one in your organization.

Learn how program evaluation makes it easier for everyone involved in community health and development work to evaluate their efforts.

Learn how to effectively communicate information and research results to funders and to a public audience.

Learn how to develop an ongoing Board of Directors that will help focus your organization and ensure that its mission continues to be carried out.

Tool 1: Tips for Recruiting, Retaining, and Recognizing Volunteers Research sources of potential volunteers in your community Don't forget schools, churches, neighborhood groups, businesses, service organizations and clubs, youth groups, senior groups, media and grassroots groups. Define target groups to recruit Ask current members why they volunteered, what continues to

Tool 1: Internal audit sheet Use this sheet to do an internal audit for your organization as described in Step 3 of this section. Depending on the size of your organization, you may need to add additional pages, or further separate some of the categories. On the other hand, many of the costs listed will not be applicable to smaller groups. To use this sheet, do the following:

Learn how to plan for the financial stability of your organization, including tips from folks who have been doing this work for a long time.

Learn how to set up an email list to distribute information inexpensively and quickly to people within your organization and community.

Learn how your organization can build a dedication to its cause and a willingness to get involved in their activities and how to sustain it.

Learn how to decide exactly what to evaluate and steps you'll need to take to design, implement, and use the evaluation.

Supports

Learn how to be more efficient at accomplishing your organizations goals by developing leaders.

See quick tips and examples for how to develop strategic and action plans.

Learn how to develop a plan for involving volunteers that will bring needed skills, save money, Increase community ownership, and bring new energy.

Learn how you might go about celebrating colleagues, whether you're surprising them with an award or just leaving notes of thanks on coworkers' desks.

Learn why and when you might want to take advantage of personnel resources, where such people might be found, and how to go about it.

Learn about process and outcome measures, the observational system, and regular feedback on performance.

See quick tips and examples for how to increase participation and membership.

Learn how using your personal, moral, legal, and social standards can increase your program effectiveness and provide you with moral standing in the community.

Learn about the advantages (i.e., serving a larger range of people) and disadvantages (i.e., increased record-keeping responsibility) to pursuing third-party payment.

Learn what incorporating your work into another organization means, decide when and if it's necessary, and how to choose an appropriate organization.

___You understand what a staff orientation program is. ___You know why you should have a staff orientation program and what it will accomplish. Before the staff orientation program:

Learn how to develop specific procedures to maintain a strong board, ensuring the continuation and success of the organization's mission.

Learn how to increase access to health and community services.