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- Mississippi River Basin Benchmarking Report
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- Four Stages and Four Challenges of Organizational Development
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- Closing an Environmental Nonprofit Well: The Case History of the Safe Energy Communication Council
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- Managing in Hard Times
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- Harvest-CLCA Stories
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- We Want to be at the Table: Helping Environmental Groups Rebuild After Katrina
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- 2006 Annual Report: A Bountiful Harvest of Success
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Mississippi River Basin Benchmarking Report
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In 1999, the Institute for Conservation Leadership began a three-year program to help environmental and conservation groups build strong organizations. With generous support from the McKnight Foundation, the Institute developed a "Benchmarking Workbook" that guides groups through an organizational self-assessment process. The workbook helps them choose indicators, measure performance, and set goals for their organization.
Thirty-three groups that work in the Mississippi River basin completed the workbook. They also agreed to complete the workbook during the next two years. Institute staff collected workbook data from all of the groups during a phone interview. In addition, seventeen of those groups applied to participate in the Institute's Sustainable Organizations Program-intensive organizational assistance-and seven were selected.
Four Stages and Four Challenges of Organizational Development
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- Describes one model of the way that many organizations develop and the problems and challenges that are likely to arise at various stages;
- Encourages leaders to assess where their own organizations stand, among the stages; and
- Helps them judge which of the challenges they're currently facing are "developmentally determined," as it were, and what challenges they may expect in the future.
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Closing an Environmental Nonprofit Well: The Case History of the Safe Energy Communication Council
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- The best of advice for the worst of situations ... if you have to close down, Scott Denman can tell you how to do it well, salvaging much of your organization's work and avoiding potential pitfalls. His lessons are important whether your organization is on the edge or poised for success. Read how Scott Denman shut down the Safe Energy Communications Council, and what he learned along the way.
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- Best practices and tools for managers of environmental and conservation nonprofits in a tight economic and shifting political situation. How to track your finances, recognize danger signals, assess your options, and, if necessary, make tough decisions fairly with the best interests of the organization in mind.
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