Program Management

Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership Center-Rollins College
This center works to increase the social impact and effectiveness of philanthropy in the state of Florida through education, research and public communications.

The Alliance for Nonprofit Management
This is a professional association of individuals and organizations devoted to improving the management and governance capacity of nonprofits.

Charitychannel
This site is the oldest and largest online community of nonprofit professionals in the United States.

Free Management Library
This library, with a wide range of topics, is a great starting place for resources for nonprofits.

Nonprofit Genie
Good online resource with answers to frequently asked questions on everything from finding insurance and the right phone system to financial management and strategic planning.

Guidestar
This national database for nonprofit organizations allows you to post your nonprofit mission and achievements to increase your visibility to donors.

Financial Management Budgeting Basics
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
This article stresses the importance of a budget and provides resources for developing a budge process.

By the Numbers: Using Data for Program Improvement
Megan Swiderski
How can data improve a program? Can data shape the way teachers teach, managers manage, and students learn? This article helps to answer these questions and more.

Story of Improvement
Jane Cody, James Ford & Kathleen Hayward
This is the story of an adult literacy program that decided that merely glancing in the mirror was no longer enough.

Assessing Workplace Performance Problems: A Checklist
Kay Westerfield & Miriam Burt
This digest looks at questions developed from a framework used in business training departments to assess the nature and relative importance of worker performance problems and to offer solutions.

Learning Organizations Need Knowledge Workers
Patrick J. O'Connor, Carole Richards & Robert P. Meyer
This article reports on the experiences of workers and managers in nine Northeast Ohio companies that participated in a pilot project to determine the impact of basic skills training on employee and organizational effectiveness.

Manual for Volunteer Literacy Programs: Volume One
This resource covers topics of interest to volunteer literacy programs. Topics include collaboration, policies, sample forms and more.

Manual for Volunteer Literacy Programs: Volume Two
This resource covers topics of interest to volunteer literacy programs. Topics include citizenship, family literacy,
time management and more.

Establishing a Nonprofit Organization
Describes how establish a nonprofit organization task by task, including board development, creating bylaws, filing for federal tax exemption, recruiting staff, and developing a fundraising plan.

NonProfit Times
This online monthly newspaper for nonprofits features stories and columns from the print edition as well as other online resources.

Sample By-laws
This sample set of by-laws includes information on the Purpose, Board of Directors, Members and more of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.

Let Data Be Your Guide: A Planning Handbook for and by Library Adult Literacy Programs
This handbook features planning strategies developed by library literacy programs, but is valuable for all adult literacy programs.

Florida's Program Plan for Adult Education and Family Literacy Years 2000 -2004
This published report includes information on annual evaluations and performance measures as set forth by the Department of Education.

Adult Education Curriculum Checklist
This checklist provides benchmarks for curriculum in Adult Basic Education, GED and ESL.