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Legal
Overview
SLS Sample Risk Assessment Tool

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Legal
Template
Sample SLS Grant Agreement

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Legal
Template
Sample SLS Letter of Intent and Term Sheet

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Racial Equity
Video
Microaggressions
How Microaggressions are Like Mosquito Bites

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Racial Equity
Video
Microaggressions
How Unintentional but Insidious Bias Can be the Most Harmful

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Racial Equity
Video
Microaggressions
Microaggressions Explained

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Racial Equity
Video
Racial Equity Lens
Building a Racial Equity Team

Driving Toward Equity

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Racial Equity
Video
Racial Equity Lens
Crafting Our Messages

Driving Toward Equity

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Racial Equity
Video
Racial Equity Lens
How Racism Works and How Municipal Leaders Can Stop It

Driving Toward Equity

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Racial Equity
Video
Racial Equity Lens
How to Pursue Racial Equity within Your Workplace

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Racial Equity
Video
Racial Equity Lens
Using a Racial Equity Lens

Cynthia Muller

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Evaluation
Template
Logic Model Templates
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Evaluation
Guide
Evaluation Reporting

A Guide to Help Ensure Use of Evaluation Findings

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Evaluation
Interactive Tool
Community Commons
Dylomo

Interactive Logic Model

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Finance
Template
Financial Management Webinar
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Finance
Template
Financial Management Webinar
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Health Research
Interactive Tool
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
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Leadership
Overview
An event or an era?

Resources for social sector decision-making in the context of COVID-19

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Leadership
Guide
COVID-19 Nonprofit Decision Framework

How Nonprofit Organizations can Thrive in the Emerging Economy

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Leadership
Report
Measuring Together

A Learning Approach for Inclusive Economies

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Leadership
Report
Sustainability Formula

How Nonprofit Organizations can Thrive in the Emerging Economy

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Software

Communication Management

Marco Polo

Marco Polo combines the best of texting, social media and video chats - all in one private, easy to use app. You can talk to colleges face-to-face even if they on your time, even if they aren't iPhone users because Marco Polo works over WiFi anywhere in the world.

Life is busy. Marco Polo works when you have a moment to talk, even if your schedules don’t match. Unlike other video apps, you don’t need to be live.

The free version of Marco Polo includes:

  • 100% free with no ads
  • Unlimited chats
  • Unlimited groups (great for if you need to segment groups according to departments)
  • Notification controls
  • Ability to upgrade at any point

In addition, Marco Polo Plus has a paid membership plan that unlocks premium features.

Find step-by-step instructions to download Marco Polo from the Google Play App Store by clicking the button below.

Financial Tracking

Smart Receipts

Smart Receipts turns your phone into a receipt scanner, mileage tracker, and expense report generator. This is a good solution to record your daily expenses. Just snap the receipt and it will be recognized. With fully customizable PDF, CSV, and ZIP reports, you can create professional reports for both your personal finance tracking and your employer’s needs. Smart Receipts allows you to select from over 20 different default data types (including dates, price, tax, receipt categories, comments, payment methods, etc.) to help you generate the perfect report, saving you hours of time doing expenses and getting you back to things you actually care about. Below you will see a step by step screen shot process of how to download the app, add receipts, as well as a guide to what you are seeing. This works for both android and apple.

Grant Planning/Management

Asana

You don’t have to shuffle between spreadsheets, email, and other tools to keep your projects on course. Track and manage everything—from day one to the deadline—with Asana.

Managing projects is hard work. Even harder if you don't use software or have work spread across too many tools. It's easy to lose track of all the moving pieces—and tough to stay up to date. That’s when things fall through the cracks. Use one tool to organize projects, make communication easy, and meet deadlines.

Price
Free
For Personal Plan
$10.99 per user
For Premium Plan

See if you are eligible for 50% premium price with Asana for Nonprofits.

OpenProject

OpenProject is project management software that will create and visualize project plans and assign tasks to team members using a centralized dashboard. The key features  include task tracking, gantt charts, project scheduling, meetings management, bug reporting, time tracking, cost reporting, budgeting, and more among others.

This video will help you get started with OpenProject in 5 easy steps:

  • Create a project
  • Add team members
  • Create work packages
  • Create a project plan
  • Filter, group and create reports
Price
Free
For Community Plan
$435.00 per year for five users
For Basic Plan

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 is a suite of apps that help you stay connected and get things done. We believe the entire suite of programs will be helpful for grant management. Below we have provided more information specifically on Microsoft Teams for communication and meetings and Microsoft Project for project organization.

Microsoft offers their products for free or a discount to eligible nonprofits. Find out more by clicking the button below.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a free collaboration app that helps your team stay organized and have conversations—all in one place. Microsoft Teams offers a wide range of capabilities for communication, file storage, editing, and real-time collaboration that nonprofit organizations can benefit from.

Here's a quick look at the left hand side of Teams.

  • Teams - Find channels to belong to or create your own. Inside channels you can hold on-the-spot meetings, have conversations, and share files.
  • Meetings - See everything you’ve got lined up for the day or week. Or, schedule a meeting. This calendar syncs with your Outlook calendar.
  • Calls - In some cases, if your organization has it set up, you can call anyone from Teams, even if they’re not using Teams.
  • Activity - Catch up on all your unread messages, @mentions, replies, and more.
Price
Free
For Home Plan
$48.00 per year per user
For Essentials Plan

Click the following links if you need an introduction to Microsoft Teams or a video tutorial on how to use it.

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project is project management software designed to assist project managers with developing a schedule, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads. Microsoft Project costs and has multiple packages to meet your organization's needs starting at $10.00 user/month.

Price
$10 per month
For Planner Plan 1
$30.00 per month
For Planner and Project Plan 3

Tutorials

How to use Marco Polo

  • GO TO PLAY STORE ON ANY ANDROID OR IOS DEVICE AND TYPE IN MARCO POLO
  • ENTER IN YOUR INFORMATION INCLUDING FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, AND EMAIL ADDRESS
  • PLEASE ENTER YOUR PHONE NUMBER. YOU WILL THEN RECEIVE A TEXT ASKING YOU TO VERIFY THE NUMBER BY ENTERING IN THE CODE THAT WAS TEXTED TO YOU
  • WELCOME TO MARCO POLO. NOW IT IS TIME TO START ADDING PEOPLE. PLEASE GO TO THE TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER AND SELECT THE PLUS SIGN. IT WILL GIVE YOU THE OPTION TO ADD PEOPLE VIA THEIR NUMBER OR EMAIL.
  • SELECT ENTER A PHONE NUMBER IN ORDER TO CREATE A NEW CHAT.
  • ONCE YOU’VE ADDED THE NUMBERS AND OR EMAILS IT IS NOW TIME TO ADD THE INDIVIDUALS TO CREATE A GROUP. FOR EXAMPLE WORK INDIVIDUALS

How to use Smart Sheets

  • GO TO YOUR APP STORE AND TYPE IN SMART RECEIPTS. ONCE IT IS FOUND PLEASE SELECT INSTALL
  • NOW THAT YOU’VE DOWNLOADED THE APP IT IS TIME TO GET STARTED. FOR THE FIRST RECEIPT PLEASE TITLE THE NAME. THIS WILL BE HOW YOU WOULD CREATE DIFFERENT FOLDERS. FOR EXAMPLE THE SEPARATION CAN BE PERSONAL AND BUSINESS RELATED.
  • THESE ARE THE OPTIONS FOR THE CATEGORY FIELD TO DETERMINE WHAT THE RECEIPT IS FOR.
  • THE COMMENT SESSIONS IS FOR ANY ADDED NOTES YOU ARE INTERESTED IN INCLUDING
  • UNDER THE SECTION THAT SAYS CORPORATE CARD YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO DETERMINE THE FORM OF PAYMENT.
  • NOW IS THE TIME TO ADD THE RECEIPT. SELECT THE PLUS BUTTON AND YOU CAN TAKE A PICTURE OF THE RECEIPT
  • ONCE YOUR RECEIPTS ARE UPLOADED YOU CAN GENERATE A REPORT IF YOU ARE INTERESTED.
  • YOU CAN GATHER A REPORT IN A PDF REPORT, PDF REPORT THAT INCLUDES A TABLE, CSV FILE ETC.
  • I CHOSE TO DO A FULL PDF REPORT AND THEN SHARED IT WITH MY GMAIL. BELOW YOU WILL SEE HOW THE REPORT IS GENERATED.