Organizational Resiliency in Nonprofit Organizations
I’ve been listening around the web for conversation threads on “organizational resiliency” in nonprofit and foundation sector and finding some mention and discussion on the importance of resiliency, especially organizational resiliency. Resilience is a key trait of effective, high-impact orgs in today’s constantly changing environment. I "storified" it and would like to hear what you are thinking.
Building Resilience - Harvard Business Review
by Martin E.P. Seligman 8 pages. Publication date: Apr 01, 2011. Prod. #: R1104H-PDF-ENG Failure is a familiar trauma in life, but its effects on people differ widely. Some reel, recover, and move on with their lives; others get stuck in anxiety, depression, and fear of the future.- The Importance of ResilienceNonprofits should take advantage of the meaning-making power of their mission, vision and value statements to build organizational resilience . ...
Storify captured our website information on organizational resiliency and the software we developed called the Organizational Resiliency Tool. A business app tool, it provides nonprofits with important feedback mechanisms in order to help them take decisive action
to resolve challenges and drive innovative thinking. Our approach facilitates conversations within organizations and between grantor and grantee, offering important data, effective strategic direction, and tangible steps to help increase a nonprofit’s organizational capacity leading to greater sustainability.
ServicesOver the past year, foundation executives, thought leaders, advisers, consultants, and donors have bridged a connection with nonprofit board members, executive directors, development, and key staff members to help build more effective, sustainable and resilient organizations across the country.
Organizational Resiliency GameplanThe Organizational Resiliency Gameplan is a proven solution for helping nonprofit organizations grow their capacity by becoming more resilient. Here’s how it works: Your organization receives a Participant Pass to access the software and an invitation to participate in aHats off to the Piper Charitable Trust who, as a foundation, recognizes the need to boost the resiliency of nonprofits serving in their communities with their Year of Resilience. Its director says nonprofits need to be like "long distance runners":
"We're not economic forecasters," said Judy Jolley Mohraz, Piper Trust president and CEO. "But it is fairly clear that economic restructuring has changed reality for nonprofits as well as other sectors of the economy. This new normal requires each of us to develop the resilience and stamina of a long distance runner."
2011: A Year of ResilienceWhat if the answer to that question is, "Maybe never?" What if we are looking at a new reality-a changed world for nonprofits? If the environment indeed has changed and will never go back to exactly how it was three years ago, then how can we find a way to thrive in this new world?- Poets who help us keep the rudder in the water as we navigate today's complex and chaotic waters are resources.
- Dr. Rich Krieg of the Horizon Foundation and the Nonprofit Resource Development Council recognized the importance of organizational resiliency of their nonprofits and held a financial resiliency conference.
Resources — Nonprofit Resource Development CouncilThe article Short and Long-Term Approaches to Finding New Revenue Sources highlights the concepts in the publication Venture Forth! The Essential Guide to Starting a Moneymaking Business in Your Nonprofit Organization. 20 Cost Cutting Ideas for Nonprofits Beyond staff cuts-ideas and examples for cutting or controlling costs when faced with cutbacks.
Checklist for Non-Profits: Help Your Organization Be More EffectiveAll businesses, private as well as non-profit, are facing big challenges in today's economy, for example rising energy costs, more competition for available resources, higher prices for materials, and a changing workforce. Non-profits are particularly struggling to survive as government, corporations, and community members reduce grants and other gifts to try to balance their own budgets.- Here is Jeanne Bell's great and timely work on nonprofit sustainability.
Jossey-Bass::Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability"This is much more than a financial how-to book. It's a nonprofit's guide to empowerment. It demystifies mission impact and financial viability using The Matrix Map to provide strategic options for any organization. A must-read for every nonprofit CEO, CFO, and board member." -Julia A.
CompassPointRegistering for a CompassPoint workshop is now faster and easier than ever! Using robust technology and a cleaner web interface, we've updated our workshop registration system to give you a simpler process and greater flexibility when signing up for a CompassPoint workshop. Learn about the improvements we've made and how to login.This webinar below is more focused upon business continuity. The presenter is Michael Lazcano, Director of Corporate Business Continuity for GAP, Inc. a guy who really knows his stuff in the corporate world and one really nice guy.
- Lookahere, here is a webinar I did for Nonprofit Webinars back in May.
- A Game Plan for Making Decisions Before, During, and After a ...John is the creator of the Organizational Resiliency Game Plan (ORG) Tool, abusiness intelligence app for nonprofits , helping an organization strengthen ...
Assessing Your Organization's Resiliency During An Executive Transition - New Direction Consulting - Fostering Excellence in Nonprofits
This assessment tool is designed to help you assess the level of disruption that you can anticipate to the overall operations of your organization when either a planned or emergency departure of your current director occurs.- Nonprofit Sustainability: Making the Hard Decisions for Financial ...Jeanne Bell , MNA is Executive Director of CompassPoint Nonprofit ... Based on her new book, Nonprofit Sustainability : Making Strategic Decisions for ...
Global Resiliency Network :: Who We AreWho We Are: Meet the Members Jürgen BeyerJürgen is a native of Germany and lives near Bonn. He has been an organizational transformation consultant for over 20 years. He is a founding member of the Global Resiliency Network and heads the consulting company Jürgen-Beyer Consulting.
