Board and Organizational Development

Board Development

FAQ Regarding Board Development
www.allianceonline.org/FAQ/board_development

BOARD PASSAGES: Three Key Stages in a Nonprofit Board's Life Cycle
www.managementassistance.org/page4b.html

The Nonprofit Life Stage Assessment
The Nonprofit Life Stage Assessment is a tool for determining what stage your organization is in. The tool helps you understand your organization's strengths and weaknesses with respect to its particular stage of development. It will help your organization plan for future needs, make decisions proactively, anticipate challenges, and determine what adjustments might be appropriate. Additionally, knowledge about the stage your organization is in will help you realize that some of the challenges your organization is experiencing are normal.
http://surveys.wilder.org/fieldstone/lifestages/

The Free, Complete Toolkit for Boards
www.managementhelp.org/boards/boards.htm

Organizational Development

Client Choice Food Pantries: Models for Now and the Future
www.cfs.purdue.edu/safefood/client%20choice%20manual.pdf
Find out about the most effective way to get food to hungry people. It saves money, satisfies client needs and doesn't waste food—exactly what your food pantry needs!

Pantry Net.org
www.pantrynet.org/
Free food pantry resources. Everything you wanted to know about running a small pantry!

How to Run a Food Pantry
This includes straightforward instructions on how churches or other groups can or should run food pantry services. The manual draws heavily from the international award-winning Waste Not Want Not Project research done by Food Bank of West Michigan, Inc. and Michigan State University, and showcases the practices shown to make the most optimal use of food and money resources, and best meet needy families' needs.
www.wmgleaners.org/pdfs/pantryguide1sted.pdf

Recipes for Success
Ninety-seven innovations and solutions developed by emergency food providers in Washington State.
http://from.org/wfc4/services/RECIPES_FOR_SUCCESS.pdf