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Understanding Organizational Success: A Self-Assessment Tool for Nonprofit Organizations - Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMI)
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This comprehensive offline assessment tool will help any non-profit assess its performance with regard to the following areas: organizational philosophy (culture, mission, vision, etc.), leadership, governance, accountability, finance, technological expertise, etc. Instructions for completion and scoring are clear and some worksheets are provided.
http://www.cherith.com/association/Conference2004/NPAssessmentTool.pdfMcKinsey Capacity Assessment Grid
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This self-assessment tool is comprehensive and evaluates the organization aspirations (mission and vision), strategy, organizational skills (including planning and fundraising for instance), human resources (board, staff, volunteers, etc.), systems and infrastructures, culture, etc. This tool is found in appendix of the report on Effective Capacity Building in Nonprofit Organizations. The full report is available at www.vppartners.org.
http://www.vppartners.org/learning/reports/capacity/assessment.pdfMassachusetts Cultural Council Organizational Self-Assessment Tool
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This comprehensive offline assessment tool will help any non-profit assess its performance with regard to the following areas: mission and vision; strategic planning and evaluation; programming; community participation; advocacy/public relations; marketing; financial health and planning, monitoring and reporting; fundraising; governance/board management; human resources; information technology systems; facilities management. Larger organizations will find the tool useful to identify strenghts and weaknesses.
http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/services/self_assessment.aspNonprofit Organizational Assessment Tool - Marcia K. Festen Associates & Marianne Philbin Consulting
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This short offline survey can help non-profit evaluate their overall performance with regard to the following areas: mission, vision, program, team, structure, governance, finance, planning, fundraising and other resources development.
http://www.austincc.edu/npo/library/documents/Nonprofit%20Organizational%20Assessment%20Tool.pdfIntegrated Toolkit For Institutional Development - Mark Renzi and Management Systems International (MSI)
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This toolkit is intended to be used by the non-profits themselves to address the following shortcomings: inadequate measures of institutional capacity, difficulty diagnosing priority areas within an organization for improvement, lack of simple mechanisms to improve understanding by staff of the interrelated components of the organization, and inadequate mechanisms to compare institutional development across organizations. The Toolkit emphasizes participation, use of management systems, and the independence of the organization.
http://documents.reflectlearn.org/Offline%20OA%20Tools/IntegratedToolkitForInsti...Leading English Education and Resource Network (LEARN) - Rubric for Reform Implementation Tool - Self-Monitoring Progress in Successful Implementation of the Quebec Education Program (QEP)
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This link directs you to the Rubric for Reform Implementation Tool. Initially designed for the implementation of the Quebec Education Program (QEP), this tools can be used by any school that is implementing a reform. The tool has been developed to help schools and school boards monitor their progress in implementing curriculum reform.
http://www.learnquebec.ca/export/sites/learn/en/content/reform/documents/rubric_...
