Transcript Nonprofit Life Cycle

Paul Clarke
Nonprofit Resource
Center
Nonprofit
Life Cycles
23 @ 4 Series, 2012
Allen County Public Library
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Today’s Objectives
Part I
Identify
Cycles
 Turning Points
 Challenges

Assess
 Analyze
 Action
Part II
SpringBoard
 Select
 Engage
 Retain
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IRS
Starting Out
Applying for Exemption
Required Filings
Ongoing Compliance
Significant Events
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Sharken – 5 Stages
1.
Imagine & Inspire
2.
Found & Frame
3.
Ground & Grow
4.
Produce & Sustain
5.
Review & Renew
7 Stages of
Nonprofit Capacity:
1. Idea
2. Start-Up
3. Growth
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4. Maturity
5. Decline
6. Turnaround
7. Terminal
SOURCE: Nonprofit Lifecycles, Susan Kenny Stevens
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Identify
Stage of Life
Cycle
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Life Cycle
Start–Up
Stage
Imagine
&
Inspire
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Life Cycle
Adolescent
Ground
& Grow
Stage
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Life Cycle
Maturity
Produce &
Sustain
Stage
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Life Cycle Stage
Stagnant
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Reverse
OR
Dissolve
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Turning Points
Pivotal Transitions
Organization
 Infrastructure
 Need to Let Go
 Focus
 Power Adjustment
 Revisit Mission
 Need to Move On

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SpringBoard

Lifecycle & Board Members
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Recruit by Life Cycle

Assess

Recruit
Inform

Predict

Determine
Share
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SpringBoard Tools

boardnetUSA

SpringBoard
Programs

More!
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Resources
Books and Online
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Books
 Nonprofit
Lifecycles: Stage-based Wisdom
for Nonprofit Capacity by Susan Kenny
Stevens, 658.048 ST4N
 Building
Strong Nonprofits: New Strategies
for Growth and Sustainability edited by
John C. Olberding and Lisa Barnwell
Williams, 658.4012 B86
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 Why
Nonprofits Fail: Overcoming Founder's
Syndrome, Fundphobia, and Other
Obstacles to Success by Stephen R. Block,
658.048 B62W
 Seven
Turning Points by Susan Gross,
658.406G91S
 Board
Passages: Three Key Stages in a
Nonprofit Board's Life Cycle by Karl
Mathiasen III, 658.422 M42B
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 The
Nonprofit Leadership Transition and
Development Guide: Proven Paths for
Leaders and Organizations by Tom
Adams, 658.4092 AD1N
 The
Nonprofit Organizational Culture
Guide: Revealing the Hidden Truths that
Impact Performance Paige Hull
Teegarden, Denice Rothman Hinden,
Paul Sturm, 658.314 T22N
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Online
Act
Your Age – Mike Burns,
nonprofitboardcrisis.typepad.c
om
Do
You Know Where Your
Organization Is In Its Lifecycle?
BoardSource.org
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Basic
Overview of Organizational
Life Cycles - Carter McNamara,
Managementhelp.com
Organizational
Lifecycle &
Decline
Ashim Gupta,
Practical-management.com

Geraldine R. Dodge Blog
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Assessment Tools
Keys
to Successful
Assessment
5
Life Stages – Where
You Are (20-30 min.)
Six
Signs That It's Time
to Consider Going Out
of Business