Description
Standards for Excellence 3.0
15 Leadership and Operational Management Part 3: Organizational and Financial Stability
15.1 What is sustainability?
15.1.1 Taking a Broader View of Sustainability and sustainability planning
15.1.2 Life cycles in nonprofit organizations with references to different educational resources for specific life cycles
15.2 Working Toward a More Sustainable Organization
15.2.1 Double Bottom Line: The Matrix Map
15.2.2 Environmental Sustainability
15.2.3 Capital Planning
15.2.4 Funding Depreciation
15.2.5 Social Entrepreneurism as a Potential Area of Capital
15.3 Planning for the future – building a plan
15.3.1 Is a sustainability plan the same thing as a strategic plan?
15.3.2 When a sustainability plan is needed
15.4 Process for creating a sustainability plan
15.4.1 Revising and implementing a sustainability plan
15.4.2 Considerations of sustainability in terms of programming, leadership, personnel, finances, infrastructure
Selected Resources for Organizational and Financial Stability
References
Sample Sustainability Plans
Social Entrepreneurship
General Resources
Books and Articles
Capital Planning
Depreciation
Succession Planning
Attachments
Attachment 15A: Sample Sustainability Plan
Attachment 15B: Nonprofit Organization Life Cycles, Standards for Excellence Guiding Principles, Characteristics and Priorities, and Standards for Excellence Resources
Attachment 15C: Sample Worksheet on Cataloguing Your Income
Attachment 15D: Sample worksheet on Expenses
Attachment 15E: Sample worksheet on Assets and Liabilities
Attachment 15F: Organizational Sustainability Assessment
Attachment 15G: A Template for Calculating Revenue and Expenses by Program
Attachment 15H: Expense Worksheets for New Initiatives
