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Tools

Financial Management 

• Church Mutual Insurance: Ways to Manage Cash Flow During A Crisis

• Gartner Research: Create a Resilient Business Model in the Face of COVID-19

• Gartner Research: How to Pick Your Best Cost Initiatives

• Harvard Business Review: Present Your Data like a Pro

Fundraising

• Bloomerang: Donor Communications During a Crisis News Cycle

• Church Mutual Insurance: Online Giving Options

• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: 4 Ways to Engage Major Donors During the Covid-19 Crisis

• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Fundraising During the Corona Outbreak: Answers to 5 Pressing Questions

• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Experts Urge Charities to Communicate Their Needs Clearly to Their Donors

• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Event Cancellations: What You Need to Know 

• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Now is the Time to Invest in Fundraising

• Florida Nonprofit Alliance: Florida Individual Giving Survey

• Network for Good: The 5 Stages of Donor Stewardship

HR Perspectives

• Center for Creative Leadership: Podcast: 4 Behaviors to Help You Calm Work Conflicts

• Center for Creative Leadership: Best Practices for Managing Virtual Teams and Meetings

• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Nonprofit Crisis Management: A Checklist

• Church Mutual Insurance: How to Safely Close Your Doors During Crisis and Prepare to Open Post-Crisis

• Church Mutual Insurance: Telecommuting Safety Considerations

• Florida Nonprofit Alliance: What Florida Nonprofits Can Do to Prepare for Coronavirus (COVID-19)

• Gartner Research: HR Under Pressure to Cut Costs” Know How to Protect What’s Important

• Harvard Business Review: 3 Tips to Avoid WFH Burnout

• Harvard Business Review: 15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered

• Harvard Business Review: How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion

• Korn Ferry: Onboarding During a Pandemic

• NPQ: It’s Different This time: Handling Nonprofit Staff Cuts under COVID-19

• Small Business Connection: Making Work From Home Work 

Leading Through Crisis

• Bloomerang: 7 Things Your Board Can Do to Lead in Times of Crisis

• Center for Creative Leadership: Adaptable Leadership - What it Takes to Be a Quick-Change Artist

• Center for Creative Leadership: How to Lead Through a Crisis

• Center for Creative Leadership: On-Demand Webinar: Building More Resilient Leadership for Greater Impact

• Center for Creative Leadership: On-Demand Webinar: The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership Successful Managers Must Play

• Center for Creative Leadership: Podcast: 4 Relationship Skills You Need in the Office

• Center for Creative Leadership: Podcast: 8 Tips for Dealing with the Stress of Leadership

• Center for Creative Leadership: How to Lead Through a Crisis

• Center for Creative Leadership: How to Be a Successful Change Leader

• Center for Creative Leadership: Webinar: Leadership Agility in Times of Change and Crisis

• Center for Creative Leadership: Podcast: Leadership, Uncertainty, and Learning to Thrive in Times of Change

• Center for Creative Leadership: Leadership Skills in an Uncertain World

• Center for Creative Leadership: The Power of Positive Self-Talk When Leading Through Crisis

• Center for Creative Leadership: Re-set Your Organization for the Post COVID Future with Creative Leadership

• Center for Creative Leadership: Turning Crisis Into Opportunity

• Center for Creative Leadership: Podcast: Who’s in Charge? How to Balance Formal and Informal Leadership

• Forbes: Five Ways to Demonstrate Leadership in the Time of Crisis

• Gallup: COVID-19: What Employees Need From Leaders Right Now

• Gallup: On-Demand Webinar: COVID-19: Managing Your Workforce Through Disruption

• Gallup: On-Demand Webinar: What Employees Need From Leaders During a Crisis

• Gartner Research: 4 Actions to Be a Strong Leader During COVID-19 Disruption

• Harvard Business Review: 4 Behaviors That Help Leaders Manage a Crisis

• Harvard Business Review: A Guide to Managing Your (Newly) Remote Workers

• Harvard Business Review: Are You Leading Through the Crisis … or Managing the Response?

• Harvard Business Review: Podcast: Adjusting to Remote work During the Coronavirus Crisis

• Harvard Business Review: Build Your Team’s Resilience - From Home

• Harvard Business Review: Don’t Let Uncertainty Paralyze You

• Harvard Business Review: Real Leaders Are Forged in Crisis

• HBR IdeaCast: Podcasts: Introducing Real Leaders, Stories of Crisis Leadership

• Korn Ferry: The 8 Behaviours of World-Class Leaders During Crisis

• Korn Ferry: The COVID-19 Leadership Guide

• Korn Ferry: A Word from the CEO: Leading in a Crisis

• Korn Ferry: Leading Through a Crisis

• Korn Ferry: Webinar: Leading in a Time of Crisis

• Lead Change: A Chance to Start Anew

• LSA Global: How to Better Manage Workload as a New Manager

• LSA Global: How to Make Goals and Accountabilities Clear to Your Team

• Nonprofit Quarterly: How Nonprofits Can Utilize the New Federal Laws Dealing with COVID-19

• National Council of Nonprofits: The Nonprofit Community Confronts the Coronavirus

• Tiny Spark: Podcast: COVID-19 Crisis “Requires Us All to Be Bolder”

Maintaining Culture Through Challenging Times

• Center for Creative Leadership: On-Demand Webinar: Transforming Your Culture with Conversations

• Center for Creative Leadership: Podcast: Build Culture, Build Capacity

• Center for Creative Leadership: Webinar: Building Resilience and Leadership in the Context of Crisis & Telework

• Center for Creative Leadership: Podcast: Leadership and Health: 7 Tips for Success

• Center for Creative Leadership: 9 Tips for Dealing With Uncertainty & Anxiety Right Now

• Center for Creative Leadership: Truth and Courage - Implementing a Coaching Culture with Better Conversations Every Day

• Gallup: COVID-19 Strategies and Policies of the World’s Largest Companies

• Gallup: How to Manage the Loneliness and Isolation of Remote Workers

• Gallup: Remember the Needs of Followers During COVID-19

• Gartner Research: Lead Your Employees Through the Emotional Side of COVID-19

• Harvard Business Review: Coping With Fatigue, Fear, and Panic During a Crisis

• Harvard Business Review: Don’t Let Fear of Covid-19 Turn into Stigma

• Harvard Business Review: The Restorative Power of Ritual

• Harvard Business Review: To Build an Agile Team, Commit to Organizational Stability

• Harvard Business Review: What Will Work-life Balance Look Like After the Pandemic?

• Korn Ferry: Being Indispensable During a Crisis

• Korn Ferry: Changing Culture in a Crisis

• Korn Ferry: Engaging and Enabling Your People Through a Crisis

• Korn Ferry: Engagement: From Emergency Response to Greater Resilience

Marketing & Messaging

• Bloomerang: Webinar: How to Run an Online Event and Engage More People Virtually

• The Chronicle of Higher Education: 8 Ways to Be More Inclusive in Your Zoom Teaching

• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: 10 Tips for a Better Crisis Communications Strategy

• Church Mutual Insurance: The Basics of Getting Messages Online

• Church Mutual Insurance: Cultivating Connection and Community in Times of Crisis

• Classy: 8 Tips to Nail Your Social Media Posts During COVID-19

• Classy.org: Email Marketing During a Pandemic

• Gallup: Crisis Communication: How Great Leaders Stop Rumors Before They Start

• GoDaddy: 5 Best practices for using email to communicate with customers during COVID-19

• GoDaddy: 5 creative ways to build customer loyalty

• GoDaddy: How to make it easy for customers to contact you

• Go Daddy: Using social media to engage with customers in a crisis

• Harvard Business Review: Brand Marketing Through the Coronavirus Crisis

• Harvard Business Review: Communicating Through the Coronavirus Crisis

• Korn Ferry: Networking in the Age of COVID-19

• Network for Good: COVID-19 has a serious side effect for nonprofits—total wreckage of the spring events season

• PPC HERO: What Nonprofits Taught Me About Social Media Marketing (and how it applies to COVID-19)

• Prosper Strategies: Crisis Communication Best Practices for Nonprofits

• thryv: COVID-19 Response Checklist

Mission Focus

• Center for Creative Leadership: Design-Driven Transformation - Leadership for Innovating with Impact​

• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: How Board Members Can Do the Most Good in the Pandemic

• Florida Nonprofit Alliance: The Effects of COVID-19 on Florida Nonprofits

• Harvard Business Review: Leaders, Do You Have a Clear Vision for the Post-Crisis Future?

• Nonprofit Quarterly: Solving Social Challenges Requires Understanding Value Creation

Staffing Concerns

• Center for Creative Leadership: On-Demand Webinar: Benchmarking the State of Leadership Development

• Center for Creative Leadership: Managing Remote Employees: How to Lead From a Distance

• Gallup: 4 Workplace Adjustments to Help Parents Working From Home

• Harvard Business Review: Podcast: Working Parents, Let Go of the Idea of Balance

• Harvard Business Review: Podcast: Working While Distancing

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The Empowered NPO, resources and tools are supported and provided by the following entities:

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• Clermont Police Department

• Community Foundation of South Lake

• Cummings Collaborative LLC

• Lake County Commissioner Sean Parks

• Live Well Foundation of South Lake

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