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Craigslist Foundation podcasts provide expertise on demand

Bay Area-based Craigslist Foundation provides links to podcasts and audio on demand on a wide range of topics useful to nonprofit managers and board members. The foundation’s “Nonprofit Basics” web page is frequently updated with new recordings of presentations by experts in the field and often downloadable slides to accompany them.

Current offerings on the site include:

  • How to Improve Your Nonprofit Operations in Less Than Two Months
  • Developing a Message to Win Supporters for Your Cause
  • Governance Essentials – Build your Board Right the First Time!
  • So You Want to Start a Nonprofit?
  • Recruiting and Keeping Volunteers and Board Members
  • Fiscal Organizational Infrastructure Checklist
  • Strategic Planning – Setting the Vision & Building the Framework
  • Strategic & Program Planning
  • Building & Keeping a Great Board
  • Attracting & Managing Great People
  • Community Organizing & Action Campaigns
  • Volunteer Recruitment & Management
  • Doing it Yourself vs. Outsourcing Back Office Functions

Speakers include some names familiar to Hawai‘i nonprofits, such as Jan Masuoka and David La Piana, and other experts from across the country.