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Are you looking for tips to help develop a CEO employment agreement? Or perhaps you're considering a merger between your organization and another local provider of human services? Uncover valuable nuggets of information by using Severson Select resources: online bibliographies/ order forms, toolkits, best practices literature, and Internet web sites/documents on hot topics – all available through the Severson Center.

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Compassion Fatigue

CEO Contracts 

Disaster and Trauma

Emergency Response 

Evidence-Based and Best Practices/Programs in Child Welfare: Bibliography 2006

Foster Care

Fund Raising Resources: Login to DocuShare* and search by the number following each title below for a selection of the best resources available from the Severson Center:

• Annual Giving Campaigns #13037
  Boards and Fund Raising #13038
  Capital Campaigns #13040
  Case Statements #13041
  Corporate Giving #13042
  Development Office #13044
  Development plans: Fundraising Policies and Procedures & Strategic Fundraising Plans #13045
  Development writing and direct mail #13046
  Donor Cultivation and Stewardship #13056
  Donor Recognition #13047
  Endowment Funds and Investment Policies #13048
  Ethics in Fund Raising #13049
  Fundraising Consultants #13050
  Gift Acceptance #13051
  Givng Circles #13052
  Grantsmanship #13053
  Internal Development & Fundraising Audits and Assessments #13043
  Job Descriptions - Resource Development #13054
  Marketing and branding for resource development #13055
  Planned Giving #13039
  Technology, fund raising and E-Philanthropy#13057

Holiday Blues

Leadership Development

Leading Change

Marketing and Branding

Mergers

Nonprofit Board Governance Toolkit - Members Only: Please first login to the Alliance Web site (see menu icon above) and then return to this page to access the full ToolKit.

Nonprofit Enterprise/Social Entrepreneurship

Pandemic Preparedness

Public Policy and Advocacy

Records Retention

Scenario Planning

Screening, References, and Background Check

Succession Planning

Telecommuting

Volunteer Management

Please submit any suggestions for additional online bibliographies to severson@alliance1.org. 

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NATIONAL OBSERVANCES

U.S. Census Bureau
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State and County Quick Facts
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Community Demographic Fact Sheets

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• Alliance for Children and Families
  Severson National Information Center
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