Nonprofit Basics
Funding
Strategy
Performance Management
Fun Time Trivia
100
The goal of this website is to “provide you with the information you need to make smart decisions, build connections, and learn from each other to achieve your missions"
What is Guidestar?
100
This permit allows an organization to raise funds in a particular state.
What is a solicitations permit?
100
This is a clearly defined statement describing range of programs and outcomes for each, a justification for programs and services and how they work to produce the outcomes, and a demonstration of internal and external sources informing program relevancy and insights.
What is a logic model for change?
100
In order to ensure a performance management system will work in an organization, develop these both for the organization and the individual.
What is goals?
100
This large mammal is the Belmont mascot
What is a bruin?
200
For most grants, a nonprofit organization must be incorporated for at least this many years.
What is three years?
200
This type of funding focuses on an organization’s outcomes before dollars are awarded.
What is performance based funding?
200
Dr. Hunter created a four day plan for the development of this, which serves as a blueprint for an organization
What is a theory of change?
200
Organizations are nurturing this when they develop, recruit, and retain talented prfessionals they need to fulfill their mission
What is performance culture?
200
This is the building in which we have class.
What is the Janet Ayers Academic Center?
300
These type of organizations need to drive the outcomes-assessment process and be the primary beneficiary of it.
What is nonprofit organizations?
300
This is the tax status for most nonprofit organizations who have charitable business.
What is 501(c)(3)?
300
This visual representation of what and why an organization does what they do informs leadership how to produce long-term outcomes.
What is a framework to help manage outcomes?
300
A dolphin rehabilitation organization, for example, must define this as they cultivate a performance culture.
What is true purpose?
300
This seventh planet from the sun has a funny name no matter how you say it. Ha ha.
What is Uranus?
400
This form is the 1040 of the nonprofit world.
What is a 990?
400
Authorized by the Edward M. Kennedy Service America Act in 2009, this fund is a powerful approach to transforming lives and communities that positions the federal government to be a catalyst for impact—mobilizing private resources to find and grow community solutions with evidence of
What is the Social Innovation Fund?
400
This main reason for measuring outcomes in a nonprofit organization can make sure that first, we do no harm.
What is to improve services for the client?
400
This act was a prime example of the focus put more on metrics rather than the mission.
What is the No Child Left Behind act?
400
This is both the world's longest river AND where we probably all buy our textbooks
What is Amazon?
500
This business, located in an old trolley barn, is one of the main support organizations for nonprofits in Nashville
What is the Center for Nonprofit Management?
500
At the “Social Entrepreneurs Initiative” conference, this management expert saw an emerging movement toward greater innovation, effectiveness, and impact in the social sector.
Who is Peter Drucker?
500
This nonprofit strategy encourages the collaboration of many organizations as nonprofits contribute their resources to each other to work towards a common goal.
What is collective impact?
500
Collecting data and using data are the first two steps in building a performance management system. This is the third.
What is the communicating data?
500
These are the three animals which make up Thanksgiving's most excessive food tradition, the turducken.
What is turkey, duck, and chicken?