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Resources to Strengthen
Your Nonprofit

From keeping up with the latest trends, to training opportunities, to coalition-building and networking, the tools below can help you strengthen your organization and build your capacity to do more in your community.

What Does it Mean to Use Evidence Well?

Report on best practices for evidence-based policymaking and how to design activities and tools to support quality evidence use

Local Civic Health: A Guide to Building Community and Bridging Divides

A guide for mapping and evaluating how local spaces build or discourage community, and collecting and analyzing data about civic health

Mapping Civic Measurement

A landscape review of existing resources (research projects, assessments, frameworks) to identify tools that can improve our constitutional democracy

StriveTogether Training Hub

The Training Hub Powered by StriveTogether provides easy-to-access, high-quality virtual training, grounded in proven approaches and tested by leaders across the country

True Impact Nonprofit Resources

Resources for creating Logic Models and Theory of Change, Becoming Evidence Informed, Measurement and Data Tools, and moving the needle

Fidelity Charitable Report

Report on the roles of financial and volunteer support in philanthropy

PACE - Civic Langauge Perceptions Project

Insight into peoples’ perceptions of the language associated with civic engagement and democracy work

Center for Nonprofit Excellence 2023 Virginia Nonprofit Sector Report

A comprehensive study of the sector that provides baseline data and a snapshot of the nonprofit sector in Virginia

Al!ve Volunteer Management Capacity

A study of volunteer management practices and the readiness of nonprofit organizations to take on more volunteers

Independent Sector Value of Volunteer Time

Current estimated national value of each volunteer hour plus national and state-by-state data on volunteer hours

Civic Life & Volunteering Statistics

Every two years, AmeriCorps produces comprehensive research about civic engagement trends in the U.S.

The Virginia Community
Engagement Index

See how and why others in Virginia give of their time, talents and voices to community causes. Check out our Virginia Community Engagement Index findings.

What’s Your Volunteer Personality?

Pair your passion with purpose. Take our Volunteer Personality Quiz and find out which volunteer direction is best for you.