Description
Crisis and Disaster Planning
- Importance for nonprofits
- Dealing with crisis
- Key principles and guidelines for organizational responses to crises and disasters
- Benefits associated with crisis management (and risks for not addressing crisis planning)
- Recommended components of a Crisis and Disaster Plan
- Integrating program delivery, service populations, and other stakeholders into crisis and disaster planning
- Crisis communication
- Steps in developing a crisis communications plan
- Attachments: Sample crisis and disaster plan introduction, Roles and Responsibilities of the Disaster/Crisis Team, Sample Risk Assessment Worksheet, Sample Emergency/Crisis Communication Plan
Information Technology Planning
- Benefits of information technology (IT) planning
- Full scope of information technology
- Strategic IT Planning (including strategy and needs assessment),
- IT Management
- Online Fundraising
- Getting Started with IT Planning
- Attachments: Social Media Factsheet, Acceptable Use Policies, Information Technology Consultants, Data Security and Integrity
Communications, Engaging the Public and Social Media
- How to begin
- The communications policy
- The communications plan
- Working with social media
- Benefits of establishing a social media platform
- Getting started
- Mobile applications
- Attachments: Social Networking Policy (The Arc Baltimore), Sample Nonprofit Style Guide, Essential Communications Tools (excerpted from Generate Buzz! Strategic Communications of Nonprofit Boards)