.Looking to find resources and share with colleagues? The New Nonprofit Management Solutions affiliate partnership specifically for our members will help you do just that.

IdeaEncore Network is an on-line peer-to-peer learning marketplace (like Amazon or eBay) for nonprofits and those who support them to share, sell, and buy all types and forms of practical knowledge, innovative ideas and information assets - - including ready-to-use tools, templates, training content, policies, procedures and plans.

A few examples of ready to use resources:

1. Fill-in the-Blank Development Policies & Procedures
Starting a Development Office? Here is everything you need to create policies and procedures that define your organizations fund raising activities. TAPS, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (Washington, DC). Free.

2. Social Venture Partners’ Benchmarking Checklists
This bundle of 7 checklists are self-assessment instruments that help you identify strengths and challenges and establish capacity building goals. Results can be used to guide the development of an annual work plan & contribute to the establishment of long-term vision (San Diego Social Venture Partners $10 - $55)

3. 2009 Nonprofit Employee Handbook (a very popular item)
Assists human resources professionals in choosing and implementing policies and guidelines in line with the ever-changing legal landscape. By Shipman & Goodwin, LLP, this template appropriately orients all new and current employees on your policies and procedures. Applicable, with modification, in all states. (Connecticut Association of Nonprofits). $50 ($40 for CT Nonprofit members)

4. Document Retention and Destruction Policy
Sample document retention and destruction policy for adoption by your board of directors. All corporations are required to have a practice. Adopting a policy ensures that you are in compliance with Sarbannes-Oxley Act. (The CBO Center, Pleasant Hill, CA) Free.

5. “JazzThink Thought Provokers for Nonprofits” series
A series of one-page “thought provokers” that draws on lessons from great leaders and thinkers to help nonprofit boards and executives engage in important 15-20 minute conversations. (JazzThink, Vancouver, BC) Free

You can help other nonprofits by sharing your materials and tools (for free or for a fee) on IdeaEncore. What do you have that you are particularly proud of? What do you have that could benefit others? All nonprofits grow stronger when we help build each other’s capacity.

Make more impact. Earn more money
IdeaEncore provides an easy way for your organization to share what it knows, learn from others, and earn unrestricted income.

It’s an easy, fun, and a great way to highlight and leverage your technology savvy throughout your organization.

We encourage you to share knowledge and information as a way to greatly multiply donors’ and funders’ return on investments in the sector, encourage your board to embrace earned income, and save you time and money by being able to use, remix and adapt the work of others.

This is an online document sharing community where you and your organization are rewarded for sharing:

• “Content Providers” (sellers) gain peer feedback / recognition, elevate nonprofit practice, spread their mission, and create earned-income.
• “Content Consumers” (buyers) save time and money while reducing risk of new initiatives.
  

The NMS Advantage
Share. Learn. Earn. Sharing has never been so rewarding. And IdeaEncore makes it easy to choose licensing from a drop-down list, so your organization’s intellectual property is protected. Share or sell your ready-to-use business planning tools, program policies, fundraising templates, program plans, logic models or other information.

• No risk: There is no charge to upload and download free materials open to the public. You only pay a percentage of what is actually purchased. Create a free account now.
• 25% off fees to sell: NMS members who upload their first item by 12/31/09 will receive a discount of 25% off IdeaEncore’s Paid Content fees (except minimums) on all of their shared items that are purchased by others through 6/30/10.
• 10% off fees to sell: All other NMS members will receive a 10% discount off of any sales transaction fees incurred.
• Choose “Nonprofit Management Solutions (NMS – San Diego)” as your “primary professional affiliation” in your individual profile to qualify for the above discounts. IdeaEncore will also donate a piece of its fees to NMS – so you can support them without costing you anything.