Nonprofit Tools, Guides & Resources
Practical tools for nonprofit leaders navigating funding, governance, strategy, operations, and organizational growth.
Our resources are designed for leaders who are trying to make better decisions with limited time, limited capacity, and approximately twelve competing priorities.
Use these tools to assess readiness, strengthen governance, evaluate funding opportunities, improve planning, and turn good intentions into fundable, usable action.
Should We Apply for This Grant?
A practical go/no-go tool for evaluating mission fit, eligibility, competitiveness, organizational capacity, budget, and return on effort before investing hours in an application.
Grant Opportunity Scorecard
Compare multiple funding opportunities using consistent criteria instead of chasing every promising grant announcement or RFP.
Leadership Transition Checklist
Protect critical deadlines, relationships, records, institutional knowledge, and essential operations when an executive or key staff member leaves.
Grant Readiness Checklist
Assess whether your organization has the core documents, financial systems, data, policies, partnerships, and internal capacity needed to pursue grant funding successfully.
Board & Governance Health Check
A practical review of board roles, structure, engagement, decision-making, policies, accountability, and oversight responsibilities.
Strategic Planning Readiness Check
Determine whether your organization is actually ready for strategic planning and identify issues that should be addressed before beginning the process.
Looking for Continuum of Care resources?
HUD CoC leaders, Collaborative Applicants, HMIS Leads, Coordinated Entry teams, and community partners can access the Works of Heart CoC Resource Series, including practical tools for cost allocation, NOFO readiness, monitoring, PIT/HIC, SPM/LSA, HMIS data quality, Coordinated Entry, and leadership transitions.
Need help applying the tools?
Sometimes the checklist confirms what you already suspected: the issue is bigger than the template. Works of Heart provides practical consulting and technical assistance to help nonprofit organizations strengthen funding strategy, governance, planning, operations, and organizational capacity.