Operations, Board & M&E Systems
Program management, monitoring and evaluation, board governance, risk, procurement, inventory and asset systems for small nonprofits and NGOs.
Start with the guide: Nonprofit Operations: Board, Programs and Impact Systems
All 12 operations tools
Nonprofit Operations OS Bundle
Excel + Google SheetsExecutive directors who inherit six spreadsheets from six people often can't answer a board question without phoning someone first.
Complete Nonprofit Growth Kit
Excel + Google SheetsWith GivingTuesday on 1 December, under four weeks away, small teams are setting up the season's appeals and next year's systems at once.
Volunteer Management System
Excel + Google SheetsVolunteer coordinators who count every accepted applicant as available learn on the day of the shift who never finished training.
Board Governance System
Excel + Google SheetsQuorum questions tend to surface late: the board has acted on a resolution, then someone asks if enough directors were there to pass it.
Monitoring & Evaluation (MEAL)
Excel + Google SheetsZero percent on an M&E dashboard tells the board a program failed, when often the real story is that nobody reported.
Program Management System
Excel + Google SheetsProgram directors with eight projects running often learn a milestone slipped only when the funder report is due.
Program Evaluation System
Excel + Google SheetsFunders ask what changed, and a rising outcome number is easy to present as proof that your program caused it.
Risk Management System
Excel + Google SheetsResidual risk scores often drop on paper the moment a control is listed, even when nobody has checked the control works.
Procurement Management System
Excel + Google SheetsAuditors reviewing a grant-funded purchase tend to start with one request: show why this method, this vendor and this approver.
Inventory Management System
Excel + Google SheetsStock sheets with a typed balance column look tidy until count day, when shelf and sheet disagree and nobody can say why.
Asset Management System
Excel + Google SheetsIf a grant ends on 31 December, the laptops, vehicles and generators it paid for need a decision in the next two weeks.
Nonprofit Startup System
Excel + Google SheetsRegistering a nonprofit before testing the need can leave a founder maintaining filings and a board before the program runs once.