Resources

We will populate this page over time with resources for operations work areas. This is not an extensive list - if you have a resource to suggest, write in the comments!

Symbols: 🌱= peer community, 🧰 = tool or guide, 👥 = consultants or organization

Peer Connection

Rad Ops Facebook Group 🌱 (this is a closed group - not searchable via FB - if you'd like to join, ask someone who is in the group to add you, or send an email to radops16@gmail.com and we can send you an invite via email)
CANOE 👥 is building a community of practice on Slack for like-minded nonprofit operations professionals to learn, share, grow and dream collectively and have a bit of fun, called Elevate Ops 🌱.
Rad HR Community 🌱 is a UK-based online community of people working on radical HR & operations, with the intention to go deeper than policies and processes and talk to each other more directly about the unique insights and challenges that we're finding in doing this work.
Build the Bench 🌱 is a cohort program for Deputy Directors, Managing Directors, and other leadership at Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO).

Administration & Systems

(Maintenance of Facilities, Supplies, Staff Tech; Office Administration - in-person & virtual; Project Management & Tools)

Information Ecology 👥 - a technology capacity-building consultancy serving progressive organizations - offers a range of services and online resources 🧰 on remote collaboration, organizational security, information management, foundational IT support and more.

Finance

(Accounting/Bookkeeping; Budgeting & Reporting; Taxes; Financial Management & Strategy; Audit & Compliance; Systems & Processes)

a bookkeeping cooperative 👥 is a worker-owned union cooperative dedicated to building solidarity economies, offering workshops 🧰 on empowering financial education and budgeting, consulting to support various aspects of managing organizational finances, and more.
Fun with Financials 👥 provides financial tools 🧰 and training for nonprofits and foundations, geared toward Financial Staff, Executive Directors & Board Members, and Foundations & Funders.
Movement CFO provides financial leadership and strategy for social justice organizations, ensuring they have the clarity, resilience, and resources to sustain and grow their impact.

Human Resources / People Operations

(Accountability Systems; Benefits; Conflict Resolution; Hiring / Firing; Performance Management; Salary Equity; Staff Transitions: Onboarding / Offboarding / Promotions)

Shuai Strategies 👥 experiments with pushing the boundaries of traditional HR, dives deep and works to find both/and solutions to either/or problems by exploring innovations in the radical HR space. Access Equity HR Guides here. 🧰
TAK Benefits 👥 supports organizations with determining benefits options and with setting up administration and integration of HR systems.
Just Futures 👥 offers streamlined, values-driven 401(k) / 403(b) retirement plans, and values-aligned asset management opportunities.
Vega Mala Consulting 👥 created The Compensation Scale Equity Process and Calculator™ — a customized process accompanied with a custom-built management decision tool that organizations can use for a number of compensation-related activities.
RadHR Policy Library and Guides 🧰 is a free, open & collaborative collection of radical alternatives to standard HR policies. While the network is based in the UK, these resource pages are full of excellent baseline templates that can be adapted anywhere with legal review of your organization’s context.
The Future is Collective: Effective Workplace Strategies for Building a Culture of Care, 🧰 by Niloufar Khonsari 👥 is a book published in fall 2025 that looks at how to handle challenging workplace dynamics, everyday conflicts, and job terminations using a compassionate justice-centered approach; calls for leaders to embrace conflict resolution as a generative practice; and guides nonprofit workers, activists, and community leaders toward a workplace culture of care that truly models the relational systems we want to see in the world.
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Leadership & Governance

(Assistance to Leadership/Executive staff; Board Management; Fiscal Sponsorship Management; Staff Leadership/Professional Development)

The Ops Collective 👥 is a people-centered consulting collective helping social impact organizations take care of their internal systems so they reflect the meaningful change they are trying to make in the world. They offer a range of services from Operations Coaching to support with Strategy & Project Management, People Operations, Fiscal Sponsorship & Legal Compliance, and Finance & Accounting.
RoadMap Consulting 👥 is a full-service capacity-building consultancy anchored in liberatory practice, offering a wide array of support services to movement organizations. In 2024 they published this Practicing Liberation Report 🧰 full of tools, analysis and connective wisdom. Their Weathering the Storms 🧰 offerings help movement organizations shield themselves from attacks and respond clearly when under assault. Find a plethora of other values-aligned online resources here.
Bala Rising 👥 is a team of dedicated capacity builders with a profound commitment to fostering transformation, empowerment, and care within individuals and groups. Their focus revolves around nurturing holistic leadership, cultivating intentional structures, and designing liberating tools and systems for thriving communities. They offer a range of services, including consulting, coaching, training, workshops, and facilitation.

Legal Compliance

(Compliance with state/federal regulations; Managing multiple entities (c3, c4, PAC, LLC, etc); Staff Compliance & Contractor Policies)

Resilient Strategies 👥 provides nimble, scaleable, and values-aligned back office operations to respond to the needs of organizing, political, and campaign demands while maintaining compliance and efficiency for our partner organizations.
Muslims for Just Futures 👥 maintains a Community Defense Resource Hub 🧰 — a collection of tools and guidance designed to empower grassroots organizers, mutual aid networks, and solidarity movements. These resources provide critical Know Your Rights (KYR) information and frameworks for navigating infrastructure development, managing risk, and building resilience against state targeting and repression. It also features report a co-authored with the Building Movement Project infrastructure building for the BAMEMSA ecosystem.
Sustainable Economies Law Center 👥 cultivates a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. They provide essential legal tools 🧰 - education, research, advice, and advocacy - so communities everywhere can develop their own sustainable sources of food, housing, energy, jobs, and other vital aspects of a thriving community.
Resilient Communities Legal Cafe 👥 offers donation-based legal advice sessions three times per month, available both virtually and occasionally in person. If you need advice about starting a worker-owned cooperative, converting an existing business into a cooperative, organizing a housing cooperative, founding a nonprofit or other social enterprise, then the Legal Cafe is for you!
Nonprofit Legal Defense Network connects nonprofits with free legal support to withstand risks and continue their vital work.

Logistics

(Care Work (Childcare, Healing spaces, etc); Event Planning; Language Access/Justice; Logistics Coordination for Activities (food, lodging, travel, etc); Radical Hospitality; Scheduling Organizational Calendar (Programs + Admin); Event Safety Planning)

Beginner’s Guide to Event Accessibility: 8 Checklists 🧰
Language Justice Resources 🧰 from Wave - a Language Liberation Hub 👥, a home for language justice workers and trainers who share a vision for growing our community of practice and the capacity of our movements and communities to create linguistic democracy.

Organizational Culture & Development

(Change Management; Crisis Planning; Generative Conflict Management; Internal Communications Practices; Staff Engagement and Alignment; Staff Wellness and Sustainability; Organizational Workplanning)

RoadMap Consulting 👥 offers Assessment Tools 🧰 to support organizations in identifying gaps and needs then creating bold solutions. My Healthy Organization (MHO) is designed for organizations committed to developing community leadership and making change. Our Healthy Alliance (OHA) is the only assessment tool specifically tailored to alliances that want to make social change and build social change movements.
Spring Up 👥 is a worker coop of 7 facilitators and consultants who support organizations in Getting Free Together by building systems to make decisions easefully and navigate conflict skillfully. They offer technical assistance in implementing Sociocracy (circle-based governance), private group coaching and training, restorative conflict mediation, and leadership development coaching. Spring Up hosts bluelight academy of the liberatory arts, an online learning community with an ever-evolving lineup of webinars, retreats, and cohorts about conflict, collaboration, and collective governance. Check out their free resources page 🧰 for How to Work With Me Guides and other worksheets or their podcast on liberatory culture. Sign up for a free intake call to see how they can get your group unstuck.
Embraced Body 👥 aims to empower individuals to recognize the interconnectedness of ableism with other forms of oppression, including white supremacy, homophobia, gender injustice, and classism. They offer consulting and an online Disability Justice Resource List 🧰 and a free Accessibility Workbook if you subscribe at the bottom of the home page. 🧰
Rita Sever has worked with many leaders and teams to more effectively support their staff, and published two books for social justice organizations:
- Leading for Justice: Supervision, HR and Culture: Created specifically for social justice leaders, Leading for Justice addresses specific concerns and issues that beset organizations working for social justice and offers practices and models that center justice and equity.
- Supervision Matters: 100 Bite-Sized Ideas to Transform You and Your Team includes advice on how to be clear about expectations, giving helpful feedback, manage yourself, and more. Each chapter is structured around how you approach a part of your work as a supervisor.

Resource Mobilization

(Fundraising; Grants & Funds management; Organizing Donors & Funders)

Left Align Consulting 👥 powers progressive organizations through expert fundraising strategy and execution.
Wealth Reclamation Academy of Practitioners (WRAP) 👥 is a fast growing community of practice organized by and for Resource Mobilizers offering opportunities for peer connection on their events page.
Securing the Roots 👥 is a fellowship program to expand the fundraising capacity for community-based organizations.
Justice Funders 👥 is a partner and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world. They organize events and created Resonance: A Framework for Philanthropic Transformation 🧰 in addition to other online resources on their website.
The archive of the groundbreaking Grassroots Fundraising Journal is available online at Nonprofit Quarterly. 🧰
An Incomplete History of Philanthropy and Social Change in the US 🧰 is a brief timeline (written in 2013) of key moments that shaped the relationship between philanthropy and social change organizations.
The Financial Activist Playbook: 8 Strategies for Everyday People to Reclaim Wealth and Collective Well-Being 🧰 by Jasmine Rashid is a comprehensive resource designed to empower everyday people with insider knowledge on moving money for a more equitable economy. Going beyond tried financial literacy, The Financial Activist Playbook offers eight accessible, actionable, “choose-your-own-adventure” strategies for readers to experiment with.

Safety & Security

(Community Safety Planning; Digital Security; Risk Assessments)

Vision Change Win 👥 is an experienced social justice consulting entity providing support to assist organizations in fully manifesting their missions, visions, and values. VCW delivers practical and effective solutions to social justice organizations working in policy advocacy, community organizing, art, culture and direct services. VCW offers trainings and toolkits 🧰 on community safety and risk assessment.
Power and Protect Safety Resource Library 🧰 was created to centralize and increase access to the best resources out there for organizational and community leaders. The Power & Protect Operations Network (PON) 👥 was formed by New Left Accelerator (NLA), Center for Empowered Politics Action Fund (CEPAF), Bolder Advocacy, The Capacity Shop (TCS), and Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund (CEPEF) to support power-building organizations and leaders in the field with operations, compliance, and multi-entity infrastructure.
Palante Technology Cooperative 👥 is a majority POC, trans & queer worker-owned cooperative that builds relationships and partnerships by providing technical services to organizations fighting for the liberation of all oppressed people. They offer services such as organizational digital security, CRM database strategy & deployment, web maintenance & support, among others.
The Surveillance Resistance Lab 👥 publishes resources 🧰 to scale up the ability of communities, workers, and advocates to build power towards a vibrant democracy.

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