Complete Guide to Facilities Management for Nonprofits

Welcome to your introductory lessons on nonprofit facilities management! In this three-course series, we’ll cover the basics of what role nonprofit facilities play in our mission-focused work, and why this type of management matters. We’ll then look at the individual skills necessary to understand and manage our facilities, and offer a self-assessment to see where you might want to build up your own competencies.

We’ll wrap up the bronze badge with an exploration of what it looks like when we’re effectively using and managing our facilities, and introduce a strategic structure which can indicate our level of effectiveness in using and forecasting our current and future space needs.

Let’s jump in on our first lesson: “What is nonprofit facilities management?”

*Note that a transcript of all audio is available for download on the lessons to come, as well as an audio-only version of the lessons. You can always turn on closed-captions on the video player settings above.

In this lesson, we'll jump in on an overview of what nonprofit facilities management is and what it looks like in your non-profit.

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Now that you have some basics about nonprofit facilities management, let's take a look at why it matters.

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In this lesson, we'll look at the five skills needed to support our nonprofit facilities management capacity. Remember: skills can be learned, practiced, and developed over time, so if you feel that you have a little (or a lot of!) room for improvement, know that you're on the right track!

Be sure to download the transcript to begin building your reference library, and also feel free to use the audio-only download below for on-the-go learning.

In this lesson, we'll bring together our learning on what effective nonprofit facilities management looks like, and how can we measure it.

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Understanding what nonprofit facilities management entails, the skills that support it, and what effectiveness looks like relies on the participation of both the individual and the team.

In this lesson, we'll explore a few categories of measurement.

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Welcome to our silver badge lessons on nonprofit facilities management! As you work toward your silver badge, you’ll go deeper into the “how” of place-making: how we can activate facilities management in our organizations, how to lead efforts to improve your facilities leadership, and setting goals that look to build up your capacity and that of your organization in these efforts.

Let’s jump in on our next lesson on activating our facilities management efforts in our nonprofits!

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Let’s start with activating your facilities management efforts and go beyond the focused skill-building we talked about in our bronze lessons. We’ll look at more deeply exploring your motives for improvement, managing innovation, and understanding others.

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Now that we have a little bit of foundation in your facilities management efforts, let's think about how we can apply this to your organization.

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In this lesson, we'll look at how to put facilities management efforts into practice with a look at how to design and elevate your facilities management approaches in your nonprofit.

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In our consideration of how to build up your own capacity in developing and supporting effective facilities management at your nonprofit, we’re going to consider the principles behind goal-setting.

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Setting goals to improve your nonprofit’s overall facilities management efforts looks and feels different than setting goals as an individual.

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Welcome to your final series of courses on nonprofit facilities! We’ve covered a lot of ground on what facilities management is and isn’t, how you can improve your own practice, and what it looks like when it’s done well. In our gold-level lessons, we’ll bring this learning together to explore how we can get and stay motivated to build up our own place-making abilities. We’ll also look at some ways to understand our fellow stakeholders’ motivation or resistance.

These lessons also include a review of all we have covered in our work on facilities, and you’ll have the opportunity to complete a personal learning plan to conclude your learning.

Let's jump in!

*Note that a transcript of all audio is available for download on the lessons to come, as well as an audio-only version of the lessons. You can always turn on closed-captions on the video player settings above.

In this lesson, we'll look at how motivation can be supported in building facilities management efforts in your organization.

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In this lesson, we're going to discuss how we can inspire others to get personally motivated about nonprofit facilities management efforts, especially those who may be resistant.

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In this final teaching lesson on facilities management, we're bringing together all our learning into a capstone video on how we can grow from everything we've covered thus far!

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