Free for every nonprofit
Honest answers about how your nonprofit is doing.
Most organizations never ask. The well-known assessments cost hundreds of dollars, writing your own questions is a project nobody has time for, and no one wants to be the person who brings it up.
So we wrote the questions, made them free, and built them so nobody’s answer can be traced back to them. What people tell you here is what they actually think.
Three places to begin
Each one stands on its own, so start with whatever you most want to know.
Board self-assessment
How is your board really doing? Members answer in private, and you get a short report to read together at your next meeting.
- About eight minutes each
- Staff and community can join later
- No answer traces back to anyone
AI readiness assessment
Your board and staff answer the same questions about AI. The most useful part is usually where their answers part ways.
- About seven minutes each
- Board, staff, or both
- Holding off counts as an answer
Website scan
See your site the way a donor, a search engine, or an AI assistant sees it. It even checks whether your donate link still works.
- Ready in seconds
- Nothing to set up
- A deeper look with your email
Already started one and can’t find the link? We can send it again.
What you can count on
It stays free
No paid version, no fee per person, nothing held back for later. Every organization gets all of it.
Nobody can see who said what
Answers carry no name, email, or login. When too few people answer a section, the report leaves it out rather than risk pointing at someone.
Something to talk about, not another login
You get a short report your board reads together. It prints well, because that is how most boards read.
You don’t have to work through it alone
A report shows you where things stand. Deciding what to do next is the harder part, and it often helps to have someone in the room who has been through it with other boards.
A good consultant can set things up, lead the meeting where the board reads the results, and help the follow-through stick. They can put their name on the survey and the report, but the findings are always the survey’s. A consultant can’t edit them.
Why it’s free
Made by people who work alongside nonprofits
The well-known board assessments cost $549 to $975 each time. For a small organization that is real money, so the reflection that would help the most gets skipped, year after year. The groups doing the hardest work with the least are the ones who go without. We think that is backwards.
Upspire Studio builds and pays for this site, and we don’t plan to charge for it. We make a couple of other things for nonprofits too. If they help, good. If not, this is still yours.
Volunteer Shift Manager
Scheduling and shift coverage for volunteer programs, without the spreadsheet.
volunteershiftmanager.com
Nonprofit Board Manager
Agendas, minutes, and the board paperwork that usually lands on one person's desk.
nonprofitboardmanager.com
More on the way
We’ll add them here as they’re ready.
Reading for the people doing the work
All guidesWhat is a board self-assessment?
A plain explanation of what a nonprofit board self-assessment measures, what it deliberately does not measure, and what a board gets back from one.
Writing a nonprofit AI policy
People are already using these tools at work and nothing is written down. A usable outline for a nonprofit AI policy, and who should write and approve it.
How often should a nonprofit board evaluate itself?
Most guidance says every two to three years. Here is why annual is usually the better answer for a small board, and what to do if you have never done one.