Many organizations find it very useful to take on interns (paid or unpaid) during the summer months, to help with workload, and to invest in these young students.
In the article, Teaching the Class of 2009 from the Chronicles of Philanthropy offers some good tips on managing interns, so that the experience is beneficial for both  [...]

The book, The Art of the Turnaround, by Michael M. Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, offers 10 basic rules which can be adapted for any organization.
For excerpts from the book, click on this article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

The State Policy Network recently compiled a Cd-Rom guide with a compilation of useful tools and suggestions for starting, and making the most of your think tank. This guide is  also available for download here.

The Insider is a monthly compilation of abstracts of think tank publications, which also includes features that address management topics as well as specific policy issues. PolicyExperts.org is a database of experts and organizations dealing with public policy issues. (Print versions of each are also available through Heritage.)

PolicyBot is the Internet’s most extensive clearing-house for the work of free-market think tanks, with more than 11,500 studies and commentaries from over 350 think tanks and advocacy groups. PolicyBot’s database allows you to navigate through the topic list or search by specify keywords, author or publisher.

In this article,  John Caldara of the Independence Institute in Colorado explains how his think tank tackles the tricky challenge of measuring impact.   This article appeared in the Winter 2004 edition of SPN News.