Thanks to Beth Shrader for the message: Communications Coordinator The Brattleboro Area Prevention Coalition seeks an individual to coordinate external communications including, but not limited to media campaigns, newsletters, website, press releases and advertising to support drug and alcohol prevention. Preferred qualifications: 1 to 4 years experience in marketing or communications position Ability to manage [...]
1. Effective Project Management – IBM Makes it happen 2. Job Alert – Brattleboro Area Prevention Coalition (BAPC) Seeks Communications Coordinator 3. Learn from the Pros – Tune-Up Your Communications Strategy Road Show Montpelier Event (From 5/27 4. Information to Share – 3SquaresVT and the nutrition safety net 5. The Philanthropy Journal Presents – Creating [...]
Watch the May 27th, 2010 event on strategic communications in full as community leaders provide concrete examples and tools to make your communications strategy expand your reach and impact! Michael Levine/Flywheel Communications, Drew Hudson/We Also Herd Cats, Liz Schlegel/Central Vermont Community Action Agency.
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Volunteers provide vital human resources to our nonprofits—but do we treat them with the value and respect they deserve? People who choose to contribute their time to our organizations do so for many reasons but fundamentally they want to make a difference. Whether it’s for a short period of time (such as tagging photos from Haiti), planning an event or a life time of dedication to one issue or organization, there are “tried and true” ways of recruiting and retaining volunteers for our work.
Common Good Vermont hosted Attract and Keep Your Volunteers in Franklin County on June 14th with an experienced panel reporting on their version of “best practices” to help nonprofits make the most of their community based volunteers.
Thanks to Glenn McRae at the Intervale Foundation for alerting us to this funding opportunity: The Lodestar Foundation is accepting applications for the 2011 Collaboration Prize, a $250,000 national award designed to identify and showcase models of collaboration among nonprofit organizations that are working toward achieving a social good. The prize recognizes collaborations that have [...]
Marty Jacobs has worked with countless nonprofits and government agencies and knows that 80% of all “change management” efforts fail. If you’ve ever worked on a strategic plan and then tried to implement it, you’ll know how hard it is to actually change the way you do business. That’s why Marty is so excited to talk about a useful framework for implementing strategic change. We had a great discussion in White River Junction (at the studios of CATV) last week with Marty and a small group of smart nonprofit leaders about what good planning means and how to overcome the predictable barriers to that keep your people and organization from doing its best work.
It’s called D.I.C.E. — what you need to make your change effort succeed: Duration (enough time), Integrity (quality of the team), Commitment (from the bottom and the TOP), and Effort (realistic assessment of what it takes). This “tool” is informed by a seminal article “The Hard Side of Change Management” researched and written by Harold L. Sirkin, Perry Keenan, and Alan Jackson and published in the Harvard Business Review in October 2005. Here’s more…
Find out here: (http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/PubApps/990search.php?epostcard=1&state=VT) Thanks to the VCF for alerting us! 669 organizations in Vermont are in danger of losing their tax-exemption status. The National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) has put together a list of organizations currently out of compliance . Once you click on the link, select the state “Vermont” and search for [...]
Sign up now for one of Common Good Vermont’s trainings in June and connect with the programs you’ve been asking for, presenters you trust and fellow peers in the field! For more information, RSVP below or get in touch with us at coordinator@commongoodvt.org Monday, June 14 at Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans (Room 1) – [...]
Deadline: September 15, 2010. NEGEF’s small grants program provides grants to groups working on community level issues in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. More info available here.
