Monthly Archives: August 2010

Toolkit: Getting Your Board to Govern as a Team

August 31, 2010 – 1:26 pm

BoardSource, a trusted resource for building effective nonprofit boards, presents a ready-to-download ‘toolkit’ for fostering board chemistry: Chemistry: Does your board have it? Every board struggles with group dynamics — the ways in which individual board members interact with each other and function (or don’t) as an effective team. Successful boards have figured out how [...]

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Setting Nonprofit Salaries

August 31, 2010 – 12:53 pm

The Nonprofit Quarterly featured this helpful insight by Rick Cohen into the salaries of nonprofit leaders in its latest Nonprofit Newswire, a roundup of nonprofit news. What is Happening to Salaries of Nonprofit Leaders Nearly every week we see a couple of articles taking stock of the pay for nonprofit executives, like this one from [...]

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Job Alert: VBSR Seeks Public Policy Manager

August 31, 2010 – 12:18 pm

Pulled from #npvt Twitter feed @VBSRpolicy VBSR Seeks Public Policy Manager Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility seeks a Public Policy Manager to develop and implement public policy strategies, outreach, and education programs for our 1300 member business organization.  The work involves significant interaction with members, legislators, advocacy groups, and other VBSR staff. The successful applicant [...]

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Learn from the Pros: Social Media Workshop in Brattleboro

August 31, 2010 – 11:57 am

Kate Jellema, Director  of the Nonprofit Management Certificate Program at the  Marlboro College Graduate School shared this professional training opportunity with us: Social Media for Nonprofits 12/4 Training in Brattleboro When:         Saturday, December 4, 9 am to 4 pm Where:     Marlboro College Graduate School in downtown Brattleboro Who:     Anyone who wants [...]

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Final Online Q & A Session with the Vermont Community Foundation

August 31, 2010 – 10:41 am

Jen Peterson of the Vermont Community Foundation will be facilitating a final VCF 2010 Fall grant round  Q & A Session on Wednesday 9/1 from 10 – 11 a.m. on the Common Good Vermont Community Forum The DEADLINE for the Fall 2010 Grant Round is 5 p.m. on September 3rd. It’s easy to do: 1. [...]

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Idealware Tip of the Month: Microsoft Office v. OpenOffice

August 30, 2010 – 8:25 pm

Laura Quinn at Idealware generously provides us with useful comparisons for improving our technology and social media use each month: Almost all nonprofits want a powerful, useful-friendly word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation package – and Microsoft Office is the traditional choice.  But OpenOffice.org offers a completely free and powerful alternative, making it a viable, affordable [...]

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Social Network Tracker: Find Your Supporters on Social Networks

August 30, 2010 – 8:17 pm
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Allison Kaplan of Frogloop alerted us to this great new tool to help with your outreach! Ever wanted to find out where your donors and activists are hanging out on social networks so you can continue deepening your relationsips with your supporters and foster more two-way conversations? Thanks to Care2′s new Social Network Tracker that [...]

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JOB ALERT: Burlington City Arts Seeks Gallery Coordinator & Curatorial Ast.

August 26, 2010 – 3:51 pm

Thanks to Jenny Davis of Burlington for including this posting in her weekly newsletter The Neighborhood Buzz: Burlington City Arts is in search of a new Gallery Coordinator and Curatorial Assistance. This position is responsible for managing the day to day gallery operations including coordination of gallery volunteers and the organization of openings and events. [...]

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Just One Good Example

August 25, 2010 – 12:09 pm

Special Thanks to our friend Susan Parker at Clear Thinking Communications for reminding us about the most effective to tell the story about the good work we do in the nonprofit world! (You can read it here too.) Sometimes all you need to communicate your message is one good example. The foundation and nonprofit world [...]

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Vermont Community Foundation Fall Grant Round 9/3

August 25, 2010 – 7:16 am

The Vermont Community Foundation is accepting applications for its Fall 2010 Grant Round up to $10,000 in operating support for Basic Human Needs, Successful Communities, Sustainable Communities. The deadline is Friday, September 3d. Decisions will be made by December 2010. If you have immediate questions and have reviewed the grant applications, log on for the “online [...]

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