Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin announces a reduced damage cost estimate for repairs to the state’s transportation network: 11/1/2011 Montpelier, Vt. – Gov. Peter Shumlin and Administration Officials delivered good news today, announcing reduced Agency of Transportation damage estimates in response to Tropical Storm Irene. VTrans, which initially believed the cost of repairing all roads, culverts [...]
Personal Democracy Forum is a go-to resource if you want to learn about political uses of online media. We are especially excited about their “Conference Calls” with key media policy influencers. Join PdF as they kick off the PdF Fall Call Series with Gigi Sohn, Thursday November 3rd. You can also check the archives (awesome) [...]
Nancy Schwartz, our good friend from Getting Attention! Blog and ENews shared her most recent project with us: The Book that Changed My Life: 129 Recommendations from Nonprofits Around the World. We think you will find it fascinating. Nancy writes: When I recently asked nonprofit experts in a range of fields—from fundraising to advocacy—to share [...]
Thanks to the folks who responded to Common Good Vermont’s NPO Coaching Survey for Executive Directors. We are planning to launch two ED Coaching Circles in Montpelier and Burlington in January 2012. The survey is helping us with the design and format of monthly guided “meet ups”of Executive Directors seeking advice and support for their [...]
Press play on the screen below for the complete video recording Common Good Vermont’s Lauren-Glenn Davitian speaks with executive coach Susan Palmer of Susan Palmer Consulting LLC. Susan Palmer provides leadership development services through a series of structured conversations designed to help professionals achieve more of the results they seek. Coaching helps a leader make [...]
As a busy executive director of a Vermont nonprofit, it is easy to become lost in day-to-day decisions. Working with a coach helps me to improve my professional skills and to be a more effective leader, able to stay on mission and serve our community in the best possible way.
Thanks to Third Sector New England for bringing this to our attention. The following is an abbreviated version of a recently published feature article in the latest edition of The Nonprofit Quarterly (Spring 2011). It is worth reading the full version, which describes several case studies, a fuller description of the Community-Engagement Governance™ Framework, its [...]
We love the Pew Research Center’s regular email alerts and found this today. Just 18 months after the introduction of the iPad, a new Pew Research Center study details the way in which the tablet is creating a revolution in how people get their news. About one-in-ten Americans now own a tablet, and more than [...]
e-Vermont is offering two workshops to help teach Internet basics to newbies. On November 4th (Newport/ CCV from 9-11 a.m.) and November 18th (Morrisville/ CCV from 1 – 3 p.m.), the Community College of Vermont will present a two hour workshop to teach the basics of working with learners who have little to no computer [...]
We can’t learn enough about how to measure nonprofit impact. Here’s a quick webinar to introduce you to The Nonprofit Centers Impact Assessment Toolkit. Tune in on Wednesday, November 16 | 11a – 12p (Pacific Time) | 2p – 3p (Eastern Time) to learn about an exciting new tool to help nonprofit centers measure the [...]
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