Common Good Vermont is a statewide network that connects nonprofit leaders to news, training, jobs and funding that help them to be more effective and make change happen. It is a project of CCTV Center for Media & Democracy, based in Burlington Vermont. We seek a strong and effective communicator, familiar with Vermont’s nonprofit community [...]
Christine Zachai, of Forward Philanthropy, shared this recent post from her Giving Well blog. Last week I was sitting in Manhattan with four extraordinary women. Down the table from me was Jennifer Buffet, President and Co-chair of the NoVo Foundation; Chair and CEO of the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation, Catherine B. Reynolds; Josefina Vázquez, Executive Director of the Boston Women’s Fund; and Karen [...]
The Nonprofit Research Collaborative (NRC) conducts surveys two times a year. This survey was conducted online in January and February 2012 about fundraising results from 2011 and plans for 2012. The full report is now available here. Key findings from the report include: For the first time since 2007, more than half of surveyed United [...]
Public Assets Institute most recent editorial, 2013 Budget: Is it Adequate? submits that Vermont’s budget process has become an exercise in making the numbers work. Vermont needs a better budgeting process, one that starts with a goal of meeting Vermonters’ needs rather than making the numbers work. That’s the conclusion of a new report that raises [...]
The Nonprofit Finance Fund released it’s 2012 State of Nonprofit Sector Survey results today here. In this year’s survey, more than 4,500 respondents at nonprofits across the country shared the details of how they are adapting their organizations and finances to economic conditions. The survey, which was supported for the second year in a row [...]
Thanks to Marie Ferris, Rural Vermont U.S. Department of Agriculture for sharing this information with Common Good Vermont. Have something you’d like to share with Vermont’s nonprofit community? Get in touch Coordinator@CommonGoodVT.org, 802.862.1645 x21 USDA Seeks Applications to Spur Job Creation, Economic Growth in Rural Areas Funding Available For Regional Economic Development Strategies Deadline: May [...]
New Financing Emerges for Social Innovation Reposted from the Philanthropy Journal, March 21, 2012 http://www.philanthropyjournal.org “Social impact bonds,” which raise private investment capital to fund prevention and early-intervention social programs, with government repaying investors only if the work improves social outcomes, represent a “promising new product” that could become a multi-billion-dollar source of growth capital [...]
Laura Lind-Blum Hired as New VWBC Director March 25, 2012 – Barre, VT – Central Vermont Community Action Council (CVCAC) and the District Office of the US Small Business Administration are pleased to announce Laura Lind-Blum as the new Director of the Vermont Women’s Business Center (VWBC). Lind-Blum, known in the women’s business community as [...]
Thanks to Deborah A. Maguire, Community Programs Specialist, Rural Vermont U.S. Department of Agriculture for sharing this information with Common Good Vermont. Have something you’d like to share with Vermont’s nonprofit community? Get in touch Coordinator@CommonGoodVT.org, 802.862.1645 x21 Are Your Health Care Facilities in Great Shape? Rates are low. It’s a good time to start [...]
Thanks to Carol Maloney, Samara Fund and Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup of the Vermont Community Foundation for sharing this recent announcement with Common Good Vermont. Have something you’d like to share with Vermont’s nonprofit community? Get in touch Coordinator@CommonGoodVT.org, 802.862.1645 x21 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2012 Contacts: Carol Maloney Samara Fund Grants Advisory Committee Chair [...]
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