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What Do You Talk About at Your Board Meetings?

March 7, 2013 – 4:12 pm

“What Do You Talk About at Your Board Meetings?” by Simone Joyaux, The Nonprofit Quarterly, January 4, 2013. This article offers great suggestions for how to keep your board meetings focused on governance, rather than management. (Thanks to Marty Jacobs for pointing this out!) What do you talk about at your board meetings? Wait. Don’t [...]

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Funding: Michael and Susan Dell Foundation Announces Launch of Ed-Fi Alliance

March 7, 2013 – 3:44 pm

From Philanthropy News Digest: The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has announced the launch of the Ed-Fi Alliance, a wholly owned nonprofit subsidiary that will offer educators and administrators real-time, actionable education data on every student in their classroom, school, district, or state. To be headed by Lori Fey, MSDF’s former U.S. director of policy, [...]

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What’s Driving Your Nonprofit: Opinion or Expertise? There Is a Difference!

March 7, 2013 – 2:59 pm

More from Nonprofit Quarterly: You either like or dislike Picasso’s work. That’s your personal view or attitude. But art experts judge Picasso as a seminal artist, a game-changer. You hire a lawyer and pay attention to what she says without wasting too much time offering your ill-informed or uninformed opinions about the law. You hire [...]

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The Performance Whisperer Recommends Working Hard–and Working Well

March 7, 2013 – 12:39 pm

Mario Morino, a major advocate for managing nonprofit performance announced a new and important short book by David Hunter: Working Hard–and Working Well. He writes: Today, the social sector gains a valuable, hands-on guide for taking the leap to high performance: Working Hard—and Working Well, by David E.K. Hunter. David, the former director of assessment [...]

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Marty Jacobs: Town Meeting & Collective Impact

March 7, 2013 – 12:21 pm

Marty Jacobs, of Systems  in Sync, shared this in her monthly newsletter: The month of March also brings to Vermont the rite of town meeting day, a tradition that is both quaint and quirky. I’m proud to say that ever since living in Thetford, I have never missed a town meeting. (Yikes! That makes 20!) [...]

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Vermont Accountability Compact Launched

February 26, 2013 – 3:35 pm

Kate Jellema, of Marlboro College Graduate School’s Nonprofit Certificate Program and Benchmarks for a Better Vermont is part of a Results Based Accountability (TM) Working Group that includes Agency of Human Services, United Ways of Vermont, Common Good Vermont, and the Lamoille Family Center. She shared this exciting news about the newly launched Vermont Accountability [...]

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Nonprofit Best Practices Guide

February 25, 2013 – 11:15 pm
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Our friends at the Maine Center for Nonprofits have published these valuable guides on nonprofit best practices that will benefit our Vermont colleagues. The nonprofit sector is continually challenged to be more transparent, efficient and effective. Guiding Principles & Practices for Nonprofit Excellence in Maine and the related tools are intended to help nonprofits evaluate [...]

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Marketing Smarts: Don’t Let Data Drive, Let it Inform

February 25, 2013 – 10:41 pm

K.D. Paine, well-known marketing thought-leader is the keynote speaker a the upcoming Vermont Nonprofit Conference 2013, slated for March 21st at Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, Vermont. She’ll address the major gathering of Vermont nonprofits on her recent book, “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit”, recently co-authored with Beth Kanter, beloved nonprofit technology guru. You can register [...]

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Vermont Nonprofit Conference 2013: The Data Driven Nonprofit

February 22, 2013 – 10:41 am

Two hundred and fifty nonprofit leaders are expected to attend the Vermont Nonprofit Conference 2013 on Thursday, March 21, 2013 at Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee Vermont. The theme for the day-long conference is “The Data Driven Nonprofit”. The annual event features a keynote address by K.D. Paine, mission critical workshops and much-needed networking opportunities for the sector. Check out the full agenda.

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Vermont Nonprofit Conference 2013 Agenda

February 20, 2013 – 4:07 pm

VERMONT NONPROFIT CONFERENCE 2013 The Data Driven Nonprofit: Tracking Results, Telling Our Story, Improving Vermont Thursday, March 21 2013 | Lake Morey Resort Brought to You by Common Good Vermont & Benchmarks for a Better Vermont Agenda for the Day | Meet the Presenters | Meet the Attendees | Reading List | Conference Materials (more [...]

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