More than 265 nonprofit leaders from 145 organizations registered for the Vermont Nonprofit Conference 2012: Benchmarks for a Better Vermont. The full day of activities, simulcast from 11 VIT sites across the state, focused on improving organizational effectiveness with Results-Based Accountability™ (concepts derived from Mark Friedman’s seminal book, “Trying Hard is Not Good Enough”.)
February 20, 2012 – 1:10 pm
Complete Conference Materials are available here. Thank you to those who have registered for the Vermont Nonprofit Conference: Benchmarks for a Better Vermont, slated for March 20th at VIT sites across the state. There are a few spaces left: http://blog.commongoodvt.org/2011/12/announcement-vt-npo-conference-bbvt-2012/ Conference participants are eligible for Benchmarks for a Better Vermont (BBVT) capacity building opportunities: Wednesday [...]
February 13, 2012 – 10:41 am
National Agricultural Classification Survey is an Important Step toward a Complete Count Washington, February 10, 2012 – Surveys are now arriving in mailboxes around the nation to help identify all active farms in the United States. The National Agricultural Classification Survey (NACS), which asks landowners whether or not they are farming and for basic farm [...]
January 31, 2012 – 4:37 pm
Jack Hoffman of Public Assets Institute shared these observations on Vermont’s changing demographics: Since the early 1990s, when the IRS started tracking migration and income, people moving to Vermont have consistently reported higher average annual incomes than the Vermont residents who were leaving.1 The most recent data for 2010 shows that trend has continued.2 The numbers of people coming and [...]
January 26, 2012 – 9:33 pm
Following the lead of our colleagues in New Hampshire, we urge you to complete the 2012 Nonprofit Finance Fund nationwide survey that collects data on important financial issues facing organizations in our state and across the country. Deadline: February 15th – Take the 2012 survey today! With your help, we can gain invaluable data about [...]
January 24, 2012 – 4:33 pm
Thanks to Mary Ellen Mendel of VT 2-1-1 for news of state and local agencies teaming up for the sixth official statewide homeless point in time count on January 26 of 2012. The Vermont Balance of State Continuum of Care (CoC) and The Chittenden County Continuum of Care are again joining efforts for the sixth [...]
January 24, 2012 – 1:41 pm
This recent Johns Hopkins Study finds nonprofit sector leading in national job growth! The report states “Nonprofits have been playing an unprecedented role during the current recession by responding to increased demands for services and have had to unfairly operate with a lack of access to equity funding, limits on the ability to lobby for government contract business and other negative policy shortfalls.”
January 24, 2012 – 12:08 pm
On Tuesday, January 17th, Representative Suzi Wizowaty (D-Burlington) and Senator Anthony Pollina (P-Washington Co.) held a press conference to introduce three bills to re-state how lawmakers evaluate Vermont’s economy. Bill H.541/ S.237 calls on the legislature to use the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) instead of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the tool to evaluate and [...]
January 2, 2012 – 9:17 am
Three years after the start of the Great Recession, the gap between Vermont’s wealthiest and everyone else had widened, and thousands of Vermonters had sunk into poverty, according to a new report released by Public Assets Institute today. The governor’s goal of rebuilding the middle class is an important start, but Montpelier must begin to create a state that works for everybody, the report says.
December 14, 2011 – 2:50 pm
Eddie Gale of The A.D. Henderson Foundation explains why it is important for nonprofits to be accountable for the work they do. In this interview with Common Good Vermont, Gale presents an funders perspective on the vital connection between outcomes and nonprofit performance.
