Presented by our partner, IdeaEncore,a nonprofit resource center and a community of people who exchange information, provides insightful, easy-to-consume information shared by leaders in the nonprofit sector. Ready to turn 2012 into your organization’s best year yet? For many, the first step is to start (or revise) planning. A comprehensive, well-reasoned operational or strategic plan [...]
Press play on the screen below for the complete recording Melissa Levy has been an Associate of Yellow Wood Associates, Inc. since 2003. Community economic development is about recognizing, preserving, and growing community wealth in all its forms: human, financial, social, ecological, and physical (infrastructure). In this program, Lauren-Glenn Davitian talks to Melissa about measurement [...]
Thanks to Martha Maksym, Executive Director of the United Way of Chittenden County, for sharing this article with Common Good Vermont. Five Internal Controls for the Very Small Nonprofit Published on Blue Avocado (http://blueavocado.org) Segregation of duties, checks & balances . . . difficult to implement in the organization that has perhaps three or fewer [...]
Pulled from the website www.blueavocado.org, a nonprofit online magazine for community nonprofits. Blue Avocado is published every third Tuesday through an HTML newsletter delivered to more than 50,000 subscribers. Thanks to its sponsors and members, Blue Avocado subscriptions ar e free. Alternatives to Strategic Planning By Jan Masaoka • March 14, 2011 • In Part [...]
Thanks to our friends at the Orton Foundation for the news about their new free, user-driven site that helps you find and share resources for better planning. Do you need new tools and methods to liven up your community planning process? Are you looking for examples of other towns that successfully engaged citizens? Help is [...]
Steve Shepard—futurist, advisor, writer and internationally known presenter—recently spoke to Vermont nonprofits about how we can effectively navigate our rapidly changing digital world.
Register here No matter our mission, we know that effective nonprofit leaders must navigate this rapidly changing digital world. But are we equipped for the changes that affect all aspects of our organization–operations, development and marketing? Join us on Monday, September 13 from 12 – 2 p.m. in Burlington or via live Webcast for the [...]
Laura Quinn at Idealware wrote to us today with some great news about the new Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide! Hope you’re having a great summer! I just wanted to give you heads up about a new free resource that we’ve just launched: our Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. The Guide walks nonprofit organizations through [...]
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