Watch the May 27th, 2010 event on strategic communications in full as community leaders provide concrete examples and tools to make your communications strategy expand your reach and impact! Michael Levine/Flywheel Communications, Drew Hudson/We Also Herd Cats, Liz Schlegel/Central Vermont Community Action Agency.
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Volunteers provide vital human resources to our nonprofits—but do we treat them with the value and respect they deserve? People who choose to contribute their time to our organizations do so for many reasons but fundamentally they want to make a difference. Whether it’s for a short period of time (such as tagging photos from Haiti), planning an event or a life time of dedication to one issue or organization, there are “tried and true” ways of recruiting and retaining volunteers for our work.
Common Good Vermont hosted Attract and Keep Your Volunteers in Franklin County on June 14th with an experienced panel reporting on their version of “best practices” to help nonprofits make the most of their community based volunteers.
Marty Jacobs has worked with countless nonprofits and government agencies and knows that 80% of all “change management” efforts fail. If you’ve ever worked on a strategic plan and then tried to implement it, you’ll know how hard it is to actually change the way you do business. That’s why Marty is so excited to talk about a useful framework for implementing strategic change. We had a great discussion in White River Junction (at the studios of CATV) last week with Marty and a small group of smart nonprofit leaders about what good planning means and how to overcome the predictable barriers to that keep your people and organization from doing its best work.
It’s called D.I.C.E. — what you need to make your change effort succeed: Duration (enough time), Integrity (quality of the team), Commitment (from the bottom and the TOP), and Effort (realistic assessment of what it takes). This “tool” is informed by a seminal article “The Hard Side of Change Management” researched and written by Harold L. Sirkin, Perry Keenan, and Alan Jackson and published in the Harvard Business Review in October 2005. Here’s more…
Sign up now for one of Common Good Vermont’s trainings in June and connect with the programs you’ve been asking for, presenters you trust and fellow peers in the field! For more information, RSVP below or get in touch with us at coordinator@commongoodvt.org Monday, June 14 at Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans (Room 1) – [...]
Here’s a handy “check list” to help you focus your precious time on key communications strategies. Special thanks to Michael Levine, (Flywheel Communications) and fellow “Tune Up Your Communications Strategy” panelists Liz Schlegel (Central VT Community Action Council), , and Drew Hudson ( We Also Herd Cats) for their contribution to this list! Strategic Communications [...]
1. We Can End This: Vermont Hunger Rally (5/20) _________________________________________ 2. Response to Gulf Oil Spill _________________________________________ 3. Tune Up Your Communications Strategy: Common Good VT Road Show Heads to Montpelier ( 5/27) _________________________________________ 4. 11th Hour: IRS Extends Deadline for NPO Filings _________________________________________ 5. Job Alert! VAHC looking for Communications and Outreach Coordinator _________________________________________ [...]
Join us in Morrisville on Friday, June 25th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a valuable networking opportunity with your peers, an update on Common Good Vermont and drive through http://commongoodvt.org PLUS a special capacity buildiing workshop on fudraising desribed below. REGISTER TODAY! Topic: The Why and How of Giving and Raising Money Presenter: [...]
The Northeast Kingdom Collaborative seeks to encourage exchange of information and opportunities through conversations about strategic planning and community action during of Collaborative public informational forums in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont (comprised of three of the most remote rural counties, located in the northeast corner of Vermont). With the direction of the Collaborative’s [...]
Join us for the Common Good Vermont 2010 Road Show when we visit southeastern Vermont on Friday, June 18 at Marlboro Graduate Center from 10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. for a valuable networking opportunity with your peers, an update on Common Good Vermont and drive through http://commongoodvt.org PLUS a special capacity building workshop on Board [...]
Common Good Vermont hits the road again this Spring with a new series of community meetings and capacity building workshops for nonprofit leaders and staff. Join us in White River Junction on Friday, June 4th from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a valuable networking opportunity with your peers, an update on Common Good Vermont [...]
