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 are free. Board Cafe, Jan Masaoka, 11/13 When we reviewed various the dozens of evaluation instruments sent [...]
Media Release October 7,2011 The Department of Public Service has extended the deadline for written comments regarding the draft Comprehensive Energy Plan to November 4, 2011, after receiving requests from regional planning commissions, the Vermont Energy Partnership, the Vermont Public Power Supply Authority, and others for additional time to comment. Written comments on the PUBLIC [...]
Thanks to our dear friend Annaliese Hoehling of NTEN, for sharing this with Common Good Vermont. When you have minimal resources to carry out your important organizational work, it’s crucial that your technology serve specific needs efficiently, like managing donor relationships or website content. But it’s especially crucial that your technology also serves your overall [...]
From Google for Nonprofits, Hi Nonprofits! Our team is thinking about developing some new educational resources for Google for Nonprofit users, but we want to hear from you first, so we make sure what we work on is aligned with what you need. It would be a great help if you could take a 10-15 minute survey [...]
Your Opinion – What do you think of VIT? VIT Worldwide Video Conferencing (VIT), a cherished partner of CommonGood Vermont, is looking for input on how they can serve the nonprofit sector better. CommonGood Vermont and VIT have collaborated on a number of workshops and their services can be be very useful to organizations and [...]
NTEN, the great technology nonprofit and good friend of NPT readers, needs your help. They are doing their annual technology survey and need about five minutes of your time to complete an online survey. The link is below. Please take a few minutes to fill it out. The results will be published by both NTEN [...]
VIT Worldwide Video Conferencing (VIT), a cherished partner of CommonGood Vermont, is looking for input on how they can serve the nonprofit sector better. CommonGood Vermont and VIT have collaborated on a number of workshops and their services can be be very useful to organizations and individuals in the nonprofit sector . From Tara Lindstrom, [...]
Public charities and private foundations continued to take a beating during the first five months of 2010. Some 40 percent of participants in GuideStar’s first nonprofit economic survey for 2010 reported that contributions to their organizations dropped between January 1 and May 31, 2010, compared to the same period a year earlier. Another 28 percent said that contributions had [...]
This Fall, the Vermont Community Foundation and Common Good Vermont are releasing a report on the impact, challenges, and opportunities of Vermont’s nonprofit sector. The report aims to educate Vermont’s funding and policy making community, and will feature survey results that provides a clearer understanding of the complex issues facing nonprofit leaders. We want to [...]
What do you think? Partnering with the Central Vermont Community Action Council, Common Good Vermont has been offered the opportunity to host the nationally recognized Grantsmanship Training Program for Vermont’s nonprofit community. We’d like to find out if you are likely to attend this training opportunity. Please answer these quick questions. The five day Grantsmanship [...]
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