NonProfits Online: Information and Resources from New Ventures Consulting

[...] ” and other communications have crept into our written and spoken language and affected civic discourse. Is this a benefit or a problem? It probably depends on a number of factors. I’ll outline a [...]

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[...] and state Agency on Aging resources, which are excellent. Also check material from AARP, the National Council on Aging (NCOA), the National Alliance for Caregiving and the National Family Caregivers [...]

[...] policies, laws and regulations either facilitate community building – or impede it. The National Council of Nonprofit Associations (www.councilofnonprofits.org) and the Urban Institute recently [...]

[...] Managing the Landscape of State-Nonprofit Contracting Two new reports from the National Council on Nonprofits (NCNA) and the Urban Institute identify and address serious problems with [...]

[...] leadership with board and staff, good systems, an effective budgeting process, and a diversified base of funding. The challenges that the maturing organization faces are to maintain the programs [...]

[...] , increased community engagement, and sustainability. Leveraging resources builds a more diversified base of funding, and is an important one of your strategies to build sustainability. Anne Hays [...]

[...] a range of funding options for priority services, and build a funding plan that identifies a diversified base of revenues and leverages current community assets. Involve the community in an ongoing [...]

[...] Development.”  It includes more information about life cycles and examples. Most nonprofit organizations go through predictable life cycles. Like other living organisms, they are created, live, [...]

[...] a better place – by building communities that are healthy, sustainable and diverse. Our nonprofit organizations provide many of the services that build community. Much of the time, we are focused on [...]