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- Learn How Your Nonprofit Can Emerge Stronger from the Recession
After a great response to a series of webinars offered in October,
The National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise (NCNE) is partnering again
with the Foundation Center to deliver four more webinars. This series
is called Turning Economic Crisis into Opportunity: How Nonprofits
Can Survive and Emerge Stronger. These sessions are designed
to help nonprofits survive the aftershocks of the recession
and build more sustainable organizations.
Topics are as follows:
- Assessing Your Nonprofit's Financial Health, Tuesday,
December 1
- Survival Strategies for Your Nonprofit, Thursday,
December 3
- Strengthening Your Nonprofit's Income Portfolio, Tuesday,
December 8
- Beyond the Recession: Building Sustainability, Thursday,
December 10
All webinars are conducted from noon to 1:30 p.m. Central
time. The presenter is Richard Brewster, Executive Director of NCNE.
Cost for individual webinars is $45. Persons who register
for all four webinars by November 30 will pay a total of $135 instead
of $180. Participants receive the presentation slides, details
of a case study, and other resources available as downloadable handouts.
For more details and to register, see the webinar page on
the Foundation
Center Web site.
- Become a City of Service
Cities of Service is a bi-partisan coalition of the mayors of
large and small American cities who are working to engage citizens
to address the great challenges of our time. Any city can sign up
to be a City of Service.
To get started, go to the Cities
of Service home
page. At the right, just below the United States map,
click on Join
Cities of Service and fill in the form
with your contact information.
Cities of 100,000 or more can also apply for a Rockefeller Foundation
Leadership Grant. In the left hand column, click on Apply
for a Leadership Grant.
City representatives who sign up by Friday, November 20 and who would
like to send two representatives to the conference in Philadelphia,
December 3-4, should send an email to Rhonda Taylor at the Corporation
for National Service at rtaylor@cns.gov Ms.
Taylor will send information about travel arrangements. At least one
of the attendees should be with the Mayor's office. The other can be
a local partner.
- Free Workshops Scheduled on Rural Grant Opportunities ARRA
Strengthening Communities Fund – Nonprofit Capacity Building Program
federal grant opportunities are available through the Strengthen
Rural Iowa project. Attend free workshops in Ottumwa or West
Burlington to learn how to apply for capacity building grants up
to $20,000.
Eligible applicants are small nonprofit organizations located in these
counties: Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa,
Lucas, Mahaska, Monroe, Van Buren, Wapello or Wayne County.
Scheduled workshops:
- Ottumwa, Thursday, November 19, 1:00-3:30, Bridge View Center
- West Burlington, Monday, November 23, 1:00-3:30, Southeastern Community
College
The two-year $1M federal grant project is administered by the
Iowa Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives in partnership
with major area organizations and state agencies. More information
is available at www.strengthenruraliowa.org.
- The United Way of East Central Iowa has a
new Web site at www.corridorvolunteers.org The
Web site links to other related sites including United Way of Johnson
County’s volunteer Web site and the statewide Web site www.volunteeriowa.org.
- Recovery.Iowa.Gov is
a Web site that explains what the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (ARRA) means to Iowans.
The Web site includes a summary of the ARRA, a breakdown of federal
assistance to Iowa, tax benefits to individuals and businesses, and
links to government agencies related to the economic recovery. Iowa
will receive an estimated $1.9 billion in one-time direct assistance
from President Obama’s federal economic recovery initiative.
The Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) was awarded $56 million
in construction projects within three days of the ARRA being signed
into law. IDOT has established a Web site on the benefit
of federal funds to the state’s transportation system. See www.iowadot.gov/recovery.
Press release at http://www.governor.iowa.gov/news/2009/
03/16_2.php
- The Listening Post Project at Johns Hopkins University
has issued a declaration entitled Forward Together outlining
a policy agenda to strengthen the country’s nonprofit, or citizen,
sector. Leaders representing tens of thousands of American nonprofit
organizations have called for a reinvigorated partnership between government
and nonprofits.
The declaration cites pressing, major needs such as housing, food,
clothing, resources for aging citizens, and facilities for youth and
stresses that during this critical economic time it is essential to
strengthen nonprofits’ abilities to meet them. Leaders of nonprofit
organizations of all sizes and from communities around the country
are invited to sign the declaration to help ensure that the citizen
sector is no longer overlooked as a partner in solving these problems.
To read the full declaration and to sign, go to http://www.jhu.edu/listeningpost/forward/
- The National Council of Nonprofits has created a Toolkit
for In-District Visits with Members of Congress. The
toolkit’s purpose is to help nonprofit administrators develop
expertise and confidence in building relationships with their
elected officials and to become chief advocates for their states’ nonprofits.
The National
Council of Nonprofits links small and midsize nonprofits
and helps them lead more effectively, collaborate and exchange
solutions, and achieve greater impact in their communities.
- The Nonprofit Federation (http://www.the-dma.org/nonprofitfederation/index.shtml) is a branch of the Direct Marketing Association. The DMA is a membership
association of business and nonprofit organizations using and supporting
direct marketing techniques. Some DMA benefits are available only to
members, but their Web site also contains free information of interest
to nonprofits.
- Detailed information on the draft of the redesigned
IRS Form 990 is available here.
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