Are you a new(two years of experience or less) or aspiring Executive Director looking for direction?
Pull on your boots and join us for this five-session Boot Camp where experts will help you lay your nonprofit management foundation. You will gain insights, tools and broader perspectives that will help you meet the daily challenges of this demanding role. Training from the experts will shorten your learning curve. You’ll enjoy support from your peers and form lasting relationships.
Nonprofit Resource Center
1331 Garden Highway
Sacramento, CA 95833
Wondering how to find all those grant dollars you've
heard about?
This workshop will show you a process for researching funders,
introduce key reference works, and demonstrate online databases
and other research tools. Discover how to find potential grant
funders with a proven commitment to nonprofit programs and
projects like yours.
Live and silent auctions abound in the nonprofit special events
and fundraising arena. Some are legendary, bringing in hundreds
of thousands of dollars. Others are small but effective and
fun. Still others flounder and disappoint.
What makes a great nonprofit organization fundraising
auction and event?
When should a nonprofit consider and auction and when
should a nonprofit avoid the temptation?
Once you've committed to the auction, how can you
make it really soar?
This three-hour workshop will prepare you to excel in your board
leadership role. The class will look at board leadership
both from the perspective of an individual board member and from
the larger view of the nonprofit board as a whole.
The following subjects will be covered from a general
perspective:
Want to be sure your new nonprofit gets off to a great
start? There are important things you need to do, before
you complete that first government application form.
Watch Guidestar's
video about the new and improved design of their nonprofit
reports. Based on what donors want to see it focuses on
impact and transparency to help people who research nonprofits
make better, more educated, and more confident decisions.
For an example of this new format, visit GuideStar’s own
nonprofit
report.
Foundation Center has gathered a wealth of information about the
ways that nonprofits can collaborate to achieve their missions —
through mergers, joint programming, and other forms of
collaboration. Visit their resource
page.
Charting Impact is a
free web based tool developed to help your organization to be
more effective. It encourages strategic thinking about how
your nonprofit or foundation will achieve its intended impact,
and helps you share concise information about your plans and
progress with key stakeholders and the public.
At the heart of Charting Impact are five deceptively simple
questions that require reflection and promote communication about
what really matters – results.
TechSoup has partnered with Dharma Merchant Services to offer
credit-card processing services and equipment to nonprofits and
public libraries at discounted rates and fees. Dharma is a
certified B Corporation, recognized for their triple-bottom-line
business that meets comprehensive and transparent social and
environmental performance standards.
In 2009 a group of lawyers, all members of the California bar and
practicing nonprofit law, started The Form 990 Policy Series
Group to address the governance issues in the IRS
990. The resulting Form 990 Policy Series Memoranda
include sample policies, with a discussion of why various
provisions might be used by a particular type or size of
organization. Topics include compensation, conflict of
interest, investment and more.
Wondering how to find all those grant dollars you've
heard about?
This workshop will show you a process for researching funders,
introduce key reference works, and demonstrate online databases
and other research tools. Discover how to find potential grant
funders with a proven commitment to nonprofit programs and
projects like yours.
This three-hour workshop will prepare you to excel in your board
leadership role. The class will look at board leadership
both from the perspective of an individual board member and from
the larger view of the nonprofit board as a whole.
The following subjects will be covered from a general
perspective:
GiveLocalNow provides a connection between donors and area
nonprofits. We encourage nonprofit leaders to learn about and
engage with this campaign intended to strengthen the nonprofit
sector and philanthropy in our communities.
Are you a new(two years of experience or less) or aspiring Executive Director looking for direction?
Pull on your boots and join us for this five-session Boot Camp where experts will help you lay your nonprofit management foundation. You will gain insights, tools and broader perspectives that will help you meet the daily challenges of this demanding role. Training from the experts will shorten your learning curve. You’ll enjoy support from your peers and form lasting relationships.
Nonprofit Resource Center
1331 Garden Highway
Sacramento, CA 95833
Want to be sure your new nonprofit gets off to a great
start? There are important things you need to do, before
you complete that first government application form.
It's time to get back to basics and pay attention to the nuts and
bolts of producing a winning grant proposal. In this workshop,
you’ll learn what to include and how to avoid the most common
errors, so you can hone your skills and produce comprehensive,
compelling, and competitive proposals. This excellent workshop is
complementary to Harvey Chess’s two-day workshop and it provides
an important supplement, with more technical information to help
you begin submitting proposals right away.
The mission of the Nonprofit Resource Center is to enhance the
resources and improve the management of nonprofit organizations,
primarily within California's northern Central Valley and Sierra
Nevada regions.
Since 1989, the Center has been providing comprehensive services
and support to nonprofit groups in Sacramento and 18 surrounding
counties. If you work for a nonprofit organization, serve on the
board, or volunteer your time, the Nonprofit Resource Center has
just about every resource you need to succeed in the nonprofit
world.
January 27, 2012The Nonprofit Quarterly I Ruth McCambridge I 1/25/2012
A recent study of giving levels by Blackbaud Index of Charitable
Giving heralded a 1.4 percent increase in charitable giving,
which brought it even with pre-recession levels. We winced when
we saw the headline “Fundraising Returns to Pre-Recession Levels”
and could just imagine executives and boards all over the country
asking themselves, “What are we doing wrong?
January 27, 2012The Nonprofit Quarterly I Rick Cohen I 1/27/2012
NPQ quickly received an unsolicited comment from the a White
House official who noted on background that while the president’s
“Blueprint for an America Built to Last” does contain a provision
eliminating tax deductions for taxpayers making over $1 million,
the proposal would not apply to charitable deductions.
Time to Participate in"Fair Pay for
Northern California Nonprofits: the 2012 Compensation and
Benefits Survey", the best survey of its
kind in the country!
431 agencies, reporting on over 23,000 jobs, participated in the
2011 survey, making it the largest and most comprehensive report
in the survey’s 33-year history.
January 17, 2012The Nonprofit Quarterly I Kathi Jaworski I January 17, 2012
As women gain more access to education and income, they’re an
increasing force in philanthropy. To better understand their
influence, Bank of America Merrill Lynch recently commissioned a
study by The Center for Philanthropy at Indiana University; the
study focused on charitable giving by high-net-worth women.
January 13, 2012The Nonprofit Quarterly I Simone P. Joyaux I January 13, 2012
Surely we all want to grow philanthropy, and the total dollars do
grow, except during a recession. So that's good. But, for 40
years, U.S. charitable giving has stayed fairly constant—at about
two percent of average household income according to the Center
on Philanthropy at Indiana University’s annual “Giving USA”
report on philanthropy. That's just not so good. Actually, that’s
pretty bad. Now is the time to face this problem. But let’s think
of this as an opportunity—the opportunity to grow philanthropy in
the U.S.
We express our gratitude to Wells Fargo for providing the funding
for our new website. The goal of this project has been to create
a highly accessible resource for all nonprofit organizations in
the region, providing information at the fingertips of executive
directors, staff and board members.
Wells Fargo has been a partner in the project from the beginning,
helping us to leverage the website grant into a regional resource
hub, and we appreciate their dedication.
Events
ED Boot Camp - Sacramento 2012 - WAIT LIST ONLY
For New or Aspiring Nonprofit Executive Directors
Are you a new (two years of experience or less) or aspiring Executive Director looking for direction?
Pull on your boots and join us for this five-session Boot Camp where experts will help you lay your nonprofit management foundation. You will gain insights, tools and broader perspectives that will help you meet the daily challenges of this demanding role. Training from the experts will shorten your learning curve. You’ll enjoy support from your peers and form lasting relationships.
1331 Garden Highway
Sacramento, CA 95833
Finding Grant Funders
Learn research techniques and tools
Are you new to the world of grant funding?
Wondering how to find all those grant dollars you've heard about?
This workshop will show you a process for researching funders, introduce key reference works, and demonstrate online databases and other research tools. Discover how to find potential grant funders with a proven commitment to nonprofit programs and projects like yours.
Sacramento, CA 95833
Nonprofit Resource Center
So You Want to Have a Fundraising Auction?
Bring your questions to of one of the country’s preeminent fundraising auctioneers
Live and silent auctions abound in the nonprofit special events and fundraising arena. Some are legendary, bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Others are small but effective and fun. Still others flounder and disappoint.
What makes a great nonprofit organization fundraising auction and event?
When should a nonprofit consider and auction and when should a nonprofit avoid the temptation?
Once you've committed to the auction, how can you make it really soar?
Sacramento, CA 95833
Nonprofit Resource Center
Board Leadership: The Essentials
Maximize your effectiveness
***Date rescheduled from January***
This three-hour workshop will prepare you to excel in your board leadership role. The class will look at board leadership both from the perspective of an individual board member and from the larger view of the nonprofit board as a whole.
The following subjects will be covered from a general perspective:
Sacramento, CA 95833
Nonprofit Resource Center
Starting a Nonprofit: What's It Take?
An informal roundtable discussion, offered monthly
Want to be sure your new nonprofit gets off to a great start? There are important things you need to do, before you complete that first government application form.
Sacramento, CA 95833
Nonprofit Resource Center