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Post your openings and reach over 6000 nonprofit inboxes throughout Missouri & Southern Illinois! Free! Contact: carmen@nonprofitservices.org
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Published Report from NSC & RegionWise "Missouri's Reporting Public Charities: A Snapshot" [ download] |
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| Greetings! |
Help Us Help You!
NSC is dedicated to providing informed and relevent programs and services to our constituents. To achieve this standard NSC relies on input from nonprofit professionals like you. We are currently planning new programming, the 2008 - 2009 Leadership Pathways Series; thus we are encouraging all executive directors/presidents to register with NSC. Your help will ensure that we continue to offer quality programs to your organization.
If you are already registered (on the mailing list) with NSC - Thank You! Please be sure to have your contact information, title and organization name included on your profile to help us keep you informed. You can update your profile by clicking on the link found at the bottom of this email. You can also take this quick survey to submit your response.
If you are a staff member receiving this email newsletter, please pass this opportunity on to your ED/President. We appreciate your help.
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| Effectiveness In...2008 |
Effectiveness In...2008 Workshops Series Announced!
Slots are filling fast since announcing NSC's 2008 Effectiveness In... Workshop Series. This year our day-long workshops will focus on Evaluation, Financial Management, Financial Leadership and Grantwriting. Locations include Joplin, Poplar Bluff, Rolla, Sedalia and St. Louis. Thanks to generous funding from the Missouri Foundation for Health cost is only $40 per person per workshop.
Spring and Fall workshops are open for registration, so check out the NSC website for locations and dates. |
| Women's Executive Director Leadership Forum 2008 |
SAVE THE DATE! Cedar Creek Conference Center
New Haven, Missouri
Registrations will be open within the next few weeks. Don't miss out on this opportunity to meet and retreat! Be sure to watch the NSC website for more information! | |
| Health Interventions in Non-Traditional Settings (HINTS) |
Faith-based organizations and small secular organizations serve an important role in the life of many communities as part of their ministry or service. Such organizations often are also involved in health-related activities, both preventative and clinical, and comprise a non-traditional resource for addressing health needs and issues in their respective communities. In recognition of those efforts, Missouri Foundation for Health developed "Health Interventions in Non-Traditional Settings" (HINTS) which provides funding to eligible nonprofits not typically considered "traditional" health organizations. [ Read more on MFH HINTS funding.] NSC is proud to announce new programming specifically for faith-based, or "non-traditional," organizations providing health services to their communities. In partnership with the MFH, NSC will be offering a free workshop, "Building a 'Fundable' Faith-Based Organization" in April presented by Sherrye Willis, founder of the Faith & Philanthropy Institute.
Register to attend one of the following locations/dates:
Wednesday April 16 | St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church | Cape Girardeau | Register Thursday, April 17 | Eden Theological Seminary | St. Louis | Register Friday, April 18 | St. John's Surgery Center | Springfield | Register
More information and registration can be found on the NSC website. |
| Ready to Lead? |
A skilled, committed, and diverse pool of next generation leaders would like to be nonprofit executive directors in the future, according to a new national survey of nearly 6,000 next generation leaders. However, a recent survey by the Meyer Foundation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, CompassPoint and Idealist.org, also finds that there are significant barriers: work-life balance, insufficient life-long earning potential, lack of mentorship and overwhelming fundraising responsibilities which may prevent many younger nonprofit staff from becoming executives.
The survey, Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out, is the largest national survey to date of emerging nonprofit leaders. Download [pdf]
What do you think?
We want to know your thoughts! Is this survey on target? Do we face the same/similar situation here in St. Louis? As a young nonprofit professional, will you particpiate in the recently formed St. Louis chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professional Network? Email carmen@nonprofitservices.org with your thoughts. |
| The Voice of Nonprofit Talent |
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"Nonprofit Jobseekers Say to Employers: 'We Want Change Now'."
Many nonprofit jobseekers are eager to build long-term careers in the social sector but believe that nonprofit employers are not doing enough to address the obstacles they face, a new report from Commongood Careers finds. Based on data from a recent survey of 1,750 nonprofit jobseekers, the report, The Voice of Nonprofit Talent in 2008 (8 pages, PDF), finds that 63 percent of respondents plan to stay in the sector for a least ten years and that 82 percent hope to hold an executive level position. However, many respondents believe that the relative absence of career ladders, mentors, and professional development, as well as concerns about salary levels and a healthy work-life balance, may limit their ability to remain in the sector. Read more. |
| Bill Gates uses Social Networking |
According to the Philanthropy News Digest, Bill Gates will use LinkedIn, the popular professional networking site, to ask how technology can be better used to support his charitable causes, Network World reports.
The Microsoft chairman, who officially becomes a part-time employee of the company in July, will post the question to nineteen million users of LinkedIn via its question feature. The feature allows a question to be posed to the entire LinkedIn network, which, according to a LinkedIn spokesperson, includes top executives at all Fortune 500 companies. Members of the network will be able to post answers to Gates' question in real time. According to LinkedIn, Gates will use the responses to further his philanthropic work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Last year, Gates' attempt to establish a profile on social networking site Facebook ran into trouble when he was overwhelmed with "friends" requests, forcing him to close the profile. In October 2007, Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook. |
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MFH Technical Assistance Grants
Deadline: April 9, 2008 to NSC
The MFH Technical Assistance Grants Program is focused on specific, discrete, short-term interventions that will help an organization (or coalition of organizations) be more efficient in its mode of operating and effective in accomplishing its mission objectives. Check the NSC website for more information and application download.
Kodak American Greenways Awards Program
Mid-America Arts Alliance Announces Latino Culture Project
Deadline: Open
RFP: http://maaa.org/perf_arts/latino_project/index.html
The Latino Culture Project seeks to help presenters find connection points to Latino populations in their communities and educate their existing audiences about Latino culture. To be eligible, projects must occur between July 1, 2008, and June 30, 2009; include at least one performance open and promoted to the general public; and feature a professional performing artist/ensemble that is Latino or of Latino descent. The professional artist/ensemble needs to reside outside the applicant's state and metropolitan area. The maximum award will be for $3,000 each.
FOR FUNDERS:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships
Deadline: July 8, 2008
(LFP) forge relationships between RWJF and local grantmakers to fund promising, original projects that can significantly improve the health of vulnerable people in their communities. Local grantmakers propose a funding partnership by nominating community initiatives that offer creative solutions to critical health or health care problems. More Info. |
| Conferences of Interest |
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MISSOURI Cambio de Colores 2008
Latinos in Missouri: Uniting Cultures - Uniendo Culturas
April 7 - 9, 2008
Stoney Creek Inn, Columbia, Missouri
ILLINOIS
Women's Philanthropy & Leadership Workshop
April 3, 2008
Meridian Ballroom, Morris University Center
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Sustaining Our Communities: Building Leadership Capacity Across the Community
June 11, 2008
Hawthorn Suites, Champaign, Illinois
Registration limited to 175
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Next Generation Leaders Speak Out
A National Study Produced in Partnership by 
