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March, 2009

   
Hello Friends,   
    Welcome to the latest e-letter from the Nonprofit Resource Center (NRC) at the Cameron Village Library in Raleigh, NC.
    This past week was our Meet the Funders presentation with a whopping 84 people in attendance including our wonderful panelists, Barbara Goodmon from the A.J. Fletcher Foundation, Robyn Fehrman from the Triangle Community Foundation, Irene Coons, Verizon Foundation and Kim Best from the Way Out Giving Circle. Thank you all. It just tells me that we have to meet more often! Some ideas you gave me for future programs include advocacy training, grantwriting, marketing and public relations, and networking, as well as more meet the funder programs. I will begin working on trying to make these ideas a reality. Any helpers-any presenters out there? 
 
Susan Wolf Neilson 
(919) 856-6718
susan.neilson@co.wake.nc.us 
Quick Tip on Nonprofit Marketing
from Shoestring Creative Group
 
 
Take a few minutes today to visit your own organization's website. Don't just look through it -- actually read it word for word (as you would hope visitors to your site would). How long did it take before you lost interest? Or, perhaps, dare we say, got bored?
 
As hard as this exercise might be in terms of giving you a dose of reality, it is an extremely important one to do. If you passed this test with flying colors (you could not stop reading all of the amazing and inspirational information on your nonprofit's website), then Congratulations! But, if you did not find your website interesting, chances are neither will others. Use this as a starting point to begin a conversation within your nonprofit about how you could better use your website to COMMUNICATE with your stakeholders. A website is the most effective (and inexpensive) way to get the word out about your cause.

logoFeatured Books at Wake County Libraries: E-BOOKS from NetLibrary

Read these books online! This list is a sample of full-text electronic books easily accessible online from the Libraries' database collection called netLibrary. For more information about these e-books, please call your local library branch or click on the link below.Available to all public and academic library card holders through NC LIVE.

Building Hope: Leadership in the Nonprofit World by Bateson, John, 2008
Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits: Real-world Strategies That Work, 2nd Ed. by Bray, Ilona M., 2008 
Foundation and Endowment Investing : Philosophies and Strategies of Top Investors and Institutions by Kochard, Lawrence E. Rittereiser, Cathleen M., 2008
How To" Grants Manual : Successful Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and Private Grants by Bauer, David G., 2008 
Nonprofit Financial Planning Made Easy by Blazek, Jody, 2008
                 

Start your search here at the Library's Databases page at netLibrary.

Women Helping Others Foundation (W.H.O.) invites grant applications
Posted on February 24, 2009
Deadline:  September 8, 2009 
    The WHO (Women Helping Others) Foundation supports community-focused charities that serve the overlooked needs of women, children, and families in the United States and Puerto Rico.
     Funding will be considered for tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charities that have been incorporated for at least three years and that have total organizational budgets of $3 million or less. Preference will be given to organizations that are not dependent on government grants and those with greater organizational program costs than personnel costs. Organizations that have previously received a WHO Foundation grant should wait three years before applying again.
    Grants are not provided to individuals, educational institutions, religious institutions, or governmental agencies, or for endowment campaigns, political causes, or capital campaigns.

Complete funding guidelines and eligibility restrictions are available at the
W.H.O. Foundation web site.
Contact: Link to Complete RFP
Primary Subject: Women
Geographic Funding Area: National

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Training/Workshops

 "Proposal Writing Seminar"
[Full day workshop] 
Wednesday, April 22nd
8:30am - 4:00pm
Cameron Village Library  
For every grantseeker who wants to learn how to write proposals geared to foundations, and for experienced grantseekers who are initiating a foundation fundraising campaign.
Seminar presented by the Foundation Center with
JOHN HICKS, president and CEO of J.C. Geever, Inc.
"Searching for Grants: The Foundation Center Online Database Training"
Wednesday, May 20th
4-6 p.m. 
    Cameron Village Library
Learn how to use the premier database for funding opportunities in the private foundation sector. FREE
Call 919-856-6703 for reservations
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