Feb 4

Nonprofit Impact Study Session

2015 Legislative Update

                                                  January 2015

We hope the New Year is starting out with a bang for you! A few suggestions for making this a banner year:  Join us for the Nonprofit Impact Study Session on Feb. 4, and learn how to use important data from local and statewide nonprofit studies to boost your advocacy and fundraising efforts. Join a NAMC committee to put your skills and enthusiasm to work for the benefit of the entire nonprofit community. For that matter, just join! If you are not yet a NAMC member, visit our website and learn how membership can benefit you and your organization. If you are a current member, watch your mail for a renewal notice. Here's to an even more successful and impactful year ahead.

Fees: $20 for NAMC members; $30 for non-members

Right now would be a GREAT time to update your NAMC membership! 

* Join your nonprofit colleagues and supporters to strengthen the collective voice of the nonprofit community. * Get early notice and discounted registration for important educational and networking opportunities. * Learn about legislation that impacts nonprofits. * Announce your event or job opening to a wide nonprofit audience.
 Click here to join or renew for 2015.

Questions? Contact Mark Boos, Membership Chair, or Sue Parris, Project Coordinator

FileMaker Pro pro needed to help NAMC set up our database. Many thanks to Kelly Sorenson of Ventana Wildlife Society for getting us started; now we need some volunteer help to complete the project.

Committee members wanted to support NAMC's Advocacy, Diversity & Social Equity and Membership projects.

Are You Willing to Share?

NAMC and the Community Foundation get requests for updated media lists that organizations can use to send press releases, announce events, etc. If people are willing to share their lists, we could put it on Google Docs, DropBox, etc., and give our members access. Contact Sue, sue@alliancemonterey.org or 831-373-4606 if you can contribute this resource.

Breakthrough Men's Community 

Breakthrough is a non-profit organization founded and created in 1987 by Fred Jealous, a community leader and teacher, to provide men with skills to free themselves from non-productive, painful, or abusive aspects of their lives. This includes gaining the ability to eliminate negative self-images, and to take control of anger, fear, addictions, shame, and hopelessness. Breakthrough graduates discover their true power as men, and begin to realize their full potential as fathers, husbands, partners, friends, and as leaders. 

www.breakthroughformen.org

Monterey County Soccer League 

 

Veterans Transition Center

Free Immigration reform meeting sponsored by Catholic Charities in Salinas

 

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Monterey is pleased to partner with Ready California, a collaboration among immigrant serving agencies, to invite you to learn and lead regarding the important and sweeping executive actions that President Obama announcement to allow up to five million undocumented immigrants to obtain temporary status in the United States.

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Immigration legal service providers, local governments, county governments, schools, colleges, job training programs, and other charitable agencies serving immigrants

 
 WHEN and WHERE:  January 20, 2015  -- 10:00 a.m. to noon

CCDOM Immigration Office, 1750 Second Avenue, Salinas, CA

Registration and information

Learn Negotiation & Mediation Skills

Led by Senator Bill Monning

Mandell Gisnet Center for Conflict Management at the The Monterey College of Law 

January 23, 2015, 9 am -3 pm (includes lunch)

 

From local to national to international policy, a common skill set can be learned, developed, and practiced to advance policy objective related to environmental, land use, business, education, labor, healthcare, and other policies. This not-to-be-missed training program will include policy issue and advocacy planning and strategy development rooted in fundamental negotiation and mediation analysis and skills. Whether you work with a non-profit organization or represent stakeholders in the public policy arena, this important training will provide valuable tools for effective public policy development and advocacy. Learn more ...

 

The Symposium fee is $295 (private sector), $175 (nonprofit organizations), $150 (students with ID), Discounts for groups of 5 or more. 

 Space is limited so register early. For more information and to register go to  www.madellgisnetcenter,org or call 831-582-5234.

Future of Monterey Bay

Friday, January 30, 3:30 PM

 

Please join President Eduardo M. Ochoa for the 2014-2015 President's Speaker Series "America Fast Forward? Demographic Shifts, Economic Challenges, and the Future of California" featuring Dr. Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

What's ahead for the Golden State? How do we insure economic, social and environmental sustainability for the next generation of Californians? And what are the lessons for a nation that experiences widening divides by income, geography and politics?
 

 Click here for more information and to register.

The Offset Project is looking for help at this year's 2015 AT&T Pro Am, which runs, Feb 9th-15th. The Offset Project is looking for help with our environmental services at the 2015 AT&T Pro Am. We are looking for a group interested in overseeing the Monterey Peninsula Country Club Course. 

 Management of the MPCC course includes the need for one course captain and between 6-10 stewards/day over the course of the week. The course captain and all stewards will be paid an hourly wage. This commitment is a great fundraising opportunity and a great opportunity for groups with golfing enthusiasts, as the course captain will be will be on the green during the entirety of the event. For more information contactThe Offset Project at 831-917-7565

July 27-31, 2015

PAL has cubicles, shelving, etc.

 

The Salinas Police Activities League (PAL) has a large number of cubicle units, metal shelving and office stuff that we wanted to DONATE to any non-profit within Monterey county who would like it. It's all just in pieces and not set up. We want to give it to someone who could use it. If your group could use anything please do not hesitate to contact me for an appointment to view the items.

 Suzie Cottle-Gavalla

Salinas PAL
(831) 578-3836 

Community Foundation for Monterey's Center for Nonprofit Excellence

 

Applications are now being accepted for this facilitated group, a unique opportunity for peer support and confidential learning. The group will be geared toward those with three or more years of nonprofit executive director experience and will meet monthly from February through November 2015 (skips July). The sessions will be facilitated by Karen Csejtey, Executive Director of Leadership Monterey Peninsula. Discussion topics will be driven by the needs of the participants. There is space for 10 to 12 participants who will commit to the group for the nine month program. To learn more ...