Have You Heard?
Inventorying Our Assets: Nonprofits Employ People
Employment is the hot-button issue today, and while it’s not news that nonprofit work is overwhelmingly a people-to-people business, recent data highlights the fact that even in spite of the recession, nonprofits are seeing job growth while the rest of the economy is shedding jobs at a significant rate. According to data released by the Johns Hopkins Nonprofit Economic Data project and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonprofit jobs grew at a cumulative rate of 5% between 2007 and 2010 while job in the for-profit sector declined at an 8% rate during the period. more >
The Fiscal Health of Erie Nonprofits
The Nonprofit Partnership has taken its annual look at the fiscal health of its member nonprofits, and these are the dominant themes for 2011: • Profitability has returned. Three in four Nonprofit Partnership member organizations are moving their financial needle in the right direction.
• More organizations are growing than are shrinking.
• There is volatility in the nonprofit marketplace with bigger swings toward profit and loss with each passing year than we have seen in many years.
• Notwithstanding a few impressive successes, small nonprofit organizations are faring more poorly in today’s economic environment and are more subject to bigger year-to-year fluctuations and instability.
• No single industry group with the nonprofit sector is faring better than the rest. An overall look at revenue and profitability trends presents a mixed picture for all.
• A trend toward greater efficiency from year to year seems to have taken hold among members of The Nonprofit Partnership.more >Community Fund Drives Committee Resumes
In a sure sign that the economy is rebounding, the Community Fund Drives Committee, the coordinating body that helps to shape successful capital campaigns by building them around best practices in the field, is resuming its work this fall. The Committee will be staffed by The Nonprofit Partnership. more >
Story Corner
The Nonprofit Partnership supports the development and dissemination of organizational stories through multiple media and in a variety of settings to help you reach your intended audience with your compelling message.
YMCA Kids Club Video: A Heart of the City Transformation Story
What's Happening
Makeover Projects
NPP's Communications Makeovers align the content and strategy in your primary tools: website, e-news, brochure, and annual report. Our continuous consultation model offers a package of services to guide you through improvements to your most important communication tools.
Governance
Project Blueprint builds diversity on Erie's nonprofit boards and helps nonprofit organizations comply with one of their most essential mandates - listening to the voices of all stakeholders. See how this partnership program empowers individuals from around our community to build more inclusive boards of directors.
Catalyst Projects
NPP is actively convening partners to seek new funding around vital issues in the Erie community: youth opportunity, empowering new voices, building respect, sustaining independence, and strengthening education. We link best practices, interested partners, and new opportunities to enrich the programming landscape.
Your Fund Development Concierge
You're on vacation. You know what you want to do. You're just not sure of the best way to get there. Think of NPP as that concierge desk for funding in the corner of the hotel: guidance, connection, technical expertise, and reassurance.
First Impressions Count
The feeling you get from the doorway, entryway, and waiting area of a nonprofit agency starts the wheels turning in forming opinions and judgements about the organization, its leadership, and its quality. See how our First Impressions team is bringing an organization's story into ints entry space through design.
Leaders' Learning Circles
The recent Daring To Lead report shows that nonprofit leaders consider Peer-To-Peer Learning and individual executive coaching far and away the most effective means of professional development. Peer networks are especially effective at reducing feelings of isolation and the sense that one’s ‘problems’ are unique. As a result, The Nonprofit Partnership is launching a new opportunity to grow leadership in Erie.
Our mission:
To enhance the management and governance of regional nonprofit organizations through capacity-building programs and services.
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Resources and tools to help you analyze and respond to the challenges in the PA state budget have been organized for you by The Nonprofit Partnership.
Here are your links to applications for NPP Capacity-Building grants, video story grants, and communication makeover grants - all due on June 15, 2012 at 4:00 pm.
Upcoming Events
May 17, 2012 - 9:00 to 11:00 am, WQLN, 8425 Peach St., Erie.
Powering Up Through Google Analytics and Facebook Insights
Presented by Amanda Flick, The Nonprofit Partnership
Learn how to use Google Analytics and Facebook Insights to test, track, and tweak content, resulting in peak performance from your website and Facebook page.
May 24, 2012 - 9:00 to 10:30 am, Erie Playhouse, 13 West 10th St., Erie.
Your Guide to Erie Gives!
Join us for a guide on how to get the most from the 2012 Erie Gives one day online giving event, scheduled for August 14.
June 15, 2012 - 9:00 to 11:00 am, WQLN, 8425 Peach St., Erie.
Whatever Happened to Those Enthusiastic Employees?
Presented by Michael Brand, The Nonprofit Partnership
In the nonprofit world, we often assume our employees are as mission-driven as we are and that we are immune to the workplace ills brought on by low morale and feeling trapped. Not so anymore. The stagnant economy, the flattening of the employment world, and the shift in generational attitudes has brought on a new reality. Is it now cool to hate your job? Join us for this eye-opening session that will help you stuff the genie back into the nonprofit bottle. A light dinner is included with this after-work session.
July 11, 2012 - 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Bayfront Maritime Center, 40 Holland St., Erie.
The Art of the Ask
Presented by The Nonprofit Partnership
Today nonprofit leaders and board members find themselves in an unusually competitive environment. Leaders are being called upon as never before to practice their three "A" roles with frequency and skill: being and Ambassador, an Advocate, and an Asker. This highly interactive session gives you an opportunity to learn the fundamentals involved in these roles and try them out in role play situations with your peers. Join us for a fun evening on the bayfront as you learn and build a comfort level with these essential interactive skills. Drinks and appetizers to match the mood!
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IRS Tax Workshop for Small and Medium Sized Organizations
Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 8:30 am - 4:00 pm, Yehl Ballroom, Waldron Campus Center, Gannon University, Erie.
This special full-day workshop includes continental breakfast and lunch. It will be led by representatives from the Internal Revenue Service and is co-hosted by Gannon University.
This seminar offers a full day of information and Q & A on topics including:
* Benefits and responsibilities of tax-exempt status
* Unrelated Business Income
* Employment classification and filing requirements
* Overview of the 990 Form
* Required disclosures.
Attendance is encouraged for nonprofit leaders, board members, emerging organizations, tax professionals, accountants, and attorneys. $35 for non-members of The Nonprofit Partnership. Non-members please click here to register and pay.
