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.
Community Fund Drives Committee
The Community Fund Drives Committee, Erie's clearinghouse for nonprofit capital campaigns, is being staffed by The Nonprofit Partnership. See the linked Community Fund Drives policy document for information about campaign plan format, committee timetables, and accessing technical assistance for planning your campaign.
Tips and resources are archived in the Resources section.
Our mission:
To enhance the management and governance of regional nonprofit organizations through capacity-building programs and services.
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Here are your links to applications for NPP Capacity-Building grants, video story grants, and communication makeover grants - all due on January 17, 2012 at 4:00 pm.
Upcoming Events
February 1, 2012 - 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
The Status Quo Is Not An Option
WQLN Learning Center, 8425 Peach Street, Erie.
In this session, Michael Brand will work with member executive directors on forming change and leadership strategies that are critical elements for navigating the future.
February 16, 2012 - 9:00 am - 12 Noon
Immunity to Change
Presented by Debra Thompson, Strategy Solutions
Why is change so difficult?
Based on the book Immunity to Change: How To Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization written by Harvard professors Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, this half day workshop explores the “gap” between our intentions and the things that we are actually able to do. Participants will learn how “hidden commitments” often keep us from accomplishing our goals and strategies to effectively overcome them. If you (or your organization) are “stuck” trying to change something or implement a new initiative that you can’t seem to get traction on, this powerful and enlightening workshop is for you!
