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Grow Better Boards
A group of local board and staff leaders met in Brattleboro for Growing Better Boards with Anne Lezak of ADL Consulting. The workshop wrapped up Common Good Vermont’s 2010 Road Show! Anne serves as a grantwriter, consultant and board member to a host of organizations in the Rutland area and participates in an innovative and [...] More...
More Askers = More Money: An All-Staff Approach to Major Gifts
From our friend Andy Robinson: Friends — We tend to focus on how we can encourage our boards to raise money, but what about the other “human resource” available to us: the staff? On July 8 at 10 am Central, join me for More Askers = More Money: An All-Staff Approach to Major Gifts. This provocative webinar, [...] More...
Grow Better Boards
A group of local board and staff leaders met in Brattleboro for Growing Better Boards with Anne Lezak of ADL Consulting. The workshop wrapped up Common Good Vermont’s 2010 Road Show! Anne serves as a grantwriter, consultant and board member to a host of organizations in the Rutland area and participates in an innovative and [...] More...
Is Your Organization Worth Preserving? Prepare with Succession Planning
At a recent Nonprofit Maven, hosted by Common Good Vermont, Paula Cope of Cope & Associates, Inc. presented Succession Planning and Management: Understanding the Whole Picture. Known as the "Paula Revere" of succession planning, Paula has worked with hundreds of organizations and sums up core concepts of organizational health that every nonprofit will want to understand and act on for your long AND short term future. Read more... More...
WATCH NOW: Tune-Up Your Communications Strategy
Watch the May 27th, 2010 event on strategic communications in full as community leaders provide concrete examples and tools to make your communications strategy expand your reach and impact! Michael Levine/Flywheel Communications, Drew Hudson/We Also Herd Cats, Liz Schlegel/Central Vermont Community Action Agency. More...
The Networked Nonprofit Book Arrived!
Yesterday, an advanced copy of our book, The Networked Nonprofit, arrived. My son, Harry, who is in video making summer camp, decided to make a little movie of me opening the book! Today, I taught a workshop in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz and supported by the David and Lucile Packard [...] More...
D.I.C.E.: Don’t Roll Snake Eyes with Strategic Change
Marty Jacobs has worked with countless nonprofits and government agencies and knows that 80% of all "change management" efforts fail. If you've ever worked on a strategic plan and then tried to implement it, you'll know how hard it is to actually change the way you do business. That's why Marty is so excited to talk about a useful framework for implementing strategic change. We had a great discussion in White River Junction (at the studios of CATV) last week with Marty and a small group of smart nonprofit leaders about what good planning means and how to overcome the predictable barriers to that keep your people and organization from doing its best work. It's called D.I.C.E. -- what you need to make your change effort succeed: Duration (enough time), Integrity (quality of the team), Commitment (from the bottom and the TOP), and Effort (realistic assessment of what it takes). This "tool" is informed by a seminal article “The Hard Side of Change Management” researched and written by Harold L. Sirkin,… More...
What We Like This Week 6/8/2010
1). The Philanthropy Journal Reports - The Ethics of Nonprofit Communication (6/1) 2.) Paid Internships – VBSR’s Vermont Intern Program 3). Free Google Apps Education Edition for Nonprofits - TechSoup Presents 4).VT Digger Gives Common Good VT A Shout Out (They’ll give your nonprofit one too…) – Common Good Road Show Goes to St. Albans (6/8)4). What’s [...] More...
Watch Now – Road Show 2010 in Brandon: Outcomes Measurement
Vermont’s nonprofit sector generally relies on anecdotal evidence and general good will to argue for its many successes. There is increasing pressure from funders and the public to describe how we make our communities better places to live. But how do we measure results and actual progress to make sure resources [...] More...
Tune Up Your Communications Strategy – Resources You Can Use
We had a great Road Trip to Central Vermont today! Special thanks to our Nonprofit Communications Experts: Liz Schlegel (Central VT Community Action Council), Michael Levine, (Flywheel Communications), and Drew Hudson ( We Also Herd Cats) for their fine presentations and to the wonderful staff of Vermont College of Fine Arts for [...] More...
WATCH NOW: 5/20 Media Maven- Digital Story Telling
Watch event in its entirety – Stories are a powerful tool for sharing your mission, vision and successes. Stories mobilize community involvement in your cause. Join veteran story tellers Charlie Nardozzi, Eva Sollberger and Sona Iyengar to learn the basics, develop your own organizational narrative and plan your distribution strategy. A [...] More...
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RT @CommonGoodVT: Who Wants Grantsmanship Training? Common Good VT w/CVCAC to host Training Program http://bit.ly/cH6tnb #npvt #VTJul 28, 2010 3:20:41 PM
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Who Wants Grantsmanship Training? Common Good VT w/CVCAC to host Grantsmanship Training Program http://bit.ly/cH6tnb #npvt #VTJul 28, 2010 3:02:50 PM
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Democrat Matt Dunne at 9:05 #vtgov #vt #npvtJul 28, 2010 12:54:34 PM
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Stream! http://bit.ly/anHzIf RT @CapitalistChaos @MarkJohnsonShow: Lt Gov Brian Dubie at 9:05, Sen Peter Shumlin at 10:05 #vtgov #npvt #vtJul 27, 2010 1:07:44 PM
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RT @MarkJohnsonShow: Lt Gov Brian Dubie at 9:05, Sen Peter Shumlin at 10:05 #vtgov #npvt #vtJul 27, 2010 12:54:28 PM
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RT @MarkJohnsonShow: Lt Gov Brian Dubie at 9:05, Sen Peter Shumlin at 10:05 #vtgov #npvt #vtJul 27, 2010 12:46:17 PM
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RT @MarkJohnsonShow: Lt Gov Brian Dubie at 9:05, Sen Peter Shumlin at 10:05 #vtgov #npvt #vt #btvJul 27, 2010 12:40:20 PM
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Looking for #btv citizen diplomats! Check out our #facebook for details...busy day @VBSR, lunch on @ChurchSt, now in appt. at ARD! #NPVT #VTJul 26, 2010 6:06:34 PM
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CHT's annual staff photo at Oakledge Park: http://bit.ly/chtstaff (#FB link) #btv #vt #npvtJul 26, 2010 2:54:22 PM
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Breaking: 3 different #international visitor groups in #btv #VT! 28 total from 21 countries, tune in to see where we'll be visiting...#NPVTJul 25, 2010 11:22:22 PM
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