Events

FIRM: Financial Leadership & Management

Nonprofit Montgomery2020-12-09T16:14:39-05:00December 6th, 2020|Events, Training Opportunities|

Nonprofit Montgomery’s FIRM (Financial Reporting and Management Institute) is an innovative program in collaboration with the County to help nonprofits with financial leadership and sustainability. All nonprofits can benefit from this deep dive into understanding and strengthening your financial model, particularly now in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on programs and organizations.

As organizational leaders navigate dynamic changes and pressures to adapt how their organizations operate, understanding the role of financial leadership and strong fiduciary capacity becomes more critical to success and longer term sustainability. FIRM provides tools, models, and frameworks that strengthen your ability to identify, manage, and assess the assets you put to work to achieve organizational outcomes.

Nonprofits attend as a team of up to four people including the Executive Director, Finance Director/CFO, Board Member, and Program Director. The results: better clarity on outcomes and the assets needed to support them; greater strategic budgeting and reporting process; and improved financial conversations across the organization (board & staff).

Schedule (all on Zoom)
FIRM Orientation: Friday, January 8, noon-1:30pm
FIRM 1 of 4: Tuesday, January 12, noon-1:30pm
FIRM 2 of 4: Thursday, January 14, noon-1:30pm
FIRM 3 of 4: Tuesday, January 19, noon-1:30pm
FIRM 4 of 4: Thursday, January 21, noon-1:30pm

Click here to register.
*For those that registered for the fall 2020 FIRM session we moved your registration to January 2021.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Nonprofit Montgomery2020-12-01T18:03:14-05:00December 3rd, 2020|Events|

Nonprofit Covid-19 Response Meeting: 12/2
The Bottom Line of Burnout: 12/2
MORE Meet Up: 12/9
The Nonprofit Impact Series: Culture & Strategy: 12/17
FIRM: January 2021

Save the Date: Nonprofit Covid-19 Response Meeting: 12/16
Equity: Betty Lam, DHHS
Equity Scorecard: Adam Leuking, Clear Impact
Tips for working with the faith community: Rev. Kaseman

Nonprofit Montgomery’s Child Care Provider Assistance

Nonprofit Montgomery2020-12-01T18:05:59-05:00December 3rd, 2020|Events, Training Opportunities, Uncategorized|

Nonprofit Montgomery is offering free technical assistance to help child care providers

Grant Reporting Webinars
To help center based providers who received grants to prepare for and complete the reports required by the County.

Wednesday, December 9 from 3:30-4:30pm: Click here to register.
Tuesday, December 15 from 11am-noon: Click here to register.

Doing Business with the State and County for Child Care Providers (open to all child care providers)
Thursday, Dec 3 from 12:30pm-1:30pm: Click here to register.

Financial Resiliency Program for Early Care and Education (ECE) Centers
Offered by 20 Degrees, this program will help you answer essential questions for making it through to the end of COVID. At the end of the program attendees will have developed a COVID response strategy including contingency plans that are immediately actionable. See more information here.

Helpline and One on One Technical Assistance
For any child care provider, whether you received a grant or not, we are offering one on one technical assistance by emailing ecei.relief@gmail.com, or calling 301-349-6373 and requesting an appointment. Assistance will be available in Spanish and English, with Amharic available on request. For more information visit our website.

The Nonprofit Impact Series: Culture & Strategy

Nonprofit Montgomery2020-12-01T18:01:17-05:00December 2nd, 2020|Events|

Culture does indeed eat Strategy for breakfast. Buy why? And what does it take to ensure great Strategy ideas aren’t stymied by counter-Culture forces?

This exploratory session, looks at how values, beliefs, and organizational assumptions (aka Culture Components) shape the outcomes and practices within an organization; how strategy execution is impacted by those Culture Components; and what it takes to sustain complimentary Culture and Strategy.

Building a strong understanding of the role of culture allows us to harness it and ensure that our organizations are designed to effectively advance the benefits we hope to see in our communities.

When: December 17 at 9-11am
Where: on Zoom, click here to register.

This event is part of The Nonprofit Impact Series, which covers issues that are critical to nonprofits and build on the learnings from FIRM and MORE. The series is supported by the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services.

Monthly MORE Meetup

Nonprofit Montgomery2020-12-01T17:58:26-05:00December 1st, 2020|Events, Training Opportunities|

Spotlight on Youth Serving Organizations: The Civic Circle, LAYC, Passion 4 Learning

Whether you have taken MORE or not, if you are interested in learning more about how your peers approach evaluation, this is your chance!

There will be a panel of several youth serving organizations who will share their evaluation successes and challenges. Jana Sharp of Sharp Insight will facilitate this session and be available to answer questions. Lunch is on you, learning is on us!

When: Wednesday, December 9, noon to 1pm
Who: All MORE alumni (and Nonprofit Montgomery members)
Where: On Zoom, click here to register.

MORE Alumni Evaluation Network

We wanted to share a note of gratitude to those who have joined us in the MORE Alumni Evaluation Network on LinkedIn. With the Fall 2020 cohort underway, and MORE’s first ever fully virtual cohort, we are extra appreciative of this online space to share resources and connect to support each other in our evaluation efforts.

So far this month we’ve shared a Sharp Insight survey development cheat sheet, tips on SMARTIE indicators, and some virtual evaluation consideration. For a little added fun, we included Sharp Insight’s newest (and first!) online quiz, Name That Election Chart!

Join us on LinkedIn to connect with 87 of your nonprofit colleagues.

The Bottom Line of Burnout

Nonprofit Montgomery2020-11-09T10:43:25-05:00November 12th, 2020|Events|

Hosted by: Nonprofit Montgomery, EveryMind, and 20 Degrees

Did you miss last month’s session on burnout? Not to worry, we brought it back for December.

Join us for a practical, honest conversation about the bottom line cost of burnout, along with the insights on how to actually integrate best practices in your organization in a way that is affordable and possible.

The goals of the session:

Make a financial case based on your budget to justify prioritizing mental health of yourself and your team that can be shared internally or with select funders
Highlight best practices for responding to burnout
Discuss the warning signs of burnout
Create a safe, community conversation for Executive Directors/CEOs
Highlight additional wellness resources for leaders

When: December 2, 9:30-11:00am
Where: Zoom, Click here to register.

Monthly MORE Meetup

Nonprofit Montgomery2020-11-09T10:41:13-05:00November 11th, 2020|Events|

This month MORE Alumni Evaluation Network had an exciting October—we kicked off our “Alumni Spotlight” series with an awesome conversation with VisArts.

Over in the LinkedIn network, we continued to share evaluation resources, including a rich toolkit for evaluating community programs. Shorter reads included an article with tips to improve data visualization and a case study example of testing survey questions. We also shared everyone’s new favorite listen—Dana Linnell Wanzer’s podcast, Evaluland. And we ended the month with a festive read—Sharp Insight’s latest blog post, Data Disguises, helping us ask ourselves if our data are masking a bigger story.

Find us on LinkedIn to connect with 68 of your nonprofit colleagues on all things program evaluation.

When: Wednesday, November 18, noon to 1pm
Who: All MORE alumni (and Nonprofit Montgomery members)
Where: On Zoom – Use this link

Commission for Women to Host Listening Tours

Nonprofit Montgomery2020-11-09T10:38:28-05:00November 9th, 2020|Events, MoCo Government News|

The County Commission for Women will host its Listening Tours to provide a virtual microphone for the women in the county to share how they have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the current social climate and other concerns. The feedback will help guide the future work of the Commission. Click here for more information and to register.

Monday, Nov. 9 – Bethesda/Chevy Chase
County Executive Elrich and Councilmembers Friedson, Glass, Jawando, and Reimer
Tuesday, Nov. 10 – East County
County Executive Elrich and Councilmember Jawando
Monday, Nov. 16 – Upcounty
County Executive Elrich and Council President Katz, Councilmembers Friedson, Jawando and Rice
Tuesday, Nov. 17 – Mid-County
County Executive Elrich and Councilmembers Friedson, Jawando, and Reimer
Friday, Nov. 20 – Silver Spring
Council Vice President Hucker, Councilmembers Albornoz and Navarro. The meeting will take place in English and in Spanish.

Big Train Base Ball & Holiday Auction

Nonprofit Montgomery2020-11-09T10:39:31-05:00November 8th, 2020|Events, Member News|

The Big Train Base Ball & Holiday Auction is coming back – in 2020 style in virtual form – during four consecutive Sundays from 7 to 8 p.m. on bigtrain.tv. They’ll feature speakers, presentation of awards to volunteers and best players of the previous season, updates on the season, and auction items. Click here for more info.

Speaker Lineup:
November 15 – ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian will discuss the 2020 Season & World Series
November 22 – Hank Thomas will talk about the life of his grandfather Walter Johnson
November 29 – USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan, best selling author Kitty Kelley, and Big Train Founder Peggy Engel discuss: “Women love baseball. How can baseball love them back?”
December 6 – Maury Povich will talk about his Hall of Fame father Shirley Povich for whom our ballpark is named.

The highlight of the Sunday night events will be online auctions with spectacular baseball memorabilia, family takeout from local restaurants, and fun baseball experiences.

Nonprofit Montgomery’s Child Care Provider Assistance

Nonprofit Montgomery2020-11-09T10:35:52-05:00November 5th, 2020|Events, Training Opportunities|

Nonprofit Montgomery is offering free technical assistance to help child care providers

Grant Reporting Webinars
To help center based providers who received grants to prepare for and complete the reports required by the County.

Friday, November 13 from 11:30am to 12:30pm: Click here to register.
Tuesday, November 17 from 11:30am to 12:30pm: Click here to register.
Wednesday, December 9 from 3:30-4:30pm: Click here to register.
Tuesday, December 15 from 11am-noon: Click here to register.

Special Topics Webinars

Accounting and Budgeting for Child Care Providers
Friday, November 20 from 12pm-1pm: Click here to register.

Doing Business with the State and County for Child Care Providers
Thursday, Dec 3 from 12:30pm-1:30pm: Click here to register.

Helpline and One on One Technical Assistance
For any child care provider, whether you received a grant or not, we are offering one on one technical assistance by emailing ecei.relief@gmail.com, or calling 301-349-6373 and requesting an appointment. Assistance will be available in Spanish and English, with Amharic available on request. For more information visit our website.