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Nonprofit Montgomery Member News

2021-05-05T12:55:04-04:00May 5th, 2021|Member News|

We’d like to welcome our newest members: BlackRock Center for the Arts and Pillars 4 Dignity.

Membership in Nonprofit Montgomery is open to all nonprofits that serve or do business in Montgomery County. Join now and get three months free! Your membership is good through June of 2022.

Coming Soon: 2021 Salary & Benefits Survey
We get frequent requests for comparative salary and benefits information for nonprofits. Updated data is coming soon!  Nonprofit Montgomery is partnering with Maryland Nonprofits on a comprehensive look at salaries locally and in the region. Thank you to the 66 Montgomery County nonprofits that responded to the salary survey. Watch for results coming out in July.

Nonprofit Montgomery Budget Advocacy
We are actively engaged in budget advocacy on behalf of Montgomery County nonprofits and have completed meetings with Councilmembers and staff to discuss nonprofit budget priorities. On April 22 the Health and Human Services Committee discussed the budget request, including our request for a 3% increase for nonprofits contracts in departments other than Health and Human Services. You can view the staff report here. It is difficult to capture how many nonprofit contracts are held in other departments. If your nonprofit contract is a department other than HHS, please share the information with Lesley.

Our social media campaign for the sector is in week seven, with engagements up all around. We are sharing nonprofit stories of covid impact on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and asking everyone to share their own stories under the “More Essential than Ever” banner. Add your story here! Check out our Facebook pages for stories featuring MCCH, Interfaith Works, CentroNia, Wonders Early Learning and Extended Day, Voices for Children Montgomery and much more. Also, we are featuring additional stories on our website.

MORE Alumni News & Events

2021-05-05T12:56:38-04:00May 4th, 2021|Events, Member News|

The MORE Alumni Evaluation Network is growing now that we’ve officially wrapped up our 10th cohort of MORE! This month we’ve shared many resources that should spark some memories from your MORE learning, including defining some of the key differences between common evaluation terms, the timing of short-, mid-, and long-term outcomes, tips for logic model design, and some COVID considerations to support your year-end program evaluation. We also shared a resource for advocacy evaluation and the World Bank’s 2021 World Development report.

Please consider joining 122 of your fellow nonprofit colleagues in our LinkedIn MORE Alumni Evaluation Network.

MORE Office Hours (Our Last of the Year!)
Don’t forget! May 12 at noon we’ll be having office hours for MORE alumni. Please use this link.

Congratulations to the 10th Cohort of MORE
The following organizations recently completed MORE training. Thank you to these groups for committing to your professional development!
Audobon Naturalist Society (ANS), Asian American LEAD (AA LEAD), Brem Foundation, Docs in Progress, Gatihersburg Beloved Community Initiative, EveryMind, Round House Theater, Hearts and Homes for Youth, Clancy Dance, JSSA, Youth Activism, Family PASS, Loudoun Cares, Nonprofit Montgomery/MMF, SGAP Leaders

Pro Bono Consulting for Nonprofits

2021-05-05T12:59:48-04:00May 3rd, 2021|Member News, Training Opportunities|

Compass grants pro bono consulting services (valued at $200,000+) to nonprofits that benefit the Greater Washington community. Volunteer teams of experienced business professionals provide consulting to nonprofits in Board Development, Funding Strategy, Strategic Planning, Strategic Partnerships & Collaborations, Strategic Marketing, and more. Applications are due June 7. Click here to apply and to learn more information.

Nonprofit Montgomery Member News

2021-04-19T13:51:54-04:00April 21st, 2021|Member News|

We’d like to welcome our newest members! Membership in Nonprofit Montgomery is open to all nonprofits that serve or do business in Montgomery County. Join now and get three months free! Your membership is good through June of 2022.

Green SEEDS Company
Housing Initiative Partnership
Milk Lady Farmers Market

FIRM for Program Directors and Dept. Leaders

2021-03-08T10:14:00-05:00March 10th, 2021|Events, Member News, Training Opportunities|

FIRM for Program Directors is a multi-day workshop that provides program directors and department leaders with a deeper understanding of the financial processes, planning, and decision making that support strong program and organizational sustainability.

Participants will learn about program level financial modeling, strategic budgeting, and financial reporting to build confidence and competence in making decisions that balance assets and outcomes (aka money and mission) for individual programs and the organization at large.

The program delivery will be a mix of LIVE and self-paced sessions over two weeks as follows …

  • LIVE Sessions will be delivered using Zoom and facilitated by our instructor.
  • The first one will be an orientation and introduction for everyone.
  • The following sessions will be specific Q&A sessions around the topics covered throughout the program in the self-passed modules
  • Self-Guided Modules – each module consists of 30-40 minutes of pre-recorded content along with linked planning tools and prompts – expect to spend about an hour with your team on each module.

The session schedule will be:
Monday, April 19, 1-2pm: LIVE Orientation
Wednesday, April 21, 1-2pm: LIVE Q&A on Module 1
Friday, April 23, 1-2pm: LIVE Q&A on Module 2
Tuesday, April 27, 1-2pm: LIVE Q&A on Module 3
REGISTER TODAY

MORE Alumni Info and Events

2021-03-08T10:12:58-05:00March 9th, 2021|Events, Member News, Training Opportunities, Uncategorized|

We’ve kicked off our Spring 2021 MORE cohort, our second in the new virtual MORE model. Over in the MORE Alumni Evaluation Network on LinkedIn, we had a busy month of resource sharing.

We shared a resource for secondary data, with benchmark data for foundation evaluation projects. The Sharp Insight team also shared a new favorite post, their Ode to Outputs, which we hope our MORE alums will appreciate. It’s no “stand up, sit down,” but that’s more difficult to facilitate over a blog post!  As we’ve been reading more about equity in evaluation, we shared an article with some simple steps to help get started connecting diversity, equity, and inclusion to your metrics. As an added bonus, an alum shared a video on data visualization that we think you might enjoy.

A resource we hope you’ll all give a listen is a video from We All Count with a message about what we really want to know about identity. If you’re interested in seeing more resources like these, join 111 of your nonprofit colleagues in our LinkedIn alumni network!

Alumni are encouraged to join us for the next MORE office hours (and informal discussion/Q&A) on Wednesday, March 17 at noon by registering here. The spring cohort just debriefed on the levels of influence, which we hope rings some bells. We’re planning to focus most of the office hours discussion on how different organizations approach their evaluation of the various levels.

Nonprofit Montgomery Member News

2021-03-08T10:07:54-05:00March 8th, 2021|Member News|

Welcome New and Renewing Members! We’d like to welcome our newest (and renewing) members that joined us recently:

  • First Generation College Bound
  • Olive Branch Community Church

Not a member? Join Nonprofit Montgomery today!

CollegeTracks
CollegeTracks announces the selection of Mecha Inman as its new Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Inman started earlier this year. Welcome!

The Giving Square
Amy Neugebauer, Executive Director and Founder of The Giving Square was recently featured on the Urban Institute podcast Critical Value to discuss how children develop their philanthropic identity.

Charity Connect
Charity Connect has created a Nonprofit Needs Assessment in order to gather information about volunteer and in-kind needs from local nonprofits. We use this information to help match volunteers with organizations as well as to share needs with our community of volunteers.  Visit Charity Connect’s to learn more.

Conscious Conversations: A Race Equity Self-Accountability Journey

2021-02-22T13:08:03-05:00February 22nd, 2021|Events, Member News|

Conscious Conversations: A Race Equity Self-Accountability Journey
Scholarship for Nonprofit Montgomery Members

Nonprofit Montgomery is excited to partner with The Nonprofit Village to offer five member organizations a scholarship to attend Conscious Conversations: A Race Equity Self-Accountability Journey. This two-part series workshop exploring key racial equity concepts to assist participants to develop and enhance understanding of racism as constructs and how these constructs are used as structural barriers.

It will be facilitated by C. Marie Taylor is the President & Principal Consultant at Equity Through Action and former President & CEO of Leadership Montgomery.

When: March 12, 10am – 11am AND April 16, 10am – 12pm
Who: ED/CEO and Board Chair
Important: You must commit to attending both the March 12 and April 16 sessions as two-person team (ED/CEO and Board Chair or equivalent) and to devoting time to self-paced work during the six week period.
How: While the program is open to anyone and you can register here, there are a few scholarships available to Nonprofit Montgomery members.

Contact Meredith as soon as possible to be considered for scholarship (preference for smaller organizations, but any member is eligible!)

Nonprofit Montgomery Member Meeting

2021-02-22T13:07:33-05:00February 22nd, 2021|Member News|

Mark your calendar and be sure to join us on Thursday, March 4 at 1:30pm for a Nonprofit Montgomery member meeting to discuss the County’s FY22 budget and how we can work together to strongly advocate for nonprofit needs.

New Nonprofit Montgomery members are invited to join for a welcome and meet & greet at 1pm.

When: Thursday, March 4, 1:30pm. New member welcome and networking at 1pm.
Who: Nonprofit Montgomery members. Not a member? Click here to join us!
Register for the Member Meeting
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