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Montgomery County Government Grant Deadlines and Dates 
December 1, 2017: Registration Open & FY 19 Applications Available
January 11, 2018: Applications Due
Late February through March: Council Applicant Meetings
March 15, 2018: County Executive Recommendations
Late April: Council Grants Advisory Group Issues Report
Late May: County Council Approves Operating Budget (including final grant awards)

This year the County will hold two workshops to provide information for Community Grant Applicants. The content of each workshop will be the same and will last 1.5-2 hours. No registration is required.

FY19 Montgomery County Grants Workshops 
December 5, 1:30pm – White Oak Community Recreation Center, Social Hall B
December 7, 10am – Sydney Kramer UpCounty Regional Services Center, Meeting Room A
December 11, 7pm – Council Office Building, 3rd floor hearing room

Executive’s Community Collaboration Grants Office of the County Executive
Application deadline: FY19 Applications due Thursday, January 11, 2018.
Contact Person(s): Joshua Watters
Contact Email: execgrants@montgomerycountymd.gov

2019 Community Services Grants Program
The Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services is accepting applications for the FY19 Community Services Grants Program. The submission deadline Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 3pm.

Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County Grant Deadlines 
The Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County released deadlines for the FY19 grant cycle.

Your crappy chair is not a badge of honor (Nonprofit AF, October 23)

What To Do When People Keep Quitting (Fast Company, November 1)

Recently Bethesda Magazine profiled Germantown’s Daly Elementary School principal, staff, and students in “Hope Lives Here” by Cindy Rich. According to the article Daly Elementary School has a FARMS (Free and Reduced Priced Meals) rate of 73%. While the article highlights Principal Nora Dietz and her staff, many Nonprofit Montgomery members are mentioned such as Healthcare Initiative Foundation who is one of eight Thriving Germantown funders; Family Services; Inc.; EveryMind; Identity, Inc.; Holy Cross Health; Manna Food Center; and Aspire Counseling.

Visit ST online at http://shepherdstable.org for general background. If you’d like an opportunity for informal discussion with board members, attend ST’s November 9 gala at Discovery (https://shepherdstable.org/dypt/) or come by our annual Republic Open Mic fund-raiser, Sunday, November 12 starting at 7:30 pm at Republic restaurant in Takoma Park – https://www.facebook.com/events/1987541698125594/.

Nonprofit Montgomery’s MORE (Metrics, Outcomes and Responsible Evaluation) program enters it’s second year with teams from thirteen local nonprofits attending an intensive 1.5 days of training. MORE is a dynamic program that helps nonprofits measure the impact of their programs and communicate those results to their boards, funders, donors and other constituents.

Participants commented that the training is “engaging and high energy” with dynamic, knowledgeable facilitators and “a really good mix of presentation and activities, with opportunities to meet people from other nonprofits.” Participants liked the “really clear tools and formats, great resources and takeaway items” and gained “new energy, skills and strategies for looking at our organization’s evaluation endeavors.” A participant observed that MORE showed them how to “use evaluation data to improve, not just report.” 

Congratulations to the following organizations for sending a team to the Fall 2017 MORE program: 

Arts on the Block, Arts for the Aging, Inc., Community Ministries of Rockville, Cornerstone Montgomery, DHHS Latino Health Initiative, Holy Cross Health, Housing Unlimited, Inc., IMPACT Silver Spring, Interfaith Works, Manna Food Center, Montgomery Housing Partnership, Parent Encouragement Program, The Children’s Inn at NIH

The next session of MORE will be on March 15-16, 2018. For more information about MORE or any Nonprofit Montgomery program, contact Lesley.

The open enrollment period for insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act is only 45 days this year—15 days shorter than in previous years. Enrollment opens November 1 and closes on December 15. DHHS enrollment sites are expecting crowds and long waits for assistance. Nonprofits can help clients access health insurance by:

• Making sure clients are aware of the shortened enrollment period;
• Reassuring clients that insurance is still available and Maryland Health Connection is the only place to get help paying for a health plan;
• Becoming familiar with the options and requirements, plans and prices changes every year and it is very important to update the MHC application before December 15;
• Helping clients gather the necessary documentation to apply; and
• Informing clients that they can apply online, through the “Enroll MHC” mobile app or by calling the MHC Call Center at 1-855-642-8572.

For more information, visit the Maryland Health Connection website or download the “Enroll MHC” app.

Your crappy chair is not a badge of honor (Nonprofit AF, October 23)

Five Tips On Improving Email Deliverability In Nonprofit Fundraising Efforts (Forbes, October 20)

The School Synthetic-Turf Wars (The Atlantic, October 12)

9 best practices for engagement in virtual meetings (NTEN, October 10)

Audacious Philanthropy (Harvard Business Review, September/October 2017)

These are the four essential skills CEOs of the future have to have (Fast Company, September 25, 2017)

What’s Lost When Only Rich Kids Play Sports (The Atlantic, September 28, 2017)