Welcome to Cedar Valley Connections, a newsletter to connect the leaders of the nonprofit sector. Edition 182, April 23, 2018
Conference Opportunity
Minnesota Association for Volunteer Engagement Leadership Conference 2018
June 6 - 8, 2018 in St. Paul Minnesota
The 'Next Steps & Beyond' conference will provide volunteer engagement professionals with the opportunity to learn from leaders and consultants in the sector with breakout track topics like professional development, best practices, and current trends while listening to general sessions about action planning and promoting job equity for all volunteer engagement professionals. Learn more HERE!
In addition, upon return from the Summit, the Volunteer Center of Cedar Valley will convene attendees for a local summit to share tools, techniques, and information from the conference in hopes to further the development of volunteer engagement resources.
Funds will be awarded to organizations that can best demonstrate their desire and ability to improve the use of volunteers in their organization and the organization's interest in helping the Cedar Valley improve volunteer development.
Please email all requests to
Holly Dusenbery by May 4, 2018 for review. Awarded recipients will be contacted by Holly once requests have been approved by committee.
Marketing Must Haves Follow-UP
Thank you to everyone who attended the Marketing Must Have presentation presented by Jake Byers (CFNEIA) & Lindsay Pieters (Habit
at for Humanity). A lot of learning, networking and fun made this CVNA a HUGE success!
Community Events
The 9th annual Cedar Bend Humane Society Furry 5K Run/Walk will be Sunday, May 20, 2018, at 7:30 a.m. at Big Woods Lake, South Shelter, Cedar Falls, Iowa. This event is open to all animal lovers and their K-9 companions. Last year 200 people participated.
Don't have a dog? Walk a shelter dog! There is a limited number of dogs available. Participants walking a shelter
dog must be 16 years old. If younger, walkers must be accompanied by an adult at all times. One shelter dog per family. Available CBHS dogs will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis on race day [read more...]
Help Needed
We seek your participation in a research study entitled "Non-profit Leader's Risk-Taking Propensity & Managerial Leadership Styles."
Nonprofit leaders, such as you and your colleagues, play a very important role in the success of our Midwest communities. Today, we are reaching out to you to ask if you or other administrators from your organization in a leadership position would be willing to participate in this important study. Knowledge gained from this study will assist present and future nonprofits in gaining information regarding managerial leadership to better utilize resources and create a greater impact on the communities with in which nonprofits serve.
We want to understand how leaders like you effect the performance of your organization. We are writing to request your participation in this research by completing a short survey.
UNI courses in workplace communication during the fall 2018 semester are in need of individual and organizational clients who wish to have print and digital publications created, e.g., newsletters, brochures, flyers, proposals, report documents, websites and exhibition storyboards. For more information, please contact
Adrienne Lamberti .
Congratulations
Congratulations to the House of Hope for winning the Exceptional Nonprofit of the year award at this years Nonprofit Leadership Alliance awards luncheon.
Keep up-to-date with what's going on with our State Representatives & Legislative team (not all represented)
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