Transforming Our Sector by Dismantling Systemic Barriers
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Many nonprofit leaders, along with business and community leaders, have made public statements recently about structural racism, especially in the wake of police killings of Black and Brown people, and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color. These expressions of disdain for racism offer hope that we are at a crossroads. But these statements alone are not enough. As leaders, we can walk the talk by redoubling our efforts to dismantle structural racism in our own organizations.
Read more from the Center’s President & CEO, Jeanne Tedrow.
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Your advocacy has made a difference! Check out our
2020 State Legislative Summary for key policy developments from the North Carolina legislature’s most recent session. Bills were introduced – in some cases stopped – and legislation was improved because of the stories, consequences, and recommendations shared by our statewide nonprofit community.
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Having a strategic communications plan is important for every nonprofit to share its message and mission. Weaving your advocacy communications throughout is equally as important to make lasting change in your community. Health Action International’s
Communicating For Change: Effective Advocacy Communications for Nonprofit Organizations offers detailed tools, worksheets, and key concepts on everything from defining advocacy and building your brand to designing evidence-based advocacy campaigns and identifying communications and media platforms.
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Creating an organizational communications strategy, whether short- or long-term, can seem overwhelming. Nonprofit Marketing Guide shares the
start-to-finish experience of a fellow nonprofit communications manager – her planning process, specific steps, and buy-in approach – to creating an articulate, multi-year plan for the organization.
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How do you coordinate your communications – email, direct mail, website, social media, and other channels – so they all feel like they’re coming from the same organization without duplicating messages or bombarding your audience? With a host of resources and worksheet to help you organize projects, channels, and asks, Idealware’s
Practical Guide to Integrated Communications will help you keep your supporters engaged and invested in your cause.
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Building on the ground work and key nonprofit management concepts from our Walking the Talk initiative and
Principles & Practices guide, we invite you to continue the journey with us through two new opportunities.
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August-December 2020
Building Movement Project’s
Race to Lead series and sectorwide policies and practices show that not much has changed to close the nonprofit sector’s racial and generational leadership gaps, or the policies, practices, and organizational culture that exacerbate them.
ED/CEOs, board chairs and other board leaders, human resources staff, and other nonprofit decision makers will benefit most from this program.
Learn more and register.
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September-October 2020
Developed around the Center's guide,
Principles & Practices: Best Practices for North Carolina Nonprofits,
The Nonprofit Management Institute is a virtual, interactive learning cohort designed for nonprofit managers to build organizational capacity and help achieve sustainability.
The program will walk through key management topics on board governance, program design and evaluation, strategic planning, fundraising, financial management, and human resources to equip nonprofit leaders with a greater understanding of the management functions essential to the growth and development of their organizations.
Nonprofit staff and board members at all levels will benefit from this program.
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If you have QuickBooks and understand the basics, join QuickBooks Made Easy for Nonprofits to delve into the ins-and-outs of preferences and reporting features in a new 2-day webinar series covering:
- Differences between My Preferences and Company Preferences
- Over 100 preferences in 23 different areas
- Standard report choices
- Custom report features
- Filters and creative ways to use fields for specific reporting
The series for
Desktop Users is August 11-12 and the series for
Online Users is August 18-19, with all webinars from 2-3:30 p.m. Registration is $149; Center Members save $20 with discount code
nccn20.
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We appreciate the support of new businesses in
Business Finder, our online directory of businesses and consultants that work specifically with nonprofits. Check them out!
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Center on Modernity in Transition
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Nonprofit Connections
is the monthly newsletter for current Members of the North Carolina Center
for
Nonprofits. If a nonprofit colleague forwarded this message and you like what you see,
join now!
Your Center membership allows each staff member, board member, and key volunteer in your organization to set up their own online account to access member benefits and services.
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