Making Nonprofits Successful-Upcoming Events
- January 27, 2012 - Beyond Fundraising: Alternative Fundraising Strategies and Resources for Nonprofits, held at TD University, Mt. Laurel
- March 15, 2012 - IRS Dept of Exempt Organizations presentation
- May - Foundation Panel Presentation
- Why We CLICK with Some and CLANK with Others, Teambuilders Plus. All participants receive a copy of Taking Flight!: Master the Four Behavioral Styles and Transform Your Career, Your Relationships…Your Life
- Ethics Training for Non Profits, Claudia B. Hawkins, U.S. Treasury Internal Revenue Service
- Community Collaboration: How It's Working in South Jersey...and Why It's the Wave of the Future, Colleen Maguire, Executive Director, Pascale Sykes Foundation
- Financial Management-Accounting & Budgeting for Nonprofit Management, James Schuk, President & CEO, Battleship New Jersey
- NPDCSNJ has partnered With The Entrepreneurs Forum (EFSNJ of Southern New Jersey) for their 2011 Workshop Series for NPO Managers and board members - Stay tuned for upcoming Programs. Visit EFSNJJ for more information
- NPDCSNJ has partnered with the Center for Non Profits - stay tuned for upcoming collaborations.
In the business of "doing good," the question of what it takes to be a great organization is often unasked and unanswered. Executive directors must be resourceful in meeting the needs of their constituents, generating enough income to keep programs running and accomplish all of the above while keeping board members engaged and informed. Board members often feel stymied by the pull of fund-raising and operational demands that distract them from their passion of "making a difference" in the community.
Corporate leaders and individual philanthropists make generous investments in nonprofit organizations that serve a diverse group of people and institutions. Yet, a sizable portion of their contributions often funds overhead expenses. The Nonprofit Development Center (NPDC) of Southern New Jersey is a new organization that provides shared space, equipment, ideas, resources and training for nonprofit executives , staff and board members. It was formed to increase donors' "social return on investment" and to stimulate new sources of philanthropy in this region.
The NPDC is a product of the cooperation and leverage of resources from nonprofits, businesses, government and higher education. Four teams of 11 students supervised by professors from various academic disciplines at Rowan University completed a business plan, designed a logo and are in the midst of completing a video and strategic plan to propel the NPDC forward. It exemplifies of the value of Service Learning and the potential for Social Entrepreneurship to facilitate community development. It also demonstrates the entrepreneurial zeal of a committed Advisory Board that dedicated hundreds of volunteer hours to create the NPDC.
The May 9 event is designed to recognize the diverse resources that created the NPDC, to encourage continued nonprofit collaboration and utilization of Service Learning opportunities and to generate resources for the NPDC through sponsorship support.
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Presentation to Nonprofit Development Center of Southern New
Jersey
INSIDE LOOK-OUR HISTORY
Building Nonprofit Capacity In Southern New Jersey Lunch & Workshop
May 9, 2006
• The Capacity Building Lunch Description
This day began with a networking lunch. The audience
consisted of nonprofit executive directors and board members,
corporate sponsors and 50 invited corporate guests. Senator Stephen Sweeney made keynote remarks that relate
to State legislation affecting nonprofit organizations.
The lunch concluded with a presentation introducing the NPDC
as a new community resource.
The lunch was followed by two workshop
tracks with the following topics: Effective Grassroots Advocacy (Andrew
Sinclair — Princeton Public Affairs Group), Legal Issues for Nonprofits
, "Creating an Effective Marketing Communications Plan...on a Shoestring Budget"
(Michael Willmann - WMSH Marketing Communications), Building a Diversified
Funding Base (Sam Leone, NJ Economic Development Authority and other
panelists to be confirmed), Financial Controls and Procedures Best Practices (Ken Ditmar,
CPA), and Recruiting and Retaining the "Ultimate Board Member" (Judy
Weaver and Theresa DiVietro).
• The Funders Panel Description
The day concluded with a Funders Panel consisting of representatives from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Wachovia Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - moderated by Nina Stack, the President of the Council of New Jersey
Grantmakers.
The event was sponsored by the Center for Innovation
and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at Rowan
University in collaboration with the Volunteer Center of Gloucester
County, the United Way of Gloucester County, WPH Consulting Group and the Southern New
Jersey Professional Players Association
NPDC
Opens Office at Rowan
Creating
the NPDC - an inside look.
Multimedia Flash presentation.
Building Nonprofit Capacity
Event — Tremendous Response!
Article and photos from the May 9, 2006 event.
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Path to Success —
At Rowan University - Rohrer College of Business, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE) — the NPDC as well
as other nonprofits and businesses received top notch consulting services
setting them on a path for success. Related
Article - Real World at Rowan University
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