This workshop demystifies the various fundraising and financing strategies available to pay for a facility project. Study the impact acquisition and/or renovation can have on your organization’s mission, programs, structure, operations, fundraising and financial health. Topics include: Planning for your project and understanding its impact on your organization The relationship between operating, project and fundraising [...]
Strengthening the Black Community in Greater Washington
Monthly Archives: October 2010
RESOURCE: Governance Assessment Handbook
The DC Bar Pro Bono program, with the assistance of the law firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, has developed a governance assessment tool for nonprofit organizations. The goal is to match a nonprofit with pro bono counsel that will review the nonprofit’s governance practices and procedures to make sure that they are in compliance [...]
REPORT: Who is Low-Income in DC?
Who Is Low-Income in DC? Nearly one quarter of DC’s residents — 133,000 — lived in families with incomes below 150 percent of poverty even before the recession hit, according to a new analysis from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute. This means a family of three was living on less than $25,000 a year. Now [...]
BPA Member Spotlight: Lois Nembhard
Lois Nembhard is Deputy Director of AmeriCorps State and National, the Corporation for National and Community Service. Although I never thought of it then as philanthropy, I’ve been a volunteer throughout my life as a result of my parents’ example and influence. My career has been primarily in city government or working for nonprofits, and now [...]
Report: WAWF 2010 Portrait of Women & Girls in the Washington Metropolitan Area
According to 2010 Portrait of Women & Girls in the Washington Metropolitan Area, a new report from the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, women’s education levels and participation in the job market in the DC region are higher than in other cities. Women here are more likely to own businesses and have health insurance than elsewhere, and female [...]
Event: Hip-Hop Philanthropy Brunch
Hip-Hop + Philanthropy = A New Kind of Giving You’re invited to the Hip-Hop Foundation Brunch, a discussion and celebration of the significant growth of nonprofit organizations dedicated to presenting, preserving, and teaching the core elements of hip-hop culture, the development of numerous hip-hop foundations, and an increase in traditional funders supporting the work of [...]
Job: Outreach Director, Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts
Title: Outreach Director Organization: Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts Location: Washington, DC Description: Founded in 1996, the mission of Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts is to help people engage their own innate healing responses to live better and potentially longer lives. As a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, [...]
Job: Head of School, SEED School of Maryland
Title: Head of School Organization: The SEED School of Maryland Location: Baltimore, Maryland THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND seeks a strategic and experienced school leader to assume the position of Head of School. The Head of School will build on the strength of SEED Maryland’s first three years, leading this unique state-wide boarding school through [...]
Job: Manager, Conference and Meeting Programming, Council on Foundations
Title: Manager, Conference and Meeting Programming Organization: Council on Foundations Location: Arlington, Virginia The Council on Foundations, a membership organization located in Arlington, Va., is seeking a Manager for the Conference and Meeting Programming department who will be responsible for activities related to development and execution of conference programming by working with session designers and [...]
Job: Manager, Family Philanthropy Services, Council on Foundations
Title: Manager, Family Philanthropy Services Organization: Council on Foundations Location: Arlington, Virginia The Council on Foundations, a membership organization located in Arlington, Va., is seeking a Manager for the Family Philanthropy Services department who will deliver core member services and educational programming to family philanthropists and philanthropic leaders as well as next generation philanthropists and [...]