As we continue to spread the word about the Virginia Community Engagement Index (VCEI), we want to thank the diverse group of individuals and organizations who made this work possible, including AmeriCorps and Points of Light! During the process of building the VCEI, we recruited a Core Team of partners representing 38 diverse public, private, and nonprofit organizations across Virginia to help us identify what the VCEI needed to be. The central questions we set out to uncover were, “Who are Virginia’s community volunteers and civically engaged residents? What do they care about? Where and how are they engaging? And why?” Together, we developed a study that could help us better understand the degree to which service, volunteerism, and civic engagement is a strength in our communities, and how to continue to build and leverage that strength. Read the full VCEI findings at https://buff.ly/3ZDkkL1 #ServeVirginia #VirginiaVolunteers #VolunteerVA #GivebackVA #VACommunity #VolunteerinVA
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Did you know that approximately 25% of nonprofit organizations in the U.S. do not have diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies? Having DEI-focused policies can enrich a nonprofit's volunteer program by providing fresh perspectives, talent pools, and overall community engagement. 🚀 Learn how to create a DEI-focused experience for volunteers here: https://hubs.li/Q02fByhQ0
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Did you know that approximately 25% of nonprofit organizations in the U.S. do not have diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies? Having DEI-focused policies can enrich a nonprofit's volunteer program by providing fresh perspectives, talent pools, and overall community engagement. 🚀 Learn how to create a DEI-focused experience for volunteers here: https://hubs.li/Q02fBxnM0
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There is still time to register for this very powerful and informative training. Thank you Catie White, CFRE for provding us with this amazing opportunity to learn. Trauma-Informed Care is a lens in which we interact with our communities to best support their healing and needs. Tenants of trauma-informed care include safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, and empowerment. Applying these tenants to the fundraising space helps empower fundraisers to build a stronger communications and language that works to include donors in the work of justice and healing. Learning objectives will include how to craft narratives that center lived experience without othering or trivializing lived experience, how to practically apply trauma-informed principles to our work, and how to engage donors in the process of trauma-informed systems that lead to healthier philanthropic interactions and stronger community ties. Check out this video: https://loom.ly/Nva7fwo #AFPSanAntonio #learningobjectives #communicationandlanguage #inthework #opportunity #communities #tenant #tenants #teambonding
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Every year, King & Spalding reflects on how its pro-bono work has impacted individuals, communities and philanthropy. Please take a look at the King & Spalding Citizenship Report below. #aacctexas #aussiemates #probono #kslaw #reachingout #yearinreview Melissa Zajic I Jackie Y. I Darren Gardner
Over the past year, we rolled up our sleeves and continued the vital work of supporting our communities through pro bono work, community service and philanthropy, focusing on core needs of the most vulnerable members of our communities. Reaching Out, King & Spalding’s annual citizenship report, highlights these and other ways that we continued to give back to our communities through pro bono and community service. https://shorturl.at/ZP4ru #probono #kslaw #reachingout #yearinreview
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The multicultural youth GOTV guide that my colleague Henry A.J. Ramos I have been working on has been released! While it is focused on California youth-serving nonprofits, it is mostly transferable to other states. Consult the The Democracy Capacity Project voter assistance guide for your state for supplemental information. The guide is geared towards helping nonprofits turn out young voters of color, but the its recommendations are applicable for GOTV generally. If you work for any nonprofit with a client base, here are two things you can do this year to turn them out to vote: 1. Make sure they are registered to vote! Census data indicates that about 80% of persons who register to vote in a presidential election year actually go out and vote. This is likely because of all the television, radio, and social media messaging that takes place combined with having just recently having registered. In a sense, new voters in a presidential election year have a GOTV campaign aimed at them from a number of sources. So if you can only do one thing this year, make sure your clients get registered to vote this year. (N.B., we only see this phenomenon during a presidential election year.) 2. If you can only do two things this year, make sure to remind your clients to vote and let them know that their vote matters and they are making a difference! Recent research on voter turnout shows that nonprofit clients are particularly receptive to nonpartisan GOTV campaigns supported by nonprofits they have worked with, and that their turnout rates increase significantly when they are encouraged to vote by those nonprofits. Nonprofit engagement can improve the turnout rates across all categories of voters, and has been shown to make significant improvements in turnout rates for young voters, voters of color, and low-income voters. Improving turnout rates attracts the attention of political campaigns that focus on high-propensity voters. This attention in turn engages voters further and encourages even higher turnout. It’s a virtuous cycle once folks start voting! Make sure to turn out your clients and community to vote this year! #youthvoting #GOTV #nonprofits #nonprofitorganizations #bolderadvocacy #IRPPE #elections
Explore our new Multicultural Youth Get-Out-The-Vote guide for nonprofits! Developed through the Institute’s California Explorations Project, this nonpartisan voter promotion guide is intended to inspire and support community-based nonprofit and advocacy groups working closely with voting age youth of color to engage them in local and statewide electoral processes as active and informed voters. The guide outlines why and how nonprofits are essential for expanding the youth of color vote in California and beyond, and includes strategies and resources for creating an effective multicultural youth GOTV program. Learn more and download the free guide: https://bit.ly/3VNinLH #CAExplorations #GOTV #Nonprofits
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#SmallBusinessWeekTips Being part of a successful community helps a business flourish. That’s why we strive to be an integral part of our communities through membership in local chambers of commerce, local volunteer and philanthropic activities, and partnerships with community development organizations. Learn about our community involvement activities and see more small business tips: https://trst.in/WX69ZH #CreatingPossibility
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Check out this video with the 2023 MyImpact Challenge Grand Prize Winner, Caroline Gao, as she describes her organization, The World in Us, and what she learned and values about BRI's student civic engagement contest. #MyImpactChallenge #civics #BRI
We had the opportunity to catch up with Caroline Gao, the Grand Prize winner of BRI's 2023 MyImpact Challenge civic engagement contest. Listen to Caroline describe her nonprofit, The World in Us, a youth-to-youth cultural education organization, and the ways in which MyImpact Challenge helped her to connect concepts like citizenship skills and civic virtues to her work. “These are foundational skills and ways of thinking that I don’t think I would have internalized nearly as much as I have now if not for the MyImpact Challenge,” Gao said. https://lnkd.in/ebyqpN3X. To support the MyImpact Challenge civic engagement contest, visit https://lnkd.in/es_s-XFs #billofrightsinstitute #BRI #MyImpactChallenge
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Have you heard about our unique Matching Fund model and how it works to empower communities? Through the Matching Fund model, also known as Pamoja4 Change, KCDF partners with communities through CBOs and CSOs to actualize their ideas for community development. Communities raise 50% of their project costs (in-cash or in-kind), while KCDF matches the other 50%, hence the name, Matching Fund. This model develops community ownership in projects and helps them to thrive and become self-sustaining. Learn more about Pamoja4Change here: https://bit.ly/3QzaCGk #KCDFimpactingcommunities #Philanthropy #P4C
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Did you know that Goodnation hosts select projects, providing tax-exempt status, infrastructure and support to enable these efforts to achieve their missions? As we look to the next year, here are four powerful efforts you can support that will make a big impact on criminal justice and reform. 1️⃣ Proximity for Justice brings community leaders, philanthropists, and policy makers to inspire change. 2️⃣ Health and Reentry Project ensures that people have access to support services as they return to communities following incarceration. 3️⃣ Building Beyond Policing aims to shift the public safety paradigm. 4️⃣ Collective Campaign Fund to Close Rikers is an effort to strategically close and transform Rikers Island. Reach out to us to support these four or any of our other fiscally sponsored programs: donors@goodnation.io - #fiscalsponsorships #fiscalsponsorshipprogram #criminaljustice #philanthropy #philanthropyadvising #nonprofits #socialimpact
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Reminder to my #network that this FREE WEBINAR is happening in 2 weeks - if you work for a non-profit or know anyone else within that sector who would benefit from learning about unionization, please feel free to forward this post to them. We would love to have you! #freeevent #bostonevent #event #webinar #freewebinar #ynpn #ynpnboston #unionization #union #nonprofit #nonprofitsector #professionaldevelopment
FREE WEBINAR 💻YNPN Boston and the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union are partnering for an event on unionization in the nonprofit sector. NPEU will give a presentation followed by a short panel featuring employees from unionized orgs. Join us Sept. 28th! https://ow.ly/7wXh50PKnkM
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