Last one out, turn off the lights

If anyone’s keeping a list of dumb things to do in a recession, I’m sure quitting one’s job and moving across the country are pretty near the top. (Turns out I’m right.) Yet that’s exactly what I’m doing. Friday will be my last day at the National Council, and Monday I fly back to Seattle, [...]

2009 Member Meeting

This is the first post by Jennifer Chandler, the National Council’s new Vice President and Director of Network Support and Knowledge Transfer. 
 
Pinching myself. That’s what I keep doing. There I am, standing at the registration table for the National Council of Nonprofits’ annual member meeting in Washington, DC, and leaders of nonprofit state associations all [...]

Bleeds? Who’s going to bleed?

Flickr: Thomas Hawk

With the fall conference season coming up, it’s printing time at many nonprofits. Here at the National Council, we just received our snazzy new pocket folders for our Member Meeting next week (and now we get to stuff them!).
If you’re a newly-minted communications pro–or the colleague in charge of print ordering is on [...]

What I Wish Journalists Knew About the Nonprofit Sector

The following is a version of my closing keynote speech for the North Dakota Association of Nonprofit Organizations in Fargo on June 3.
Do you work for a nonprofit? Think for a minute about when your organization was founded. What were some of the circumstances surrounding that event? What were the times like then?
Keep that founding [...]

Nonprofit Blog Carnival: Open Call Edition

Thanks to Beth Aldrich, Communications Intern at the National Council of Nonprofits, for compiling and drafting this month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival.
Thank you for tuning in for yet another informative Nonprofit Blog Carnival. It was an open call this month and we got a plethora of responses. There were several entries that are useful revolving around money, not surprising [...]

Legal Industry’s Furloughs Can Be the Sector’s Found Treasure

This is a guest post from the National Council’s Public Policy Intern, Marissa Gunn.
I was in a bit of a panic when stumbled into my public policy internship with the National Council of Nonprofits. I was third year law student, it was winter break, and I had no job. It wasn’t a particularly unusual spot [...]

We’re hosting the Carnival!

We the intrepid Nonprofit Congress bloggers will be hosting the Nonprofit Blog Carnival’s May 29 edition. And we want your blog posts! Just email us a blog post, written on a nonprofit-related issue in the month of May, and include your name and blog URL in the email. The  top 7-10 (we haven’t decided yet) will [...]

YNPN 2009: Can I get an ‘amen?’

The YNPN 2009 DC Day is a revival experience. In every session, as people talk, others nod their heads so vigorously I keep thinking they’re having seizures. We clap and cheer and laugh, and I expect us to break into song whenever the energy peaks. But like a revival, are we just preaching to the [...]

YNPN 2009 Recap: State of the DC Nonprofit Sector

For everyone who can’t be at the YNPN 2009 conference, here’s a recap of the first session at DC Day this morning. Called “State of the DC Nonprofit Sector,” it featured panelists Chuck Bean of the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington, Tamara Lucas Copeland of Washington Grantmakers, and Glen O’Gilvie of the Center for Nonprofit Advancement.
Near [...]

Live from YNPN 2009!

I’m live blogging and tweeting from the YNPN 2009 conference here in DC all day. Look for updates here, or follow me on Twitter for bite-sized reports.
If you want a multi-angled perspective, search Twitter for “ynpn” to follow tweets from half a dozen of us at once!