Reformulating the 2009 Nonprofit Congress

To Nonprofit Congress supporters:
 
In 2007 the National Council of Nonprofits decided to convene the national meeting portion of the 2009 Nonprofit Congress in New Orleans. Since then, our nation’s economy has collapsed, hurting nonprofits and the communities we serve. This brutal economic storm, and the opportunity for significant change that is before us, challenges us [...]

Convene, connect, commit

Note: Trisha Lester is vice president and Sally Migliore is senior associate at the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits. This editorial originally appeared in the Philanthropy Journal on July 14, 2008 and is reposted with the permission of the Journal and the authors.
“The recent Nonprofit Congress in Washington, D.C., brought together 400 grassroots regional, statewide, and [...]

Mr. Inexperience Goes To Washington

NOTE: This is a guest post from Sam Richard, author of the blog Deserted After Dark, which chronicles his life as a college student living in Downtown Phoenix, where he is the President of the American Humanics Student Association at Arizona State University. After he finally finishes his degree somewhere near the end of this decade, Sam [...]

Back at it!

The end of May and beginning of June was a pretty momentous time for me and for NCNA. In those couple of weeks, two major projects that I (we) have been working on for many, many months finally culminated: the Nonprofit Congress National Meeting and publication of Work With Me: Intergenerational Conversations for Nonprofit Leadership. [...]

Off to the Meeting!

Hello everyone!
The staff of NCNA are off to the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill for the 2008 Nonprofit Congress National Meeting – Convene · Connect · Commit! We will be setting up shop tomorrow, Saturday, May 31 and welcoming our first participants on Sunday. Though we won’t be in the office, we will be keeping [...]

Why I am attending the Nonprofit Congress

This post was submitted by guest blogger Chuck Bean. Chuck is the Executive Director of the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington. This entry is cross-posted at the Roundtable Blog.
When the idea of the first Nonprofit Congress was first floated – I can still visualize a meeting back in 2005 with Audrey Alvarado and Robert Egger – [...]