27 February 2006

Multi-donors and cynicism

Welcome back!

A helpful article from the NonProfit Times can be found here that helps those who desire to keep individual donors over time. Thanks to one of my clients for the tip on the article.

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11 February 2006

Sabbatical Program from the California Wellness Foundation

Interestingly, the following was left as a comment to another post. I will be happy to post opportunities such as this. Just contact me through the contact form on my capacitypartership.com website. Thanks.

Applications are now available for The California Wellness Foundation Sabbatical Program. The program offers $30,000 grants to nonprofit health organizations, to provide their executive directors with a paid leave of up to six months. The organizations will also receive up to $5,000 each for the professional development of managers and staff who will assume extra responsibilities in the absence of the sabbatical awardees. Deadline for applications is March 24, 2006.

Based on a model established by the Durfee Foundation in Los Angeles, The California Wellness Foundation Sabbatical Program was founded in 2003 to keep burnout, stress and fatigue from undermining the effectiveness of the leaders of nonprofit organizations. Since the inception of the program, the Foundation has given 20 sabbatical awards.

To learn more about The California Wellness Foundation Sabbatical Program, or to receive an application, please visit the following sections on our website.

The California Wellness Foundation Sabbatical Program

Frequently Asked Questions

Application (a pdf)

All applications must be received at our office by March 24, 2006. If you have a question, please leave a message at (818) 702-1970, and you will receive a response within 48 hours. Or e-mail sabbaticalprogram@tcwf.org. Grant recipients of the 2006 TCWF Sabbatical Program will be announced in October 2006.

08 February 2006

Opportunity for trainers and coaches in Los Angeles and Pomona

. . . for non-profit organizations. Welcome back! You belong here.

This informaiton is from World Vision's Tools for Transforming Communities Manager in Los Angeles.

The Tools for Transforming Communities Program is a new Compassion Capital Funding working to support and build capacity in organizations serving communities in zip codes 90008, 90043, 90047, and 90062 (South Los Angeles) and 91766 and 91768 (Pomona). Over the next year, the Tools for Transforming Communities Program will be providing small grants, and intensive training and technical assistance to a selected group of organizations.

Therefore, World Vision through the Tools for Transforming Communities Program is taking the lead in compiling an updated culturally competent consultants and trainers database. Through this database, we will invite consultants and trainers to be part of a group of professionals teaching and coaching selected organizations.

If you would like to be included in the list of individuals and firms in this database, please fill out the attached form as soon as possible and attend the orientation on February 14 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM at 3055 Wilshire Blvd Conference Room in the 12 Floor. Resumes acceptable, however, if you could add the information from the form that may not be included it would be most appreciated.

Thank you for your time and consideration of this request.
If you'd like to put yourself on the list by completing the form, leave a comment here with your contact infromation. I will forward it to you.

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Presentation Remote Control Device

Welcome back!

In the past week or two I have had the opportunity to use my own computer and a remote control device when using a Power Point presentation. Clearly some products are better than others. This Honeywell PowerPresenter is clearly the leader. What it does really well--two simple buttons: forward and back; rf technology means no aiming the hand held piece to the plugged in device; plug it in and it works! I recommend the thing. And, I am going to buy one soon.







Who would have guessed that you'd get this kind of value from visiting this blog today.

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05 February 2006

Community Economic Development 2006 Grant Applications for Operational Projects

The RFP for next year's operational grants has been published by HHS.

We are now considering client projects to develop for the Community Economic Development Discretionary Grant Program--Operational Projects. If you have some project ideas or would like to discuss some of those projects, please contact us imediately to schedule a consultation. We would like to talk with you. We are currently talking with prospective clients in Los Angeles and Pasadena, CA and Miami, FL.

Your ideas matter here! Please leave a comment--your comment is delivered directly to my email. We will contact you with further information is you provide your contact information. You can also use www.capacitypartnership.com to contact us.

02 February 2006

Teaching Position in Bangladesh

Welcome back!

Are you:
a qualified teacher?
feeling called to overseas work?
looking for an opportunity to support the mission, aid and development community?
wanting to help the people of Bangladesh?

Friend Kevin Stout who works for Compassion International in Bangladesh has the information on his blog here.

"Please pass this on two any teacher friends you have. It is a great experience!!"

Grace International School
Dhaka, Bangladesh

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