New Brief: Nonprofit Leadership Day recap
On July 30, The West Virginia Nonprofit Association sponsored its first Nonprofit Leadership Day at Faces of Leadership, featuring advanced workshops on executive transitions and high-impact fundraising, as well as a wealth of afternoon sessions touching on nonprofit issues.
The workshops were followed by the annual WVNPA Membership Meeting, during which the following slate of WVNPA Advisory Board members were approved:
To serve a three-year term ending 12/31/17:
- Susan Aloi, PhD, West Virginia Wesleyan College (Region VIII)
- Mary (Nikki) Williams, WV Development Office (Region III)
- Deb Koester, West Virginia Local Health (Region III)
To serve a second three-year term ending 12/31/17:
- John Ballengee, United Way of Central WV (Region III)
- Sheri Ryder, The Greater Kanawha Valley Community Foundation (Region III)
- David Rogers, Mission West Virginia (Region II)
The annual meeting was followed by a rapid-fire focus group for the Institute for Coaching and Leadership,facilitated by Lydotta Taylor, of the Morgantown-based EdVenture Group.
If you haven’t been able to make one of our recent focus groups, please follow the link above to take our online survey and make your voice heard as we shape the future of training for nonprofits in West Virginia.
And watch the Members Only section of our website as we add valuable reference materials from the Nonprofit Leadership Day workshops.
Missed the focus groups? Let us know what your nonprofit wants from the Institute for Coaching and Leadership. Tell us about your training needs today by taking our brief survey by August 31.
Members highlighted among GSA honorees
Congratulations are in order for several WVNPA members. Last week’s Governor’s Service Awards banquet featured an all-star lineup of WVNPA member organizations and their volunteers who were recognized for their outstanding work in addressing social issues through service. They included: Volunteers Emma Brannare (Youth) and Greg Smith (Adult) with the Soup Kitchen of Greater Wheeling; Brooke Hancock FRN’s Paul Bud Billiard; and Dubois Museum on Main’s Jean Evansmore.
If you missed last Wednesday’s awards banquet, you can view the highlight videos on Volunteer West Virginia’s YouTube channel.
New reforms coming to Federal grant policies
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In less than five months, new reforms governing payments to nonprofits for their indirect (overhead) and other costs will go into effect. Learn what the reforms do and why they matter to nonprofits.
You can help in the development of tools to turn the promise of the new reforms into reality for your organization and others by completing this short survey and by encouraging your colleagues at other nonprofits to fill it out as well.
