Nonprofits Partner for 2010 Census

A couple months ago, Michigan Nonprofit Association announced their 2010 Census initiative and brought me on board to help lead it. In a blog on September 2, I shared why it’s important for nonprofits be involved in the 2010 Census. (Read the 2010 Census blog here)

Nonprofits Count! is a campaign to mobilize nonprofits to [...]

Member Perspective: Stimulus Funding At Work

Story developed for the Michigan Nonprofit Storybank.
Since 2006, the number of uninsured patients of Muskegon Family Care, a Community Health Center located in West Michigan, has increased by 59 percent. This Community Health Center (CHC) is one in a network of 32 public and nonprofit organizations, who provide quality, comprehensive, community-oriented primary health care [...]

Campus-Community Collaboration

The United Nations has chosen the first Monday in October to be World Habitat Day – a day to stand up and let it be known that affordable, adequate housing should be a priority everywhere. I was excited to learn of this new day of advocacy as the work of Habitat for Humanity and [...]

Join Your Nonprofit Colleagues in the FutureLab

Our work to define the sector’s role in society will never be more important. Every day we witness the work of the nonprofit sector being defined and redefined by circumstances seemingly beyond our control. For example, the health care reform debate is the nation’s single most contentious issue—even greater than our two foreign [...]

What’s Next for the Nonprofit Sector?

Robert Egger, founder and president of DC Central Kitchen and author of Begging for Change, will join us at the 10th annual Michigan Nonprofit Day on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 as our luncheon keynote speaker. Robert will explore the need to develop common strategies for collaborative accomplishments and successful interactions, so that the voice on [...]

Member Perspective: Volunteer Centers Continue United We Serve Momentum

As a new AmeriCorps*VISTA Leader, serving at the Volunteer Centers of Michigan (VCM), I am just beginning to learn about the work done by the different volunteer centers and more specifically, the work of the other AmeriCorps*VISTA members placed within specific start up and expansion centers across Michigan. Volunteer Centers continually work to promote [...]

StrategyLab: Building a Stronger Nonprofit Sector

I was invited along with more than 70 other individuals to participate in a “Strategy Lab” hosted by Independent Sector called, Envisioning our Future. The focus? Building a stronger nonprofit sector out of one of our nation’s worst financial crisis. This meeting started with a three-day conference in Colorado and continues now [...]

Member Perspective: Campus-Community Partnership Receives $10,000 Carter Partnership Award

Every day, the staff at Michigan Campus Compact learns about and works with incredible service-learning initiatives and campus-community partnerships. But, it’s not often we get to award one of those amazing campus-community partnerships with a $10,000 grant.
The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration is given bi-annually by Michigan Campus Compact to [...]

United We Serve

Today the White House launches United We Serve, a new service initiative calling all Americans to join in a summer of service to culminate with a National Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11. United We Serve not only calls Americans to serve, but brings an opportunity for the nonprofits to create and [...]

Resource Friday: Get Connected! Free and Low Cost Tools for Small Group Collaboration

I often find in small nonprofit organizations a core group of dedicated individuals working hard on programs, projects and services targeting their mission. The smaller the organization, the more work that has to be done by its people to accomplish its goal. One thing I notice is that when everyone is busy and running around, [...]