October 23, 2009 — Nonprofit organizations in Los Angeles are facing difficult fiscal challenges in the economic downturn, but many have fared better than expected in preserving staffing, programs and expenditures and have seen an increase in volunteers, according to a new report by the Center for Civil Society at the UCLA School of Public Affairs.
October 22, 2009, The Chronicle of Philanthropy — A task force of more than 20 nonprofit, government, and business leaders issued a report this week proposing ideas for better managing volunteers so they can have more impact.
October 20, 2009, The Tufts Daily — Today’s rough economic times have hit nonprofits hard, and contributions from Tufts student volunteers have recently proven particularly helpful to a variety of organizations in the university’s neighboring communities.
NEW YORK, October 20, 2009 — The Rockefeller Foundation and
the newly formed Cities of Service coalition today announced the opening of
the application period for the first-ever "Cities of Service Leadership
Grants." Funded exclusively by the Rockefeller Foundation, the grants will be
awarded to ten cities, on a competitive basis, whose mayors have committed to increase the amount and impact of service in their communities. Each recipient city will receive $200,000 over a two-year period for the specific purpose of hiring a Chief Service Officer, an individual who will lead local efforts on behalf of their city's mayor to develop and implement a comprehensive plan to increase volunteerism. Today's announcement comes just five weeks after 17 mayors from around the nation convened in New York City to form the Cities of Service Coalition and six months after Congress passed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which will result in the greatest federal investment in service and volunteerism in 75 years.
October 16, 2009, The Chronicle of Philanthropy — President Obama made another pitch for community service today while praising President George H.W. Bush for ushering in a new spirit of volunteerism with his inaugural call for “a thousand points of light” 20 years ago.
October 18, 2009, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Volunteering remains a bright spot at a time when philanthropic giving is down and nonprofit groups are stressed by the economic slump. Yet, many nonprofit organizations fail to use their volunteers effectively and need to become more proactive in managing their volunteer talent, speakers told the audience at the annual Nonprofit Management Institute at Stanford.
Washington, October 15, 2009, The Chronicle of Philanthropy -- Starting today, the Corporation for National and Community Service will no longer allow people to register volunteer opportunities directly on Serve.gov, the Obama administration’s volunteer Web site — a move that was welcomed by some nonprofit groups that operate their own volunteer-matching sites.
October 13, 2009, USA TODAY — Even before TV's Stand Up to Cancer special raised more than $100 million for research with a star-studded, prime-time broadcast in September 2008, Hollywood and its leading charitable arm, the Entertainment Industry Foundation, were hunting for another major initiative to support.
The workbook "Ten Dimensions That Shape Your Board" is designed to help nonprofits and their boards recognize strengths and challenges related to how they work together, providing strategies for building on strengths and minimizing challenges.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., September 19, 2009 — "Ask most people associated with most nonprofits how much money they think they can raise in a fundraising cycle and usually they'll smile and answer, 'As much as we can.' But that's a tragic mistake," says Dr. Stephen L. Goldstein, "the fundraising guru." Nonprofits need to set working goals and energize their boards to achieve them.
