Upcoming Trainings & Webinars
Nonprofit Facilities & Shared Services:
Building for Sustainable Communities Seminar
November 10, 2010
New York, NY
Attend this full-day, interactive training to learn how nonprofits can save money, achieve greater efficiency, and increase collaboration by sharing office space and services.
Webinar: Ask the Experts Panel Discussion for Established Centers
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 | 11am - 12pm (Pacific Time) | 2pm (Eastern)
Speak to our panel of experts on issues operating a shared facility, including ways to sustain your operations in lean times, planning for long-term management, and more. Designed for established nonprofit centers, 2+ years in operation.
Webinar: Ask the Experts Panel Discussion for New Projects
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | 11am - 12pm (Pacific Time) | 2pm (Eastern)
Speak to our experts on the mistakes, challenges, and what worked in creating a nonprofit center. Designed for nonprofit leaders and board members who are beginning a shared nonprofit facility project.
Webinars are complimentary for NCN members and $40 for nonmembers.
Save the Date: Building Opportunities Conference
May 2011 – Los Angeles, CA |
Miss a webinar? Download past webinars, including:
- Building a case for a nonprofit center to funders and partners
- Allocating and pricing shared services
- Conducting a market analysis, creating rent structures, and recruiting tenants
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 Shared Services Guide Now Available
Get your copy of Shared Services: A Guide to Creating Collaborative Solutions – the first comprehensive guide for nonprofits looking to create shared services programs. Filled with step-by-step guidelines, case studies, and sample documents, this publication draws from the experiences of leaders across the nonprofit and philanthropic world. Hardcopy and e-book versions currently on sale on the NCN website.
FREE preview available.
11 Strategies to Increase Collaboration
With some creativity, you can help make your space more innovation-friendly and collaborative by optimizing what you've got.
Environmental Policy Statement
Help your tenants meet increasing funder requests for proof of sustainable operations by creating a public environmental policy for your nonprofit center.
Download a sample from the Thoreau Center for Sustainability.
Sublease Agreement
Give your tenants more flexibility as they downsize in the current economy by actively supporting sub-lease arrangements.
Download a sample sublease agreement for your shared workspace.
Visit www.nonprofitcenters.org/resources for more publications, best practice tips, and sample tools to save you time and money.
Foundations are creating exciting new programs to support shared services and collaboration |
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- The Lodestar Foundation will award a total of $250,000 to organizations that best exemplify the impact that result from collaboration. Application deadline: July 16, 2010. For eligibility details and application instructions, click here.
- Blank Family Foundation awarded grants to start a shared services alliance among healthcare centers across 46 counties in Georgia.
- The Forbes Funds provides grants to nonprofits looking to implement program based collaborations, shared services/back office or restructures and mergers.
- Foundation for the Carolinas recently established the Community Catalyst Program to encourage strategic mergers, innovative service models, partnerships and collaborations.
- MAP for Nonprofits published a free guide on mergers and other collaborations. For the last three years, MAP has guided and supported nonprofits that considered merger.
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Question #1----->
I'm looking for samples of the communication policy for agencies that manage shared services. Specifically, I am interested in policies which describe the communication paths to the Executive Director and his/her Board Committees (e.g. Finance Committee, Executive Committee, Personnel Committee). Peggy Eagan, Children & Family Services Center in Charlotte, NC.
Click here to read responses from NCN members.
Question #2----->
We're involved with two potential multi-user facilities and need to evaluate their relative benefits and costs compared to our current situation. Does anyone have a set of criteria that they've found useful to do this?
Jon A. Souder, Ph.D., Coos Watershed Association, OR.
Please send your responses to Tuan Ngo.
Nonprofit Centers in the News
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Steering Committee member Michael Gathercole is profiled by The Plain Dealer in Cleveland for his work to expand his nonprofit shared space campus, Fairhill Center, to provide housing for kinship families. Read more. |
The Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida, fueled by a recent grant from The Community Foundation in Jacksonville, will begin an initiative to improve nonprofits collaborate with one another by developing an interactive database of nonprofits in Duval County, FL so community leaders can identify gaps and overlaps in services. Read more.
Congratulations to MarinSpace, who recently celebrated the opening of the Landing Pad, a new co-working space for more short-term and flexible rentals. Read more.
Thoreau Center for Sustainability in San Francisco was recognized on Earth 911 for its green features and eco-friendly office space.
Congratulations to Loudoun Cares in Leesburg, VA, which recently secured the necessary funding and support to launch the city's first nonprofit center, which will open Winter 2011.
Denver Shared Spaces Project, a joint project of the Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships, Urban Land Conservancy, and Piton Foundation, just launched a new website to provide resources to agencies looking to create shared nonprofit facilities in Denver, Colorado. Read more. |
Welcome New Members
Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
Marcia Stodalka, AB, Canada
The Park City Foundation, Park City, UT
Integrare Consulting Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Brooklyn Community Pride Center, Brooklyn, NY
Region V Systems, Lincoln, NE
The Ethical Property Company, Oxford, United Kingdom
ChildTrust Foundation, Raleigh, NC
Covenant Community Capital Corporation, Houston, TX
Larson Realty Group, Bloomfield Hills, MI
E3C Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Porter County Community Foundation, Valparaiso, IN
Greater Round Rock Community Foundation, Round Rock, TX
The Idea Fund, Dallas, TX
Z Space Studio, San Francisco, CA
Creative Collaborations, Seattle, WA
Clare Oasis Inc., Saint Francis, WI
The Work Place DC, Washington, DC
Join the Network today to take advantage of conference discounts, free webinars, networking opportunities with experts, and members-only resources! |
Organization Name: The Family Resource Center
Location: Redmond, WA
Doors Opened: 1991
Mission & History: The Family Resource Center is a one-stop campus designed to deliver comprehensive services to the residents in the greater Eastside of Washington state. The idea of the Center, a three-building complex located in Redmond, was conceived in the late 1980's, when four agencies came together to explore the idea of a human service hub. The building now houses more than 18 health and human service agencies that provide a wide spectrum of services - including medical and dental care, emergency food and shelter, job skills training, youth activities, low-income housing assistance, mental health counseling, and much more - to over 40,000 residents annually. With the success of its first campus, The Family Resource Center recently completed a feasibility study that shows significant interest in creating a second campus.
More information: http://www.familyresourcecenter.org |
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Community Programs Director
The Women's Building in San Francisco, CA, is looking for a Community Programs Director. The Community Programs Director oversees all programs, manages 3 part-time staff and many volunteers, evaluates and expands services, networks with other organizations, and works one-on-one with clients.
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