
JVA Consulting Underfunding overhead can have disastrous effects for nonprofits. Read on:
Source: www.ssireview.org
Stanford Social Innovation Review is an award-winning magazine covering best strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses. Published quarterly by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Find out more about how YouTube is helping nonprofits and why you should get involved - watch this video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIdEnSkhA 9A
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http://youtube.com/nonprofits YouTube is a great place to engage supporters and to get your organization's message out. Here are a few basic tips on how to use YouTube in your online advocasy work: 1. ...

JVA Consulting There's a great holiday craft fair occurring at The Gathering Place in downtown Denver this weekend. Products and artists represented at this event are from The Gathering Place, BeadforLife, Colorado Arts of Recovery, Earthlinks, Mission Wear, Namlo International, and Project Angel Heart. The coolest thing about this event is getting to meet the artists themselves and to hear their amazing stories!
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JVA Consulting More than ever is it going to be important to think creatively about acquiring donors and fundraising! I just saw this article about foundation giving dropping 10%.
Source: bit.ly
Survey: Foundation giving likely to fall 10%

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JVA Consulting Win $50,000 for your favorite cause with this facebook competition! Awards go to causes with the most people donating. Donate at this link for your cause or enter a new cause if yours isn't listed!
Source: www.causes.com

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One of our Colorado Compassion Initiative grantees, Extreme Community Makeover, partners with churches and businesses to assist local residents in home improvement activities. They experienced a noticeable increase in its reach and impact in 2009. ECM was able to target 260 homes in four neighborhoods while utilizing 2,600 volunteers. Well done!
Read more here: http://bit.ly/3YQgkV
Source: bit.ly
Filed under: Commentary — jvaconsulting @ 9:33 amTags: CCF, CCI, Colorado Compassion Initiative, Compassion Capital Fund, Extreme Community Makeover, JVA

JVA Consulting Lose your wallet, lose your car! A blog about Initiative 300 http://wp.me/p8WKl-gL
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Dear Friends,It’s true. If Initiative 300 in Denver passes, and you forget your wallet and get pulled over, police officers will be forced to impound your car leaving you stranded.Which is why I’m asking for your help. Join me in voting No on Initiative 300 if you live in Denver County.

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Colorado Springs nonprofit leader wins Purpose Prize!
Civic Ventures recently announced the winners of the 2009 Purpose Prize. Don Coyhis, creator of the Colorado Springs-based organization White Bison and the Wellbriety Movement, will be awarded $100,000 for his organization's work in substance abuse prevention. The P...urpose Prize honors social entrepreneurs who use their experience to the strengthen communities.
The nomination period for the 2010 Purpose Prize has already begun. For more information, check out http://www.encore.org/prize/nominate?ref =winners.cfmRead More
Civic Ventures recently announced the winners of the 2009 Purpose Prize. Don Coyhis, creator of the Colorado Springs-based organization White Bison and the Wellbriety Movement, will be awarded $100,000 for his organization's work in substance abuse prevention. The P...urpose Prize honors social entrepreneurs who use their experience to the strengthen communities.
The nomination period for the 2010 Purpose Prize has already begun. For more information, check out http://www.encore.org/prize/nominate?ref

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Local nonprofit Mission Wear is featured on the Denver Channel here: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/175 65330/detail.html
You can find their creative and beneficial products at the craft fair hosted by The Gathering Place on November 7th. This fair includes only nonprofits in the area with their handmade crafts and all proceeds will go straight to them. It'll be a great time for holiday shopping!
Source: www.thedenverchannel.com
A local nonprofit group provides jobs to women recovering from addiction by making resuable grocery shopping bags.

JVA Consulting Read about how, after retirement, one baby boomer found the perfect position as a volunteer with the Women's Resource Agency (one of JVA's CCI grantees). As we always encourage, baby boomers really can bring so much to the nonprofit world!
Source: jvaconsulting.wordpress.com
Filed under: Commentary — jvaconsulting @ 2:22 pmTags: CCI, Colorado Compassion Initiative, JVA Consulting, Women's Resource Agency, WRA

JVA Consulting This Saturday, October 24th is Make a Difference Day - a nation-wide day of volunteerism! Are you participating? Share with us what you're doing! Also, see how one of JVA's employees is participating http://bit.ly/35UPRz
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Filed under: Commentary — jvaconsulting @ 9:02 amTags: Ashley Kasprzak, I Participate, JVA Consulting, Make a Difference Day, President Obama, United Way

JVA Consulting GettingAttention.org’s 2008 survey of nonprofits showed that 7 in 10 nonprofits rated their tagline poorly or didn’t use one at all. A competition was held for the best nonprofit taglines - check out the creative winners.
13 Nonprofits Honored for Outstanding Taglines: 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards Winn
Source: nancyschwartz.com
> articles > 13 Nonprofits Honored for Outstanding Taglines: 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards Winners

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Just to make sure you know...
JVA is going to Boulder this Friday, October 23rd for a hands-on grantwriting training in the CGA format! We walk you through section by section of the CGA and actually give you time to write each section so that you'll walk away with a rough draft. Also, we are offering a deal until the ...end of the year: receive $150 off of our grant review service if you attend one of these trainings!
Interested? Visit www.jvaconsulting.com/training to registerRead More
JVA is going to Boulder this Friday, October 23rd for a hands-on grantwriting training in the CGA format! We walk you through section by section of the CGA and actually give you time to write each section so that you'll walk away with a rough draft. Also, we are offering a deal until the ...end of the year: receive $150 off of our grant review service if you attend one of these trainings!
Interested? Visit www.jvaconsulting.com/training to registerRead More
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JVA is offering a range of nonprofit training opportunities, including Executive Director Academy, an intensive course for nonprofit executive directors. Additionally, JVA is bringing its popular Write a Grant in a Day training workshop to locations across the state.




















