Photo by Maria Ziegler By Lisa Cirincione, Senior Resource Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action As the City and County of Denver’s grantwriting consultant, Joining Vision and Action (JVA) gets to be a part of a lot of really exciting projects that help improve Denver residents’ quality of life. One such City project is [...]
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko via Pexels State Demography Update Does Have Some Surprises, Though By Lisa Cirincione, Senior Resource Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action Each year, I look forward to the Colorado State Demography Office Summit to learn about how the state’s population is changing. As a grantwriter, staying abreast of these changes is [...]
Photo by Aly Ko via Unsplash By The Joining Vision and Action Resource Development Team The Colorado Common Grant Application was released in 2008 with the goal of reducing the burden on grantseekers by having a template proposal that could be submitted to many foundations. However, the utopian dream that [...]
Photo by Firoz Sidiqy via Unsplash By Lisa Cirincione, Senior Resource Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action I’m sure that you, like all of us at JVA, have been paying attention to the humanitarian crisis happening in Afghanistan. It has been heartening to see so many businesses and institutions stepping up to help Afghan [...]
Congratulations to Lisa Cirincione on 20 Years with JVA By Sandy Wiegand, Copyeditor and Writer at Joining Vision and Action If you’ve spent much time on our website, you probably know that JVA has been around for over 30 years. But did you know that Senior Resource Development Associate Lisa Cirincione has been with JVA [...]
Photo by Jon Tyson, via Unsplash By Lisa Cirincione, Senior Resource Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action On April 23, the House passed a $484 billion coronavirus aid package that is widely expected to be signed by the president (H.R. 266, The Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act). So, how can it [...]
Photo by Markus Spiske via Unsplash By Lisa Cirincione, Senior Resource Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action For an overview of additional CARES Act support by category (health care, education, youth, low-income individuals and families, etc.), please see my accompanying blog, What’s in This Massive $2.2 Trillion Stimulus Legislation? The CARES Act includes $377 [...]
Photo by Matthew Waring via Unsplash Find Support for Health Care Providers, Education, the Arts and More By Lisa Cirincione, Senior Resource Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), signed into law March 27, has many implications for Americans, nonprofits and small businesses. It includes [...]
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash By Lisa Cirincione, Senior Resource Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action If you’ve been reading my blogs, you know that I have been concerned about how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) would impact individuals’ giving to nonprofit organizations. Thanks to the vigilant work of Giving USA, we [...]
By Lisa Cirincione, Senior Resource Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action Conventional wisdom has always been that people don’t give to nonprofits for a tax benefit. But new data suggests it might be time to question that view. The 2018 federal tax reform nearly doubled the standard deduction for all filers, leading to some [...]
