By Erin Shaver, Senior Grantwriter at Joining Vision and Action Colorado is a top state for many things—low unemployment, a healthy and fit population (we’ve held the crown for lowest obesity rate in the nation for basically decades!), a highly educated populace and so many other quality-of-life indicators. Despite these positive trends, Colorado's education sector [...]
This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password:
New JVA Business Development Manager Says Role Offers Best of Both Worlds By Sandy Wiegand, Copyeditor and Writer at Joining Vision and Action JVA’s new business development manager, Katherine Jarvis, says she landed at JVA through a bit of serendipity. Having moved to Denver in July 2017, she was working remotely for a Chicago area [...]
By Elise Mann, for Joining Vision and Action I’ve had asthma for as long as I can remember, and it’s become worse as I’ve grown older, which has culminated in chest colds anytime I get sick, semiregular respiratory infections, and a bout of pneumonia that made one semester of university very difficult. Despite my challenges [...]
By Aaron Schonhoff, Research and Evaluation Associate at Joining Vision and Action Secondary data sources are vital tools to have at your disposal. Though it may not provide insight into your specific research, secondary data can provide context to your geographic area and the issues it faces, or it can help identify regions suitable for [...]
By Sarah Hidey, Co-Managing Director/Director of Resource Development, and Adam Brock, Director of Strategic and Business Planning A few weeks ago, Marshall Ganz, Tamara Kay and Jason Spicer published an opinion piece in the Stanford Social Innovation Review titled “Social Enterprise is Not Social Change.” In their piece, the authors claim that the fields of social enterprise and [...]
By Nora Welch, Senior Leadership Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action Who knew I would be chatting design with my favorite hot-yoga teacher? But alas, there we were a few weeks ago. She was telling me that she had this awesome bumper sticker that she really wanted to put on her vehicle, but because [...]
By Alaine Anderson, Digital Strategist and Implementer at Joining Vision and Action I recently read an article discussing how to motivate staff to give you content for social media. This struck me as the perfect opportunity to share how I’ve motivated our own JVA team to boost our online content. As someone in charge of [...]
By Nora Welch, Senior Leadership Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action While I am likely to notice the visual appeal first, the content is also important to consider when you’re putting together an annual report. Content will depend on a variety of things, including but not limited to your intended audience, reporting requirements—and staff’s availability [...]
Photo by fauxels on Pexels Six Tips for Healthy Board Decision-Making and Relations By Sandra Harris Howard, Senior Trainer and Facilitator with Joining Vision and Action In my work supporting executive directors with their nonprofit board relations, I was asked a thought-provoking question: “Is there ever dissension among members of the board of directors?” My immediate [...]
