Beyond Writing Rules: How to Make your Sentences Flow

(Photo by Mark Duffel on Unsplash) By Sandy Wiegand, Copyeditor and Writer at Joining Vision and Action It’s always surprising to me when my co-workers react with enthusiasm when I share grammar or writing rules. Despite having been the fourth-grader who diagrammed the tough sentences on the chalkboard, even I sometimes feel bored by, or [...]

2019-04-18T06:28:54-06:00April 17th, 2019|2019, Blog, Marketing & Communications|0 Comments

When the Going Gets Tough, JVAers…

By Nora Welch, Senior Leadership Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action It’s inevitable. Deadline is tomorrow, mandatory social event is tonight, and brain is mush at the moment. The panic, the pressure, the pain. These are very real emotions and circumstances that require real responses—we know, we’ve been there. As the JVA team works to [...]

2019-07-01T14:10:05-06:00April 9th, 2019|2019, Blog, Tools for Changemakers, Unconsultants|0 Comments

Will your Nonprofit Suffer Because of the Increased Standard Deduction?

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 [...]

2019-03-25T09:26:20-06:00March 25th, 2019|2019, Blog|0 Comments

Changemaker Profile: Sue Salinger

Ekar Jewish Urban Farm and Garden Executive Director Sue Salinger, left, with Becky O’Brien, director of Boulder Hazon. (Photo courtesy of Hazon, the Jewish Lab for Sustainability) Welcome to our Changemaker Profiles blog series! Each edition we profile one outstanding social changemaker from the JVA client community. By sharing the stories of some of the [...]

2019-09-23T19:11:31-06:00March 18th, 2019|2019, Blog, Changemakers, Strategic Planning|0 Comments

On International Women’s Day, Let’s Celebrate Women as Changemakers

By Sandy Wiegand, Copyeditor and Writer at Joining Vision and Action March 8 is International Women’s Day. According to the United Nations, it’s “a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of [...]

2020-03-03T13:31:44-07:00March 5th, 2019|2019, Blog, Clients|0 Comments

Changemaker Profile: Andrea Moore

Welcome to our Changemaker Profiles blog series! Each edition we profile one outstanding social changemaker from the JVA client community. By sharing the stories of some of the incredible people we get to work with every day, each accomplishing extraordinary work in nonprofits, government, social enterprise and elsewhere, we hope we will bring a little [...]

2019-02-26T09:39:31-07:00February 26th, 2019|2019, Blog, Changemakers|0 Comments

How your Nonprofit Can Negotiate an Indirect Cost Rate with a Federal Agency

Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash By Lisa Cirincione, Senior Resource Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action If your nonprofit organization receives a lot of federal grants, you may want to negotiate an indirect cost rate agreement. Here is a brief summary of what you can expect from this process. Identify your cognizant agency The [...]

2019-03-25T09:30:27-06:00February 19th, 2019|2019, Blog, Grantwriting|0 Comments

What Makes People Trust a Nonprofit?

By Sandy Wiegand, Copyeditor and Writer at Joining Vision and Action Let’s start with the good news. Charities are the most trusted institutions in the United States, according to a recent Give.org survey. People trust the nonprofit sector more than businesses, banks, the media, government (a lot more than government), and [...]

2020-11-02T16:51:31-07:00January 28th, 2019|2019, Blog, Evaluation, Training, Unconsultants|0 Comments
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