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 [...]
Changemaker Profile: Erin Mooney Moves On
Welcome to our Changemaker Profiles blog series! Each edition will profile one outstanding social changemaker from the JVA client community. By sharing the stories of some of the incredible people we get [...]
Feeding the Giving Tree amid the Government Shutdown
By Sandy Wiegand, Copyeditor and Writer at Joining Vision and Action Do a quick online news search of the phrase “government shutdown and Denver nonprofits,” and you’ll get a lot of headlines [...]
Celebrating our 2018 accomplishments and looking forward to 2019!
Happy New Year, friends and changemakers! The end of one year, and the beginning of another—the perfect time for reflection and visioning. We love this time of year because it allows our [...]
Getting Your Ego Out of the Way
Photo by Gary Bendig on Unsplash By Lisa Cirincione, Senior Resource Development Associate at Joining Vision and Action I’ve been a professional grantwriter for 15 years. Over those years, I’ve written proposals for nearly every [...]
Changemaker Profile: Abby Landmeier
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 [...]
More from JVA’s Genius Bar: Applying New Lessons, Capturing Outcomes, Pushing Boundaries and More
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash By Sandy Wiegand, Copyeditor and Writer at Joining Vision and Action Two experienced nonprofit executive directors joined JVA’s Executive Director Academy participants on the last day of the [...]
JVA’s Genius Bar on Building a Better Board
Graduates of JVA's October 2018 Executive Director Academy (above photo) got insight and advice from Cultivando Executive Director Erin Mooney (below right) and Extreme Community Makeover Executive Director Angela Bomgaars (below [...]
Changemaker Profile: Lisa Jansen Thompson
Lisa Jansen Thompson, second from right in the front row, with members of the Early Childhood Partnership of Adams County (ECPAC) team. Lisa is ECPAC's executive director. Welcome to our Changemaker Profiles [...]
Voting in Colorado: Choose Your Own Adventure
By Sandy Wiegand, Copyeditor and Writer at Joining Vision and Action As individuals whose work deals largely with making the world a better place, you already know the importance of voting in [...]