Diving into Crowdfunding—Success Stories and Lessons Learned
By Erin Shaver, Senior Grantwriter for Joining Vision and Action This is the second blog in a series on crowdfunding. You can access the first one here, which ran through the [...]
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Going with the crowd
By Erin Shaver, Senior Grantwriter for Joining Vision and Action JVA FUNDRAISING TRAINING Crowdfunding Crowdfunding continues to be among the most buzzworthy phrases in fundraising in the past few years. Eager entrepreneurs [...]
President-elect Donald Trump’s impact on nonprofits: the potential effect of his campaign promises
By Lisa Cirincione, J.D., Joining Vision and Action Joining Vision and Action (JVA) is in the unique position of working with a variety of nonprofit changemakers and has heard from many people [...]
Can I Advocate? General Guidelines for Nonprofits
By Jill Iman, Ph.D., Joining Vision and Action In light of recent events, we’re dusting off this blog on nonprofit advocacy from 2014 to share with you again. Image via [...]
Joining Vision and Action Alumni: Bringing the Colorado Nonprofit World Together
Amber Alarid If you have been working with Joining Vision and Action (JVA) for a while, you may recognize my name from my Ask Amber blog series that appeared in [...]
An Evaluator’s Advice on Politics: Forget the Polls and Stop Worrying
Image from CNN.com By Aaron Schonhoff, Research and Evaluation Associate Statistics as seen through American politics. Wow. What a month it has been for American politics. It is hard to even [...]
Nonprofit Succession Planning: Three Must-Read Books
The exit of a nonprofit or social enterprise leader—founder or longtime executive director—is a critical turning point for an organization. In our experience, the biggest problems that occur when transitions are not successfully managed include: Disruption in, and loss of, funding Key staff leaving Decreased programming in the year following the transition Arguments and confusion about the future direction of the organization You can mitigate these problems with careful succession planning.
Pabon-Williams Jobs Law Boosts Construction Trades
Original article from Colorado House Democrats on July 20 (July 20) – A jobs law sponsored by Reps. Dan Pabon and Angela Williams marked a milestone this morning with the announcement of a [...]
Why Social Change Leaders Should Read Smarter Faster Better: Book review
By Janine Vanderburg, President/CEO, Joining Vision and Action Smarter Faster Better Book Review When I saw the book Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business, I knew [...]
Planning your next nonprofit career move: Tips and three books to read
Are you thinking about leaving? Image via Hippie Bowman by Janine Vanderburg, President/CEO, Joining Vision and Action About a decade ago in the pre-recession years, I was leading a workshop [...]