by Janine Vanderburg Friday is the last day for early registration for the Colorado Nonprofit Association conference, and this year, there are lots of great reasons to attend. Over two days of workshops on a variety of topics, as well as the once a year opportunity for all of us who work in the nonprofit [...]
By Collin Lessing, JVA Consulting Always on the lookout for inspiring and innovative ideas relevant to the nonprofit sector and social change, we recently spoke with Jeremy Duhon who is an organizer for the TEDxMileHigh event that is coming to Denver in April. Jeremy is the president of the Denver Young Nonprofit Professionals (YNPN) so [...]
JVAers Guadalupe Torres and Janine Vanderburg joined a group of 30 social entrepreneurs at the Women’s Bean Project on Friday, November 12 to launch the Colorado chapter of the Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA), the 700-member organization that brings together the diverse field of social enterprise in North America. […]
By Collin Lessing, JVA Consulting On November 9, Healthpoint Services Global, Inc. (Healthpoint) announced an innovative partnership with The Procter & Gamble Company, (Proctor & Gamble) aimed at advancing a scalable, self-sustaining social enterprise model for delivery of water, healthcare and other benefits to underserved rural communities in developing countries. The effort targets the millions [...]
By Collin Lessing, JVA Marketing/Communications Coordinator As a Texas native and media hound, I’ve been keeping my eye on a new online nonprofit newspaper called The Texas Tribune (Tribune). Last year, I heard that the Tribune founder, John Thornton, and his team needed to raise more than $3 million to launch the nonpartisan, public media [...]
By Katy Snyder JVA Consulting Communications/Resource Development Associate One of the recurring themes at the recent Social Enterprise Summit in New Orleans was the perception that the U.K. and other Commonwealth countries such as Australia have a much more developed social enterprise sector than the U.S. does. Unlike in England and in Scotland, the U.S. [...]
So there have been the studies released this year about the demise of books and reading, but curling up by the fire scrolling through text on a laptop or iPhone doesn't seem to have the same appeal of settling in with a book on those Colorado days when it really, really doesn't make sense to [...]