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The Institute for Nonprofit Capacity provides Greater Cincinnati’s nonprofit sector and its funding community, with high quality capacity building services that incorporate NKU’s intellectual and programmatic assets with best-practice solutions, facilitation, and applied research.
Nonprofit management services are provided to staff, board and volunteers through seminars, web based resources, workshops, certificate classes, service learning class projects, one on one consulting, and partnerships with others, regionally and nationally, to deliver best practice solutions.
INC is committed to understanding the needs of nonprofits and their funders, and delivering solutions targeted at the most important challenges and opportunities facing the sector today.
We invite you to become a member of INC, utilize our resources and benefit from our capacity building opportunities.
INC Updates: Events and News
Advocacy & Lobbying Workshop!
Date: October 1, 2010
Place: Northern Kentucky University, Student Union Room 104
Time: 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. Continental breakfast 8:00 to 8:30 a.m.
Cost: $20; Registration: http://www.peopleware.net/index.cfm?siteCode=0971&.
Wondering if you are allowed to be an advocate for the issues and people served by your organization ? Yes, you can! Does your board and staff want to bring your issues and client needs to elected officials? Lobbying by nonprofits is allowed, and even helps elected officials understand the issues. This workshop will help you become comfortable with advocating, how it fits with your mission and how you can impactpublic policy and decisions to benefit your community.
Learn the basics of the legal issues and IRS rules, how to best communicate with elected officials including how to write letters, what to say in personal visits, developing grassroots campaigns, presenting testimony and more. This workshop will even include an opportunity to have speakers provide you with support after the workshop, to ensure that you and your organization can be confident advocates for the issues and people you serve.
Led by Lori McClung, a Cleveland based trainer and consultant, who is associated with the nationally recognized nonprofit lobbying resource, Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest, our presenters are each well respected and experienced in government relations.
With fall elections right around the corner, now is the time to learn what you can do to bring your issues to elected officials.
Speakers Include: Lori McClung, Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest; Phillip Sparkes, Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law ; Margaret Hulbert, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Margie Waller, Fine Arts Fund of Greater Cincinnati and Col Owens, Greater Cincinnati Legal Aid Society
Breakfast Seminar: New Clients, New Needs, New Responses!
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Place: Northern Kentucky University, Student Union Room 104
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Continental breakfast provided.
Cost: No charge, pre-registration required.
Subject: Addressing challenges posed by the economy? Join us for a conversation with John Young, CEO of Freestore Foodbank, as he provides an overview of the changing landscape and new challenges that the economy has posed for nonprofit service providers and for those they serve. Come learn how your agency can craft new methods of meeting the changing needs of the economy by hearing from John Young who has been on the ground floor of serving the expanding poor. Help your agency meet these new frontline needs and your agency reach new heights!
Once on the page please click the folder labeled ‘Institute for Nonprofit Capacity’ and then click on the seminar title. We ask that all guests please park in the Student Union parking garage and bring their parking tickets for validation.
Sponsor: Community Tech Knowledge CTK software enables nonprofits to efficiently track clients, programs, outputs, outcomes and the impact of services and funding on communities.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT Dayle D. Deardurff, Executive Director deardurffd1@nku.edu
INC featured in the NKY Business Journal
The Institute for Nonprofit Capacity has a full story In the July 2010 issue of the Northern Kentucky Business Journal . The article focuses on how our department is a resource to the region and has similar goals for collaboration between agencies as does VISION 2015.
Check out the feature on page 7 of the business journal.
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