Policy on the #NNK

Focused on entrepreneurs, yes, but there's a lot to be learned from this interview for all manner of people and organizations.

Tools and Resources Here's a +1,000 for Resources on How to Be a Good Board Member , a post on the subreddit nonprofit (/r/nonprofit) . A user asked a legitimate question and others responded with thoughtful answers. Take a look for yourself and share with your board chair. And another +1,000: What system do you use to draft monthly donations from donors? . Again on /r/nonprofit . For progressives: PX: Nonprofit Service Providers . This list is full (19 pages full!) of resources such as help with your nonprofit career search, job boards, copywriters, and print shops. Download for free A Nonprofit's Guide to Nonpartisan Civic Engagement Campaigns . Where to Post Volunteer Opportunities: 15 Volunteer Recruitment Websites for Nonprofits . Read and use. How New and Traditional Media Can Work Hand in Hand is a simple, basic reminder to use what works, no matter the form. At work unpaywall "harvests Open Access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories, and m...

Lancaster County The Lancaster County Historic Resources Commission meets Monday, October 1 at 10:00 am at the Lancaster County Administration Building (8311 Mary Ball Rd, Lancaster). Read the agenda (PDF). The Lancaster County Board of Supervisors will meet Thursday, September 27, 7:00 pm at the Lancaster County Administration Building (8311 Mary Ball Rd, Lancaster). The agenda includes a public input session, presentations, public hearings, review of the consensus and consideration dockets, and reports. The regular monthly meeting of the Irvington Town Council scheduled for September 13 has being combined with the Thursday, October 11 regular monthly meeting. The October meeting takes place at 6:30 pm at the town office (235 Steamboat Rd, Irvington). All agenda items will be carried over to the October meeting. Northumberland County If you missed the Northumberland County Board of Supervisors meeting September 20, read the 9/20 meeting agenda . ICYMI, the Northumberla...

Tools and Resources Nonprofit Library offers free educational resources. Think board governance, fundraising, major gifts, and volunteer management. Pexels has a new app, available for iOS and Android. From the announcement: Use all free photos from Pexels on your phone – edit them, share them on social media, organize them in collections, use them as your wallpaper or just browse through the newest inspiring photos. All the beautiful photos are contributed by our talented community of photographers. Online Triage and Intake may detail how technology is helping legal services providers manage clients, intake information, and case flow, but the guide is applicable to many organization types. Free from Idealware. The Zillow Neighborhood Boundaries dataset includes more than 17,000 US neighborhood boundaries. Data for 49 states (no Wyoming), DC and PR. At work GM Has a 2-Word Dress Code, and It's Actually Brilliant (Inc.) Overhead and what makes it up and the cost of it con...

Lancaster County The Lancaster County Household Hazardous Waste and Electronics Waste collection is now being held Saturday, October 27, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Kilmarnock Refuse Site (320 White Pine Dr, off Irvington Rd, Kilmarnock). For more information, contact the Northern Neck Soil & Water Conservation District at (804) 313-9102 ext. 105 or the Lancaster Extension Office at (804) 462-5780. The Friends of Lancaster Public Library 's Attic Book Store needs volunteers to work 2- or 4-hour shifts once a month, or more frequently. More information (PDF). The Lancaster County School Board meets Tuesday, October 9 at 5:30 pm in the LCPS Annex Building. The Town of Irvington Planning Commission meets Tuesday, October 2, 6:30–7:30 pm for a regular meeting. The meeting will occur at the Irvington Town Office (235 Steamboat Rd, Irvington). The Town of Kilmarnock shared three Code Red links as part of their Hurricane Florence prep. Signing up for Code Red, if you've ...

The title Why so many people who need the government hate it and the subtitle Everyone benefits from welfare. Here's why most people don’t know that. pretty much says it all. In this Vox piece, Sean Illing talks with Cornell University professor and author Suzanne Mettler about Mettler's new book The Government-Citizen Disconnect . Race obviously plays a role. Says Mettler, Race is significant, and many other scholars have discovered this as well. Across the board, whites had more unfavorable views of welfare than people of color, in large part because they considered welfare something that people of color primarily benefit from. Income also plays a role, according to Mettler. When it comes to the receipt of benefits, you might think that recipients would be in the like and need government camp. However, it's not that simple, Mettler explains that it's the type of benefits received that matters. The people who participate the most in politics, usually people wit...

Tools and Resources DonorPerfect's Giving Tuesday 2018 is useful for those working for a nonprofit. The guide, which can be downloaded in PDF, also includes several training opps. One such opportunity is How To Set Up Your Online Donation Forms, September 26. Study: Gen Z likely to buoy email as a favored channel is good for organizations of all kinds. Businesses, nonprofits, government, and formal and informal community groups can benefit from this report from 2017. One finding , for example, is "Email is so essential, important and entrenched in the lives of people today that it is nearly impossible to imagine life without it - Email isn’t going away, 83% of Generation Z respondents believe their email usage will stay the same or increase in the next 5 years." Social Media Today reports Twitter Rolls Out Audio-Only Live-Streams on Twitter and Periscope . NPR is getting rid of some of its news blogs (with more blog "changes" to come) . Better check those b...

In this segment ( Malcolm Gladwell Says Mediocrity is Underrated | Conversations with Tyler ) of Conversations with Tyler, author and New Yorker columnist Malcolm Gladwell talks specifically about ways parents and students can make (perhaps) better decisions about college choices, college studies, and more. Gladwell argues that experimentation is essential: But let's accept, though, any nonspecialty item at Bard is going to be wide open. It’s totally accessible. You want to be in the physics club at Bard, you’re going to be in the physics club at Bard. And that is a massively underrated thing. ( Transcript ) The entire interview .

Tools and Resources The American Evaluation Association's Potent Presentations Guidelines for Handouts (PDF) takes the guesswork out of what content should be included in handouts at presentations. The guide considers formatting, timing, and more. 25 incredibly useful things you didn't know Google Docs could do = yay! Lots of needed tips, such as applying formats, adding images from Photos to docs, and easily and without downloading, sending a link to a PDF version of your document. Sprout Social's The Ultimate Guide on How to Use Instagram Stories is a gem. It offers real-life examples of ways to use stories as well as tips to make the individual posts and collective stories make sense with followers. Adam Grant is a terrific resource for all manner of things. Today, sharing a suggestion about favors. After receiving help, don't say "I owe you a favor." It reduces an act of kindness to an accounting transaction. Instead of offering to repay a debt,...