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Top 10 Nonprofit Employment Law Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)

Mar 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

FREE WEBINAR | Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:00PM – 2:00PM

Employment law compliance is tricky, and many nonprofits think they are safe just doing what all the other employers are doing. As a labor & employment risk manager for the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Group, Ellen Aldridge (yes, co-author of Ask Rita in HR) advises hundreds of nonprofits every year, which gives her a unique perspective on the HR issues commonly faced by the sector. Through a thoughtful discussion of the top 10 mistakes, webinar participants will receive a general overview of common issues facing Human Resource professionals and how to properly handle them. This webinar will touch on material appropriate for the HR novice as well as experienced practitioners, including wage and hour compliance, administering leave laws, employee misclassification, disability accommodation and employee use of social media. Find out if every other nonprofit is doing it, should you?

Blue Avocado Special Offer – Registration for this FREE webinar will only be accepted from March 20 – March 23.

This webinar is free thanks to the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Group.

REGISTRATION and MORE DETAILS

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Unleashing Innovation: Using Everyday Technology to Improve Your Services

Mar 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Can nonprofits take better advantage of available technologies to improve the services they deliver, and the ways in which they deliver them? Idealware’s research with new partners at MAP for Nonprofits reveals a number of innovative approaches that make the most of new and existing technology. Find inspiration to transform how, and how effectively, your organization meets its mission in the free report MAP and Idealware produced together, Unleashing Innovation: Using Everyday Technology to Improve Nonprofit Services.

Download the report HERE.

Filed Under: Blog, Knowledge Network, News, Technology

2012–13 Competitive Grant Announcement

Mar 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

21st Century Community Learning Centers

 
As part of the No Child Left Behind Act, the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) will award over $6.0 million, contingent upon funding from the US Department of Education, in 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC ) grants for the 2012–2013 school year. These funds—available to schools, districts, institutions of higher education, city or county government agencies, and non-profit and for-profit organizations—must be used to provide academic instruction, enrichment activities, and family literacy services to students of primarily high-poverty and low-performing schools.
 
All applications are due by 4:30 p.m. on or before Monday, April 30, 2012, and must be submitted electronically. CLICK HERE for a draft of the 2012-13 request for proposal.
 
To assist potential applicants, the SCDE will host a technical assistance workshop on Friday, March 23, 2012, at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 8301 Parklane Road, Columbia, SC 29223. The workshop will begin at 9:00 a.m. and conclude at 12:00 p.m. Attendance at the workshop is not mandatory to apply for grant funds; however, attendance is recommended.
 
REGISTER for the workshop
 
For additional information about the 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant competition, contact Jesse Outen at 803-734-8291 or jouten@ed.sc.gov. You can also visit the website.

Filed Under: Blog, Funding Opportunities, News, Resource Center

Service Learning Grants from State Farm

Mar 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The State Farm Youth Advisory Board is currently funding service-learning projects between $25,000 and $100,000 that address the root cause of the following issue areas:

Access to Higher Education/Closing the Achievement Gap
Every 26 seconds, a child drops out of school. By developing innovative strategies for empowering students to care about and take control of their education, our grantees hope to reduce and eliminate this crisis.

Financial Literacy
The need for a greater understanding of finance is clearer than ever in light of the ongoing financial crisis. Equipping students with the skills they need to be successful and informed about their current and future finances is the vision of our financial literacy grantees.

Community Safety and Natural Disaster Preparedness
Tens of millions of Americans are victims of crime and natural disasters every year. By empowering students, innovative solutions to these issues can be developed and implemented in our communities.

Social Health & Wellness Issues
The issue of social health and wellness has received unprecedented attention in the wakes of school shootings such as at Columbine and Virginia Tech, nutritional imbalances across the country, and the growing rate of sexual transmitted diseases and sexual assault. The State Farm Youth Advisory Board encourages projects within Societal Health and Wellness that address many of these issues, focus on threats or challenges to, and promote mental, physical, and sexual health.

Environmental Responsibility
From global climate change and environmental education to wildlife conservation and land preservation, our grantees create and implement powerful service-learning projects that improve both our local and global environment.

Applications are being accepted now through May 4, 2012.

How to Apply for State Farm YAB Grant – Tutorial Video

Filed Under: Blog, Funding Opportunities, News, Uncategorized

Annual Conference Wrap-Up

Mar 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

As the clutter slowly begins to clear and we unwrap one last chocolate mint, we remind ourselves of the tremendous success of this year’s annual conference.  We hope those who attended returned to their communities excited to share their new ideas!

If you missed the conference this year or just can’t get enough of it, we’ve created a web page just for you.  On our post conference details page, you will find all the important things you missed, like speaker presentations,  a copy of our program, and the winners of our nonprofit excellence awards.  Most importantly, for those who attended, please take time to fill out our short survey.  Your comments are most valuable especially as we begin to plan 2013′s Annual Conference in Greenville, SC.

 

Filed Under: Annual Nonprofit Conference, Blog

Sharing Ideas, Inspiring Action

Mar 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

As economic challenges linger and budgets shrink, the “Era of Extra” in America is passing, and with it will go the ability of thousands of nonprofits to continue to do things the way they always have…read more

Filed Under: Press Releases

SCANPO Honors Nonprofit Excellence with Annual Awards

Mar 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

(Columbia, SC) As more than 500 nonprofit volunteers and leaders from across the state gathered at the annual South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organization’s (SCANPO) Annual Nonprofit Conference in Columbia, three organizations and their leaders received special recognition… read more

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Did You Hear the Good News?

Mar 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Awarding Nonprofit Excellence is one of our most favorite things to do around here at SCANPO. This year 3 well deserving recipients were recognized at our Annual Nonprofit Conference held just last week at the Columbia Convention Center.

The Erin Hardwick Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management was presented to Memory Matters and Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry, both based out of Beaufort County.

Memory Matters provides support and educational services for families coping with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia while Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry aims to increase adult literacy, providing leadership, creating awareness and offering quality instructional services.

Additionally, Cecilia Meggs of Lighthouse Ministries was recognized as an outstanding individual in the nonprofit field with Francis Marion University’s Nonprofit Leadership Institute’s Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership Award. Lighthouse ministries provides financial assistance to families and individuals with limited resources. It helps with mortgages, rent, utilities, medicine prescriptions, traveler’s aid, food, and assists the participant tin finding additional resources to move beyond their crisis.

Congratulations to all of our winners!

Filed Under: Annual Nonprofit Conference, Awarding Excellence, Blog, News

A Big Win at the ADDY Awards Gala for 2 SCANPO Members

Feb 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

In case you missed it, the Central Carolina Community Foundation and Riggs Partners CreateAthon came home from the ADDY Awards Gala with a BIG win!  CreateAthon took home Best of Show and Best of Print for their Talk About Giving Initiative created for the Central Carolina Community Foundation.

Talk About Giving is a program that encourages philanthropic families to include younger generations in their conversations about giving. At the heart of the initiative is the Talk About Giving Game, a box that includes a booklet about giving and 60 questions to spark conversation about philanthropy. (You can order the game here.)

The ADDY Awards are the nation’s largest juried competition recognizing creative excellence in advertising. The local ADDY Awards is the first of a three-tier, national competition conducted annually by the American Advertising Federation. Winners of AAF of the Midlands ADDYs will move on to the District Three competition, which includes work from agencies in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.

Congratulations to both Central Carolina Community Foundation and CreatAthon!

 

Filed Under: Blog, News

A Little Conference Love and The Powerful Dance

Feb 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Greetings Colleagues,

SCANPO has always been about working together for our communities and for our sector.

This year, the tradition continues at the annual conference as we bring together grantmakers and operating nonprofits.

I have the pleasure of facilitating the closing session, The Powerful Dance Between Foundations and Operating Nonprofits.

In this three-part discussion we’ll engage in conversation with Janine Lee of SECF, SC Funders and, most importantly, with YOU.

Come ready to share your ideas and help identify new ways SCANPO can help strengthen working relations and collaboration within our field.

Yours in Philanthropy,

Tom

Tom Keith
2012 Conference Committee Member
Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina

Filed Under: Annual Nonprofit Conference, Blog, News
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