The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University has announced a call for applications for the 2010 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation. The first-place prize is $100,000, thanks to a generous grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation. The second-place award is $7,500, and the third-place prize is $5,000. The award application is now available. The submission deadline is July 1. (If you have questions about the application or award process, please contact Jamie at award@druckerinstitute.com). All IRS-certified 501(c)3 organizations are eligible to apply. Administered annually since 1991, the Drucker Award is granted to a social-sector organization that demonstrates Drucker’s definition of innovation-change that creates a new dimension of performance. In addition, the judges look for programs that are highly effective and that have made a difference in the lives of the people they serve. Last year, the Drucker Award application was revamped so that, in addition to collecting information from nonprofit organizations seeking the prize, it would provide them with some of Peter Drucker’s key insights on innovation.
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INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE AT THE NATIONAL MS SOCIETY
MID SOUTH CHAPTER
Position: Internship in Development Department
Internship Title: Development Assistant
Duties: Work independently and with Development Department team on donor-based campaigns. Duties include but are not limited to assisting with overall development, management, fundraising, promotions, monitoring of budgets & logistics, developing relationships with donors, enhancing contribution averages and helping to benefit the National MS Society. Also required to participate in other events and programs associated with the Chapter.
Start Date: June 2010
Hours/Week: 15-20 hours per week (schedule is negotiable)
Duration: June, July, & August depending on class schedule
Qualifications: Applicant must be detail oriented, flexible, cheerful, professional, enthusiastic, self-motivated, well-organized and possess solid oral and written skills. Requires good project management skills, the ability to set priorities and work independently toward time specific goals. The position requires proficiency in commonly-used basic office software systems (database, word publishing, spreadsheets and desk-top publishing).
On May 18th, 2010, over 250 Middle Tennessee nonprofit leaders came together for a day of learning at Belmont University’s Curb Event Center. Attendees completed the day feeling “rejuvenated,” “refreshed” and ready to go back to work serving the community. Bridge was an opportunity to foster growth and healing in a community of givers.
One of the huge takeaways of the day came from keynote, Dan Pallotta. Dan brought forth many new ideas for our sector to explore. Anyone in the room could see that there were light bulbs going off in brains throughout the Curb Event Center during his speech. Some of his major points included:
1. “Feel-Good” Benefits of a Nonprofit Career are Overrated
Pallotta argues that medical researchers, book publishers, and environmentally conscious companies all feel they are giving back to the world and are not asked to sacrifice quality of life. Nonprofit employees are often working in typical office environments and are not the volunteers on the front lines helping the community. Therefore, the majority of nonprofit employees are not getting the feel-good benefits of daily service. In addition, board members and funders have considerable power over nonprofits, while those individuals have for-profit employment. They are also getting to experience service without sacrificing their income.
2. “Overhead Costs” are Crucial to Fulfilling Mission
Culturally, we have been trained to ask the question, “What percentage of my donation goes directly to the underserved?” Pallotta argues that this is the wrong question to ask and is perpetuated daily by the media, state attorney generals and organizations like Charity Navigator and the Better Business Bureau. He states in a blog post, “The next time you’re pressured to keep overhead low when you know it will compromise effectiveness, explain that doing so is a violation of your conscience, your ethics and yourself.”
3. People Want to Be Asked to Do the Most, Not the Least They Can Do
Why is the person who spends 99% of their time building personal wealth and 1% of their time on a charity board called a philanthropist and individuals that give 100% of their time to building a service organization are called “staff”? Pallotta believes that our definition of philanthropist is too limited to the wealthy class, and therefore, small donors never aspire to be more. We are making giving to charity easier every day, but what we need to do is ask donors to do more than send a text message to give a small amount.
What Are the Next Steps?
CNM would like to explore with the Middle Tennessee community how we further this discussion. What do you think are the next steps in this conversation? Should we even be having this conversation? Tell us what you think in the comments section! We promise to put your ideas into action.
Dr. Bernard Turner, a consultant for CNM, and the Director of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Service-Learning at Belmont University, has students who would like to write grant applications for local nonprofits. Students that are interested have completed grant writing courses at Belmont. If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Dr. Turner via email at bernard.turner@belmont.edu.
Eileen Kennedy Byrne is the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the University of New Orleans Foundations. She is a frequent speaker having served as faculty of numerous professional development programs including the SACUBO College Business Management Institute, the National Association of College and University Business Officers, and the National Emergency Management Association.
Following the flood disaster, she reached out on the CNM blog and offered help to the Middle Tennessee nonprofit community. As a result of Katrina, Eileen has vast experience working with FEMA on disaster relief and she wanted to share what she has learned with our community. Click here to read “Through the Looking Glass: Working in a Topsy Turvey World,” an article she put together about how to rebound when your service area has been deemed a “national disaster.”
The Nashville Junior Chamber will host a forum on May 10, 2010 for the candidates in the upcoming governor’s race. The event, “Focusing on the Future: 2010 Gubernatorial Forum,” will provide young professionals across Middle Tennessee with an opportunity to hear from their next governor and specifically address issues that concern the state’s future leaders. All six candidates for governor have confirmed their participation, including Shelby County District Attorney Bill Gibbons, Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, former House Majority Leader Kim McMillan, Jackson businessman Mike McWherter, Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey, and Congressman Zach Wamp.
The Junior Chamber has teamed up with nearly a dozen other young professional groups, including CNM’s Young Nonprofit Professionals Group, to host the forum, which will take place at Lipscomb University.
Please click here for a flyer with registration information.
Affordable Housing Resources, Inc. has some unused office furniture that it would like to give to the non-profit community. Items that are available consist of desk, chairs, cubicles, etc. Items will be given on a 1st come 1st serve basis. For more information you may contact Monique at 251-0025.
The Bureau of TennCare seeks to identify a Contractor for the statewide operation of a call/contact center to provide telephone Advocacy and Outreach services for TennCare members and applicants. TennCare is Tennessee’s Medicaid program and operates under a managed care model to provide 1.2 million Tennesseans with health care services. This grant shall fund an Advocacy and Outreach call/contact center that provides TennCare members and applicants with information and assistance pertaining to TennCare eligibility and TennCare covered services.
Grant proposals should be submitted no later than June 1, 2010. Award of the grant shall be made on July 1, 2010. Go to http://www.tn.gov/tenncare/pro-advocacy.html for complete information.
Update: Friday May 7, 2010: Due to flood conditions experienced in Tennessee this past week, TennCare has extended the timeframe for submission of questions regarding the Advocacy Call Center Grant to 2:00pm Monday, May 10, 2010. TennCare will respond to all submitted questions no later than Friday, May 14, 2010.
All potential proposers are invited to submit their questions; if, as a potential proposer, you have no questions about the grant but would like to receive a copy of submitted questions and TennCare’s responses, please email Lynn Shepard with your request at Lynn.Shepard@tn.gov by Thursday, May 13, 2010.
The Nashville Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division and The Young Leaders Council present a Nonprofit Showcase for Young Professionals:
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Time: 4:00 p.m. – Registration4:30 – 5:30 p.m. – Seminar
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. – Reception with nonprofit representatives on Bass, Berry & Sims’ private terrace (weather permitting)
Location: Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
The Pinnacle at Symphony Place
150 Third Avenue South, 28th Floor
Nashville, TN 37201
Credit: 1.0 CLE Hours – General
Overview: If you are interested in serving on a nonprofit board, attend this program and learn valuable introductory information to become an informed and effective board member.
During this hour-long presentation our distinguished panelists will instruct young professionals on topics including:
- How to be an effective board member
- Board member accountability to the organization, staff and management
- Regulatory compliance, IRS audits and recent changes in IRS and state policies
- How to avoid personal liability
Faculty: WILLIAM T. CHEEK, Bone McAllester Norton PLLC Profit and nonprofit business lawyer
JOSE GONZALEZ, Belmont College of Business Administration Instructor of Entrepreneurship and Management
LEWIS LAVINE, Center for Nonprofit Management, President
Cost: Received on or before APRIL 14: $20, Received after APRIL 14: $30
No refunds will be issued after April 19; however, a substitute may attend for a registered participant. Click here to register.
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