By Julie Couturier, finance manager Last fall, my son’s high school football team had unexpected success at the beginning of the season. As a result, his team was nominated for “Regional Game of the Week” by www.mlive.com (a statewide media outlet). Five Friday night match-ups were nominated, and the game
By Dr. Teri Behrens, director of special projects and editor in chief of The Foundation Review Phil Buchanan, executive director of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, recently stirred up a lot of commentary with his article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy on the poor quality of research on the nonprofit
The Johnson Center’s blog is posting a four-part series with excerpts from Nonprofit Services Program Director Matthew Downey’s keynote address at the U.P. Nonprofit Conference hosted by the Great Lakes Center for Youth Development. The speech, “Overcoming Our Challenges and Embracing Change: Preparing for the Organization of the Future,” was delivered
The Johnson Center’s blog is posting a four-part series with excerpts from Nonprofit Services Program Director Matthew Downey’s keynote address at the U.P. Nonprofit Conference hosted by the Great Lakes Center for Youth Development. The speech, “Overcoming Our Challenges and Embracing Change: Preparing for the Organization of the Future,” was
The Johnson Center’s blog is posting a four-part series with excerpts from Nonprofit Services Program Director Matthew Downey’s keynote address at the U.P. Nonprofit Conference hosted by the Great Lakes Center for Youth Development. The speech, “Overcoming Our Challenges and Embracing Change: Preparing for the Organization of the Future,” was
February 12, 2013 Over the next four weeks, the Johnson Center’s blog will post excerpts from Nonprofit Services Program Director Matthew Downey’s keynote address at the U.P. Nonprofit Conference hosted by the Great Lakes Center for Youth Development. The speech, “Overcoming Our Challenges and Embracing Change: Preparing for the Organization
By Matthew Downey, Nonprofit Services Program Director, downemat@gvsu.edu, twitter: @ matthewEdowney and Molly McLogan, Philanthropic and Nonprofit Services Program Assistant, npg-r1@gvsu.edu The Johnson Center for Philanthropy is excited to partner with the Alliance for Nonprofit Management to host the annual Alliance for Nonprofit Management conference in Grand Rapids, Mich., on August
Rapid Growth Media’s article, The Johnson Center Improves Philanthropy, highlights the work of the Johnson Center for Philanthropy through the eyes of Matthew Downey, Nonprofit Services director. Downey explains that the mission is to guide nonprofits to success by helping to increase efficiency and impact and the center does this in a
The Johnson Center is partnering with Rapid Growth Media to host an all-star panel discussion focusing on innovative programs — at the neighborhood level — to make strategic change, social innovation and philanthropy, and creating sustainable initiatives. Panelists include: Rishi Jaitly, Program Director for the Knight Foundation (Detroit); Darel Ross
More than ever, lobbying is becoming a vital tool for nonprofits to inform legislators about the needs the sector and give a stronger voice to those who might otherwise go unheard. Nonprofit organizations are legally permitted to lobby within specified limits. The Nonprofit Lobbying Symposium will educate attendees on the details