Finance and Operations
Public Information Act Passes!
Reforms to Maryland’s Public Information Act have officially passed enrolled. Thank you to everyone who acted on our alerts and helped support the reform. Learn more about the Public Information Act on the Marylanders for Open Government...
Advocacy Leaders Institute
The Institute builds the advocacy knowledge, resources and skills of its individual participants, and increases the capacity of the organizations they lead or represent to influence policy change. Only 6 spots left to join the Advocacy Leaders Institute!...
Brand-Aid: What’s a brand platform? Why bother?
Guest Blog by Susan Hughes, Principal, Orgonomic, Associate Member of Maryland Nonprofits Stay tuned! Susan Hughes will be leading a Maryland Nonprofits workshop on branding this fall! Read the original blog here. Brand vs. Brand Platform Your brand is the sum total...
State Budget Issues with Honorable Richard Madaleno
By Wendy Wolff, Senior Consultant, Maryland Nonprofits *Photo caption: Honorable Richard Madaleno (right) with participant Liz Powell, G2G Consulting, at the 2015 Legislative Preview. Imagine having to reduce your family budget by 2-3 percent. It would require...
State Budget Update
By Henry Bogdan, Director of Advocacy & Public Policy, Maryland Nonprofits The budget balancing plan proposed last week by the Hogan Administration directly deals with the now chronic problem of expenditures exceeding revenues – by simply scaling back...
Updates to Educational Resource Packet Released: Personnel Policies – Standards for Excellence Employee Handbook
By Issela Sono, Nonprofit Management and Governance Intern, Maryland Nonprofits Issela Sono currently serves as the Nonprofit Management and Governance Intern at Maryland Nonprofits. She has volunteered for various nonprofit organizations in the Maryland and...
May I Help You?
Guest Blog by Melanie Lockwood Herman, Executive Director, Nonprofit Risk Management Center, Member of Maryland Nonprofits Read the original blog here. Reprinted with permission from the Nonprofit Risk Management Center. For more information on the Center, visit...
General Assembly Update
By Henry Bogdan, Director of Advocacy & Public Policy, Maryland Nonprofits To assist our members in communicating with the General Assembly, Maryland Nonprofits has posted two Excel spreadsheets* with rosters of the State Senate and House of Delegates, as they...
Melissa Sines Named Director of Education and Accreditation
We are happy to announce that Melissa Sines, formerly the Accreditation Manager with the Standards for Excellence program, has been promoted to the Director of Education and Accreditation for Maryland Nonprofits and the Standards for Excellence Institute. In this...
Brand Aid: Simple Strategies to Improve Your Brand Today
Guest Blog by Susan K. Hughes, Principal & Creative Director, Orgonomic, and Associate Member of Maryland Nonprofits Read the original blog here. Did your marketing materials come together on-the-fly? Do you long for stunning and unified communications that serve...