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A Better Quality of Life
By Jabari Jackson, IT Coordinator, Maryland Nonprofits I had the pleasure of attending the Quality of Life Summit hosted by Maryland Nonprofits that was held on March 24, 2015 at the McDonogh School. The wealth of knowledge and insight provided by the panel of...
Health Insurance – Who needs it?
Guest Blog by Rob Cannon, Executive Vice President, Gorges & Company, Inc. Learn more about Maryland Nonprofits’ insurance and benefit programs available exclusively for our members. Everybody– with few exceptions. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) included an...
Working in Partnership to Get the Job Done and Improve the Quality of Life
By Amy Coates Madsen, Standards for Excellence Institute Director Like many nonprofits throughout the state and nation, Pathfinders for Autism, a nonprofit based in Hunt Valley, MD, has experienced an increase in the number of partnerships with outside organizations...
Moving Beyond Mission: Program Evaluation
By Sawida Kamara, Staff Consultant, Maryland Nonprofits Program evaluations are an essential tool and best practice for nonprofits to use to collect key information needed to explore whether their operational practices, programs and services, and financial...
Fundraising Benchmarks for Small Nonprofits ($2M and Under)
By Joanna Joslyn, Project Manager & Principal Consultant, Joslyn Creative View the original blog here. Fundraising Benchmarking is the process of comparing your nonprofit’s performance metrics to industry bests, or the best practices of peer organizations. By...
Public Health Equity and Health in All Policies
By Sawida Kamara, Staff Consultant, Maryland Nonprofits This post is the third in a series focused on highlights from the 2015 Legislative Preview. View the previous post here. Rebecca Ruggles of the Maryland Environmental Health Network (MDEHN) moderated a discussion...
Disabilities, Behavioral Health and Substance Use Providers Face Budget Woes
By Sawida Kamara, Staff Consultant, Maryland Nonprofits This post is the second in a series focused on highlights from the 2015 Legislative Preview. View the previous post here. Legislative priorities for service providers were presented by representatives from the...
Quality of Life: Collaborating for a Better Future
By Heather Iliff, President & CEO, Maryland Nonprofits Everyone wants to have a good quality of life. Nearly universally, people value having a place to call home, being gainfully employed, having access to healthy food, having clean air to breathe and clean...
Don’t Be Afraid to Brag!
Maryland Nonprofits Members, we want to feature YOUR ORGANIZATION on the homepage of our website! Please send the items below, or download the form, in an email to Allison Albert...
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...