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As part of its ongoing commitment to support and strengthen nonprofits serving the Greater New Haven region, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is once again offering a series of workshops and several competitive funding opportunities. Workshop topics, grant deadlines and detailed eligibility criteria for each grant process is available at www.cfgnh.org or by calling 203-777-2386.
Training Workshops and Online Resources for Nonprofits
In 2015, a series of monthly workshops are planned by The Community Foundation covering a range of topics to strengthen the infrastructure of local nonprofits and maximize their effectiveness in delivering important services to the people residing in Greater New Haven. Early workshop topics will cover grant application writing and how to apply for a competitive Responsive grant from The Community Foundation. Additional topics planned for the year include: social media marketing, general marketing and planning, fundraising, donor retention, major gift acquisition and retention, budgeting and financials and planned giving.
Also online at www.cfgnh.org, nonprofit executives and staff can learn about best practices, tips and tools for organizational operations and links to resources on a variety of topics at the Nonprofit Management Resource Center.
For more information about the training workshops, visit www.cfgnh.org or contact Jackie Downing at 203-777-7072.
Grant Opportunities for Nonprofits Serving Greater New Haven
Organizations defined as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) or any applicable statute of the Internal Revenue code and that provide services to one or more of the following towns are eligible to apply for a competitive grant from The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven: Ansonia, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, North Branford, North Haven, West Haven, Oxford, New Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, Seymour, Shelton, Wallingford, Orange and Woodbridge.
Grant amounts range from several hundred dollars to thousands of dollars depending on the grant process; funding is available for event sponsorships, general operating support, immediate needs, specific programs and special areas of interest. For greater detail on each competitive grant process and deadline dates to apply online, visit The Community Foundation’s website at www.cfgnh.org/grants.
Scholarships are also available and distributed throughout the year from approximately 100 funds at The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven; scholarship grants are awarded to individual students and paid directly to the student’s school. The majority of Foundation scholarship funds are designated to be awarded to students attending specific schools; applications and deadline dates vary. Scholarship seekers are encouraged to talk to their school Guidance counselors about funding opportunities. Visit www.cfgnh.org/scholarships to access online applications, deadline dates and other helpful resources.
Thanks to the generosity of three generations of donors, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven awarded $21 million in grants and distributions in 2013 from an endowment of approximately $430 million and comprising hundreds of individually named funds. In addition to its grant-making, The Community Foundation helps build a stronger community by taking measures to improve student achievement, reduce New Haven’s infant mortality rate, promote local philanthropy through www.giveGreater.org® and encourage community awareness at www.cfgnh.org/learn. The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven’s 20 town service area includes: Ansonia, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Oxford, Seymour, Shelton, Wallingford, West Haven, Woodbridge. For more information about The Community Foundation, visit www.cfgnh.org, find us on Facebook at www.facebook.org/cfgnh or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cfgnh.
Usually when I discuss nonprofit board accountability I am referring to those occasions for understanding how and when a board is meeting its fiduciary responsibility. Today though I want to focus on how a board can be more strategic about achieving mission. The answer: analytics.
Analytics -- effectively the work of grabbing and translating lots of statistics about an organization's audience is not a new science. For profits have been using analytics for too many years too count and the analytics science is getting more and more sophisticated. As all marketing strategy folks, the key to effective marketing is knowing and understanding the needs and wants of your target audience including demographics and psychographics.
So it should come as no surprise that museums have latched onto the science of analytics and are using it to the max. The Wall Street Journal article tells much about how this science can work and the many benefits it can bring to a nonprofit. The lesson: analytics is not just for the for-profit or for-profit "like" (aka museums and hospitals) but should be considered as an important resource by every nonprofit, no matter the size. Oh, and don't think there aren't lots of resource folks out there who could be helfpul without the mega-pricetags the for-profits pay. Pretty much every major for-profit business in your community has someone in their organization collecting and processing data. They can be rescurited to at least start you off on your journey. And if not from the for-profits, think about all the available grad students in your local university....
New Haven, CT (December 17, 2014) - The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, the region’s charitable endowment and largest grantmaker, announces that Carlton L. Highsmith of Middlebury, CT and Dr. Khalilah L. Brown-Dean of New Haven, Associate Professor of Political Science at Quinnpiac University in Hamden, have been appointed to the Board of Directors. Both will begin seven-year terms on January 1, 2015, taking the seats of David I. Newton and Rolan Young Smith, whose terms expire at the end of 2014.
”Khalilah Brown-Dean is a nationally known and well-respected voice on issues of great importance to our community who is also a committed and accomplished community leader, and Carlton Highsmith’s record of business leadership, community leadership and philanthropic leadership over many years is second to none in Greater New Haven,” says William Ginsberg, president and CEO of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. “They will both make outstanding board members for The Community Foundation, and we are thrilled that they will be joining us in 2015.”
Mr. Highsmith was founder of Specialized Packaging Group,
recognized as the largest minority-owned firm in the State of Connecticut prior to its merger with PaperWorks Industries. He served as vice chair of the Board at SPG PaperWorks Inc. until his
retirement in 2010.
Mr. Highsmith is founding Chairman of the Board of the Connecticut Center for Arts & Technology (ConnCAT), a New Haven nonprofit organization providing market relevant and career-focused technical skills training and job placement services to underemployed and unemployed adults in the New Haven area. He also serves on the Boards of First Niagara Bank, Quinnipiac University and the Yale-New Haven Health System.
Mr. Highsmith has received many honors for his long-time community leadership. In 2014, he was the recipient of both the Greater New Haven Torch of Liberty Award from the Anti-Defamation League and the John H. Filer Award from the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy. In 2011 Gov. Dannel Malloy appointed Mr. Highsmith to the Connecticut Employment & Training Commission (CETC), where he currently chairs its Career Advancement Committee. Mr. Highsmith earned a BA in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from Quinnipiac University and Albertus Magnus College.
Dr. Brown-Dean’s current research focuses on the political dynamics surrounding the American criminal justice system. Her book Once Convicted, Forever Doomed: Race, Punishment, and Governance explores how mass incarceration impairs both the strength and function of American governance. Her research on the criminal justice system and voting rights policy have garnered international attention, and she was recently appointed as a Director of the Prison Policy Initiative, a national nonprofit organization working to understand the impact of mass incarceration on local communities across America.
Dr. Brown-Dean is a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, CNN, Ebony.com, Fox News Radio, WNPR, AURN, CTV, and other outlets regarding issues such as American politics, mass political behavior, crime and punishment and political psychology. In 2014, Connecticut Magazinenamed Dr. Brown-Dean one of its “Forty Under Forty,” citing her as one of the best and brightest among Connecticut’s Generation Next. Dr. Brown-Dean attended the University of Virginia, where she received a BA in Political Science. She has a Masters Degree and a PhD from The Ohio State University, where she was the recipient of the Henry R. Spencer Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Graduate Associate Teaching Award.
Thanks to the generosity of three generations of donors, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven awarded $21 million in grants and distributions in 2013 from an endowment of approximately $430 million and comprising hundreds of individually named funds. In addition to its grant-making, The Community Foundation helps build a stronger community by taking measures to improve student achievement, reduce New Haven’s infant mortality rate, promote local philanthropy through www.giveGreater.org® and encourage community awareness atwww.cfgnh.org/learn. The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven’s 20 town service area includes: Ansonia, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Oxford, Seymour, Shelton, Wallingford, West Haven, Woodbridge. Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.org/cfgnh or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cfgnh.
