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An annual tradition on New Year's Day -- jump into Long Island Sound and raise money for your favorite park or your non-profit. Elm City Parks Conservancy will be offering an incredible brunch, children’s crafts, hot tubs for the plungers, live music, Tea-Cup Raffle, and Lighthouse Tours.

Elm City Parks Conservancy is excited for the New Year’s 2020 Plunge for Parks and looks forward to welcoming both old and new plungers this year. Attached is the Waiver and Registration form to bring with you on the day of the plunge.  If you would like to you can also pre-register on Eventbrite using this link.

We look forward to seeing you at First Day New Haven – Plunge for Parks.

Find ECPC on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElmCityParks/

 We Love What Makes You Unique

Your perspective fuels our mission-driven work at United Way of Greater New Haven. We are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience.

Who We Are Looking For

Are you a finance professional who enjoys working with colleagues from all departments and being an integral part of making an organization work? Do you find joy in making processes run more effectively and efficiently? Are you interested in managing the financial aspects of state and federal grants, and working with community organizations to build their skills? If so, our Finance Manager position may be perfect for you.

Position

The Finance Manager is a key position within our Finance Team and is involved in supporting all aspects of our mission. The successful candidate will have experience with multiple aspects of financial transactions, is detailed oriented, and thrives when multi-tasking in a fast-paced office environment.  This is a full-time position (40 hrs/week) reporting to the VP of Finance and Administration.

Responsibilities

•  Daily A/P and A/R functions.
• Analyze financial information detailing assets, liabilities and capital, prepare financial statements and other reports as scheduled, to summarize and interpret financial positions.
• Monitor compliance with generally accepted accounting principles, United Way Worldwide guidelines, industry best practices and company procedures.
• Document and coordinate implementation of accounting systems and accounting control procedures.  Improve current processes and implement new systems for general accounting.  Make recommendations regarding the accounting of assets, reserves and expenditures. 
• Interacts with independent auditors, provides support for year-end audit, and assists in the preparation of the IRS Form 990.
• Lead on United Way Worldwide annual database survey and grant financial reporting.
• Performs other duties as required.

Qualifications

•  Minimum of a bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum five years of non-profit accounting experience with a working knowledge of non-profit accounting principles and standards, including GAAP.
• A successful track record in setting priorities; keen analytic, organization and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills with an ability to prioritize, negotiate, and work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• A multi-tasker with the ability to wear many hats in a fast-paced environment.
• A team player who inspires collaboration and functions decisively.
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and dedication to the mission of UWGNH.

Application Procedure

• Send resume, cover letter and salary requirements to employment@uwgnh.org with the following subject line: Application for Finance Manager.
• Position open until filled.

When 18-year-old Stephen A. Schwarzman, the son of a Philadelphia dry-goods store owner, entered Yale in 1965, he took his meals, like all freshmen, in the Commons, a vast, baronial dining hall in a cluster of beaux-arts colossi that the university had constructed for its bicentennial in 1901. The Commons seemed to him like “a train station full of hundreds of people eating,” he recalls in his recently published business memoir, What It Takes. “The loneliness was crushing. Everything and everyone intimidated me.”

Now Schwarzman, the multi-billionaire CEO of the Blackstone...

https://newrepublic.com/article/155939/tragedy-yale-commons

Get the 2020 Neighborhood Leadership Application here

Gathering of New Haven, East Haven, Hamden and West Haven residents interested in the NLP

Greater New Haven is made up of many distinct neighborhoods. Each has its own unique needs and opportunities. And within every neighborhood are individuals coming together to build community and address local concerns.

From block watch captains, to park cleanup volunteers, historic preservationists, business owners, community gardeners, tutors, the organizers street festivals, entrepreneurs and others, New Haven is full of resident leaders who volunteer their time and energy.

The Community Foundation has a long history of identifying and supporting community projects and supporting residents leaders who are making a difference.

The Neighborhood Leadership Program is a networking, skill building and grant program for resident leaders of New Haven, West Haven, East Haven or Hamden. We are here to support you in your efforts to create a stronger community.

If you believe in the value of community. You see an opportunity to create a change that supports community. You want to meet other people like you then you should apply. Follow the link on this page to apply.

In 2016, 53.9 percent of American households donated something to a legally recognized charity. This is down 1.5 percentage points from the prior wave of data in 2014, 11.5 percentage points since the Great Recession, and almost 14 percentage points from the peak level, in 2002. In other words, one in five former donors in the early waves of the study are now not giving anything to legal charities in any given year...

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/where-have-all-the-donors-gone-the-continued-decline-of-the-small-donor-and-the-growth-of-megadonors/?utm_content=107547002&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-61206610