{"id":247,"date":"2016-02-10T21:52:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fulcrumresources.org\/?page_id=247"},"modified":"2016-02-10T21:52:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:52:17","slug":"non-profit-networking-2015-16","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fulcrumresources.org\/?page_id=247","title":{"rendered":"Local Non-Profit Collaboration Project 2015-16"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE Spring\u00a02017:<\/strong><\/p>\n

We spent a couple of months during Fall 2016\u00a0exploring\u00a0the feasibility of establishing a paid community volunteer coordinator position and community volunteer database that would be shared among local non-profits.<\/strong> A committee of Fulcrum’s Barbara McLaughlin & Lane deMoll, as well as Laura Swanson (Year of Wellness) and Victoria Stoppiello (White Clover Grange) sent out a query with job description to local organizations to see if they had interest and buy-in matching funds for\u00a0grant applications. Downloadable PDF of the first cut of the Job Description<\/strong>: job-desc-community-volunteer-coord<\/a><\/p>\n

However, the project wasn’t able to find traction for forward movement. There was cautious interest but no real buy-in from local groups. Maybe another time…..<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lower Nehalem Community Trust<\/p><\/div>\n

WHAT WE DID DURING THOSE SIX MONTHS:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

The first collaborative session of our new Local NPO project funded by the Oregon Community Foundation and local donors was\u00a0Thursday December 3, 2015 from 8 -10 am in the North County Recreation District Kitchen.\u00a0 Fulcrum provided a buffet breakfast. \u00a0The topic was Volunteers.<\/strong> 19 non-profit staff and volunteers\u00a0attended in addition to the 2 facilitators. Meeting notes can be found here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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On January 7\u00a0a breakout group met at the Manzanita Visitors Center to discuss the creation of Volunteer Notebooks<\/strong> to be placed around the community. Laura Swanson is\u00a0heading up that effort. As of September 2016,\u00a0the notebooks are now complete and will be available at the Manzanita Visitors Center and the Manzanita and Rockaway Branches of the Tillamook County Library<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

On Monday February 15, Melissa Carlson-Swanson from Oregon Food Bank<\/strong> gave an absolutely marvelous all-day presentation on working with volunteers<\/strong> to 6 of us. Let’s hope we can arrange to do it again for those who missed it. (Fulcrum got kudos on the lunch we provided.)<\/p>\n

* Thursday, March 31st<\/sup> 9-11 at NCRD Kitchen:\u00a0Steph Routh, from The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), \u00a0facilitated a\u00a0meeting about technology.<\/strong>\u00a0 This meeting focused on ways to effectively communicate electronically\u00a0via\u00a0Google Docs and other collaborative tools for taking and reviewing notes and Doodle as a group scheduling tool. Crowd funding platforms were also discussed.<\/p>\n

* Monday, April 4th<\/sup> 3-5pm at the Beehive in Nehalem –\u00a0We\u00a0explored the bigger picture of our local nonprofit collaboration efforts.<\/strong>\u00a0 What does our networking look like?\u00a0 Is it a web? Do we want to strengthen it?\u00a0 If so, how?\u00a0 Can we infuse our activities with \u201cweb\u201d intention?<\/p>\n

* Thursday, April 28th<\/sup> 9-11 at NCRD Kitchen –\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Topic was\u00a0FUNDRAISING<\/strong> – all the different ways we’ve used over the years. No magic solutions were found but good ideas shared. \u00a0And a hope for a panel of experts to present in the future.<\/p>\n

* Monday, May 9th<\/sup> 3-5pm at the Beehive in Nehalem –\u00a0A further web\/networking\/collaboration meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Thursday, June 9th<\/sup>\u00a0– The\u00a0Nonprofit Council at the White Clover Grange –\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0While enjoying a Thai dinner that Fulcrum provided, we\u00a0reviewed what had taken place since December and talked about\u00a0how we might want to move forward.<\/strong> The big hope is for funding for a community volunteer coordinator funded in part by the key organizations making use of such a person and an outside grant…..<\/p>\n

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UPDATE Spring\u00a02017: We spent a couple of months during Fall 2016\u00a0exploring\u00a0the feasibility of establishing a paid community volunteer coordinator position and community volunteer database that would be shared among local non-profits. A committee of Fulcrum’s Barbara McLaughlin & Lane deMoll, as well as Laura Swanson (Year of Wellness) and Victoria Stoppiello (White Clover Grange) sent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":207,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulcrumresources.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulcrumresources.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulcrumresources.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulcrumresources.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulcrumresources.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulcrumresources.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulcrumresources.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulcrumresources.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}