Welcome to the TSNe-Bulletin, providing nonprofit professionals and capacity builders with tips, ideas and information on issues affecting our sector.

In This Issue

• Cultivating Donors
• Are You Prepared if Your ED Leaves?
• High Rent? Nonprofit Centers Can Help.
• More on Nonprofit centers in ED Forum (feasibility) and View from the Center (foundation support)
• Grassroots Consulting Recipients Announced
• Nonprofit CapacitE-links
• Grants, jobs and events for nonprofits nationwide

Tips on Donor Cultivation

Recently the NonProfit Center hosted a workshop led by fundraising consultant Kristi Scarpone on cultivating your organization’s donor base. Here are some quick tips she shared to get you started.

Five Essential Facts for Weathering a Change in Leadership

Are you ready if your ED announces that she or he is leaving at the end of the quarter? TSNE’s Executive Transitions Program (ETP) shares some advice on how to prepare your nonprofit to weather - and even benefit from - the executive transition process. Learn more.

This article from TSNE’s ETP team is the first of an occasional series of “how-to’s” planned by the program for e-Bulletin readers. ETP has been busily expanding their web content and developing an e-Newsletter, which will feature executive job openings and news. Visit the new web area to learn more about executive transitions, or sign up for the Executive Transitions Spotlight today.

If You Build It, They Will Come

On March 12, TSNE co-sponsored Innovative Strategies for Nonprofit Workspace with the NonprofitCenters Network. The day introduced participants to the basics of developing and managing a nonprofit center, from financing to governance models.

Learn more about what it takes to put together such a project, or read an overview of the day.

TSNE Consulting Grassroots Recipients Selected

TSNE’s Consulting Program is pleased to welcome the Association of Haitian Women, Cooperative Economics for Women, The Network/La Red and Project Think Different to the Grassroots Initiative.

ED Forum

TSNE’s Executive Director Jonathan Spack raises the readiness questions an organization must ask itself before deciding to start a multi-tenant center. Read more.

A View from the Center

As a follow-up to the NonprofitCenters Network conference, Michelle Sedaca asks what foundations are doing to support multi-tenant centers. Learn more.

Resources for Nonprofit Capacity Building

TSNE’s Mission Effectiveness Program has put together a resource guide on a variety of topics vital to developing and sustaining a successful nonprofit. Surf CapacitE-Links today.

Happenings and Opportunities in the Sector

TSNE is pleased to announce upcoming activities and events from across the nonprofit sector, as well as new resources available for nonprofit professionals.

Send us your sectorwide announcements to info@tsne.org, subject line “News Submission.”

Look for information on Redwood Creek’s Greater Outdoors Project, which offers the nonprofit recipient a grant to fund a specific outdoor project and the opportunity to be featured in a national advertising campaign in December 2008.

This month we’ve included information on workshops/events, grant opportunities, job openings and publications.