TSNe-Bulletin September 2008

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

In This Issue:

PowerPoint Points
Working with Temps
NFF Capital Partners
Training: Strategic Thinking Workshop
TSNE Website Survey
ED Forum: Making an Impact
Software Corner: Quick and Simple Web Sites
Executive Transitions Q & A
Nationwide Resources

PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely

Want to avoid irritating your constituents with a seemingly needless PowerPoint presentation? Cyber-Yenta Deborah Finn offers advice on keeping PowerPoint relevant to your audience while still having a presentation that meets your needs.

Start Off on the Right Foot With Your New Temp

Need to hire a temp, but aren’t sure how to manage him or her? Aaron Green, president of Professional Staffing Group, shares tips on how to effectively utilize your temporary workers, gleaned from feedback from both employers and temps.

Tenant Spotlight: Nonprofit Finance Fund

What if the "profits" from a company’s success weren’t financial, but rather social?

With Capital Partners, a new division of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a nonprofit works to build and develop a high level of reliable revenue growth.

Focus on Strategic Thinking

October’s Program Development workshop, the second in TSNE’s new nine-part Capacity Building Training Series, is about to sell out, but there’s still time to register for November’s Strategic Thinking and Learning Loops. Register for this or other workshops, ranging from fundraising to financial literacy, now.

More about Strategic Thinking and Learning Loops: Participants in this workshop will learn from experienced practitioners about a model for strategic thinking that offers real-time planning and feedback loops on programs and initiatives. When partnered with more traditional strategic planning, strategic thinking creates a culture of critical thinking among board and staff alike. It engages stakeholders including the program’s constituents.

Help Us Improve Our Website

How do you use our website? We are preparing for a revamp, and we’d like to ask you to take six to eight (6 - 8) minutes to fill out a quick survey, to help us evaluate and improve the TSNE and NonProfit Center websites as a resource to you. It’s quick, easy, secure and confidential.

ED Forum

In this month’s ED Forum, TSNE Executive Director Jonathan Spack reflects on the powerful presentations he saw at the recent Momentum conference, while thinking about how to maximize impact.

Software Corner

If you need a simple website fast - maybe for a new organization, a campaign or an event - a quick and easy site-builder might be just what you need. Several options let you create simple, template-based designs and customize the text and images so you’re up and running in a few hours - and for as little as $5-$30 per month. Visit Idealware to learn more.

Vlog Update: Executive Transitions

Watch Hez Norton, Executive Transitions’ program manager, answer questions about the how and why of executive transitions as part of TSNE’s video project.

Happenings and Opportunities in the Nonprofit Sector

Now that summer is over, we’re being flooded with opportunities from across the nonprofit sector, as well as new resources available for nonprofit professionals.

This month we’ve included information on workshops and trainings, grants, events and employment opportunities.

Have a job opening, grant opportunity, publication or event to announce? Send us your sectorwide announcements to info@tsne.org, subject line "News Submission."