Member News

DC Diaper Bank is now Greater DC Diaper Bank. Along with the new name, Greater DC Diaper Bank launched The Nursery Project which provides parents with essential baby gear.

Recently, Identity, Inc. released its FY17 Annual Report and a FY17 Evaluation Report. These reports are a window into Identity’s 18th year serving at-risk Latino and other youth, and their families.

Community Bridges Executive Director Shannon Babe-Thomas is a recipient of The Daily Record’s2017 Leading Women for her accomplishments made in her career.

Nonprofit Montgomery’s MORE (Metrics, Outcomes and Responsible Evaluation) program enters it’s second year with teams from thirteen local nonprofits attending an intensive 1.5 days of training. MORE is a dynamic program that helps nonprofits measure the impact of their programs and communicate those results to their boards, funders, donors and other constituents.

Participants commented that the training is “engaging and high energy” with dynamic, knowledgeable facilitators and “a really good mix of presentation and activities, with opportunities to meet people from other nonprofits.” Participants liked the “really clear tools and formats, great resources and takeaway items” and gained “new energy, skills and strategies for looking at our organization’s evaluation endeavors.” A participant observed that MORE showed them how to “use evaluation data to improve, not just report.”

MORE is available to Nonprofit Montgomery members for just $25 per organization, thanks to the support of a Montgomery County Executive Grant, the Healthcare Initiative Foundation, and The Universities at Shady Grove.

Congratulations to the following organizations for sending a team to the Fall 2017 MORE program: 

Arts on the Block, Arts for the Aging, Inc., Community Ministries of Rockville, Cornerstone Montgomery, DHHS Latino Health Initiative, Holy Cross Health, Housing Unlimited, Inc., IMPACT Silver Spring, Interfaith Works, Manna Food Center, Montgomery Housing Partnership, Parent Encouragement Program, The Children’s Inn at NIH

The next session of MORE will be on March 15-16, 2018. For more information about MORE or any Nonprofit Montgomery program, contact Lesley.  (more…)

Recently Mark Bergel, Executive Director of A Wider Circle received an honorable mention for the2017 EXCEL Award which recognizes and spotlights outstanding leadership among Washington-area nonprofit chief executives.

The Literacy Council of Montgomery County has hired a new Executive Director Gabe Martinez Cabrera. Gabe has worked in underserved communities in New York, Boston, and San Francisco. Recently, he worked for a research firm, Digital Promise, where he continued his communications and advocacy work to create a coalition of forward thinking adult education programs called “The Beacon Project.”