Leadership Montgomery hosts quarterly volunteer service projects and also works with businesses to help them identify meaningful volunteer opportunities for their employees. With many requests for summer and fall group volunteer opportunities coming in, they would like to learn more about the group volunteer needs from local organizations. If you have questions, contact Sarah Burnett.
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Thursday, May 24 from 6-8:30pm
Interfaith Works Clothing Center, 751 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville
Please contact Brigid Howe if you would like to join the planning committee.
On Thursday, March 15, County Executive Ike Leggett released his proposed FY19 Operating Budget. Here is the full budget document. The County Executive’s Grants List begins on page 677 of the document.
Additionally, you can explore the budget through the Open Budget website, which allows for in-depth exploration of budget areas.
Opportunities for Advocacy:
The budget did not include contract adjustments or inflationary increases for nonprofit contracts. Past policy decisions made by the County Council and Executive, such as minimum wage increases, background check requirements, and cybersecurity insurance requirements for county contracts, raise costs of doing business. Additionally, costs rise each year due to inflation. Flat funding for nonprofit contracts across County departments means that providers are faced with the difficult choice of cutting essential services or searching for additional funding through limited outside sources to continue providing the same level of service.
Nonprofit Montgomery advocates for increases to County contracts to address these needs, in all departments that contract with nonprofit providers.
Starting in April, the Council is holding a series of public hearings about the budget. Sign up to testify about the impact of the County budget on your organization at one of the Operating Budget public hearings:
April 10, 7pm
April 11, 1:30pm and 7pm
April 12, 1:30 and 7pm
Finance Directors are invited to join colleagues for discussion, information sharing and support for this unique, challenging and satisfying role. Tables for Ten meet three times for candid, confidential facilitated conversations and problem solving. As opposed to a formal presentation, the purpose is to learn from and support each other.
Thursdays, April 26, 8:30-10am, May 10, 8:30-10am and May 31, 8:30-10am
Facilitator: Ann Mazur, CEO, EveryMind
Location: The Nonprofit Village: 12320 Parklawn Dr, Rockville
Montgomery County Public Libraries and the Maryland Women’s Business Center are hosting a business training for childcare owners and providers. The workshops will offer information and tools to help strengthen local childcare owners’ business skills and knowledge, in areas of human resources, marketing, financial management and business planning. Participants will learn about local resources for the child care industry and how to prepare for business challenges. The workshops will be offered in Spanish at two MCPL locations. All workshops are from 10:30am-12:30pm.
Business Training Workshops for Childcare Providers
Germantown Library, 19840 Century Blvd.
April 7 – ABCs of Child Care
May 5 – Confronting Business Challenges (New requirements, tax preparation, and more.)
Long Branch Library, 8800 Garland Ave., Silver Spring
March 10 – Orientation: Resources for Child care Providers
April 14 – ABCs of Child Care
May 19 – Confronting Business Challenges (New requirements, tax preparation, and more.)
For additional information about this workshop series, contactAdrienne.vanlare@montgomerycountymd.gov or Martha@marylandwbc.org.
Nonprofit Montgomery members are invited to participate in panels of nonprofit leaders to meet with candidates for Montgomery County Council. On scheduled days, a panel of 3-4 nonprofit leaders will meet with 3-5 individual candidates.
Join the conversations today!
Earlier this month we held our Spring session of MORE as part of our work building the capacity of nonprofits. More than 40 staff from 13 member organizations learned about the six steps of evaluation and began putting evaluation plans in place. The MORE experience continues with a consultation with an evaluation consultant and a follow up session in May. We will be offering another session of MORE this fall. Stay tuned for more information!
Participating Organizations:
Ayuda
Caring Hearts Advocates, Inc.
Compass, Inc.
Healthcare Initiative Foundation
Interfaith Works
Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless
Montgomery County Food Council
NAMI Montgomery County
New Beginnings
The Arc Montgomery County
The Tacy Foundation
Winter Growth, Inc.
Wonders Early Learning + Extended Day
Calling all health enthusiasts and cyclists to join iControlMyHealth for a charitable cycling/biking event in Rockville to promote a healthy lifestyle and disease prevention. Route options include 10, 25, 63 and 100 miles to suit all types of riders. All proceeds go towards health and community events in Montgomery County and to support Real Food for Kids – Montgomery. Click here for more information.
Jackie DeCarlo, CEO of Manna Food Center, the county’s largest food assistance organization, was awarded the international’s Stop Hunger’s 2018 Women Stop Hunger Award at a ceremony in Paris, France on March 13.