Financial Assistance with Water Bills
WSSC Water is committed to making water and sewer bills more affordable. We’ve enhanced our programs and pay plans to provide financial assistance to more customers. We have many different options to help your clients, including customizable payment plans, up to $500 in emergency assistance from The Water Fund and more. When residential customers set up a payment plan, there no minimum payment required. Click here for more information or see this flyer.
FIRM for Program Directors and Dept. Leaders
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Join Nonprofit Montgomery Budget Advocacy
The FY22 County budget process is underway and Nonprofit Montgomery is embarking on a new social media campaign and leading teams of nonprofit leaders in meetings with Councilmembers. The goal of these meetings is to educate Councilmembers about the vital programs offered by nonprofits on behalf of County Government and to advocate for the necessary funding to support the important work of nonprofits.
Our central message this year is that nonprofits are more essential than ever. The social media campaign will highlight the accomplishments of our members during Covid. You can join in by:
- Complete this form.
- Engage Communications and Social Media managers in sharing digital content promoting the theme that nonprofits are more essential than ever. Find out more this Friday, March 19 at 9:30am for Social Media training.
- Learn more about campaign messaging on Tuesday, March 23 at 4pm.
- Sign up for County Council meetings. See below. Registration opens March 19 and spots will fill quickly. If you can, sign up for a time on April 7. Let’s make it Nonprofit Day!
Members only trainings to support advocacy:
Social Media Training: Friday, March 19 from 9:30-10:30am: Click here to register.
Message Map Training: Tuesday, March 23 from 4-5pm: Click here to register.
Visit our Advocacy page to see the latest news and find out how to support ALL nonprofits.
Need Assistance with Your PPP?
Nonprofit Montgomery Partner, the NIH Federal Credit Union has created a special Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) portal for Nonprofit Montgomery members.
NIH Federal Credit Union encourages Nonprofit Montgomery members to complete this intake form if they are interested in applying through them.
The Civic Circle: Americorps VISTA Member
The Civic Circle is recruiting an Americorps VISTA member to help us expand and institutionalize our arts-based civic learning program for students age 8-13. Come help us empower youth through civic skills like news literacy and voting, and foster civic readiness through education and the arts. The VISTA will help evaluate and expand this program, and help make it sustainable.
This is a chance to make a valuable social impact while gaining skills in curriculum and program development, marketing, evaluation and nonprofit governance. This is a paid position with full benefits and professional development opportunities. To view full details and apply, please visit our Americorps listing here.
Salary: $20,592
FIRM for Program Directors and Dept. Leaders
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MORE Alumni Info and Events
We’ve kicked off our Spring 2021 MORE cohort, our second in the new virtual MORE model. Over in the MORE Alumni Evaluation Network on LinkedIn, we had a busy month of resource sharing.
We shared a resource for secondary data, with benchmark data for foundation evaluation projects. The Sharp Insight team also shared a new favorite post, their Ode to Outputs, which we hope our MORE alums will appreciate. It’s no “stand up, sit down,” but that’s more difficult to facilitate over a blog post! As we’ve been reading more about equity in evaluation, we shared an article with some simple steps to help get started connecting diversity, equity, and inclusion to your metrics. As an added bonus, an alum shared a video on data visualization that we think you might enjoy.
A resource we hope you’ll all give a listen is a video from We All Count with a message about what we really want to know about identity. If you’re interested in seeing more resources like these, join 111 of your nonprofit colleagues in our LinkedIn alumni network!
Alumni are encouraged to join us for the next MORE office hours (and informal discussion/Q&A) on Wednesday, March 17 at noon by registering here. The spring cohort just debriefed on the levels of influence, which we hope rings some bells. We’re planning to focus most of the office hours discussion on how different organizations approach their evaluation of the various levels.
Job Opportunities
We highly encourage our members to post a salary on all job descriptions. Nonprofit Montgomery is working toward equity in the nonprofit sector in our county. And this includes transparency in the hiring process.
- You’re not serious about equity if you don’t post salaries (NTEN, November 2019)
- Salary Is Most Important Part of Job Ad (SHRM, August 2018)
- Not showing the salary range in job postings is archaic and inequitable. So why do we keep doing it? (Nonprofit AF, November 2020)
Collaboration Council: Program Coordinator (part time) and Director of Administration
Shepherd’s Table: Communications Associate
Sandy Spring Museum: Development Coordinator
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington: Director, Women’s Philanthropy
Funding and Grants
Meyer Foundation
Accepting Interest Forms: Toward A Just & Equitable COVID-19 Recovery
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Systems for Action: Systems and Services Research to Build a Culture of Health