Berkshire County Development Alliance Announces New Co-Chairs Founded over two decades ago, the Berkshire County Development Alliance (BCDA) is an informal group of 150+ development professionals who represent Berkshire area nonprofit organizations in a fundraising capacity. Members gather up to a half-dozen times per year to...
Employee Value Proposition by Kevin Thomas/Green River Coaching and Consulting A large non-profit, which shall remain nameless, decided that they had put enough COVID precautions in place, and it was time for employees to return to their offices. Wanting to give employees to make choices for their...
Nonprofit Best Practices for Minimizing Risk and Insurance Costs The Toole Agency has been insuring nonprofits for many years, and recently we had an unfortunate situation where an organization's treasurer was able to embezzle $20,000 before being caught. The risk of this happening would have been...
Two Volunteer Sites Now Up & Running While there is no county-wide volunteer organization in Berkshire County, both the NPC and Berkshire United Way have launched volunteer web sites to help nonprofits connect to volunteers. These sites are similar in some respects, different in others. We encourage you...
Real Talk on Fundraising, Philanthropy & Social Sector Innovation Small Nonprofits: Big Impact Now is the time to re-imagine fundraising priorities and plans By Bruce Arbit WHY NOW? “So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg These difficult...
3 Steps to Grow Sponsorship Revenue Now Sponsorship sellers, here’s your action plan. #1 Update or Upgrade Your Value. As you reinvent your events, update your sponsorship value. What new marketing and event assets do you have? What new audiences will you be focused on? What new ideas do...
Silver Lining Stories from Berkshire Nonprofits We recently requested that nonprofits in our network take a moment to reflect on the positive outcome(s) over the past few difficult months. Click here to add your voice. Read on for a few success stories...
Wray Gunn - 2020 Lifetime Achievement Honoree By Hannah Van Sickle LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: WRAY GUNN, SR. Widespread and Ongoing Community Influence Wray Gunn is a well-known and beloved community leader in the Berkshires. The longtime Sheffield resident’s influence was evident in high school; throughout his life, his community service...
Zoom Security – How to Minimize Your Hosted Session from Being Zoombombed By Roger Magnus, Roger Magnus Research, rogermagnusresearch.com For a Zoom session, what do participants waiting in a room, not sharing their screens, and being locked down have in common? Actually, these variables all inter-relate when it comes...
Berkshire Legislators: 'Back to Normal' Not Good Enough By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Life looks very different today than it did just more than a month ago and it should look very different when the COVID-19 crisis ends, the Berkshire County legislative delegation agreed...