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Organizational Assessment to Help Your Nonprofit Thrive
Organizational Health Any visit to the gym around the New Year shows how many of us take stock of our physical health and fitness this time of year. Nonprofits are no different. Our attention to organizational health and wellness can shift throughout the year as we focus on vital mission delivery. From time to time it can be helpful to Read more...
Read moreIntroducing the CNE Advisor Circle
Our local nonprofit sector is large and diverse, and the landscape has changed with our experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Not to mention in the ten years since we rebranded our programs as the Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE). To help us look ahead and stay responsive, we created the CNE Advisor Circle in Summer 2023. The Read more...
Read moreResilient Nonprofits Face Challenges and Opportunities
Responses to CNE’s 2022 Nonprofit Survey offer a glimpse into how our local nonprofit community is faring. Nonprofits shared familiar challenges as well as excitement for the future. Read the full report. 1. Challenges related to the pandemic are far from behind us. Challenges that nonprofits faced prior to the pandemic have been exacerbated: board and volunteer engagement, shifting funder Read more...
Read moreCNE: Focus on Leadership
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) is celebrating ten years of strengthening nonprofits serving Monterey County. CNE, a program of the Community Foundation for Monterey County (CFMC), works with local nonprofits of all types and sizes to be stronger, more resilient and equitable. It helps staff, boards and volunteers make meaningful connections to resources and one another. While the CFMC Read more...
Read moreGuide to Leadership Transitions
How can nonprofit organizations best support healthy, successful executive transitions? In the Guide to Leadership Transitions, rising leaders and veteran nonprofit board members share stories, strategies, and wisdom to support incoming or outgoing executives, boards of directors and nonprofit leaders during times of change. Look to your community and communicate with transparency throughout the search Embrace the moment of growth Read more...
Read moreNonprofit Staffing Challenges, Local Solutions
by Susie Polnaszek, Director, Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) The impact of Monterey County nonprofit organizations is essential to the quality of life in our communities: tending to the unsheltered among us, for example, offering support for the recovery journey or engaging the community with the arts. What makes this impact possible? An investment in people. Yet this is a Read more...
Read moreCFMC Spring 2022 Newsletter
The Spring 2022 Newsletter, Giving Matters, includes a message of gratitude from Community Foundation for Monterey County President/CEO Dan Baldwin and the latest news. Record $36 Million Granted VIDA Support Extended Monterey County Gives! success Donor story: A Great Idea – The Jett Fighter Fund Center for Nonprofit Excellence and LEAD Institute update New funds and board members CFMC 2022 Read more...
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