Website of the Week -- Useful Links for Nonprofits -- IKNOW
IKNOW provides a directory of useful links for nonprofits on
issues ranging from education and fundraising to current legislation, strategic
planning, and volunteerism. IKNOW.org was conceived and launched in 1997 by Tom
Raffa, Managing Partner of RAFFA, P.C., who saw the power of the web to help
answer the many questions he received from his nonprofit clients and other
friends in the sector. Go to:
www.iknow.org
Publication of the Week --
The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook:
Fully Integrating Online Service into Volunteer Involvement by Jayne
Cravens and Susan J. Ellis
From the publisher: What is Virtual Volunteering? It’s work
done by volunteers online, via computers, smartphones or other hand-held
devices, and often from afar. More and more organizations around the world are
engaging people who want to contribute their skills via the Internet. The
service may be done virtually, but the volunteers are real! In The LAST Virtual
Volunteering Guidebook, Jayne Cravens and Susan J. Ellis emphasize that online
volunteers should be integrated into an organization’s overall strategy for
involving volunteers. They maintain that the basic principles of volunteer
management should apply equally to volunteers working online or onsite. Whether
you’re tech-savvy or still a newbie in cyberspace, this book will show you how
to lead online volunteers. Cravens and Ellis fervently believe that future
volunteer management practitioners will automatically incorporate online
service into community engagement, making this book the LAST virtual
volunteering guidebook that anyone has to write!
Trend of the Week --
Inequality Increasing
During the first two years of the nation’s economic
recovery, the mean net worth of households in the upper 7% of the wealth
distribution rose by an estimated 28%, while the mean net worth of households
in the lower 93% dropped by 4%, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of
newly released Census Bureau data. From 2009 to 2011, the mean wealth of the 8
million households in the more affluent group rose to an estimated $3,173,895
from an estimated $2,476,244, while the mean wealth of the 111 million
households in the less affluent group fell to an estimated $133,817 from an
estimated $139,896. These wide variances were driven by the fact that the stock
and bond market rallied during the 2009 to 2011 period while the housing market
remained flat. Affluent households typically have their assets concentrated in
stocks and other financial holdings, while less affluent households typically
have their wealth more heavily concentrated in the value of their home. From
the end of the recession in 2009 through 2011 (the last year for which Census
Bureau wealth data are available), the 8 million households in the U.S. with a
net worth above $836,033 saw their aggregate wealth rise by an estimated $5.6
trillion, while the 111 million households with a net worth at or below that
level saw their aggregate wealth decline by an estimated $0.6 trillion. Because
of these differences, wealth inequality increased during the first two years of
the recovery. The upper 7% of households saw their aggregate share of the
nation’s overall household wealth pie rise to 63% in 2011, up from 56% in 2009.
On an individual household basis, the mean wealth of households in this more
affluent group was almost 24 times that of those in the less affluent group in
2011. At the start of the recovery in 2009, that ratio had been less than
18-to-1. For more information, go to: http://tinyurl.com/k3b7pb5
Resource of the Week –
Building a Field-Specific Leadership Pipeline
The Bridgespan Group recently helped a group of funders
develop a more strategic approach to building a leadership pipeline inside the
field of Jewish nonprofits. The report's findings and recommendations focus on
this field, but the approaches these funders are taking to create an
environment for success are worth consideration by other fields in the sector.
For more information and to download the full Bridgespan report, go to:
Tech Tip of the Week -- Run PowerPoint 2010 Slide Show in a
Window
Have you ever wanted to be able to run a PowerPoint
slideshow in a window? This can be done
by adding a button to the Quick Access Toolbar.
Here’s how:
- Click the File tab on the Ribbon
- Click the Options button at the bottom
- Click Quick Access Toolbar in the left pane
- Under Choose commands from, select Commands Not in the Ribbon
- Scroll down and select Slide Show in a Window
- Click Add to add this button to the Quick Access Toolbar
- Click OK
- To run a slideshow in a window simply click this button on the Quick Access Toolbar
