Add your ArticleKnowledge is power! Help us create a powerful nonprofit sector by submitting articles related to any area of nonprofit advocacy, management, fundraising, volunteering and giving. To submit an article, send an email to info@sandan.org with the article attached. PDF or Word versions are appreciated. San Diego NewsSeeking Nonprofit Trend Reporters! (10/17/11)This fall the Caster Family Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Research will launch a bold new project: State of Nonprofits Quarterly Report. Published every three months, the report will be San Diego’s first and only formal tool to track the economic health of San Diego County’s nonprofit sector. Indeed, to the best of our knowledge, it is the first such tool in the nation. The Caster Center invites your organization to participate in this project as a Nonprofit Economic Trend Reporter, a network of nonprofits with significant economic impact in San Diego. As a Nonprofit Economic Trend Reporter, your organization would contribute by completing a 5-minute online survey 4 times per calendar year. These questions are probably best answered by someone in a CEO, COO, or CFO position. Benefits: As a Trend Reporter, you will have advance access to reports and your agency will be listed as a contributor on the project’s official website: www.stateofnonprofits.org. Sign up today: To confirm your interest in participating, please follow this link: http://NonprofitEconomicIndicators.kintera.org or fill out the attached form. Your organization is an important player in San Diego’s nonprofit economy, and we hope you will contribute as one of San Diego’s Nonprofit Economic Trend Reporters. Thank you for your consideration of this request. United Way of San Diego County - Public Statement Re: Volunteer San Diego (10/17/11)We are very saddened at the closing of Volunteer San Diego which provided such an important service to our community. When VSD started as a department of United Way many years ago it was in response to a growing demand for community service opportunities. Those needs still exist. United Way is working with other community partners to determine how best to keep the vital services VSD provided continuing in our community. We encourage San Diegans to reach out to the many nonprofits who continue to need their hands-on support to achieve their missions. To volunteer with United Way, San Diegans can visit our website at uwsd.org and sign up by clicking the "volunteer" banner. Volunteer San Diego closes, lays off 7 (10/12/11)Volunteer San Diego, the local charity that for years matched service-minded citizens with nonprofit groups needing help, closed shop Friday after its board decided it could no longer pay the bills. The closing means companies, senior groups, charity executives and individual volunteers will no longer have a clearinghouse to rely on for donated time. Seven people who worked for the agency also lost their job. The closure comes weeks before the holiday season, traditionally the most active time for charities to rely on volunteer labor. Officials at Volunteer San Diego were not available for comment. A post on the agency website dated Friday acknowledged a persistent lack of funding and the difficulty of the decision to close. - Written by Jeff McDonald - Oct. 7, 2011 The San Diego Foundation Unveiled the Malin Burnham Center for Civic Engagement (10/09/11)The San Diego Foundation unveiled the Malin Burnham Center for Civic Engagement at The Foundation’s Annual Meeting held on Tuesday, September 27, 2011. The Malin Burnham Center for Civic Engagement mobilizes the San Diego region in the quest for solutions to community issues. It serves as the hub of civic leadership for San Diego – a place that generates information and ideas, spurs vigorous conversations about San Diego’s future, helps launch ambition initiatives and contributes to the development of action plans. “Like Malin himself, the Malin Burnham Center for Civic Engagement stands for an appreciation of diversity, inclusiveness, effective problem-solving through collaborations between for-profit, nonprofits, government and business, and most important of all – engagement in our communities,” said Bob Kelly, president and CEO of The San Diego Foundation, “The Center,” added Kelly, “will provide everyone with the opportunity to participate in a process of discussing and reaching a consensus on what we want our community to become.” “I believe that if we each embody a commitment to "Community Before Self", we enhance our communities; we see safer neighborhoods and create a prosperous region. My hope is that the Center for Civic Engagement creates an epicenter for the convening of nonprofits, businesses, foundations, community leaders and government agencies to address the issues of our region,” said Malin Burnham. The Center was also featured in the Union-Tribune and the San Diego Business Journal this week. The Manpower Workforce Report: A San Diego Labor Market SnapshotVolume VIII, Issue 12, September 12, 2011 - View the Workforce Report Business Edition Volume X, Issue 12, August 31, 2011 - View the Workforce Report Workforce Edition The August 2011 edition of rEgion - the SANDAG electronic newsletter, is now available on the SANDAG Web site.Articles include:
View this edition of rEgion San Diego Workforce Partnership - June Workforce IndexView the Workforce Index for June More than 2,000 nonprofits lose tax statusView article by Aaron Burgin, Union-Tribune. Download list of San Diego County nonprofits whose status has been revoked. SANDAG is pleased to announce the release of its most recent CJ Fax,
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