2012 Year in Review. What does the community think about the Partnership programs?

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1 2012 Year in Review The Partnership for Nonprofit Excellence completed an outstanding year of service to our community as we met our mission of helping to strengthen nonprofits across the Greater Richmond region. I couldn t be more proud of our staff, board, investors, and community partners who make our work possible. We love what we do and will continue to strive for nonprofit excellence for ourselves and our colleagues in the sector. Many thanks to everyone who continues to believe in us and in the power of nonprofits to handle much of the heavy lifting in our community while addressing advocacy, arts, culture, the digital divide, education, the environment, health, hunger, poverty and other issues. Your investment in us in time, money and energy helps to increase the odds that nonprofits in our region are more operationally and financially sound, have stronger leadership, and are sustainable in order to continue providing important and necessary community services. This 2012 Year in Review is intended to provide you with a snapshot of our activities over the past year that contribute to our collective mission and the quality of life in our region. All the best to you and yours for a fantastic 2013! We look forward to seeing you soon. With gratitude, Melissa Hough President & CEO Partnership for Nonprofit Excellence What does the community think about the Partnership programs? As a recurring theme, both survey and focus group findings revealed favorable impressions about the Partnership and its programs. 95% of respondents indicated that the Partnership provides valuable services to the nonprofit community. 76% indicated that they would recommend Partnership programs without reservations. To read the full survey results please visit the Partnership website.

2 2012 Key Highlights Following are key highlights from our four Partnership programs ConnectVA, HandsOn Greater Richmond, Nonprofit Learning Point and Organizational Solutions. The first section here reflects highlights from our cross program and operational efforts. To see who generously invests in the Partnership for Nonprofit Excellence, see pnerichmond.org/about/investors/ Hosted the region s first day-long cross-sector leadership conference for more than 250 participants, The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts, with Leadership Metro Richmond and the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce Conducted the first Central Virginia Nonprofit Needs Assessment which sought to seek a baseline for the following two questions: 5 FTE 9 FTE 9.5 FTE 11.5 FTE What are the primary nonprofit needs in Central Virginia? Has the Partnership for Nonprofit Excellence had an impact on Central Virginia s nonprofit sector? Created a new communications suite including print materials and three program websites $1,145 $1,242 Recruited six new board members $636 $615 Entered 2013 with a balanced budget and we are in a healthy financial position Received the national Alfred P. Sloan Award for Workplace Effectiveness and Efficiency and the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce Small Business Young Professionals IMPACT Award

3 In 2012 we celebrated 16 years of providing professional and leadership development to the region s nonprofit professionals. This was a year of reflection and exploration as we examined our students needs around professional and leadership development and how we best continue to meet those needs. As a result, we will be responding to the changing landscape by revising our programming in a variety of ways. Nonprofit management classes and conferences Offered 70 courses, including 12 new topics to over 1,000 students Facilitated 2 nonprofit management conferences for 500 attendees Certificate of Achievement in Nonprofit Management 16 students attained the Certificate of Achievement in 2012 Leadership coaching Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Program Launched the 6th class of the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Program By June 2013 there will be 120 local emerging leaders who have graduated from the eight-month leadership program 17 alumni have stepped into and are currently serving in Executive Director/CEO roles Strengthening the Next Generation: A Multi-Faceted Program to Develop Leadership Capacity in Emerging Nonprofit Leaders will be published in the national Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership in April 2013 Thank you, thank you, thank you! This program was very unique and effective; thank you for keying in to an important part of professional development a long-term program that combines individual and group foci. 20 executive directors and fund development professionals participated in leadership and competency assessments and one-on-one coaching Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Program Participant Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Program Class of 2012 Graduation

4 2012 was a year of remarkable growth for HandsOn. Three new programs were launched, we sent our past three AmeriCorps volunteers out into the world, and welcomed three team members. Our year is characterized best by our focus on the depth and quality of our engagement with our volunteers, agencies, community, and businesses to reflect our new motto People at the Center of Change. We believe that there are infinite opportunities to create positive change in our community and it all begins with you. Calendar of volunteer projects Mobilized 7,061 volunteers to 167 unique agencies Created a greater diversity of projects on the HandsOn Connect system with more opportunities for volunteers to engage in done in a day projects Volunteer leadership development Re-launched our Volunteer Leader Program with a $10,000 grant from the UPS Foundation 16 Volunteer Leaders created 118 projects with 16 different agencies engaging 1,007 people for 3,303 hours of community engagement Corporate volunteer program Grew the HandsOn@Work program and facilitated partnerships with Altria, Genworth, UPS, Target, Starbucks, Health Diagnostics Laboratory, Inc., Dominion, Tyson Foods and Legacy Food Youth and family-friendly service opportunities Launched Do It Yourself (DIY) for creative, at home volunteer opportunities - Engaged 221 volunteers in 11 projects Re-launched the Youth Philanthropy Project a youth service, leadership and philanthropy program in partnership with The Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Central Virginia - 26 participants in the 9-month program Expanded TeenImpact summer programming - Expanded the two week summer program model to include two topics and 20 youth participants for Farm to Table and For Arts Sake camps Community-wide days of service HandsOn Day - 5th Annual HandsOn Day and Celebration Event - 1,000 volunteers, 50 project sites, 12 corporate volunteer teams Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - 16 projects and 240 volunteers - Screening of The Great Debaters film in partnership with ConnectVA and Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities Volunteer management trainings and resources to nonprofits Ready, Set, Go training - In partnership with generationon, convened quarterly training for 10 nonprofit agencies on youth and family engagement Agency training people participated in 392 hours of volunteer management training including conferences, group facilitation, and monthly HandsOn Connect Training Youth volunteers celebrate completing a Do It Yourself project to benefit The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Richmond THE most organized event I have participated in the last 5-6 years. GREAT JOB! - HandsOn Day Volunteer

5 Building on the successful legacy of the ConnectNetwork system, in partnership with Southside Community Partners and Genworth Financial we built and launched ConnectVA, unifying ConnectRichmond and ConnectSouthside. The system now serves the entire Central Virginia region as the one-stop nonprofit communications network and has developed exciting program components that suppport the system. Communications platform Average of 696,576 visitors per month Since ConnectVA s launch on December 6, 2012: registered organizations - 1,100 registered users events on the Community Calendar - 45 jobs posted on the Job Finder (avg. 83 posted per month in 2012) - 20 plus items posted on the Items Exchange Technology training, workshops and events Initiated the 501 Tech Club, our local chaper of the national Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Hosted two annual conferences the Nonprofit Technology Conference, and the Social Media for Nonprofits Conference Hosted two Tech Club Clinics The Power of Digital Storytelling, and Media Relations & Online Tools for PR Success Launched the local chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN RVA) with a leadership team of 14 young nonprofit professionals/volunteers - Hosted two events including partnering with Style Weekly for the Top 40 Under 40 Nonprofit Spotlight and Celebration Nonprofits: A Major Economic Presence Nonprofits serve a vital role in society and contribute significantly to the economy. There are an estimated 2.3 million nonprofit organizations operating in the United States; 10,835 of those are in Virginia and 2,316 are in the Central Virginia region. The ConnectVA team and Scott McKay, CIO, Genworth celebrate the launch of the new ConnectVA system Awesome! The new website is great from the user end and a much easier process! I m really pleased with how easy it is to use. - Mandy Arnold, Teen Services Librarian at Tuckahoe Area Library and ConnectVA user Nonprofits are the third largest employer among Virginia s industries for a total of nearly 7% of the state s total employment (356,200 employees). The nonprofit sector s financial contributions in revenue, spending, assets, and tax generation income are substantial as well. It is more important than ever for these individuals and organizations to have access to affordable and high quality operational support services. Please see Virginia s Nonprofit Sector: Shaping the Economic, Cultural and Social Landscape for additional details

6 In 2012 we launched our organizational development program which includes our board development training. We changed the name of the program from Consulting Solutions to Organizational Solutions to better reflect the services offered. A full-time staff person was hired to develop and manage the program. The year was spent on research and development, creating a website, establishing an advisory council and other program offerings. Organizational Improvement Process training D eveloped an Organizational Improvement Process that was piloted with four local nonprofits and four local consultants over six months. Seventeen nonprofits were invited to participate, four were selected; 21 consultants applied to participate and four were selected (by the nonprofit participants). Board development and training 14 Building Blocks for Nonprofit Board Members Workshops with 229 attendees 2 Get on Board! workshops conducted for 90 attendees 31 organizations posted open board member positions on BoardLink Tools and resources 2 staff became licensed Standards for Excellence consultants - The Partnership will become a replication partner for Standards for Excellence in 2013 and Organizational Solutions will implement the program L aunched the Business Network Group in conjunction with Southside Community Partners and ConnectVA s Business Directory C onducted the Partnership s Regional Capacity Building Survey and focus groups If [Organizational Solutions] raises the quality of consulting in Richmond, they help us raise our own consulting quality. That makes us more competitive, and it helps local nonprofits be more strategic, more sustainable, more awesome. Organizational Solutions Pilot Consultant