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Sunday, November 23, 2014
Don't Forget! Free Nonprofit Salary and Benefits Data
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Mohawk Valley Leaders Group:Announcement
Mohawk Valley Leaders Group:Announcing Funding Cuts Vigil and May 3rd Fundraising Event
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NYSACRA Action Alert
NYSACRA Action Alert
As you are well aware, the proposed 2013-14 Executive Budget proposes a 6% across the board cut to all voluntary not-for-profit providers throughout the State of New York, effective April 1, 2013. If this cut is enacted, the developmental disabilities system of supports and services will be negatively impacted, dramatically. NYSACRA has received information from members as to how the reductions will be absorbed if a restoration is not successful. Agencies will be forced to: reduce services and supports, eliminate entire programs, layoff all levels of staff including direct support professionals. We all know how this will translate if the cuts are to be taken: the great strides we've made as a sector will quickly erode and the quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) will be negatively impacted.
Both houses of the State Legislature are in the process of negotiating and getting ready to release the respective one-house budget measures. While we understand the 6% across the board cut to the not-for-profit developmental disabilities sector is gaining great attention in the State Legislature, we need to continue advocacy efforts and therefore we are asking agencies, parents and family members, agency staff and direct support professionals, self advocates to make two telephone calls this week.
WHO TO CALL:
Please make two telephone calls, one to your State Assemblymember and the other to your State Senator in their Albany Offices
WHEN:
This week (the week of March 4th)
WHAT'S MY MESSAGE:
"I'm a constituent and I am concerned the proposed 6% across the board cut to the not-for-profit developmental disabilities providers will negatively impact supports, services and programs. I wish to thank my Assemblymember/Senator for his/her support of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and ask him/her to support restoration of the 6% proposed cut in the one-house budget bill."
HOW:
Contact the Assembly Operator at 518-455-4100 and ask to be transferred to your Assemblymember's Office. (if you do not know who your Member of the Assembly is, go towww.assembly.state.ny.us to identify your Member. You may also obtain his/her direct Albany Office telephone number, rather than going through the Assembly Operator).
Contact the Senate Operator at 518-455-2800 and ask to be transferred to your Senator's Office (if you do not know who your Member of the Senate is, go to www.nysenate.gov to identify your Senator. You may also obtain his/her Albany Office telephone number on the website, rather than going through the Senate Operator).
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ONGOING ADVOCACY AND EFFORTS!
LOOK FOR MORE NYSACRA ACTION ALERTS
THROUGHOUT THIS WEEK AND NEXT WEEK
URGENT EVENT: WE NEED YOUR HELP TO OPPOSE BUDGET CUTS
Let Policymakers Know that
Stalemate and Sequestration Are Unacceptable
Now that sequestration has become a reality, the effects are coming into sharp focus. Federal departments will be forced to make abrupt, arbitrary cuts to health, education, community action, housing, senior law enforcement, veteran, and other human needs programs. For months, both sides of the budget battle agreed that sequestration was a last resort because it would cause significant harm and disruption to critical public services and our economy. Sequestration will have a profound and negative impact on depressed regional economies like the City of Utica, Herkimer, Madison, and Oneida Counties, and Central New York.
The timing of sequestration could not be worse. Our local economy is struggling to pull itself out of the recession. These cuts will results in significant layoffs of health care workers, teachers, and human service workers. Most importantly, the most vulnerable populations such as children the disabled, aged, families of limited means, and the homeless will suffer the brunt of these cuts in the reduction and possible elimination of services.
If these cuts are allowed to occur, Congress may enact deeper budget cuts and austerity measures that will cripple and threaten the existence of established programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and pensions. It is important that advocates send a loud and clear message that sequestration and cuts to vital human service programs must stop.
You can make your voice heard on this issue by attending our news conference and speak-out event on the impact of sequestration cuts on local citizens. Please bring your clients, consumers, and board members and ask them to share their stories of the importance of federally funded programs. At this event, we will release data showing the impact of sequestration on New York State and Central New York.
Please RSVP to John Furman (cnycitizenaction@gmail.com; 3
Central New York Citizens in Action, Inc. was developed from the Utica Citizens in Action, a multi-issue public interest association affiliated with Citizen Action of New York. It was founded in 1997 to address critical social, economic and environmental issues facing residents of Oneida, Herkimer, and Madison Counties. Members of our group worked to empower low and moderate income Central New York residents to participate in shaping the policies that affect their lives, such as economic justice, environment, housing, education, economic development, health care, public benefit programs, and consumer issues. Our projects include research and policy development, public education on a wide range of public policy issues, development of educational materials, community outreach and grassroots organizing, coalition development, training, and lobbying. Please join our email list by sending an email to cnycitizenaction@gmail.com
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
NPQ's annual survey
NPQ's annual survey
Please tell NPQ what to do!
If you fill it out:
- You will know that you have had an impact on NPQ’s editorial agenda for 2013. We choose topics to follow guided by the answers we get from you;
- You may be invited to join NPQ’s Editorial Advisory Board and attend our annual reader advisory committee meeting, an always-fascinating two-day event on the East Coast. The more complete your answers are the more likely it is that you will be selected (if you cannot pay your way, we will, and your name will appear on our masthead as an advisor);
- You may receive a free subscription to our print journal (every twentieth respondent completing a survey will receive one);
- You will receive a summary of our findings from the survey.
Most important, you will know that you have helped direct NPQ—an important information source for civil society—just by showing up (taking the survey) and having informed opinions!
Here's the online article and survey link
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Statement on Fiscal Cliff Deal
NYCON's Statement on the "Fiscal Cliff" Deal and Implications for New York State's Nonprofits
The New York Council of Nonprofits, along with colleagues nationwide, expresses mixed views about the passage of the "American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012" (H.R.8, as amended).
NYCON applauds Congress for the strong bipartisan vote in passing a compromise bill to avert certain immediate threats posed by the fiscal cliff. We thank those elected officials and staff members on Capitol Hill and at the White House who worked around the clock to make this compromise possible and for maintaining incentives for charitable giving for most Americans. As negotiations continue on the now-postponed sequestration cuts and on the debt ceiling, we encourage Congress and the President to recognize how essential these incentives are for the work charitable nonprofits perform in every community throughout the country.
However, the New York Council of Nonprofits also would like to express deep concern that Congress and the President have failed to resolve the pending across-the-board cuts of $54.6 billion from domestic spending programs that will touch virtually every person and every community in America.
Federal policymakers have failed to recognize that the arbitrary sequestration cuts to domestic programs will reduce funding without reducing the underlying human needs, thereby increasing demands on states, local governments, and nonprofits in local communities while also decreasing resources to provide needed services. Too many policymakers apparently are unaware that federal funding actually flows to the states and localities to deliver basic human services. Often these services are delivered through contracts with nonprofits because governments have found charitable nonprofits to be more efficient and effective, in part because they are mission-driven rather than profit-driven. After five years of serving so many more for so much longer with so much less, America's charitable nonprofits are past the breaking point.
Kicking the can down the road means kicking those who are already down and struggling to get back up. We must keep up the pressure on Congress and the President to stop the punitive and arbitrary cuts and get to work on continuing our economic recovery.
To learn and do more, NYCON encourages our members to visit the National Council of Nonprofits website at www.councilofnonprofits.org.
To learn and do more, NYCON encourages our members to visit the National Council of Nonprofits website at www.councilofnonprofits.org.
For the full article click here.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Nonprofits and the ‘Fiscal Cliff’: What Lies Ahead?
Nonprofits are scrambling to persuade Congress to avoid making spending cuts and tax changes that would hurt donors and the people charities serve.
But how can your organization make its voice heard during the debate surrounding the fiscal cliff?
View this live discussion that explains what might happen over the next few weeks and months and show you step by step how to influence budget debates on Capitol Hill and in state capitols across the country.
The Guests:
Tim Delaney, is chief executive of the National Council of Nonprofits.
Patrick Lester is director of federal fiscal policy for OMB Watch. Read Mr. Lester's analysis,Mitigating the Impact of a Temporary Sequester.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Oppose Cap on Deductions for Charitable Donations
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Feedback Requested: Director of Operations
Feedback Requested: Director of Operations
We will be sure to post any results or feedback we receive and if any other Executive Director has questions of this sort please feel free to email us.
A request from a local Utica-based nonprofit Executive Director
This organization is seeking information about the position of "Director of Operations", otherwise known as "Chief Operations Officer". The questions about this position are:
This organization is seeking information about the position of "Director of Operations", otherwise known as "Chief Operations Officer". The questions about this position are:
- When is the position useful?
- What key responsibilities does it involve?
- What kind of person has been successful in the position?
- Do you have a position description you would be willing to share?
We will be sure to post any results or feedback we receive and if any other Executive Director has questions of this sort please feel free to email us.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Call to Action: Confronting Severe Challenge to Charitable Deductions, Spending Programs
National Council of Nonprofits
Call to Action: Confronting Severe Challenge to Charitable Deductions, Spending Programs
Charitable nonprofits are truly at risk of losing the charitable giving incentive in the Lame Duck session of Congress. Now is the time to call on our 25,000+ nonprofit members – and their board members, staff members, volunteers, donors, and others you know with email addresses – to raise their collective voices in telling Congress to protect the charitable deduction and stop the arbitrary spending cuts known as sequestration set to go into effect on January 2, 2013.Congress and the President are negotiating how to avert the $600 billion in spending cuts and tax hikes that take effect at year’s end if they fail to take action. One proposal rapidly gaining support (particularly - but not only - among Republican Senators) is capping itemized deductions, including for charitable donations, at $15,000, $17,000, or $25,000 for individual taxpayers. Such a cap would eliminate any tax incentive for donations to charities. The big fixed-cost deductions, such as for mortgage interest (national average of $10,640 in 2010) and state/local taxes (national average of $11,593 in 2010), that combined total $22,233, would eat away the entire deduction at the levels being discussed, leaving no room for discretionary gifts to the work of charities. Even if they increase the cap to $30,000 or $40,000, that leaves very little incentive for giving. Larger institutional nonprofits with dedicated development staff will then have an advantage to squeeze out smaller charitable nonprofits for the limited dollars then available.
DO SOMETHING TODAY! Click on the link below to learn more and to see what actions you can do.
Call to Action Link
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