NNN
12/3/10
Recap of previous meetings, including summary of Program Comm, Website Comm, PR committee
Next Meeting: set to be at Riley Rink in January [This later changed to Hildene]
Website: needs some way for nfps to communicate through it; calendar; lots of enthusiasm for that. How do people find it?
Name change discussion – suggestions include: Nonprofit Network, Bennington County Nonprofit Network. Does this require a discussion of who should be involved/invited geographically? Current name is misleading.
Dick reprised the founding of NNN with Barbara McCarty and the purpose for gathering: to learn about each other and about how to instill best practices in your nfp.
Thus, website should facilitate communication & awareness about what we do. Secondarily, our value to the community is huge and if there were better ways to market our impact or influence so that others are aware of our efforts, we would all benefit.
Collaboration is key to funding.
Enthusiasm for the note Seline posted in November about Minnesota non-profit collaborative group – see: http://givemn.razoo.com/ to a broader scope to our thinking.
We could institute a givevt.org or a givennn.org and use the razoo.org, which does a lot to initiate buzz . Fundraising, publicity & web are all involved, so who will follow up on it? How does this affect anyone’s relationship with United Way, especially now that they are considering a new structure/executive director.
Fundraising Committee is requested to take the lead, explore this opportunity and bring a recommendation and report.
[at this point, the minutes recorder had to leave and missed the remainder of the meeting]
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