Grant Professionals Meeting --> May 13

Members of the St. Louis regional chapter of GPA invites you to come Kellee K. Sikes of P3 Strategies describe what happened when "Sustainability, Social Enterprise and Revolution Walked into a Coffee House..." $15 for nonmembers, Central Reform Congregation, 11:30-1:30.  More info & sign-up here.

Nonprofit Sustainability: the lighter side--Sort of

One of the free e-newsletters we like to let people know about is Blue Avocado Magazine: practical, provocative and fun food-for-thought for Nonprofits (www.blueavocado.org), edited by Jan Masaoka. It's got solid articles written with a light humor that fit well into especially busy months of nonprofit fundraising. Example -- October's Point of Vu (by Vu Le) column about "The Sustainability Question? Why Is it So Annoying?" offers ideas for everyone who's dealt with the issue on a grant application: read it and laugh/weep.

CANCELLED -- 'Nonprofit Sustainability' Author Visit

Even though Steve Zimmerman will not be coming this time, the book is still available for check-out.

The book offers a practical framework for measuring current impact/financial performance of your nonprofit core programs and fundraising activities as well as for making business decisions on an as-needed basis. It also presents a guide to various income strategies to help you meet the demand for sustainability plans presently required by most funders. Find out more about this and other sustainability strategies at www.nonprofitservices.org.