YNPN Nov. 13 Topic: Managing Up

Young Nonprofit Professionals Network's November brown-bag lunch discussion session will be "Collaborative Leadership: Managing Yourself by Managing Up"  Nov. 13 from 11:30 - 1 at United Way HQ. Speakers will be Heather Bixler Dawson, from United Way, Kristin Polchinski from Wells Fargo Advisors and Marcia Barber, interim CEO for various nonprofits. Cost is $10 for non-YNPN members. Register at YNPN.

And, if you're looking for a print game-plan on this topic, try checking out the G&FC's Leading Up -- Transformational Leadership for Fundraisers by Lilya Wagner, part of the AFP Fund Development series.

CSPRC to Hear about stl250 Nov.12

Erin Budde, executive director of stl250, will share plans for St. Louis city's 250th birthday celebration next year and the projected impact on nonprofits at the Nov. 12 lunch meeting of the Community Service Public Relations Council in Clayton. Cost to nonmembers is $40. Register at www.csprc.org.

New Nonprofit Start-Up Class at NpML

Dan Sise, community engagement manager at UMSL's Nonprofit Management Leadership Program, will offer an intensive, day-long class for persons interested in Starting & Governing a Nonprofit 501(c) (3) in Missouri on Thurs. Nov. 14 at UMSL. Dan is an attorney (Some of you have attended programs he's done here at the library) and  will focus on how the steps you taking in forming a nonprofit affect how you must operate in the future. Cost of the 9-4 pm class, including lunch, is $89. This is a great chance to get the basics at one session. Call 314-516-5655.

ProPublica Updates "Nonprofit Explorer"

Most of us go to the Foundation Center's 990 Finder or Guidestar to look up nonprofit financial information from the 990 form, but have you used the free, easy-to-use Nonprofit Explorer app launched in May by developers Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei on the investigative journalism website ProPublica?
In late September they also added data from 990-PFs (private foundations & charitable trusts). The database includes more than 625,000 nonprofits --ranging from 501(c)2's all the way to 4947(a)1's.-- with information about their total expenses, revenues, executive compensation, wages and salaries and what percentage of revenue comes from contributions, and investments.