Nonprofit Events Coming in January

From our St. Louis area partners:

• NSC will offer a 2-hr. workshop (the first of it's "Top Ten Things You Need to Know About..." ) on Capacity Building Friday, Jan. 15. For more information or to register, click on the NSC link at right.
• RubinBrown accounting firm's free Not-for-Profit Update presentation on Technical Topics & Best Practices for Today's Challenging Economy will be Jan. 28 - 7:30 - 10am. For details or to register, go to www.rubinbrown.com before Jan. 21st. (Thanks to our NPML co-sponsor, Mary Kay Lofgren and Debra Leible from RubinBrown will again be presenting Financial Basics for Nonprofits here at the library in July, so alert new board or staff members.)
• Librarians love book groups. The St. Louis area's Young Nonprofit Professional Network book club will discuss Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson's account of setting up schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Jan. 28th at 6 pm at Left Bank Books in the Central West End.

St. Louis CBO's & Capacity Building Seminar Set for Oct. 21

John McClusky, director emeritus of UMSL's NPML, Sean Thomas, executive director of Old North St. Louis Restoration Group, and Erin Budde, head of community affairs for Wells Fargo Advisors, will discuss how Community Based Organizations (CBOs) embedded in urban neighborhoods can become successful agents of change on Oct. 21 at the J.C. Penney Conference Center, Rm. 126, on the UMSL campus from 3-4:30 pm. The free event is sponsored by UMSL's Community Partnership Project. For more information, visit http://umslce.org/index.php/seminar-series or call 314.516.6392.