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Grants: Nonprofits And Chamber of Commerce Membership January 12, 2021 There are an estimated 4,000 chambers of commerce across the country that have at least one staff person, according to the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives. There are many thousands more that are run as volunteer organizations.  Membership can include one-person enterprises, very small “mom-and-pop” stores, small firms, local manufacturers, all kinds of companies that deliver all kinds of goods and services to the community. In Allen, Texas, members include a nonprofit community band, a kids’ cooking sc...

Michigan renters face eviction despite pandemic safety net: 'I don't want to be homeless' Christine MacDonald and Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press © Sean Work, Special to the Free Press Detroit Eviction Defense volunteers Jim Dwight, and Soummer Crawford, center, discuss available resources with Detroit renter Nia Fitzpatrick during a follow-up visit at Fitzpatrick's home on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. Meanwhile Fitzpatrick's sons Anthony, 5, and Clifton, 4, chase each other around the yard. The grass-roots organization helps renters who are at risk for eviction or have other pro...

You Made A Plan. Now What? December 15, 2020 Cartoonist Allen Saunders said it first, and John Lennon made it sing: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” These days, most nonprofits leaders must know the feeling.  You’ve invested in a strategic planning process, you worked through a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats). You articulated coherent and realistic objectives. Everything seemed to line up — until your world got turned upside down by the pandemic and its aftershocks. Key employees got sick. Funders stopped returning...

By Hamish MacPherson Back in the Day 'I have long considered it a national disgrace that we do not do more to promote Robert Burns as Scotland’s gift to the world' REGULAR readers may recall that I asked for people to email me about local history and heritage projects, and already I have a backlog, though please keep sending them to the above address. The latest in this occasional series is a local project with national implications, for in this case it involves one of the homes of our National Bard, Robert Burns. I have long con...