Mission/Vision
Story of Impact: Charlotte White Center
January 22, 2016
This case study is part of MANP’s Stories of Impact series, highlighting the many ways Maine’s nonprofits are essential to a strong and healthy Maine. Finding Efficiencies with Community-Wide Impact The average home in Maine uses 900 gallons of heating oil per year. A weatherized home saves, on average, 198 gallons per year, a number that can […]
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New Research Encourages Leaders to Shift Their Thinking
June 16, 2015
Last week, Third Sector New England published the results of their Leadership New England survey. The report’s authors encourage leaders in the sector to make three shifts in perspective. #1 Shift the framework for succession planning to deep sustainability “It is time to change how the sector thinks about and approaches succession planning.” Almost 60% of responding […]
5 Ways to Strengthen Your Board
December 30, 2014
Has the nonprofit board outlived its purpose? What is working well about this model and what is distracting us from our missions? These are questions that over 100 nonprofit executive directors and board chairs gathered to discuss on November 20th in Bath, at MANP’s inaugural Executive Leadership Forum. As event facilitator, Mary Ellen Jackson, Executive […]
Nonprofits Hit Hard by Economic Crisis Assessment
June 4, 2013
Last Friday, the Republican Caucus introduced a new tax on nonprofits to offset the cost of partially restoring municipal revenue-sharing to the budget. They are calling it the “Economic Crisis Assessment” which would apply to a broad swath of nonprofits and is designed to raise $100,000,000 per year for at least two years. Here is […]