Transformational Urban Educator Program – Transformation Waco

Join a selective cohort of aspiring teachers through the Transformational Urban Educator Program, an alternative certification pathway for experienced professionals or recent graduates seeking to become a highly effective teacher through hands-on training. This highly-selective program will only accept and certify the highest-potential candidates committed to serving our students while completing rigorous graduate level coursework.
 
Location: Five Transformation Waco schools, which are part of an in-district charter partnership with Waco Independent School District .
 
Compensation: At least $46,000 annual salary with competitive benefits. Full cost of tuition covered for a Master’s in Education.
 

Tech Accelerate Available Now via NTEN

The improved Tech Accelerate is now live, and there’s an opportunity for your organization to take advantage of this free resource.

In partnership with The Forbes Funds, NTEN has improved Tech Accelerate to assess your nonprofit’s current practices, identify areas for needed investment, and benchmark your adoption against other similar organizations.

  • Work with your colleagues to determine your current use and policies across four major categories: leadership, organization, infrastructure, and fundraising and communications.
  • Complete an assessment to receive a customized report that identifies areas most in need of investment or work.
  • Use the suggested readings and resources to take action and boost your technology to help advance your cause.

Click here to learn more.

Recent IRS notices affecting Exempt Organizations – Via IRS.gov

Recent IRS notices affecting Exempt Organizations

  • Notice 2018-99 Interim guidance for tax-exempt organizations to determine the increased unrelated business taxable income under IRC Section 512(a)(7) due to nondeductible parking expenses
  • Notice 2018-100 Gives relief from additions to tax for underpayment of estimated income tax for tax-exempt organizations that provide certain qualified transportation fringes
  • Notice 2019-9 Interim guidance on the provisions of the new IRC Section 4960 excise taxes on excess compensation paid by tax-exempt organizations to covered employees

Via IRS.gov.

United Way of Waco-McLennan County Grant Eligibility Information Sessions

The United Way Grant Eligibility Checklist is now live through March 1st! To access the live link, as well as more information on United Way priority areas for funding, grant eligibility criteria and the overall application process, please visit www.unitedwaywaco.org.   McLennan County 501 (c) 3 nonprofits working in the United Way Impact Framework  priority areas of Education, Health, Financial Security and Safety Net Services ae welcome to enter the prescreening process.

SSIR: “Behavioral Economics and Donor Nudges: Impulse or Deliberation?”

Via Stanford Social Innovation Review’s (SSIR) Dean Karlan, Piyush Tantia & Sarah Welch 

“Charitable organizations can use insights from behavioral economics to help people follow through on their impulsive and deliberative intentions to give.

People donate to charity for many reasons. Hardly an objectionable claim. Generosity. Self-satisfaction. Guilt. Reciprocity. Duty. Prestige.

People also do not donate to charity for many reasons. Also hardly an objectionable claim. Inattention. Insufficient income. Over-spending. Fear of charity failure.

But whether people are giving or not, it seems that two factors remain steady

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Get the Play-By-Play on the Revenue Estimate — Tune into LIVE analysis on Monday, Jan 7

When the State Comptroller’s revenue estimate comes out on Monday, January 7, we’ll be broadcasting via Facebook Live starting at 10:30 a.m. CT. Join us to get the play-by-play from our budget and tax experts, Eva DeLuna Castro and Dick Lavine.

Find out what it will really take to invest in a Texas where everyone is healthy, well-educated and financially secure. You do not need to be a registered Facebook user to watch.

The Comptroller Shows Us the Money

By Eva DeLuna Castro

On January 7 at 10 a.m., State Comptroller Glenn Hegar is scheduled to issue the state revenue estimate for 2020-2021. The Biennial Revenue Estimate (BRE) details how much money lawmakers can invest in state services as they convene and write the 2020-2021 budget.

The Comptroller will also update legislators on the 2018-2019 state revenue situation and the projected balance of the Economic Stabilization Fund (or “Rainy Day Fund”) through 2021. The combination of these forecasts gives state officials an upper limit of what they can invest in public preK-12 and higher education, health care, public safety, and other services through August 2021. Legislators could spend more than this limit by… 

Free Template: How to Write a Year-End Fundraising Appeal – via Network for Good

Via Network for Good –

Create an appeal that grabs your donors attention.

Your donors will be bombarded with end-of-year emails from organizations other than yours in the next few months. How do you make sure they’re inspired to support your work? By writing heartfelt, impactful, and memorable appeals. 
Get your free copy of Network for Good’s year-end fundraising appeal template that will help you:
  • Focus on the key things donor want to know.
  • Tell a compelling — and effective — story.
  • Craft an irresistible call to action.
  • Improve donor conversion and increase your average gift size.

Click here to read more and to download.

Three Ways Associations Are Staying Relevant – Via Community Wealth Partners

By Allison Brown

Click here to read on communitywealth.com.

With changes in technology and demographics, traditional nonprofit associations must evolve to stay relevant. Many associations are wrestling with tough questions like, how do we grow our membership, especially with younger professionals? And how do we make sure we’re providing the most value to our base, especially with changes in how people get information?

As Community Wealth Partners has helped associations reckon with these questions and develop strategic plans to pivot with new market realities, they’ve uncovered three key ways that associations are adapting to stay relevant to their members.

1. They’re curating regular, bite-sized content to provide relevant, helpful information for busy members on-the-go.

Historically, members joined associations in large part for access to industry-specific trainings and conferences, where they could learn and connect with each other. Now, online learning and social media platforms give people other venues to learn and connect. Some associations are expanding beyond multi-day intensive experiences by providing “just-in-time knowledge,” which futurist Jim Carroll defines in an NPR article as “the right knowledge at the right time for the right purpose for the right strategy.”  Imagine, for example, that your members woke up this morning to a push notification on their phones (one that they opted into) from your association. The notification provided a tip or brief summary of new research and policies relevant to their job that they could digest in five to 10 minutes during their morning routine. That could be the thing that keeps your association top-of-mind and relevant to them, and it could also drive them to sign up for the bigger, in-person trainings and events you might be promoting. As associations set up the data and technology to drive this type of engagement, keep in mind that you should make sure members can hit the pause button whenever they want. (more…)