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March General Member Meeting Rescheduled
As a reminder, the March General Member Meeting has been rescheduled to March 22, due to Spring Break for many area school districts.
When: Thursday, March 22; 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Where: Barton Springs & Lady Bird Lake Conference Rooms at United Way for Greater Austin.
What: An interactive session with 360 Solutions' Strategic Partner Meg Poag
Who: Member EDs or Approved Designees
Trust: The foundation for constructive workplace relationships and organizational success!
Only 1/3 of employees are engaged at work, according to Gallup’s most recent report. At the other end, 16% of employees are actively disengaged — they are miserable and destroy what the most engaged employees build. The remaining 51% of employees are not engaged — they’re just there. And the non-profit industry ranks 11th out of 12 industries in employee engagement. Leadership is the #1 driver of engagement, yet most leaders lack a clear understanding of how to really inspire, engage and drive results.
The #1 cause of breakdowns in workplace relationships is a lack of trust. Do you know the definition of trust? Do you understand the dynamics in trust, and how it’s eroded and built? At this interactive One Voice session, guest Meg Poag will help One Voice members assess their own trustworthiness, understand the fundamental dynamics at play, and leave with a concrete vision for next steps they can take to improve their relationships with their teams to achieve even better results and improved morale.
There is no need to RSVP, but you can place your lunch order by clicking on the button below.
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Standards of Excellence Committee
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Equity & Social Justice Committee
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Spring Happy Hour & Orientation
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When: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 from 5-7 p.m.
Where: YMCA Metro Office (3208 Red River St.), 2nd Floor
Who: Current and Prospective OVCT Executive Directors (and approved designees)
Orientation from 5-5:30 p.m.
Attention EDs of organizations that are new to One Voice, current members who are looking to become more involved, and prospective members: Please join us to learn more about our work together as a unified voice in our community. You will learn more about our committees, our work plans, our benefits, our structure, and our member expectations in this brief-but-informative orientation session. After orientation, you are invited to join us for a networking and mingling happy hour.
Networking and mingling Happy Hour from 5:30-7 p.m.
If you are an Executive Director new to your current role or organization, or if you are new to One Voice in general, we hope you will join us as we celebrate your leadership. Current members, join us for drinks and snacks as we welcome the new EDs to the community!
Click the button below to be taken to the registration page for one or both portions of the event.
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We have 83 Members so far in 2018!
Has Your Organization Signed Up?
A very special thank you to the 83 members who have already renewed or who have pledged to renew in 2018!
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As a reminder, we will be updating the official letterhead and the membership directory on the website beginning in April. If you haven't had the opportunity to renew and plan to do so, email kiya@onevoicecentraltx.org with your anticipated renewal date.
You can download the fillable PDF membership form here, or click the below button to be directed to the web form.
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Buddy Program Sign-Up
One Voice is accepting applications for the Buddy Program, which pairs new Executive Directors (EDs) with seasoned EDs, and peer EDs together for mentorship and support. To participate, please email the sign-up form to: kiya@onevoicecentraltx.org. |
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ICYMI: Austin Under 40 Awards Nominees Include Two OVCT Member EDs
Congratulations to Laura Sovine and Mary Van Haneghan for your nominations for the Austin Under 40 Awards!
Laura is the ED for Austin Recovery and was nominated in the Mentor of the Year category. Mary is the ED for The Arc of the Capital Area and was nominated in the Nonprofit Service category.
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FEATURED EVENTS FROM OUR MEMBERS |
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Capital IDEA Hosting Public Briefing: Workforce Development Model for Community College Students
Capital IDEA is hosting a public briefing by Washington, DC-based researchers evaluating its Rio Grande sister organization, VIDA on Thursday, March 8, 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at Capital IDEA at Lifeworks, 835 N Pleasant Valley Road, FIRST FLOOR of BUILDING B.
They are in the sixth year of a multi-million dollar, random assignment study of a workforce development model that provides full financial support, wraparound support, and case management to community college students seeking good careers. “These impacts are among the largest reported to date from random assignment tests of programs aiming to increase college success among low-income individuals." --Howard Rolston, Elizabeth Copson and Karen Gardiner, Abt Associates report authors (pg. vii)
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YWCA Austin Hosts 'Speak On It - Know Your Status' Event for Teens
 What: Free food, skating, bowling and testing for teens. Sponsored by Austin Public Health.
When: Saturday, March 10 from 1-5 p.m.
Where: Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex, 1156 Hargrave St.
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GRANT AND EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES |
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Austin/Travis and Williamson Counties Emergency Food & Shelter Program (EFSP) Request for Funding Applications
 The Austin/Travis County & Williamson Counties EFSP Board is currently accepting applications for funding. All funds are to be used to provide food, shelter, or utility assistance to residents of or transients in Travis and Williamson Counties.
Click here to be redirected to download the application.
Complete proposals are due no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday March 23, 2018 and should be submitted electronically as a PDF document to sam@successfulgiving.com.
Please visit the website for complete list of required documents and additional application instructions.
Phase 35 Bidder’s Conference (Optional):
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Grant Opportunity: Start-up Funding for Community Organizing Projects
The Sparkplug Foundation primarily provides grants to start-up nonprofit organizations or new projects of established nonprofits that are addressing the fields of music, education, and community organizing. Through Community Organizing, the Foundation encourages activist strategies for addressing institutional injustices and for building a just society.
The current focus is on ground-level community organizing at the intersection of utilities and energy infrastructure, housing and community resources, and racial justice.
The first step in the application process is to complete the online questionnaire by March 28, 2018.
Visit the Foundation’s website to review its mission and funding guidelines, as well as the online application instructions and appropriate deadlines. |
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Webinar: The Science Behind Engaging Your Supporters
Why do donors give? What motivates people to support a cause? Find out the answers to better engage with your supporters at this webinar. From beautiful donation forms to optimized advocacy pages, nonprofits are constantly trying to better engage their supporters. But why do donors give? What motivates people to support a cause and how can nonprofits leverage that information to be even more effective?
Interested in finding out? Register for EveryAction's FREE webinar and learn from the very best. They'll explore:
- How to use empathy authentically
- How to tell better stories
- How to appeal to donor's altruism
Seats are going fast so don't wait! Register here.
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Budget Season: An Opportunity to Show How Human Services Can Improve Well-Being
The most recent Reframing Network newsletter highlights some of the key challenges to overcome in the public’s mind about government budgets, particularly around human services, that are often reinforced by the budgets themselves. They also offer framing strategies to advance human services’ funding priorities in your organization’s communications with stakeholders and policymakers as you respond to both federal and state budget proposals. Budgets Prompt Unproductive Frames
The Administration’s budget capitalizes on the public's misunderstandings about why people access human services, as well as harmful misconceptions Frameworks Institute’s research has found that the public holds about government budgets. These unproductive viewpoints can block human service organizations’ messages and, according to Frameworks, prevent people from seeing “ public budgets and taxes as the tools society needs in order to meet its goals for the future.” In particular, it is easy to cue up zero-sum calculations, where the public believes that the benefits of publicly funded services are accruing to non-taxpayers at the expense of tax payers. This “us versus them” perspective relies heavily on negative stereotypes about who is accessing services and why (i.e., a lack of hard work or will power). Beliefs about bureaucratic inefficiency and waste are also easy to prime for the public when talking about the breadth, depth and expenses of government budgets.
Frame a Constructive Conversation Around Funding with Accurate Messages
Take care not to reinforce these dominant, inaccurate stereotypes by trying to refute them or using adversarial language. Instead, set up a different conversation by reorienting the budget discussion around clear, accurate, and explanatory information about human services funding:
- Rely on the Building Well-Being Narrative to expand the public’s knowledge of what human services are, how they work, and why they are important at different stages of life. Include examples that go beyond direct services addressing basic needs, such as prevention, planning, and research.
- Explain how human services, and the taxes and public budgets that make them possible, provide collective benefits, public goods, and positive program outcomes (e.g., education, health) for all of us.
- Emphasize how public funding helps human services address challenges that are the result of systemic causes, not individual failings, just as the solutions rectify societal problems and, in doing so, foster social, emotional, physical, and financial well-being and fulfill human potential, therefore benefitting the whole society, even those who don’t directly use services.
- Define public budgets as forward-thinking, cost-effective planning tools that address long-term needs, prevent expensive problems before they occur, and require investments over time, using past and present taxes.
They will continue to come back to this topic over the next several months as the state and federal budget debates unfold. In the meantime, please email Bridget Gavaghan, Director of the National Reframing Initiative, with questions, tips, and your organization’s reframed budget communications. |
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Mar. 13 from 3:30-5 p.m.
Town Lake YMCA
