Annual Report:
What we accomplished last Fiscal Year
Highlights:
- Advocating to get ARPA dollars for the nonprofit sector, and then —
- Making the Cambridge Nonprofit Recovery Fund a reality.
- Refreshing our strategic plan for 2023-2025.
- Growing our membership from 73 to 84 orgs.
Click below to see our Annual Report.
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In case you missed it:
City Council candidates want to help nonprofits hire & retain staff (blog post)
Candidates overwhelmingly support having the City help nonprofits hire and retain quality staff. In general, the two ideas candidates they brought up most frequently were:
- collaborating with the sector on various parts of the staffing process (12 of 20 answers), and
- helping with funding (8 of 20 answers).
This analysis will serve as our first step towards concrete improvements to the nonprofit staffing crisis — one of our sector’s most significant challenges, as our most recent survey showed.
Additional Election Resources
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- When: Friday, 10/27, 12-1pm
- Where: Zoom
- About: Executive Director lunches are an opportunity for nonprofit leaders to connect, network, support each other, and share valuable information. They're particularly helpful for those new in their role, new to Cambridge or both.
- Register.
Thank you to our ED lunch sponsor Berkshire Bank
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 Thank you to our new catering partner Dig Kendall for extending CNC's savings to our network.
DIG makes scratch-cooked meals that highlight fresh vegetables, high-quality proteins, and whole ingredients. Think warm chicken bowls, farm-fresh salads, and our famous mac and cheese.
Cambridge Nonprofit Coalition newsletter readers get 15% pickup orders — use CAMBRIDGENP15 at checkout on Dig's app or website.
Offer valid this November and December.
(But it starts early — this Friday, 10/27.)
Max purchase value: $15.
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Have a job to fill?
Want a boost for your social posts?
→ CNC will promote members' jobs in this newsletter + your free events/news on social media and beyond.
Let us know what you'd like us to promote by replying to this email.
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 Member Spotlight
Everything you've wanted to know about ✨Science Club for Girls✨
This exchange is edited for length.
Read the entire Q&A w/ SCFG on our blog.
What are your values?
Our mission is to foster excitement, confidence, and literacy in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics for girls and gender-expansive youth from underrepresented communities by providing free, experiential programs and by maximizing meaningful interactions with women-in-STEM mentors.
What are your services or programs?
SCFG offers a K-12 continuum of free, hands-on, out-of-school-time STEM education and mentorship programs. Programs include mentor-led Science Clubs (grades K-8), Junior Mentors (Leadership Development for 8-12), Coding Club (6-8), Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Club (6-8), and Summer Rocketry Program (6-8).
We also provide programming year-round via our TV show, SCFGLive! During the 2023-24 academic year, SCFG will serve more than 625 students each semester in Greater Boston.
What are your upcoming projects, initiatives, or events?
We recently launched our Only 4% campaign, which is raising public awareness of the vast underrepresentation of Black and Latina women in STEM (who represent only 4% of scientists and engineers in the US).
We will also raise awareness about the fact that creating a more diverse STEM workforce is in everyone’s best interest as all of our daily lives are increasingly impacted by challenges such as global pandemics, climate change, and AI and cybersecurity—challenges that will have STEM-based solutions.
If SCFG was an emoji, which would it be and why?
😎 — The future is bright for the girls and gender expansive youth we serve!
You could be next!
Get your nonprofit featured in our newsletter, on social media + our website. Blog post examples here.
We're looking for our next member nonprofit to feature. Simply email Caroline to get in the queue.
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For nonprofit leaders & staff
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Funding & Resources
Get free Covid tests for your clients from the state
- Sign up to receive free covid tests for use at shelters, community-based organizations, and more.
Member Job Opportunities
Looking for additional places to post your jobs? The Job Connector by MIT posts jobs on their website for local organizations. For more info, call 617.253.7854 or email jobconnector@mit.edu.
Events & Professional Development
Join a walking tour on the Landscape of Slavery at Harvard
Responsibility and Repair:
Legacies of Indigenous Enslavement, Indenture, and Colonization at Harvard and Beyond
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT (opportunities we featured last month)
Plain Language Workshop
- Host: City of Cambridge's Human Rights Commission, Language Justice Division
- Workshop: Th, Dec. 14, 10-11:30am.
- Learn more & sign up.
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Denver’s Investment in the Wellbeing of the Nonprofit Sector (Presented at ARNOVA's 12th Annual Nonprofit Public Policy Symposium, 9.22.23)
At the Denver Office of Nonprofit Engagement (D-ONE), we see working with nonprofits as a highly beneficial partnership. We work to support, develop and sustain the nonprofit ecosystem as a whole.
In 2017 Colorado's nonprofit sector created roughly “$20 billion in direct spending and another $7 billion in value through volunteerism” and the total economic impact was approximated to be “$40 billion, which represented 11.3% of the economy” (Philanthropy Colorado, 2017). Like other municipalities nationally, the City uses nonprofits (using grants and contracts) to provide needed services to residents.
This commentary outlines D-ONE’s approach and investment in the nonprofit sector and shares policy and process recommendations for other municipalities.
Nonprofit Power Building to Address Structural Inequities:
Lessons from Two Case Study Examples (Presented at ARNOVA's 12th Annual Nonprofit Public Policy Symposium, 9.22.23)
The nonprofit sector should be able to turn the tide on structural inequities impacting our livelihood, and yet that does not seem to be the case.
We theorize there are two reasons for this. The first is that nonprofits overall refrain from extensive engagement in policy and advocacy work. The second is that the sector is paid less and last because of longstanding beliefs that social sector work is worth less than that of other sectors.
The nonprofit sector will only achieve real change when we embrace our power and act differently, and therefore require government to act differently as well.
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 Need VOLUNTEERS?
Add your volunteer job to Cambridge Volunteer's curated and well-publicized list of Cambridge opportunities.
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