🥐🥓🍳 Breakfast with City of Cambridge leaders
Program Reveal — how you'll get to meet and hear from our City leaders
Th, 2/1 at Google
First, we're so excited to be at 90+ RSVPs!
If you haven't yet, register now.
Details:
- Next Thursday, February 1
- 8:30-10:30am
- Google HQ — 355 Main Street (Kendall Sq.)
Program
- 8:30-9am — Breakfast and mingling
- 9-9:15am — Welcome + CNC's presentation on its priorities
- 9:15-10am — Panel with City Councilors on working with nonprofits on common priorities
- 10-10:30am — Open conversation
Note on registering + getting into Google: Google has strict security measures. In order to get in seamlessly, please register in advance and bring your ID. Otherwise, you'll be held up getting through the doors.
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🥙🤗 Note: no ED Lunch this month
- We'll hold our next one on Zoom in February (F, 2/16)
- 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.
Thank you to our ED lunch sponsor Berkshire Bank
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Tell us now — How is your nonprofit doing? What does it need? How was the ARPA process?
We *need* your survey responses to guide our work and advocacy. Please get yours in!
What you need to get it done:
- One survey taker per organization.
- You may take the survey anonymously.
- The survey includes a section on your experience with Cambridge's nonprofit ARPA fund — all together, it should take about 20 minutes (less if you didn't apply for that funding).
- Responses requested by EOD Friday, 2/9.
Thank you for taking our Annual Survey here. |
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✨ New resource!
We've rounded up all the resources we could find on PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Thanks to Tianxin, our Boston College MSW Fellow, we've been able to put together 75+ unique, professional development resources geared toward nonprofit staff and leaders. (It's available on our website, too.)
We created this resource in response to considerable demand for these kinds of resources. Please peruse and let us know any feedback you have.
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Attend the Cambridge Volunteer Fair | Thurs, 2/8, 12pm
About: Nonprofits will be grouped into small breakout rooms for four 15-minute rounds of presentations and Q&A. CV will provide each agency with slides about your agency and its volunteer opportunities. You'll also receive your attendees' contact info, so you can connect after the Fair.
Questions? Email maddie@cambridgevolunteers.org
Register to attend: bit.ly/2024VolFair
Note: As we wrote before, presenting opportunities for nonprofits are full, but CV has more ways to help you find volunteers here.
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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 ✨Y2Y Network✨
This exchange is edited for length.
Read the entire Q&A w/ Y2Y on our blog.
What are your values?
Y2Y Network is building student-led programming to interrupt the cycle of homelessness for a generation of young adults. Y2Y Network employs a youth-to-youth model to provide a safe and affirming environment for young adults 18-24 experiencing homelessness.
What are the ongoing services or programs that you provide?
Y2Y is a 22-bed shelter in Harvard Square serving young adults who are experiencing homelessness. Along with 30-night stays, guests have access to showers, laundry facilities, hot meals, and case management programs.
Are there any upcoming projects, initiatives, or events that your organization would like others to know about?
With the return of emergency beds, Y2Y Harvard Square is expected to serve more than the 130 guests it had last year. We are meeting a critical demand in the community. We always welcome volunteers in the space or financial support. We would love the community to join us for Winter Walk Boston 2024 to bring awareness to youth homelessness.
Photo: The Y2Y Harvard Square shelter.
Has Y2Y Network had any recent changes?
Yes! Y2Y Network is excited to have brought Sasha Purpura on board as our new executive director. She comes to Y2Y with tremendous experience at her former organization, Food for Free and will guide the organization into the years ahead.
If your organization was an emoji, which would it be and why?
The smiley face with hugging arms! 🤗
The majority of young adults who stay at Y2Y Harvard Square report that if not for us, they do not know where they would stay. Most turn to the streets, train stations or other unsafe public spaces. Y2Y is there to help these young people feel less alone and more supported.
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. Email Caroline to get in the queue.
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For nonprofit leaders & staff
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Nonprofits Find Ways to Manage a Staffing Crisis with No End in Sight (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Nonprofits of all causes have faced personnel challenges up and down the organizational chart. CEOs at museums, social-service groups, nonprofits of all kinds are leaving their posts, and boards are scrambling to find qualified replacements. For-profit companies are poaching direct-service staff. Everyone is burned out, underpaid, and seeking a better life beyond the nonprofit grind that their predecessors once embraced.
Pandemic relief is over, and evictions are back (Boston Globe)
A new report estimates that eviction rates in Massachusetts, after falling sharply amid COVID-19 rent relief programs, have returned to at least pre-pandemic levels.
New filings have outpaced pre-pandemic levels for 15 consecutive months through October 2023, the last month for which data was available, increasing 29 percent over a two-year period.
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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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