Thank you to the ~120 Nonprofit and City leaders and staff who came to our Breakfast event last week!
Above, from left: City Manager Yi-An Huang, CNC's Executive Director Elena Sokolow-Kaufman, Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons.
Above - Our City Councilor panel; from left - Joan Pickett, Sumbul Siddiqui, Vice-Mayor Marc McGovern, Patty Nolan (with microphone), Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Paul Toner, Ayesha Wilson.
Above left: Jessica Cantin and former City Councilor Alanna Mallon of Food for Free, Yi-An Huang. Right: Geeta Pradhan of the Cambridge Community Foundation accepts recognition during our formal discussion.
More on the event:
📸 For more photos, see our recap post on Instagram.
Highlights:
Those views! We were delighted to welcome nonprofit and municipal colleagues at the new section of presenting sponsor Google's headquarters in Kendall Square.
Mayor E. Denise Simmons and City Manager Yi-An Huang both spoke about the importance of nonprofits in the work that they do. The City Manager candidly acknowledged that releasing ARPA funds could have been smoother, and that enacting those changes is a hard, slow process.
Our panel of city councilors discussed ways to collaborate with and strengthen nonprofits, and took audience questions.
👀 To see the slides from our presentation, please flip through here.
💬 What guests said:
93% enjoyed themselves & found the content useful.
12 out of 15 reported making at least one new connection that could be useful (with 2 "maybe").
The most-appreciated aspects were the city councilor panel and getting to mix and mingle.
Choice quote — "This event is the manifestation of the highest form of what CNC does as an aggregator of nonprofit power and collective voice!"
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Above: Team CNC took a selfie ... and wants to see yours, too.
From left: Eugenia Schraa, [Caroline Chassereau (couldn't attend in person)], Elena Sokolow-Kaufman, and Tianxin Yang.
As we noted in our presentation, we ❤️ your responses to our annual survey.
Please be sure to take it by EOD this Friday (2/9) if you haven't already.
Thank you to our sponsors for making this event possible:
The CORE Plan is unique. The Commonwealth built it specifically for small nonprofits with 20 or fewer employees. It's an easy way to offer a quality benefit. Lisa is committed to getting the word out to Cambridge nonprofits.
If you didn’t get a chance to speak with Lisa, if you work at an eligible nonprofit (or serve on its Board), and want to learn more, reach out to Lisa at 617-510-4036, lisa.cardinal@empower.com.
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Join Berkshire for Caring for Others, Caring for Ourselves
Mission: to advance equity and justice in the community by strengthening the Cambridge nonprofit sector, building collective voice, and promoting collaboration.
Our team:
Elena Sokolow-Kaufman, Executive Director Caroline Chassereau, Special Projects Associate Tianxin Yang, Boston College MSW Fellow Eugenia Schraa, Communications Manager
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