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The Connector January 2024

The Connector January 2024

Community Foundations: Community, Connection, and Collaboration

Community Foundations: Community, Connection, and Collaboration

(Front) Jennifer Puff, Nancy Conard (Back) Leslie Lauren, Nancy Bacon, Kathleen Sayce, Sheila Everett Give where you live. That’s the philanthropy that community foundations inspire. ...
New Federal Overtime Pay Rules Beginning January 1, 2020

New Federal Overtime Pay Rules Beginning January 1, 2020

The U.S. Department of Labor released its new overtime pay threshold that takes effect January 1, 2020. The new salary threshold is raised to $684 per week/ $35,568 per year. What This ...
Member Spotlight: Community Enrichment for Klickitat County – Strength in Fiscal Sponsorship

Member Spotlight: Community Enrichment for Klickitat County – Strength in Fiscal Sponsorship

Fiscal sponsorship is a process where a number of worthy community projects can exist under a single nonprofit umbrella, removing the pressure to found and maintain an independent nonprofit in ...
What does Action Learning have to do with DEI?

What does Action Learning have to do with DEI?

by Aparna Rae and Jessica Walker Beaumont, Partners - Moving Beyond Diversity, inclusion, belonging, and at times equity, have been hot topics across both the private and social sectors. ...
Equity and Your Nonprofit

Equity and Your Nonprofit

Spokane series offered in conjunction with Ijeoma Oluo presentation By Gabriel Cruden, Program Manager – Eastern Region In her bestselling book So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo ...
Five Tips to Help You Prepare for Your Nonprofit’s Accounting Year End

Five Tips to Help You Prepare for Your Nonprofit’s Accounting Year End

Guest post by Julleen Snyder, Partner, Jacobson Jarvis For the past five years, we have partnered with Jacobson Jarvis to help board members learn what they need to know about nonprofit ...
New law prohibits asking about a job applicant’s salary history

New law prohibits asking about a job applicant’s salary history

As of July 28, 2019, there is a Washington State law that affects all nonprofits with employees. Governor Jay Inslee signed a new law that prohibits employers from asking job applicants ...
New Nonprofit Network in northeast Washington!

New Nonprofit Network in northeast Washington!

Nonprofit staff, board members, and volunteers in the northeast corner of the state were eager to learn more and to collaborate locally after attending a training in the spring, led by Nancy ...
Member Spotlight: Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho – Membership in a Time of Civic Decline

Member Spotlight: Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho – Membership in a Time of Civic Decline

Let’s talk about membership. Membership organizations, like churches, fraternities, and other civic clubs, have seen decreases in member numbers over the last three decades. Research points to ...
Upcoming Learning Calendar

Upcoming Learning Calendar

We have so many workshops and webinars planned for the 2019-2020 learning year, where do we begin?! Starting in September, join us for a Fall of Fundraising - five online courses ...