NEN's 15th ANNUAL
POLAR PLUNGE FOR CHILDREN
February 8, 2009, 1:30pm
L Street Beach
South Boston, MA
POLAR PLUNGE FOR CHILDREN
February 8, 2009, 1:30pm
L Street Beach
South Boston, MA
NEN's annual Polar Plunge for Children is scheduled for Feb. 8, 2009, at the Curley Recreation Center in South Boston, MA. Plungers raise funds to support education and services for children in New England who have been abused or neglected, have special needs, and/or physical or mental disabilities. It’s fun, exciting, and memorable, and last year, plunging teams from NEN member agencies raised thousands of dollars for their own programs. All ages are welcome! Come enjoy hot cocoa, funny costumes, and a frigid dip in the Atlantic — all for a great cause. See last year's slideshow and wrap-up press release.Learn more and register!
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NEN'S FUND DEVELOPMENT SERIES:
NEW SEASON, NEW OFFERINGS
NEN's 2008-2009 Fund Development Series is underway. Upcoming webinars are below.
Click on the links for more information about each webinar.
If you missed last season's webinars, some of them are now available on-demand.
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THE NEW PHILANTHROPY:
George McCully is founder of the Massachusetts Catalogue for Philanthropy. His new book, "Philanthropy Reconsidered: Private Initiatives, Public Good, Quality of Life," IT'S TIME TO GET ON BOARD  explores the evolution of philanthropy as idea and practice. Before becoming a professional philanthropist, he was a professor of European history.'Nonprofit' as a term really bothers you. What's the alternative, and does the label really matter? What I'm concerned about is effectiveness in fundraising and in normal expression. You want to have a word that's precise and positive and says what it is and does, rather than what it isn't and doesn't. "Charities," "philanthropies," "public benefit organizations (PBOs)," are all better than "non-profit" or "non-governmental," which say nothing and are misleading. Language always matters, to communication. Is that why you spend so much time defining philanthropy in your book? Yes. The argument of the book is that the word philanthropy is understood in so many different ways by so many different people that it's virtually meaningless. It hasn't been used until recently because it was considered pompous and pedantic. Then it became a household word because of celebrity philanthropy. But people still don't know what it means. |
HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE IN PLACES
WHERE IT REALLY TAKES A VILLAGE
WHERE IT REALLY TAKES A VILLAGE
Transitional living programs (TLPs) located in rural areas have one of the toughest jobs in child welfare: connecting disadvantaged and sometimes troubled young people with services and opportunities that may barely exist. 'Surviving to Thriving,' a needs assessment of Vermont's federally funded TLP system, looks at promising practices in rural programming for youth, and makes recommendations that can easily be generalized to Maine, New Hampshire, western Massachusetts, and other rural pockets of the country. See the report.