Nonprofits with websites are encouraged to look into Google AdSense to create revenue. At no cost to you, ads are placed in your site for services that are relevant to your viewers, and you get income for every hit coming from your site. NVCF receives approximately $50 per month currently through this program and encourages other to give it a try.

Matching Purchase Program

All nonprofits in Butte, Glenn, Tehama and Colusa Counties are invited to join the Annie B's Community Drive. Nonprofits earn a percentage grant for donations directed to them during the campaign, August 1 - September 30. A Nonprofit PR Kit is availalble to help you make this a success. Simply fill out the on line application on the NVCF web pages prior to August 1. For a full explanation of Annie B's go to What is Annie B's on the NVCF home page.

The opening article in this issue focuses on an often-overlooked, critical part of the nonprofit workforce: low-wage workers. They also have two great articles on another neglected part of the workforce, volunteers: A First Person Nonprofit story comes from a frustrated, would-be volunteer, and Susan Ellis contributes a provocative Board Cafe column on the board's responsibilities for volunteers. Read this full newsletter at Blue Avocado. Subsciptions are free.

By Katie Hunt
BBC NEWS

The Enterprise-Record is seeking photos for a new feature on Mondays: Community Snapshots.

With only three staff photographers, many newsworthy activities in our communities go uncovered. Help us see those events and activities get the coverage they deserve by submitting your photos for inclusion in our new weekly feature.

In their current newsletter Nonprofit Tools You Can Use, Fieldstone Alliance, an organization helping improve nonprofit efectiveness, offers a look at structural strategies that can help nonprofits respond to finacial difficulties. Structural strategies involve organizational change. When major external change happens, it’s important to look internally to revisit and, if necessary, revise your mission and approach in order to serve the community in the best way possible.

An article in the Boston Globe explains a recent trend towards donors giving real estate to favorite charities. This is often the greatest asset a family has, and is often overlooked as a way to make a significant gift.

The current issue of the Guidestar Newsletter includes an article that every nonprofit should pay attention to. Social media is changing the way we, as individuals and as nonprofits, are communicating. This new environment is rich with opportunities for nonprofits to get noticed. For the full article follow this link. All nonprofits can receive this newsletter for free. The Guidestar article includes the following tips regarding social media.

Free Tools For Nonprofit Organizations

Grassroots.org provides free capacity-building services for nonprofit organizations.

All free services are conveniently packaged in the Grassroots.org Toolbox: a suite of free user-friendly tools designed to help nonprofits achieve, sustain, and expand a strong web presence. The Toolbox is free for all of our nonprofit members. Not a member? Sign up now!