NAO's New Director
Carol E. Hickman has joined NAO as the association’s first director. Hickman comes to NAO from the Oregon Council for the Humanities, where she directed the Oregon Chautauqua program and OCH’s statewide grant program. She looks forward to working with NAO members to strengthen the vital role of the nonprofit sector in the civic life of our state. Contact her at ceh@tacs.org.
NAO’s Statewide Steering Committee Expands
NAO’s statewide steering committee (link to list of members) meets several times a year to provide guidance about member benefits and policy issues. Two new members were appointed at the April 16, 2008, meeting in La Grande: Adrienne Livingston is the executive director of the Black United Fund of Oregon, and Paul Mortimer is a principal with The Collins Group
Advocacy Training for Nonprofits
Learn how to make your nonprofit's voice heard by attending a FREE advocacy training event on May 13, 2008 in Eugene. This event is sponsored by the Oregon Center for Public Policy, the Nonprofit Association of Oregon, TACS, and the Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest through a grant from the Northwest Area Foundation.
Learn more about the event and how to register.
Estimated Dollar Value of Volunteer Time Revised
Independent Sector (www.independentsector.org) is a forum for charitable organizations, foundations, and corporate giving programs. Each year they review Bureau of Labor statistics to estimate a dollar value for volunteer time. The newly-released national average for 2007 is $19.51 an hour. Their most recent available estimate for Oregon is 2006’s figure of $17.33 an hour.
These estimates represent the value of all hourly production and nonsupervisory earnings on non-farm payrolls, increased by 12% to allow for fringe benefits. Nonprofits may find the estimates provide a useful tool for describing the important role that volunteers play in supporting community organizations.
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