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Evaluation Matters

by Pamela Leland A truism in strategic planning is that you’ll never get there if you don’t know where you’re going. The same principle applies to program evaluation … i.e., you’ll never be able to document your impact if you don’t know what you are trying to accomplish. As someone who is, by nature, both […]

#SupportDENonprofits: Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay

In 1912 when Juliette Gordon Low started Girl Scouts, she saw an opportunity to make sure that girls and women were part of creating history, and Girl Scouts was born. Today Girl Scouts unleashes the G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)TM in every girl, preparing her for a lifetime of leadership. The Girl Scout Leadership Experience […]

Conversations with the Community: Akima Brown, Reel Families for Change

ONLINE INTERVIEW SERIES TO FEATURE DELAWARE NONPROFITS Delaware, December 15, 2022 – Community Conversations-Delaware Voices, a weekly series of short interviews, will featureconversations with leadership and staff from nonprofit organizations throughout Delaware. The collaboration between DANA, the Delaware Alliance for Nonprofit Advancement, and TELEDUCTION/HEARTS AND MINDS FILM, will be an updated version of Conversations from […]

Nonprofits Must Unite for the Final Stretch in June

Does anyone else get the excited flutter and the existential dread that comes in the time period following the end of the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) completing Budget Markup and the return of the entire General Assembly for the final leg of Legislative Session. No? Just me?  Well, this year has left us all with […]

Leverage Nonprofit Voices on Election Day and Beyond

I know everyone is busily assembling their Halloween costumes for the DANA Halloween Costume Contest, but I wanted to provide a few public policy updates and how they impact our Delaware nonprofit sector. Election Day is Tuesday, November 6th! While we can all agree its important to take the time to vote, this will also […]

DANA officials say First State nonprofits are in need this Giving Tuesday

It’s Giving Tuesday, and Delaware nonprofits say cuts to state funding have left them wanting, and proposed  federal tax overhaul legislation could have an adverse effect on private charitable donations. Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at Manhattan’s 92nd street Y as a response to the consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.  The goal: […]