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Celebrating our Impact: Sussex County Health Coalition

For 11 years, the Sussex County Health Coalition (SCHC) has engaged the entire community in a collaborative family-focused effort to improve the health outcomes in Sussex County. SCHC, a DANA member, has over 174 partner organizations and 400+ individual members working towards advocacy, awareness, and action.  SCHC hosts multi-sector committees addressing health from different lenses. Monthly, the […]

With Budget Markup Upon Us the Time to Act Is Now

Over the course of the last 3 months the Joint Finance Committee has been diligently walking through the Governor’s Recommended Budget for FY 2020, hearing presentations from each agency.  I know many of our members have taken the time out to address the JFC at these hearing regarding the work our state’s nonprofits are doing […]

Governor John Carney Released his Recommended Budget

Governor John Carney released his recommended budget, the Joint Finance Committee and General Assembly will work on the best final version between now and June 30th. As always, we strive to get breaking news to you. So here are the latest 2018 Delaware State Budget resources you can use to be in the know. We […]

How to Write Well to Help your Clients and your Bottom Line

Writing well is an important part of the nonprofit sector, whether it’s for grants, fundraising, compliance reports, client, board, volunteer or staff policies, trainings, work procedures, strategic planning, standard operating procedures, website text or other documentation.  Writing that is technically strong is one of your greatest assets to help you communicate your idea and the value […]

U.S. Department of Labor Proposed Overtime Regulation

The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed an update to the Fair Labor Standards Act, the law dictating what American employees are eligible for overtime pay. These proposed adjustments make more employees eligible for overtime. The full proposed rule updating the overtime salary threshold is available for review. Under the current law for workers to be exempt […]

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 […]