The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting and challenging our families, communities, organizations and world in unprecedented ways.  We will update this page regularly with information and resources nonprofits can use to prepare and respond.   Registration for the Lancaster County Community Vaccination center is NOW OPEN. Click here to register and for more information. VaccinateLancaster   Websites for […]

Consultants are NOT Created Equal Today’s ever-increasing demands for accountability, efficiency and effectiveness compels many nonprofit leaders to seek assistance from people and organizations with the expertise they lack.  This needed knowledge may come from an open-enrollment workshop, such as those offered by the Nonprofit Resource Network.  Though public training sessions provide information at low […]

By Doris Fee, President, Blue Ridge Business Consultants So now you’re on the Board!  You’ve been elected to represent the interests of the members of your organization at the Board level.  Your understanding of the financial operations of the organization is critical, especially given the increased public scrutiny of nonprofit organizations.  As a board member, […]

Since its inception, the Nonprofit Resource Network (NRN) has established and implemented best practices in excellence in the services it provides for the staff and boards of community benefit organizations.  The NRN has created Standards for Excellence in training and ensures that workshops offered follow those standards for exceptional, hands-on training. Taking this one step further, we […]

Who Is the Measuring Success Consortium? The Measuring Success Consortium (MSC) provides a collaborative resource for measuring program impact through a voluntary partnership of community benefit organizations, funders, government agencies, academia and private sector measurement enthusiasts of South Central Pennsylvania. Within this collaborative context, organizations cultivate additional resources and strengthen the communities in which they work. Why […]

Introducing NRN’s Sustainability Assessment for Community Benefit Organizations… Climbing out of the economic slump has left many community benefit organizations with little vision for future programming or even a healthy existence. After walking alongside disillusioned organizations, the NRN brought its Preferred Consultant Network together to create a Sustainability Assessment. This 70-question survey, to be completed […]

By Sylvia Hepler, Career Development Specialist for Executives and Managers, Launching Lives, LLC There’s nothing worse than feeling stuck.  Professional “stuckness” comes in many forms:  failing to solve an ongoing problem; neglecting to leverage your greatest strengths; ignoring the need to acquire a new skill; lacking time for priorities, misinterpreting situations; drowning in stress; excusing […]

PROJECT MANAGEMENT NONPROFIT PRACTICUM This project management workshop-training program for a nonprofit organization was developed by Millersville’s Nonprofit Resource Network (NRN) with funding from the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation (PMIEF). This 12-hour, 3 day course demonstrates how project management can help nonprofits be more efficient and effective as they execute and manage their everyday […]

By Sylvia Hepler, President, Launching Lives No question about it: credible executive coaching can get you where you need to go FASTER than if you try to do it all by yourself. I know firsthand. For the last four years I’ve had the opportunity to work with several brilliant coaches from various regions of the […]

By Robert Clearfield, Principal, Clearfield Consulting Group I keep hearing that computer and internet pricing continues to drop while the performance for your buying dollar keeps increasing.   Let’s take a look at the realities.   Desktop computer and laptop pricing has pretty much leveled off.  The bang for the buck had increased significantly, and that’s […]