All In A
'Day in the Life'
The newsletter editors are looking to share funny, warm, or touching stories from nonprofits and volunteers from their daily experiences from the office, board and committee meetings, or out in the field.
One of our favorite stories, for example, comes from Yankee magazine many years ago: A reader wrote in to say that his organization had finally solved the annual meeting attendance problem by noting in the invitation, "Elections will be held. No need to be present to be elected."
We'll make a $25 donation for any submissions--stories or photographs--we publish.
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Video Clip
"A Day in the Life" Our intention is to film "Day in the Life" comments on a regular basis and compile over time something of an oral history regarding the Cape's nonprofit community. The clip shown here is of the first such interview that was conducted as part of the Opportunity Expo we hosted in 2006. |
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Reaching Out
by Allen Larson
The one key indicator of the health of any community is the extent to which people are involved and actively working to improve its quality of life. By volunteering, funding, or otherwise assisting locally focused nonprofits, an individual undertakes a most valuable and selfless act. Communities build themselves on these small, individual deeds.
For the past few years, we've hosted several gatherings of nonprofits, businesses, and individuals to promote the benefits that each provides and that each offers to become engaged and to participate. Their needs and their areas of interest have no bounds.
In 2006, we videotaped interviews with 38 Cape Codders who actively lead, administer, support, and otherwise encourage the efforts of these organizations. This Day in the Life film highlighted several things. The nonprofits' overwhelming need for funding is so central to each organization's well-being that each interviewee simply took it for a given and focused their thoughts more on other aspects of nonprofit management and development that are less obvious. 
The people interviewed commented recurringly that Cape organizations need to collaborate and connect. And the point cut across each area of their "fields of mission" from affordable housing to water quality to economic development and career opportunity to workforce training and education. A nine-minute sample of these comments was assembled for us by Amy Davies of the Cape Cod Community Media Center. MORE
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Success Stories
by Editor
Wouldn't it be great if everyone was issued the same communication device that they knew automatically how to use? Then, everyone would be able to 'get the word out' with one click or call!
And wouldn't the sharing of information and knowledge be a lot easier if there was a single website where all information was stored and was one that everyone used both to provide as well as find information?
As productive as these ideas might be, however, it is impractical to think that the Internet will implode and become one single site. The reality is that everyone is different and uses different means to communicate and gather information.
So, what can we do to share information and more easily communicate our ideas and concerns? Part of the answer may be to find ways to implement new technology innovations more effectively. The technology already exists that allows you to automatically call your volunteer base from your computer to remind them of an upcoming event. And the technology already exists that allows you to direct your computer to send an email to your computer savvy contacts AND at the same time transmit your written words ORALLY by means of the telephone to call people who are not computer savvy. Similarly, technology also already allows you to distribute your events to multiple websites at the click of a button.
These possibilities already exist. And there are many, many more to consider. So many, however, that the possibilities tend to overwhelm those of us that are not very comfortable about either the language or the use of technology innovations. MORE
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