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Worth a Look...
Young Iowans Survey
Do you have a young Iowan serving on your board? The Iowa Arts Council would
like your feedback.
We'd like to know how having a young Iowan(s) on your board of directors has affected your organization. The results of this survey will be used to inform organizations that haven't yet had this opportunity.
Please click here to complete survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=876762172496
Nonprofit Excellence Workshops
Board, staff, and volunteers of nonprofit arts organizations are invited
take advantage of an important learning opportunity coming up quickly in
a location near you! The Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center will conduct a training
session titled "Iowa Principles and Practices for Charitable Nonprofit Excellence"
in 7 Iowa communities between June 1 and June 27, for the low registration
fee of $25 per person. We hear often about the need among nonprofit arts
organizations for this kind of training, especially for board members, so
the IAC encourages your participation. Go to http://nonprofit.law.uiowa.edu/iowatraining.asp
for more information and to register.
Factoids…
According to a recent Harris Poll, the majority of adults have positive
feelings toward nonprofits (68 percent), but only one in 10 strongly agrees
that charitable organizations are honest and ethical in their use of donated
funds. http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=657 By
the end of 2005, 24 percent of rural adult Americans had high-speed Internet
connections at home, compared to 39 percent of adults in urban and suburban
areas. Adoption of high-speed is growing faster in rural areas. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/124/press_release.asp
New Study on Voluntarism
www.pointsoflight.org/downloads/doc/about/mediacenter/
Volunteer_IMPACT_Survey_Results_Tables.doc A new study from Deloitte
& Touche and the Points of Light Foundation finds that nonprofits are overlooking
opportunities to maximize the impact of their volunteers. More than three
quarters of nonprofit leaders (77 percent) believe that skilled volunteers
could significantly improve their organization's business practices. Yet
just 12 percent of nonprofits actually put volunteers to work on such assignments.
These are just some of the findings you can read in the 2006 Deloitte/Points
of Light "Volunteer IMPACT Study," that was released on April 24, 2006,
to coincide with National Volunteer Week. Visit the website to read more
results from the study.
Worth Reading
Third
Space: When Learning Matters
Third Space is based on a three-year research study and describes
the process of transformation in 10 elementary, middle, and high schools
serving economically disadvantaged students in urban and rural areas of
the country. The authors adopt "third space" as a metaphor to capture the
conditions the arts create in schools and the new possibilities for teaching,
learning, and community that result. Published by the Arts Education Partnership.
Americans for the Arts member and nonmember price: $25.00 / product #: 037976
