 Strategic Planning - Registration Closes Today! Strategic plans can drive tremendous impact, cultivating engagement, productivity, and extraordinary results. So why do so many plans fail to reach their potential, in development and/or implementation? This class will teach powerful methods for tapping into and defining the ideal organizational impact, and how to align and design the future accordingly.
 Early Bird Pricing Now Available Board Chair Boot Camp is a program designed to help Nonprofit Executive Directors/CEOs and their incoming board chair build a solid plan for working together. This is a day long program with a curriculum designed for the attendees to leave with a better understanding of responsibilities, roles, and tasks. Find a Boot Camp Near You!
Federal Grant Workshops for Local Idaho Communities U.S. Senator Jim Risch and U.S. Representative Mike Simpson will host workshops in Eastern Idaho to help state and local leaders learn about and better utilize grants available from federal and state agencies. The Funders Fair workshops will feature lectures, webinars, and exhibits from state and federal agencies directly responsible for the grant application process. Events are free to the public. Twin Falls
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Register Here  Treasure Valley - Applications Closing This Week! The Nonprofit Leadership Summit is coming to the Boise area! Unique in its scope, the Nonprofit Leadership Summit brings together a select core of nonprofit leaders and board members for three dynamic sessions over a three-month period. Participants will learn from locally and nationally known experts, share ideas with their colleagues and peers and graduate from the program with the knowledge to guide their organizations to new levels of growth and sustainability.
Previously held in the Treasure Valley and the Wood River Valley areas. See what past participants have said about their experiences. New Board Training Board Member Boot Camp is program designed to help support organizations and their board by creating a solid plan for working together and identifying roles and responsibilities. This will be a half day long training with curriculum designed for the attendees to leave with a better understanding of their responsibilities, roles and tasks. Board Member Boot Camp, launching in June 2019, will be an annual program. Attendees will be nonprofit executive directors and their board members.
 Are You Looking for an Intern? Boise State University’s Idaho Policy Institute has a couple of students interested in an internship for this fall. The goal is to provide the student with a real-world applied experience, and provide the organization with a highly motivated and skilled graduate student to assist in their policy or administrative needs.
 Moscow - Apply by June 28! The Nonprofit Leadership Summit is coming to the Palouse! Unique in its scope, the Nonprofit Leadership Summit brings together a select core of nonprofit leaders and board members for three dynamic sessions over a three-month period. Participants will learn from locally and nationally known experts, share ideas with their colleagues and peers and graduate from the program with the knowledge to guide their organizations to new levels of growth and sustainability.
Previously held in the Treasure Valley and the Wood River Valley areas. See what past participants have said about their experiences.  Call an Expert - Policy/Advocacy
This month, Liz Woodruff of Idaho Voices for Children will join us. Call an Expert is a member only monthly call with a business professional to help answer any and all your questions. Potential questions to ask:
 Save the Date! The Statewide Nonprofit Conference is coming September 4, 5, and 6. Join over 300 nonprofit professionals - from board members to CEOs and everyone in between - at the premier event for Idaho nonprofit leaders as they address critical issues and opportunities in the nonprofit sector.
Helpful Links
Grants Galore USDA ReConnect Program The ReConnect Program is an innovative pilot program offering unique federal financing and funding options in the form of loans, grants and loan/grant combinations to facilitate broadband deployment in areas of rural America without sufficient access to broadband. This pilot program will generate private sector investment to deploy broadband infrastructure to provide high-speed internet e-connectivity to as many rural premises as possible, including homes, community facilities for healthcare and public safety, schools, libraries, farms, ranches, factories and other production sites. Grant + Loan Combo: May 29, 2019 Low Interest Rural Broadband Deadline: Jun. 28, 2019 Anti-Hunger Service Learning The Lead2Feed Challenge encourages middle and high school students to hone their leadership skills by completing a service-learning project that solves hunger or another community need involving a public nonprofit organization. First, second, and third place prizes, as well as honorable mentions, in the amounts of $10,000, $5,000, $2,500 and $1,000, respectively, will be awarded. To be eligible, entrants must be located in the United States, the District of Columbia or Guam and be full-time students in grades 6 through 12 at a public, private, or charter middle school or high school. Each team must be comprised of at least three students and a sponsoring teacher or adult advisor. Deadline: May 31, 2019 Princess Grace Foundation The Princess Grace Foundation-USA is accepting applications for its 2019 Princess Grace Film Awards program. Through the annual program, grants are awarded in support of student thesis film projects at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The categories of eligible films include narrative, documentary, experimental, animation or hybrid work, as well as new work including media installations, transmedia, webisodes, interactive web work and other projects where the moving image is the primary component. Deadline: May 31 Creative Learning Crayola, in collaboration with the National Association of Elementary School Principals, is accepting applications for the 2019 Creative Leadership Grant program. The program will award up to twenty grants of $2,500 each for innovative, creative leadership team-building programs in elementary schools. In addition, each program will receive an in-kind grant of Crayola products valued at $1,000. Deadline: Jun. 21, 2019 Sawtooth Society Grant Fees collected from the sale of Idaho’s “Goat Plate” by the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) are available to fund recreation-related projects in the 756,000-acre Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA). Nonprofit groups and governmental agencies operating in the SNRA are eligible for grants administered by the Sawtooth Society. Deadline: June 30, Sept. 30, and Dec. 31 US-Japan Education The United States-Japan Foundation (USJF) supports projects involving pre-college teachers in the US and Japan in mutual study and learning on topics related to the US-Japan relationship, including in-depth study of the culture, society and history of both countries. Through its pre-college education program, USJF supports programs that take advantage of new technology to bring Japanese and American teachers and students together; build human networks among teachers on both sides of the Pacific with a mutual interest in teaching and learning about Japan, the US and US-Japan relations, particularly in the fields of social studies and Japanese-language instruction; and invest in programs in regions in both countries that have been underserved in terms of exposure to and resources for learning about the other country. LOI Deadline: Jul. 15, 2019 K-12 Environmental Projects The Captain Planet Foundation is accepting applications from schools and nonprofit organizations for its Ecotech Grant program, an initiative to support projects that motivate children through the science, technology, engineering, and math fields while challenging them to reimagine the way their world can be. Twenty $2,500 grants will be awarded to schools or nonprofit organizations for projects that use innovation, nature-based design or technology to address environmental problems in their communities. Ideal projects integrate environmental education with opportunities for children to solve real-world problems by using science practices and technology to help care for the environment. Projects may replicate successful models or create new and innovative approaches. Priority will be given to student-directed projects that provide materials that will make the project easy to replicate, including lesson plans, protocols, videos, adaptations and examples of student work. Deadline: Jul. 15, 2019 FM Global Fire Prevention Grant FM Global is accepting applications for its Fire Prevention Grant Program. Grants will be awarded to fire departments and brigades, as well as national, state, regional, local and community organizations working to support a wide array of fire prevention, preparedness and control efforts, including pre-fire planning, fire prevention education/training and arson prevention/fire investigation. Deadlines: Jul. 31, or Nov. 30, 2019 Ben & Jerry's Foundation The Ben & Jerry's Foundation supports organizations that work to bring about progressive social change by addressing the underlying conditions of societal and environmental problems. To that end, one-year grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded to nonprofit, grassroots community-organizing groups in the United States working to advance social and environmental justice and create sustainable and just food systems. Grants can be used to support both program and operational costs. Deadlines: Oct. 16, 2019 Rocky Mountain Power Blue Sky Program Awards Rocky Mountain Power’s community-serving customers in eastern Idaho are eligible to apply for funds to build renewable energy projects. Blue Sky community project funding comes from customers participating in the Blue Sky program and is available to help cover the capital costs of installing new renewable energy systems for non-residential, community-serving sites within the Rocky Mountain Power service area (Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming). Deadline: Ongoing Volunteers Needed in Boise Area? BB Involved stems from Boise Brewing’s original idea of “Community Supported Beer” or CSB. There will be a handle in the taproom designated for CSB batches where $1 of every pint sold will be donated to charity. Volunteer Coordinators will work with one selected charitable organization per month to plan a volunteer event. The purpose of BB Involved is to support a nonprofit organization and give back to the community. BB Involved is a way to connect and give back without stressing brewery operations. It provides an opportunity for nonprofits to showcase their organization and receive extra help from volunteers. Deadline: Ongoing Branched Roots Marketing Donation Branched Roots is a marketing agency which creates a unique strategy for your business through an intense research discovery phase and subsequent marketing plan, guaranteeing business growth and ROI. One nonprofit organization will be selected at random every two months. If a nonprofit is not selected after their submission is received, we ask that they re-submit an application to be considered for the next round. Services donated:
Deadline: Ongoing
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