Effective Board 4-part Workshop: Resourcing Your Mission A Practical Fundraising Workshop for Board Members Nonprofit boards must provide governance and leadership while ensuring that sufficient resources are available to carry out their organization’s important mission.…
Author: Melanie Goodyear
Teaching Board members to make “the ask”
Teaching Board members to make “the ask” For most nonprofit board members, helping to govern and lead an organization is the exhilarating part. Asking people for money? Not so much. Few people feel comfortable asking…
Mastering the ABCs of grant writing
Mastering the ABCs of grant writing Members of the Primary Aldosteronism Foundation know a whole lot about PA—a hormonal disorder that leads to high blood pressure. But until they met Jericho Road Pasadena’s first grants…
Be An Effective Board Member
Are you currently serving on a nonprofit board? How much money do you raise for your organization? What other resources to do bring to the cause? Join Jericho Road Pasadena’s next Effective Board 4-part workshop…
Flashback Friday: Great Finance Project for General Hospital Auxiliary Completed
From March 2013: I’m so excited to complete JRP’s largest project to date. One of our great volunteers, Trip Oldfield, has completed a year-long project for CARES, the auxiliary for LAC – USC Medical Center.…
Volunteer pro finds a welcome new nest
Volunteer pro finds a welcome new nest Good financial management is crucial to the long-term health of any nonprofit. Pasadena Audubon Society presents complex challenges in this regard because it pursues a broad mission—not only…
Flashback Friday: The Drama of General Hospital
From April 2012: I have a vague memory of the soap opera General Hospital and the drama that went on with the doctors and nurses. I was at Los Angeles County Medical Center this morning,…
Music group uses downtime to build a stronger stage
Music group uses downtime to build a stronger stage What do you do if your reason for being is performing live music … and a pandemic shuts down fifteen months of concerts? If you’re Pasadena…
Money, Money, Money!
Money, Money, Money! Nonprofits do world-changing work on shoe-string budgets. If you would like to help a cause by raising funds for them, register for JRP’s Effective Board 4-part Workshop: Resourcing Your Mission: A Practical…
Helping library Friends handle crisis mode
Helping library Friends handle crisis mode They say the only predictable thing about life is its unpredictability. When Jericho Road Pasadena volunteer Larry Kaplan first met with members of The Friends of the Pasadena Public…
A child care leader takes stock
Reaching a major milestone is an exciting experience for any organization. But it’s also a good time to pause and refocus. JRP volunteer Janice Tsao recently helped the Altadena Children’s Center do just that when…
Happy Independence Day!
The JRP office will be closed through July 7. Happy Independence Day!