Brief Summaries of Public Recommendations & Comments
Task force members considered all information collected from public hearings, written comments submitted via e-mail and mail, the task force survey, and other sources, to develop summaries of recommendations. The task force identified themes associated with the summarized recommendations and aligned the recommendations with these themes, as appropriate.
In the sections below, the headers represent themes identified by the task force. The individual entries listed below are the summaries of recommendations and comments from the public. These entries are not a checklist of “to-dos” but more a reservoir of potential recommendations from which the task force pulled to develop final legislative recommendations.
In the sections below, the headers represent themes identified by the task force. The individual entries listed below are the summaries of recommendations and comments from the public. These entries are not a checklist of “to-dos” but more a reservoir of potential recommendations from which the task force pulled to develop final legislative recommendations.
Provide Affordable & Accessible Capacity-Building Services Statewide
- Strengthen & expand Management Support Organizations network
- Fund long-term, sustainable capacity-building programs
- Provide information on funding opportunities
- Provide technical assistance
- Fund training of technical capacity
- Specific help for rural nonprofits
- Increase support & access for training on volunteer management
- Professional recruitment and retention
- Umbrella organizations get funding to assist small nonprofits
- Fund & partner with Management Support Organizations
- Understand the meaning of capacity
- Increase understanding of grant regulations for faith- and community-based organizations
- Improve flow of information on volunteer opportunities
- Professional development for nonprofit leadership & management
- Nonprofit workforce development
Develop Simple, Standard Grant Management Process
- Allow adequate time to prepare and submit grant applications
- Create easier grant application-standardized
- Common grant application
- Adopt “net grant principle”
- “Allow local state offices to contract with local nonprofits
- Standardized benchmarks and reporting
- Develop consistent metrics to measure effectiveness
- Scale and support effective programs
Develop Coordinated Communication Systems
- Web-based nonprofits & state partnerships
- Develop communication outreach for nonprofit value
- Common public grant website
- Support and facilitate communication among nonprofits in addition to vertical relationships with state organizations
- Improve outreach to rural and underserved areas
Provide Flexible & Reliable Funding that Adequately Supports Nonprofit Sector
- Fund full cost of care
- Increase operating fund allocation
- Focus on increasing multi-year grants, expanding overhead definition, and funding general operations
- Cash flow, loans
- Greater reliance on funding alternatives & in-kind
- Increase multi-year funding opportunities
- Reduce funding restrictions
- Develop social innovation fund
- Interrupt the starvation cycle
- Quicker turnaround on grant payments
Ensure that State Public Policy Supports & Strengthens Nonprofit Sector
- Health insurance for nonprofits
- Create nonprofit health insurance co-ops
- Increase collaboration on policy & advocacy
- Maintain tax treatment
- Increase involvement of Spanish speaking community in programs
- Promote greater awareness of nonprofit sector
- Officials understand universe of current services
- State agencies see themselves as traditional funders
- Research & develop new roles for public & private sectors
Promote Mutually Enhancing Relationships
- Encourage state recipients to collaborate
- Fund community & statewide collaborations
- Foster mutual & respectful relationships between nonprofits & the state
- Agencies identify & address duplication & gaps
- Listen to nonprofits about client access issues with state
- Recognize volunteers as agents of change
- Agencies seek regular feedback from grantees & nonprofits
- Mutually enhancing means each party is stronger as a result of relationships
- Agencies solicit and develop innovative ideas & lessons learned from state agency employees
