Month: June 2023

OneSource Center for Nonprofit Excellence provides services, products, and connections to help nonprofit organizations throughout the Greater Cincinnati Community to be more productive and effective. OneSource Center accomplishes its mission through training, coaching, consulting, and other projects and initiatives.

As a positive contributor to our multicultural community, OneSource Center embraces Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. It acknowledges the pain felt among people of color across the nation in response to historically-rooted social injustices. In addition, it reaffirms a desire for change that bolsters the dignity of each individual and the chance for a better tomorrow for all.

OneSource Center’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion objective is to create, nurture, and sustain an inclusive culture where differences leverage the talents of clients, staff, volunteers, and the nonprofit community by embedding multicultural awareness and advocacy in all services and opportunities that OneSource Center offers. Additionally, OneSource Center recognizes the under-representation of people of color among the leadership in the nonprofit sector. In response to our objective and recognition of the current state, OneSource Center has established the OneSource Center Emerging Leader Award, which will provide a full scholarship for the award honoree to participate in the EXCEL leadership development program, including 1 year of executive coaching.

EXCEL, which is offered by the Nonprofit Leadership Institute of Cincinnati (NLIGC) is a nine-month leadership development and skills training program for nonprofit executive directors and high-level managers. EXCEL is designed to enrich the management capabilities of those individuals leading or preparing to lead nonprofit organizations in the Greater Cincinnati region.

Eligibility Criteria for OneSource  Center’s Emerging Leader Award:

NOTE: Candidates should be nominated by a supervisor, mentor, peer or other individual close to the candidate being nominated. This is not an application process, but rather an opportunity for those who see leadership qualities in others to nominate them for this award and recognition.

Candidates must:

• Be a management level employee who has the potential for advancing to more challenging leadership roles (e.g. with a larger agency).
• Have obtained an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree or higher level of education.
• Have demonstrated strong leadership skills.
• Is perceived by the nominator as having emerging skills and talents to advance to a higher level of leadership.
• Be a person in our multicultural community of a race that is under-represented in nonprofit leadership.

Selection Process:

• Nomination deadline is July 30, 2023.
• A selection panel consisting of 4-6 members will review nominations and select the recipient for the award. The honoree will be identified by August 4, 2023 and must complete the required EXCEL program application by August 11, 2023.
• The selected recipient must meet EXCEL enrollment criteria including a commitment to attend each of the 10 full-day sessions (See complete enrollment criteria here.)

Nomination form

Have you been looking for a chance to visit us and shop at the Common Good Store? Well, the time has arrived! OneSource Center will hold an Open House on June 22, 2023. This will be a great chance for current (and potential) members to learn more about OneSource Center, through a fun day of events! Stop by and bring a friend!

At OneSource Center, we value connection and collaboration. This could look like an introduction between two Executive Directors at a training seminar, consultant guidance through a strategic planning process, or a referral to a vetted service provider to fill an essential capacity need. We listen to feedback from the local nonprofit community, and find the resources that reinforce your mission. These collaborations are the result of intentional consideration into what we have heard is needed from the nonprofit community. We are now working with JVS Careers, FORVIS, and VonLehman CPA Advisory Firm to support demand in human resources and financial operations.

Having solid human resources is foundational to all organizations and recruiting new staff is a time-consuming and difficult task for nonprofits. OneSource Center is now working with JVS Careers to supplement our internal HR-related consulting services. JVS Careers is a nonprofit talent acquisition company. We are excited about this partnership opportunity, and we know that you will be in good hands when it is time for you to hire a new member of your upper management or Executive Leadership team. JVS Careers handles the full-cycle recruiting and pre-screening steps, and will pass along qualified candidates to your organization for final interviews. When you are looking to strengthen your team or for your next staff search, contact us to learn how we and JVS Careers can help.

Accounting, bookkeeping, and internal controls can also be tricky for nonprofits, yet are critical for daily operations. As a nonprofit leader, you know how important it is to keep a pulse on your revenue and expenses. Your organization’s financial processes are the heartbeat that gives life to the mission, the vision, the values, and the impact in the community. Our Financial Review is a basic assessment of evaluation using best practices from nonprofit financial management. At the end of this review, you will gain insight into some common operational problems within the nonprofit sector. We are collaborating with CPAs from FORVIS and VonLehman CPA Advisory Firm to facilitate the Financial Review and provide expert guidance to improve your financial ops processes.

Australian strategist Peter Ellyard says, “the future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found, but made; and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.” Let’s bolster each other’s activities, and create a future of active collaboration and engagement here in Cincinnati. To learn more about JVS Careers, the Financial Review, and other consulting services, contact Amanda Lynn Barker at abarker@onesourcectr.org.