Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Welcome!

Welcome to the Center for Nonprofit's Blog! The CNP staff encourages nonprofit professionals in our community to participate by posting your comments or suggestions to any article posted. We will continue to post updates on what the CNP is doing as well as articles on variety of topics of interest to our community.

Initally, We decided to post the guidelines for our new Matching Funds Program in order gain feedback. Please note that this is a new program for the CNP and there are bound to be glitches in the system. We appreciate your suggestions and input and will review the program after the first quarter is complete.

Tell us what you think about the CNP Matching Funds Program!

CNP's Matching Funds Guidelines

The CNP is proud to offer matching funds of 50% to qualifying CNP members. Organizations with annual budgets under $1,000,000 dollars can apply to recieve these funds by completing the Matching Funds Request Form below. Funds will be distrubuted on a first come first served basis, and cannot be applied to any training in which nationally known speakers are brought in or towards our Annual Tennessee Valley Fundraising Institute registration fee unless otherwise noted.

Matching Fund Request Form

CNP members who receive matching funds must follow these guidelines:
  • Must be a current CNP member
  • Must submit a copy of your annual budget, if not already on file
  • Payment of 1/2 the course fee must be recieved prior to the training event
  • Organization which receive matching funds and do not attend the training in which they registered and did not cancel their registration at least 24 hours beforehand will no longer be eligible for matching funds. Please note, if you are unable to attend someone from your organization may attend in your place.
  • Matching funds request form must be submitted or on file
  • Must indicate that the organization is applying for matching funds in the "comments" box when registering online
The CNP has funds available to match 50% of the training cost for up to 25 participants each month. Organizations may not apply for matching funds more than twice per month.