ACTION ALERT on Charitable Tax Extenders

Urge Congress to Permanently Extend Key Charitable Giving Incentives Congress needs to hear from you today! Leaders in the House and Senate are now considering passing a separate bill to make the charitable provisions permanent. But they need to hear from you today to understand that passing permanent extensions of these tax incentives is very important to nonprofits and the people you serve. Congress shouldn't quit for the year before getting this done.    TAKE ACTION Time is truly of the essence, so contact your Representative and Senators today by phone, email, or social media. By Phone: Call the Capitol switchboard (202-224-3121), ask to be connected to your Senators' and Representative's offices.   By Email: Find your Senators' email addresses and your Representatives email address and send them this message, along with any other information about how the expired giving incentives have helped your nonprofit perform work in their communities: Tell your representatives to:   "Make the three charitable tax incentives (extenders) permanent before adjourning; our communities rely on work funded by these incentives and we are counting on your help. Congress needs to make permanent the three charitable tax incentives - the IRA Rollover, the enhanced deduction for donations of food inventories and donations of conservation easements - so that all nonprofits can plan for the future and secure support for their work. Read more here about why we need these incentives for giving extended.

Tweet to your Representatives Today! Find your Senators and Representatives Twitter handles and tweet one of the following @ them: @_____ Our communities deserve better than a 3-week tax extension; make charitable giving incentives permanent #protectgiving @_____ 3-week tax extension doesn't help the communities #nonprofits serve; make charitable giving incentives permanent #protectgiving @_____ HR5771 = a 3-week extension; communities served by #nonprofits deserve better. Make charitable giving incentives permanent

Don't Forget! Free Nonprofit Salary and Benefits Data

Participate in the Nonprofit Times Salary & Benefits Survey of New York's Nonprofits...Receive Free Executive Summary of the Data!   NYCON Members are invited to participate in a statewide nonprofit salary and benefits survey.  The statewide New York survey is part of the comprehensive national survey being conducted by The NonProfit Times. What You Get: Just for completing the survey NYCON Members will get a Free Executive Summary of the New York State data, with full salary data for all positions. All members who complete the survey will receive 50% off the full report ($250) which will include comprehensive data on nonprofit salaries and benefits in your state and nationwide (including information about benefit offerings, costs, eligibility, and employee participation for 94 employee benefits from health insurance to retirement plans.)  The survey is designed to be quick and easy, with help just a click or phone call away if you need it. New for the 2015 Survey: Faster and easier to complete! Any organizations who participated in the survey in 2013/2014 can use their existing data to jump start the 2015 survey completion process. Look for an email from The NonProfit Times with special instructions on how to log-in to access this new feature.   Now you can take the survey with all the major web browsers including Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer   More intuitive to enter data   More prompts to guide users To view a sample of The NonProfit Times 2012 Salary and Benefits report for NY State, Click Here. The NonProfit Times 2015 Salary and Benefits Report will present survey results by multiple views to allow for quick and easy comparisons against relevant peer organizations by geographic location, operating budget, number of employees, and field of work. This report will provide detailed information on 94 employee benefit offerings, 28 job families, and hundreds of nonprofit positions with key performance metrics that can be used to benchmark compensation and benefit practice.   Survey Features Convenient and flexible   - Complete the online survey questionnaire at your own pace and schedule. Comprehensive job coverage - The survey collects base salary and bonus pay information on more than 300  positions. Easy and accurate position matching - Match the positions within your organization to the survey using the intuitive job family groupings. Ongoing assistance whenever you need it - Contact us by phone or email if you need help completing the survey. Complete information about benefits practices - The survey gathers information about benefit offerings, costs, eligibility and employee participation for 94 employee benefits. Organizational profile information - The questionnaire collects data on budget size, employee turnover, salary increases, employee tenure, staffing levels, geographic location, field of work, and number of employees.

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Capital Region Creative Economy: Creative Freelancer Survey

Capital Region Creative Economy Creative Freelancer Survey

Creative Freelancer Survey - We need your input!     The Capital Region Creative Economy Project needs information about the creative jobs in our region.  If you: are a freelancer in design, media, visual arts, performing arts, visual arts, and/or crafts, please complete this survey by June 1st.   know a freelancer in design, media, visual arts, performing arts, visual arts, and/or crafts please forward this email to him/her today. More about the survey here. Surveys must be completed by June 1, 2014.   PRIZE: A $100 AMAZON GIFT CERTIFICATE WILL BE GIVEN TO A RANDOMLY SELECTED INDIVIDUAL WHO COMPLETES THIS SURVEY!     Looking for FREELANCERS working in:   Design Graphic Arts/Graphic Design Services Architecture Landscape Architecture Interior Design Industrial Design Services Printing Other Specialized Design (e.g., Adirondack Studios)  Media Motion Picture and Video Industries Sound Recording Industries Radio and Television Broadcasting Internet Publishing and Broadcasting News Syndicates Newspaper Advertising Book Stores Publishers Public Relations Agencies and Media Representatives Agents and Managers for Artist/Entertainers, etc. Gaming (e.g., Vicarious Visions*) Independent Writers  Performing Arts Performing Arts Companies Promoters of Performing Arts and Sports Agents/Managers for Public Figures Music and Dance Schools Musical Instrument Manufacturing and Supplies Stores Self-employed Actors, Dancers, Directors, Musicians  Visual Arts and Hand-Crafted Products (Makers-Economy) Photography Sculpting Painting Jewelry Pottery Textiles Pressed and Blown Glass Art Dealers Galleries Craft Making (e.g., Etsy items, Sewing, Needlework, etc.) Craft Stores*     LEARN MORE! Visit www.upstatecreative.org for updates and more information on the people and processes behind the Capital Region Creative Economy Initiative. Know someone who should be on our email list? Click here and enter his/her information to be added to our email list! Recipient will have to verify email address and interest. VISIT OUR WEBSITE

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NYSACRA Action Alert

NYSACRA Action Alert

PLEASE consider reaching out to your assemblyman and senator to express your concern over the cuts proposed below. Springbrook provides invaluable support to people with developmental disabilities. The proposed 6% cut equates to $1.2 million for this organization.The proposed 6% cut equates to $1.2 million for this organization. The phone calls take less than a minute each. PLEASE PLEASE call.

As you are well aware, the proposed 2013-14 Executive Budget proposes a 6% across the board cut to all voluntary not-for-profit providers throughout the State of New York, effective April 1, 2013.  If this cut is enacted, the developmental disabilities system of supports and services will be negatively impacted, dramatically.  NYSACRA has received information from members as to how the reductions will be absorbed if a restoration is not successful.  Agencies will be forced to: reduce services and supports, eliminate entire programs, layoff all levels of staff including direct support professionals.  We all know how this will translate if the cuts are to be taken: the great strides we've made as a sector will quickly erode and the quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) will be negatively impacted.

Both houses of the State Legislature are in the process of negotiating and getting ready to release the respective one-house budget measures.  While we understand the 6% across the board cut to the not-for-profit developmental disabilities sector is gaining great attention in the State Legislature, we need to continue advocacy efforts and therefore we are asking agencies, parents and family members, agency staff and direct support professionals, self advocates to make two telephone calls this week.

WHO TO CALL:

Please make two telephone calls, one to your State Assemblymember and the other to your State Senator in their Albany Offices

WHEN:

This week (the week of March 4^th)

WHAT'S MY MESSAGE:

"I'm a constituent and I am concerned the proposed 6% across the board cut to the not-for-profit developmental disabilities providers will negatively impact supports, services and programs.  I wish to thank my Assemblymember/Senator for his/her support of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and ask him/her to support restoration of the 6% proposed cut in the one-house budget bill."

HOW:

Contact the Assembly Operator at 518-455-4100 and ask to be transferred to your Assemblymember's Office. (if you do not know who your Member of the Assembly is, go towww.assembly.state.ny.us to identify your Member.  You may also obtain his/her direct Albany Office telephone number, rather than going through the Assembly Operator).

Contact the Senate Operator at 518-455-2800 and ask to be transferred to your Senator's Office (if you do not know who your Member of the Senate is, go to www.nysenate.gov to identify your Senator. You may also obtain his/her Albany Office telephone number on the website, rather than going through the Senate Operator).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ONGOING ADVOCACY AND EFFORTS!

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THROUGHOUT THIS WEEK AND NEXT WEEK

NPQ's annual survey

NPQ's annual survey

Please tell NPQ what to do!

We are pleased to send you NPQ’s annual survey.

If you fill it out:
 

1. You will know that you have had an impact on NPQ’s editorial agenda for 2013. We choose topics to follow guided by the answers we get from you;
2. You may be invited to join NPQ’s Editorial Advisory Board and attend our annual reader advisory committee meeting, an always-fascinating two-day event on the East Coast. The more complete your answers are the more likely it is that you will be selected (if you cannot pay your way, we will, and your name will appear on our masthead as an advisor);
3. You may receive a free subscription to our print journal (every twentieth respondent completing a survey will receive one);
4. You will receive a summary of our findings from the survey.

 
Most important, you will know that you have helped direct NPQ—an important information source for civil society—just by showing up (taking the survey) and having informed opinions!

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