Take the Salary Survey, Get a Free Summary of the Data

New York Nonprofit Salary & Benefits Survey is Open!  All NYCON Members Taking the Survey Receive a FreeExecutive Summary and 50% Off Full Report!   Deadline to Enter Data is June 28th. more info Once again NYCON Members are invited to participate in a statewide and national nonprofit salary and benefits survey being conducted by The NonProfit Times .  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 practices including: Base Salary and Total Cash Compensation data with percentile rankings for each position Bonus Pay practices including average payout, percentage receiving and organizations paying Annual Salary Increases (prior and current year; executive and non-executive) Employee Turnover and Average Tenure by position Total compensation costs as a percentage of operating expenses Employee profile data; number of full/part time; exempt vs. nonexempt Executive Perks and Benefits (organizations offering, special benefits offered) Medical, Dental and Vision (costs paid by organization, eligibility, plan offerings, participation rates) Prescription Drug (retail and mail order costs) Retirement Plans (organization contributions, eligibility, plan offerings, participation rates) Executive Employment Agreements (organizations offering, terms and conditions Life Insurance & Disability (eligibility, offerings, participation) General Benefit Offering (covers 35 unique benefit programs) Flexible Spending Accounts (offerings, maximum contribution percentile rankings) Employee Leave (vacation, sick, paid time off, personal, holidays, bereavement, FMLA) Overtime Practices - exempt vs. non-exempt staff Part Time Employee Benefit Offerings Changes in Data from 2012 -2013 Use this new feature to quickly and simply identify critical shifts and potential marketplace trends for all salary and benefits data The 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.   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 currently).The survey is designed to be quick and easy with help just a click or phone call away if you need it. Don't miss this chance to participate.   Deadline to enter data is June 28th!    Important Information About the Survey Survey Features  Survey Schedule  Questions About Participation  Position Coverage  Sample Reports  Participant Data Confidentiality   New 2013 Survey Features:  The survey is now faster and easier to complete! Anyone who participated in the survey in 2011 or 2012can use their existing data to jump start the 2013 survey completion process. (Look for an email form The NonProfit Times with special instructions on how to login to access this new feature.)       Now you can take the survey with all the major web browsers including Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Now it's easier and more intuitive to enter data with the addition of more prompts to guide users. Deadline to enter data is June 28th!

National Volunteer Week Funds Available

The Institute for Human Services Brings You:National Volunteer Week Mini Grants

National Volunteer Week: April 21-27, 2013

Are you planning a volunteer event as part of National Volunteer Week during April 21-27th?  Could you use some additional funds to enhance your project's impact?

If you have answered "YES" to either of these questions then consider applying for a mini-grant from 2-1-1 HELPLINE Give Help and the Regional Volunteer Center of the Southern Tier!

Because of this partnership, we are to be able to offer mini-grants to support local volunteer efforts in Chemung, Steuben and Schuyler Counties during National Volunteer Week. If your organization is currently planning an event for that week and could use some additional funding to enhance your efforts we encourage you to request a mini-grant of up to $350. If you are interested in applying for a mini-grant, simply fill out our online application by going to the link below. Please complete the survey by Friday March 29th. Decisions regarding project funding will be made by Friday April 5th, 2013.

Apply Here!

  

If you have any questions, please contact Tess McKinley at mckinleyt@ihsnet.org or at (607) 776-9467, ext. 217. 

2-1-1 HELPLINE Give Help coordinates volunteer support services, by serving as a volunteer clearinghouse and resource center that is supported by United Way of the Southern Tier to increase civic engagement in our area.  Interested in volunteering?  Want to add your volunteer opportunities to our database?  Learn more here.

The Regional Volunteer Center of the Southern Tier is a collaboration designed to promote and enhance local volunteer efforts in our community. Under the leadership of the Institute for Human Services, United Way of Broome County, and United Way of Tompkins County, local non-profits are coming together to create a dynamic regional partnership to enhance and strengthen local volunteer efforts.  The Regional Volunteer Center of the Southern Tier is one of ten regional volunteer centers in New York State.

Two Quick Polls, Share Your Story with NBC Nightly News

 Two Quick Polls, Share Your Story with NBC Nightly News

Share You Feedback, Share Your Stories

NYCON has recently launched two quick polls. Take a few minutes to share your feedback on the proposed increase in the minimum wage as well as giving your input on the ways your nonprofit might  utilize vendor relationships internationally in order to save money.

 

Poll #1:Where Do You Get Your Goods & Services?

Click here to take the poll 

NBC Nightly News has recently contacted NYCON inquiring about how New York nonprofits access the most affordable goods & services - and how they might utilize vendor relationships outside the United States. We are defining goods and services as utilities (electricity, water, natural gas, heating oil, phone service, etc.) as well as basic program or office supplies (i. e. paper, toner, or in the case of heath care, pharmaceuticals.)  

   

Poll #2: Raise the Minimum Wage?

Click here to take the poll.

The Governor has recently proposed a plan to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $8.75 an hour. Do you agree with this proposal?

For the online version click here.

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!

Here's the online article and survey link

News from the Institute for Human Services and Nonprofits in the Southern Tier

News from the Institute for Human Services and Nonprofits in the Southern Tier

Learn how to create the framework for you own marketing plan even if you have no background or education in marketing by registering for the workshop on successful marketing for non-profits. Register here!

RSVP for the IHS annual meeting. You will be able to learn more about IHS and other nonprofits as well.

Conference brochure and registration

Request for exhibitors

Help us help you with your volunteer needs! The 2-1-1 HELPLINE Give Help Program of the Institute for Human Services, Inc. is asking for people in charge of volunteers at local agencies to complete a brief survey, the results of which will collect data about volunteers in the region.

Learn more about Helpline

Take the survey

Support Your Local Nonprofits - Check Out These FUNdraisers!

• Tanglewood Winterfest - This Saturday!  Come for breakfast and games at the beautiful Tanglewood location.
• CASA Zumbathon - Kick start your New Year's Resolutions  by supporting CASA of the Southern Tier, Inc and taking part in a Zumbathon with ten of the best instructors in the area.  
• Send Kids to Camp Fundraiser at Crystal Bowling Alley - All benefits go towards sends kids to the wonderful Youth Experience Summer Camp Program at the Corning YMCA.
• Family Fitness Center Hosts Harlem Wizards - Come to this event with amazing basketball talent and comedy to benefit the Chemung County Family Fitness Center and Southern Tier Smoke Travel Softball Team.!  Local celebrities will be present!
• Arc of Schuyler Spaghetti Dinner - Eat spaghetti to help the Arc of Schuyler: purchase your tickets now.
• Beer & Chili, Wine & Chocolate - A fundraiser for the Erwin Child & Family Center.  Enjoy yourself with entertainment, auctions, raffles and tastings from 30+ vendors.

The Rockwell Museum of Western Art Presents A Conversation with National Geographic Photographer, Aaron Huey

Learn More

RSVP

Visit the online provider to read more! 

The State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey

Participate Now: The Nonprofit Finance Fund Releases
"2013 State of the Sector Survey"

Beginning today, the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF)is conducting its 5th Annual National Survey examining the current state of the nonprofit sector from a financial perspective and we hope that you will add your voice.  

The survey is anonymous and takes only 10 to 15 minutes to fill out.  

It will collect data on important financial and management issues facing the nonprofit sector. (Take a look at the 2012 results, an interactive survey analyzer, and media attention here.)

To take the 2013 survey, please click

HERE before February 15^th.

Also, please do pass on the link above to other nonprofit managers you know-the more survey respondents, the more representative and accurate the findings will be.

NFF will analyze the results and provide them to everyone in late March.

Also, all survey respondents who choose to give their contact information will receive the results directly. The findings, and the comparison to previous years' findings, will help identify the most critical areas of need in the sector.

If you have already filled out the 2013 survey, thank you for supporting this data gathering effort!

2012 Nonprofit Organizations Salary and Benefits Report

The information in this report will give you the non-profit salary range for nearly 254 positions in the nonprofit sector across the country.   PURCHASE NOW  NYCON Members can use discount code ny25offny. Take advantage of NYCON's NEW Membership Benefit: "Budgeting & Cash Flow Toolkits" Designed with the needs of the small to medium sized nonprofit in mind, this is a "fool proof" tool to develop a streamlined, compliant and easy to understand budget. For more information just click here.

Charities Seeing Slight Recovery in Giving, But Not Enough to Keep Up with Demand or Budget Cuts

Nonprofit organizations have seen a slight turnaround in giving so far this year that mirrors the slow economic recovery, a new survey from the Nonprofit Research Collaborative (NRC) finds. But the small rebound hasn't been enough to help many nonprofits that are grappling with staff and service cuts even as demand for their services has increased.

The national survey showed that 36 percent of charities reported an increase in donations in the first nine months of 2010, compared with only 23 percent in the same period of 2009.

Thirty-seven percent of charities reported a decrease in giving, a dramatic change from 2009's 51 percent. Among those experiencing a decline in giving, the main reason cited was fewer individual donations and smaller amounts. Lower amounts received from foundations and corporations also contributed to the overall lower giving amounts at these charities. Giving remained unchanged at 26 percent of nonprofits in 2010 vs. 25 percent in 2009.

"We are beginning to see some positive signs, but despite that giving still has a long way to go to return to the levels it was at three or four years ago," said Patrick M. Rooney, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, which spearheaded the collaboration. "One-fifth of charities in the survey said their budgets for 2011 will be lower than for 2010, forcing many of them to look at cuts in services, salaries and staff."

Among the 20 percent of nonprofits anticipating reduced budgets next year, 66 percent say they will have to reduce programs, services or operating hours, 59 percent expect to cut or freeze staff salaries or benefits, and 49 percent are planning layoffs or hiring freezes.

"The Nonprofit Fundraising Survey: November 2010" is the first product of a collaboration involving six organizations that serve the nonprofit sector: the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Blackbaud, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, the Foundation Center, GuideStar USA Inc., and the Urban Institute's National Center for Charitable Statistics.

"For the first time in two years, there is cause for cautious optimism about the nonprofit sector in this economy," said Bob Ottenhoff, president and CEO of GuideStar. "Nonetheless, in this latest study, as in all prior years, nonprofits also are reporting increased demand for their services. Even as giving increases, philanthropic dollars fall short of the amounts needed to help people in our country and abroad."

Demand for services increased at 78 percent of human service nonprofits and 68 percent of charities overall in 2010. Charities will be hard-pressed in 2011 to secure funding for growing needs, especially as individual and foundation donors are cautious about boosting support and other sources of funding — including government contracts for services — are cut.

"Younger, less well-established nonprofits have been especially hard hit by the recession," noted Lawrence T. McGill, vice president for research at the Foundation Center. "Many foundations, seeking to maximize more limited resources, have steered their grantmaking toward organizations they believe have the best chance to weather the economic storm."

Other Key NRC Survey Findings:

• In four of eight subsectors, the share of organizations reporting an increase in contributions was about the same as the share reporting a decrease. The four with nearly equal percentages of organizations with giving up and giving down are: arts, education, environment/animals, and human services.
• International organizations were the most likely to report an increase in contributions, reflecting donations made for disaster relief.
• In three subsectors — health, public-society benefit, and religion — a larger share of the organizations reported declines than reported increases.
• The larger an organization's annual expenditures, the more likely it reported an increase in charitable receipts in the first nine months of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009.
• Most organizations were guardedly optimistic about 2011. Forty-seven percent plan budget increases, 33 percent expect to maintain their current level of expenditures, and 20 percent anticipate a lower budget for 2011.

The Collaborative and Survey Methodology

By working together, the Nonprofit Research Collaborative can reduce the number of surveys nonprofits are asked to complete, collect information more efficiently, and analyze it in more useful ways to create the benchmarks and trends that nonprofits and grant makers use to guide their work. Each partner has at least a decade of direct experience collecting information from nonprofits on charitable receipts, fundraising practices, and/or grantmaking activities. Survey participants will form a panel over time, allowing for trend comparisons among the same organizations. This approach provides more useful benchmarking information than repeated cross-sectional studies.

The first NRC survey, based on questions that GuideStar used for its annual economic surveys, was fielded between October 19 and November 3, 2010. It received 2,513 responses. More than 2,350 charities completed the questions, as did 163 foundations. The analysis for grant makers includes responses from charities that make grants but that are not foundations. These include United Ways, Jewish federations, congregations, and a number of other types of organizations. There were responses from 386 grant makers.

The respondents form a convenience sample. There is no margin of error or measure of statistical significance using this sampling technique, as it is not a random sample of the population studied. However, given the long-running nature of GuideStar's economic surveys and the strong relationship between findings in those studies in prior years and actual results once tax data about charitable giving are available, the method employed here is a useful barometer of what charities experience and what total giving will look like. In the future, the NRC surveys are expected to occur in early winter, spring, and fall every year.

"The Nonprofit Fundraising Survey: November 2010" (PDF), which includes responses broken down by types of nonprofits and budget size, can be downloaded at no charge from the Gain Knowledge area of the Foundation Center's web site.

NYSCA: Actors Fund Affordable Housing Survey

As a member of the professional performing arts and entertainment community, have you struggled to find affordable housing?

If so, the Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation (AFHDC) wants to hear from you.

NYSCA is working with AFHDC in their efforts to learn about the housing needs of the performing arts and entertainment community in the New York/New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania regions.

From now until December 6th, you can participate in a 10-minute survey to help them determine the unique affordable housing needs of entertainment professionals.

Your opinion is vital as your responses will assist AFHDC in determining interest, need, design, amenities and more! Your input, and the input of your friends, will move this project forward!

Take the survey now at www.ActorsFundHousingSurvey.org.

If you have questions or need more information, contact The Actors Fund Survey Team at 212.221.7300 ext 107.

For more on The Actors Fund, please visit www.actorsfund.org.

Spread the word and help us help AFHDC!