Our Vision for Collective Impact
Town Square for the Nonprofit Sector
- Serve as the hub for knowledge, resources, and innovation for the sector
- Provide a physical home – complimented with a virtual reach – for nonprofit collaboration in Colorado
- Convene Coloradans from all sectors and communities to discuss problems, propose solutions, and lead change
- Leverage our networks and affiliations to raise the profile of key issues facing the nonprofit sector
- Provide a leadership role in advocacy by gathering information, serving as a knowledge base, and activating our constituencies
- Highlight the essential contributions of the nonprofit sector to quality of life and economic development in Colorado
- Assist in development and awareness of dynamic career opportunities in the Colorado nonprofit sector
- Increase capacity of nonprofits to find, focus, and keep talented employees
- Encourage transformative use of volunteers in high impact roles
- Provide capacity support for nonprofits to take ideas to scale
- Respond to a sector that is increasingly diverse in organizational size, complexity, locality, and flexibility
- Technically assist nonprofits as they explore collaboration, the sharing of back-end resources, and restructuring of organizations to maximize mission impact
- Provide current information and future forecasting on the shifts in revenue resources for nonprofits and trends in giving
- Train nonprofits to perform accurate financial forecasting and develop realistic
- resource growth plans
- Prepare nonprofits for a world where social good is not always funded – or led – within the structure of 501(c)(3) organizations