What do you guys do, anyway? Or, a Cheat Sheet of COCo Services

In the past week, we’ve gotten calls from 14 organizations looking to work with us, and another 9 looking for information, advice, and guidance for the problems they’re facing in their organizations. That is amazing, and we want you all to keep calling, so it seems as good a time as ever to remind you what your options are.

As the communications coordinator, I am acutely aware that some of our services are a little… hard to grasp! So, as we all collectively dive back into our work, here’s a little “cheat sheet” for what, exactly, COCo does. Read more.

Thinking about Doing Some Evaluation? Here’s How to Get Started

While having coffee with a friend the other day, she bemoaned her upcoming annual performance review. I suggested that she think of it as “me” time. Time set aside to talk exclusively about you and ideally, a space to invite feedback, discuss managing the challenges of the work and future direction. Many people dread evaluation, whether it’s Board evaluation, organizational evaluation or program evaluation, because we associate it with judgment and accountability. But like a staff performance review, it should be an organization’s “me” time — an opportunity to pause, consider how we’re doing, take stock of our achievements and celebrate.

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Understanding the Changes to Your NonProfit’s Facebook Page

Facebook has been slowly rolling out changes to the “Pages” feature since the Spring, and by now, most of us have transferred to the new system. We’ve been slowly figuring out what all the new changes mean, and here is what we have got so far.  Read more.