Vivalon, established in 1956, is the North Bay’s leading provider of services to older adults through an extensive array of services including transportation, nutrition, classes, and information & referral fueled by the sheer power of human connection.
When Catholic Charities came to PRG, they had an ambitious goal. The agency, one of the county’s oldest and largest, had been on the front lines of homelessness for decades and needs were surging.
The East Bay Center for the Performing Arts (“The Center”) has, for more than 50 years, been Richmond’s premier nonprofit in the advanced arts and youth development, serving thousands of young people in public schools and at their performing arts center in the Iron Triangle neighborhood of Richmond, CA.
Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay (JFCS), founded in 1877, is one of the Bay Area’s “legacy” institutions and a leading provider of refugee resettlement services, programs for young children and their parents, support for Holocaust survivors, therapy, and services to older adults including home care.
by Melissa Irish, PRG Managing Associate I recently read a staggering statistic citing that losing an employee costs 90 to 200 percent of their salary, benefits and expenses, according to the Society for Human Resource Management and the Center for American Progress. They went on to say that for top fundraisers, such as major gifts …
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We asked Victoria Silverman, Managing Founder and CEO of Cook Silverman Search what advice she has for retaining staff. “The first step is for the organization to do the hard work to provide an environment that is commensurate with what it is asking of its employees,” Silverman explains. “I find that asking hard questions can …
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by Elliot Levin, PRG President & Founder Tran-si-tion: the process or a period of changing from one state to another. We’ve all been through mega-transitions in the last two years: the pandemic, wildfire, drought, power shut offs, a newly remote workforce, and a wave of nonprofit professional retirements. And yet, charitable giving in the US …
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by Melissa Irish, PRG Managing Associate A few tips on making your year-end appeal even more successful! Make sure you inform your donors that they can make gifts of appreciated stock. (And make sure you have a broker that can receive such gifts!). With so much growth in the markets, there are huge advantages to …
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When Afghanistan fell in August, leaving thousands of Afghans in danger from the Taliban, JFCS East Bay went into hyperdrive to prepare to offer safety and refuge to new arrivals in the East Bay.
by Elliot Levin, PRG President & Founder PRG recently served as capital campaign counsel to the largest, successful campaign in recent Sonoma County history – the $48 million Caritas Center, developed by Catholic Charities of Santa Rosa – that brings hope and a new start to homeless families and individuals through a comprehensive mix of …
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