ANNUAL REPORT
2014
GEORGIA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS
IGNITE POSSIBLE.
Jesse Owens once said, “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” At GCN, we know that nonprofit endeavor starts with a dream—a vision to make something different and better. But we also know that turning vision into reality requires hard work and leadership, along with the practical application of solid business principles like strategy, process and performance management, and continuous improvement. As leadership teams and boards caught up in the daily grind of delivering a mission, it’s often a struggle to find time for crafting a refreshed strategy, learning a new skill, or applying a novel concept—even when doing so would mean transforming a process, a team, or an effort. That transformation, in turn, could be what scales mission impact, delivers more revenue to support the cause, and ensures your work’s future. GCN’s purpose is to take away the barriers that keep nonprofits from achieving their visions. By delivering insights, tools, resources, and know-how, we ignite the potential inside leaders, organizations, and the Georgia nonprofit sector as a whole. We know that when nonprofits succeed, communities succeed. That is why our vision is to Ignite Possible for Georgia nonprofits. For your help in making that vision a reality again over this past year, we’d like to say thank you—and congratulations. The achievements and successes we celebrate in this report are yours as well: the members, donors, partners, and supporters who Ignite Possible for us. Karen Beavor President and CEO Edward Shartar Chair, Board of Directors
TOGETHER, WE IGNITE POSSIBLE.
IN 2014
OUR MISSION
WE’RE IGNITING POSSIBLE FOR COMMUNITIES ACROSS GEORGIA—and building the most vibrant
and dynamic nonprofit sector in the country.
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits builds thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. Through a powerful mix of advocacy, solutions for nonprofit effectiveness, and insightbuilding tools, GCN provides nonprofits, board members, and donors with the tools they need to strengthen organizations that make a difference on important causes throughout Georgia.
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LEADERSHIP
We’re EQUIPPING COMMUNITY LEADERS with the skills and networks they need to advance their missions and strengthen communities across the state. 2014 saw another leap forward for our nationally recognized leadership development programs, which are advancing Georgia’s vanguard of nonprofit leaders while fostering the next generation.
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GIVING
Each year bigger than the last, our Georgia Gives Day initiative is BUILDING A GIVING MOVEMENT to power community-based nonprofits statewide.
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IMPACT
We’re CHANGING WHAT’S ACHIEVABLE IN SOCIAL IMPACT. From health to education, for the environment and the arts, we’re ensuring that nonprofits who address the causes that matter most to Georgia are driven by high-performance practices, from strategy to execution.
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TALENT
Change is fueled by difference-makers: the smart, determined, passionate, and creative people who want the work they do to matter. Through career support and professional development, we’re NURTURING THE TALENT THAT POWERS NONPROFIT MISSIONS.
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ACTION
We’re SPARKING THE NEXT BIG THING with innovative initiatives, purposeful relationships, and the resources to take risks that deliver on the vision. Our vibrant multi-sector community encourages knowledge-sharing, inspires collective solutions, and builds a powerful network for good.
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LEADERSHIP We’re EQUIPPING COMMUNITY LEADERS with the skills and networks they need to advance their missions and strengthen communities across the state. Through innovative leadership development programs, we are advancing Georgia’s vanguard of nonprofit leaders while fostering the next generation.
BUILDING A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE LEADERS
What nonprofits do is hard: creating new and effective solutions to old, intractable problems—and doing it under tight resource constraints. GCN’s Nonprofit CEO Peerspectives cultivates deep peer networks, delivering not only the best leadership training in the Southeast, but the human capital it takes to solve Georgia’s most important challenges. In 2014, our fourth Peerspectives cohort began their six-month experience, bringing together long-time and newly-minted chief executives for critical conversations on leadership and how to sharpen their skills. They join a vibrant peer network of 105 Atlanta sector leaders that is yielding lasting relationships, organizational collaboration, and a stronger community.
315
NONPROFIT EXECUTIVE AND BOARD LEADERS ENGAGED IN GCN’S EXECUTIVE PROGRAMMING IN 2014—FROM BOARD LEADERSHIP CLINICS AND TRAINING SESSIONS TO CEO-LEVEL PROGRAMS
“We are so proud to be the presenting sponsor for GCN’s Peerspectives program. It’s wonderful to be able to serve and support Georgia’s top nonprofit CEO leaders in a way that so clearly strengthens our communities.” LINDA A. PARRISH, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, KING & SPALDING
“Through the program, it quickly became clear to me that there is no such thing as ‘competing’ in this sector. What helps one of us helps all of us, directly or indirectly—a far cry from my Coke v. Pepsi background. Peerspectives made this concept easy to grasp, and that has made a great difference.” CHANDRA STEPHENS-ALBRIGHT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, C5 GEORGIA YOUTH FOUNDATION
LEADING ON INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY
We believe that there’s nothing more important for the sector than championing inclusion, diversity, and opportunity, especially in nonprofit leadership. Now in its eighth year, High Potential Diverse Leaders (HPDL) is among the nation’s premier leadership development programs for next-generation sector leaders. Delivered annually in partnership with American Express, our 2014 program engaged a diverse group of 32 rising Atlanta nonprofit stars in an in-depth journey, emphasizing personal assessment and individual leadership styles. HPDL continues to engage a growing peer community of 212 alumni through networking and mentorship opportunities, ensuring that Georgia’s nonprofit leadership will be as rich and diverse as our communities.
“I discovered that you cannot develop yourself as a leader without developing yourself as a person. HPDL revealed to me that leadership is not something that is limited to the workplace: It is a way of thinking and being.” STEFFANI SALTER, TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND OUTREACH ADVOCATE, YWCA OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA
“HPDL expanded my definition of what leadership means. It is much more than project management. It’s empowering others to meet their goals, innovation, and the ability to implement a vision, social influence and social responsibility.” GRETCHEN GIGLEY, DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, THE CLEAN AIR CAMPAIGN
“Through HPDL, I’ve learned that I must be adaptable to change and breed innovation. I understand that, alone, I can create incremental change, but that through collective leadership, we can create a paradigm shift, maximizing outcomes.” CHRIS LATSON, PROGRAM MANAGER, FUTURE FOUNDATION
EMPOWERING LEADERS AROUND THE STATE
From Atlanta to Brunswick and Carrollton to Albany, we are supporting executive and board leadership development in partnership with a network of local and regional funders. Alongside Alice Huffard Richards Fund and The Community Foundation of West Georgia, GCN’s Nonprofit University brought together a cohort of 20 area leaders for a year-long leadership program featuring organizational assessments, facilitated roundtables, peer and funder networking opportunities, executive coaching, and a board “boot camp” engaging staff and volunteer leaders.
“As a participant in the Nonprofit Leadership Initiative, I can attest to its effectiveness as an avenue for personal reflection as well as a conduit for organizational change. GCN and the Alice Huffard Richards Fund have created a powerful catalyst to further develop our local nonprofits.” JULIANNE FOSTER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CARROLLTON CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
BUILDING ALIGNED, STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP TEAMS
Leading for Impact—Atlanta, a multi-year collaboration of GCN and The Bridgespan Group, is engaging the leadership teams at 40 of Atlanta’s top nonprofits in an intensive two-year program to hone strategic and teamwork skills, then apply those skills in team-led projects that address their priority needs and accelerate community impact.
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GIVING Each year bigger than the last, we’re BUILDING A GIVING MOVEMENT in Georgia Gives Day, powering community nonprofits statewide.
“The SunTrust Foundation has had a great experience partnering with GCN on numerous projects as we strive to enrich and empower nonprofit organizations meeting critical community needs.” JOLIE MAXWELL, VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNITY & GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, SUNTRUST
“Georgia Gives Day is an invaluable tool to help us strategically campaign, engage our networks, and create a spirit of giving. We felt overwhelming support from GCN and SunTrust as we exceeded our fundraising goals and increased awareness of our mission and impact.” QAADIRAH ABDUR-RAHIM, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, FUTURE FOUNDATION
GEORGIA
GIVES DAY
2014
Our third Georgia Gives Day 2014 was a record-breaker—raising more money for our state’s nonprofits than the first two Georgia Gives Days combined. This GCN-led initiative is proving the power of partnership to ignite a giving movement. Fueled by a massive collaboration among nonprofits, foundations, companies, government, and media, we celebrated Nov. 13, 2014 as the most generous day yet in our state’s history. It takes a 364-day effort to pull off a large-scale, statewide day of giving: from rallying the generous support of our corporate friends, media partners, and funders, to maintaining help hotlines and the GAgives.org website, to prepping nonprofits with webinars, weekly emails, and live events. The theme for our 2014 support program for participating nonprofits was “Creating Great Campaigns,” showcasing campaign successes, tips and tools based in best practices, and a half-day workshop hosted by SunTrust, helping more than 700 organizations prep for the day.
The contributions of our financial sponsors have been incredibly important to this effort, including gifts through Wells Fargo’s Days of Giving; the Knight Foundation’s financial incentive funds directed to nonprofits in Macon, Milledgeville and Columbus; SunTrust Foundation’s support of financial wellness programming; the Arby’s Foundation’s support of hunger programming; Chick-fil-A’s support of our media and public outreach; and generous support from The Coca-Cola Company, Mohawk Industries, Georgia Power,The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Intimacy, the Gwinnett Braves, and Fiserv/Popmoney. Ames Scullin O’Haire was the mastermind behind the Gives Day television, radio and online ad campaign, and our public relations team at Edelman has donated thousands of hours in our first three years,
2014 IN NUMBERS
creating the media and digital groundswell. Our media partners at Cox Media Group, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WSB-TV Family 2 Family, WXIA-TV 11Alive, AutoTrader.com, Outdoor Advertising
$5 MILLION
(AND COUNTING) RAISED TO DATE ON GAGIVES.ORG
$2.3 MILLION RAISED THIS YEAR, UP 58% FROM 2013
17,742
DONORS, UP 58% FROM 2013
#GAGIVESDAY
NO. 1 TWITTER TRENDING TOPIC IN ATLANTA ON GEORGIA GIVES DAY
2,035
PARTICIPATING NONPROFITS, UP 18% FROM 2013
221
PRIZES AND INCENTIVE GRANTS AWARDED, THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION PARTNERS
741
NONPROFITS PREPPED TO SUCCEED IN 16 GCN WEBINARS AND LIVE EVENTS
Association of Georgia, and the Georgia Association of Broadcasters entire membership of stations have all stepped up to air the PSAs, conduct interviews, and include us in their digital and social outlets. We are also grateful for the enthusiastic support of our elected leaders, including Governor Nathan Deal, Lt. Governor Casey Cagle, Secretary of State Brian Kemp, and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.
“We were thrilled to participate in Georgia Gives Day for a second year, and we increased our donations from this campaign from less than $2,000 in 2013 to $48,000 in 2014! We are grateful to GCN for organizing this effort and raising awareness about giving opportunities to support our mission.” AMY DOSIK, CEO, GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER ATLANTA
“Georgia Gives Day 2014 allowed us to celebrate a great victory for our students and with our students, raising a record $120,700 for scholarships. Now an indispensable part of our annual fundraising campaign, it’s helped increase student involvement, more fully engage our donors, and expand our reach to new audiences via social media.” MARK STROM, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEORGIA MILITARY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
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IMPACT WE’RE CHANGING WHAT’S ACHIEVABLE in social impact to build stronger communities. From health to education, for the environment and the arts, we’re multiplying impact by arming nonprofits with high-performance skills and practices in every area of organizational management, from strategy to execution.
BUILDING MOMENTUM TO STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES
“Momentum for the Arts offers GCA, and the collaboration of funders that support it, a unique opportunity to invest in the tools for nonprofit arts agencies that directly contribute to the sustainability of the sector.” KAREN PATY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEORGIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
“Through Westside Momentum, the participating organizations have the opportunity to access resources that have long been needed to increase their collective community impact.”
The nonprofit sector is more than a collection of organizations—we’re an ecosystem far greater than the sum of our parts. That’s why GCN created Momentum, an organizational development process that doesn’t stop at building high-performing nonprofits: it builds a community of high-performing nonprofits, advancing both individual missions and shared visions. The first and largest initiative of its kind in Georgia, each Momentum project—four are currently underway around the state—takes a cohort of area nonprofits through a two-year process for planning and constructing a high-performance organizational infrastructure, supported by intensive group training and individualized coaching. Throughout, the Momentum process provides metrics for evaluating growth at the individual, team, and organization level around four goals: building strategic capacity, developing effective leaders, fostering collaborations, and promoting sustainability. With the support of local, state, and national funding partners, Momentum has grown from a single pilot project into a statewide initiative engaging more than 200 community nonprofits: from our 2012 launch on the southern coast to a 2013 expansion into four new communities, and a new cohort underway in 2015.
FRANK FERNANDEZ, VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, THE ARTHUR M. BLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION
MOMENTUM around the state 2015-18
WESTSIDE MOMENTUM 45 organizations in Atlanta’s Westside communities
2013-15
MOMENTUM FOR THE ARTS
46 organizations in Augusta, Macon, Albany, and Savannah
2011-13
COAST MOMENTUM
99 organizations in four counties on Georgia’s Southern coast
Funding Partners
“Momentum has challenged us to rethink much of what we thought we knew about nonprofits. By stepping back and looking at the larger picture, we have identified impractical traditions, interfering values, and vain programming that, if left unchecked, may have turned us into something we never wanted to be. Momentum keeps us vigilant against this drift.” JAN BEELAND, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MACON ARTS ALLIANCE
The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area The Creel-Harison Foundation The Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation St. Marys United Methodist Church Foundation Corporation for National and Community Service Georgia Council for the Arts Knight Foundation Knox Foundation Mattie H. Marshall Foundation Robert W. Woodruff Foundation The Trustees of the Academy of Richmond County The Zeist Foundation
“As a fledgling organization, Momentum represents to us the Holy Grail of education, coaching, wisdom, and tools to develop a sturdy infrastructure the first time around. Where we had first seen our novice status as a challenge, with Momentum, we now see it as an opportunity.” CLINTON EDMINSTER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ART RISE SAVANNAH
ADVANCING UNDERSTANDING OF COMMUNITY CHALLENGES
GCN RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT:
WE FOUND THAT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS WITH CURRENT, COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIC PLANS EXPERIENCE STRONGER GROWTH IN PROGRAMS, STAFF, REACH, AND BUDGET. 2014 STRATEGIC BENCHMARKING REPORT: A STUDY OF NONPROFIT PERFORMANCE IN THE 23-COUNTY METRO ATLANTA AREA
Focusing on both geographic area and individual issues to pinpoint need, catalog providers, and uncover duplication and gaps in services, GCN research gives nonprofits and philanthropies tools to clarify their strategies and make data-driven, collaborative decisions. In 2014, we teamed up with The Peyton Anderson Foundation to launch a comprehensive study of nonprofit social services in Macon and Bibb County, and partnered with The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta for a second benchmarking survey documenting the trends in strategy and advocacy practices among metro Atlanta nonprofits.
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NONPROFITS WORKED WITH GCN’S NONPROFIT CONSULTING GROUP IN 2014 ON ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS TO STRENGTHEN THEIR LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND GOVERNANCE.
RE-IMAGINING NONPROFIT IMPACT GCN’s Nonprofit Consulting Group provides the expert guidance needed to develop strategies and internal capacity, enabling nonprofits and philanthropies to accelerate and grow their impact. During 2014, our consulting team engaged nonprofit and philanthropic organizations to strengthen core practice areas—strategic planning, revenue strategy, governance, and succession planning and executive transition—and support projects in process improvement, performance management, program evaluation, and collaboration. Partnering with The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, we also delivered 23 customdesigned management consulting packages, one for each of the Foundation’s Nonprofit Toolbox grants, awarded to solve a key organizational challenge at each recipient organization.
“We knew that our strategic planning process needed to be more formal, structured, and inclusive. We chose GCN’s Nonprofit Consulting Group to help us to accomplish this most effectively and efficiently with their ‘balanced scorecard’ approach to planning.” JOY TROTTI, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, FOCUS
“A demanding mission means that the work of improving the organization too often gets shifted to the side burner. Support from GCN’s consulting team has enabled us to both start and finish the important work of planning, development, and evaluation. This past year, we worked together to advance our succession planning and executive search process as we prepare for a change in leadership.” PAT WILLIS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, VOICES FOR GEORGIA’S CHILDREN
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TALENT Change is fueled by difference-makers: the smart, determined, passionate, and creative people who want the work they do to matter. Through career support and professional development, we’re NURTURING THE TALENT THAT POWERS NONPROFIT MISSIONS.
“Opportunity Knocks is our number one source for recruiting top caliber nonprofit talent. Their candidate pool has always been vast and the customer service excellent.” STEPHANIE GREENE, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & HUMAN RESOURCES, MEDSHARE
CONNECTING TALENT TO MISSION With OpportunityKnocks.org, GCN’s national nonprofit career destination and HR resource, we’re connecting purpose-driven talent with mission-focused organizations in Georgia and beyond. As a top job board for the sector, OpportunityKnocks.org annually engages 30,000 organizations and a talent pool of more than 140,000 current and aspiring nonprofit professionals. In 2014, we embarked on a project to envision and plan the next-generation OpportunityKnocks.org by researching the breadth of human capital management challenges across the sector—from the talent acquisition and management needs of employers to the needs of job seekers searching for a purpose-driven career. We will use these insights to build a platform that both fulfills their respective needs and, in the most practical sense, helps them find one another.
“As a mid-sized theatre, we don’t have a huge budget for staff development, so it’s incredibly helpful to have access to Nonprofit University for one flat fee through our Access365 subscription. Their courses have been instrumental in helping our staff, board and volunteers hone and improve our work, and there’s no way we could’ve afforded this all if we paid a la carte.”
2014 IN NUMBERS
LARA SMITH, MANAGING DIRECTOR, DAD’S GARAGE
1,231
PARTICIPATED IN NONPROFIT UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS
515
ATTENDED CUSTOM ONSITE TRAINING SESSIONS DELIVERED BY NONPROFIT UNIVERSITY
210
RECEIVED SCHOLARSHIPS TO NU PROGRAMS, THANKS TO OUR FUNDING PARTNERS
DELIVERING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO PREPARE TALENT Through a robust portfolio of year-round training opportunities, including 12 certificate programs, targeted clinics, and webinars, GCN’s Nonprofit University provides essential competency-based training that meets the needs of nonprofit professionals across all experience levels and functional areas. In 2014, we met a growing demand for accessible team-wide training with our Custom Training and Access365 subscription program.
190
EARNED CERTIFICATES IN NONPROFIT FINANCE, GOVERNANCE, MARKETING, FUNDRAISING, HR, VOLUNTEER OR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, AND MORE.
RECOGNIZING AND ENGAGING YOUNG TALENT
Continuing our commitment to growing next-generation professionals for the sector, GCN partnered with MailChimp and Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of Atlanta for our second annual “30 Under 30” awards, bringing this year’s cohort together with award alumni for a special event featuring a panel discussion among four of Atlanta’s youngest nonprofit CEOs.
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ACTION We’re INSPIRING THE NEXT BIG THING through innovative ideas, purposeful relationships, and the resources to take risks that deliver on the vision. Our vibrant multi-sector community encourages knowledge-sharing, inspires collective solutions, and builds a powerful network for good. “GCN has proven a powerful whole-organization resource: helping provide support for our entire team, and helping me, personally, to grow as a leader in countless ways. Participating in a community of outstanding peers benefits us all, multiplying opportunities to build and sustain relationships with partners, allies, and colleagues. When we renew our membership each year, I know it’s a wise investment for us, but also for all of Georgia’s nonprofits.” MATT PIEPER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OPEN HAND
CONNECTING THE SECTOR We are powerful together. GCN Membership is a diverse community of 1,200 organizations, including 5,000 nonprofit and philanthropic professionals. In 2014, more than 1,000 members joined us for a wide variety of learning and networking events—presentations and panel discussions on philanthropic trends and fundraising strategies; roundtable Q&As with funding, business, and community leaders; interactive onsite and online sessions on strategic planning, board development, and fundraising led by staff experts; small-group workshops on organizational innovation and project management presented by IBM; a policy advocacy briefing led by Independent Sector; and a Nonprofit Media Forum hosted by WSB-TV with panelists from across the Cox Media Group.
EXPERIENCING STRATEGY IN ACTION Partnering with MailChimp to launch Field Trips 2014, we introduced a new kind of learning experience to the Georgia sector. Across a week in September, more than 400 nonprofit and philanthropic professionals answered our call to “move out of the office and into the field” on an array of small-group, hands-on learning experiences. Fourteen of Atlanta’s leading nonprofits, corporations, and foundations welcomed their peers behind the scenes to share their insight into galvanizing stakeholders behind a vision, building public engagement,converting volunteers into champions, creating a culture of committed partnerships, and more.
“GCN’s Field Trips were a great opportunity to take a look at how others in the community are handling the same challenges—and just a great chance to break out of my office and do something fun and different!” LAURA HENNIGHAUSEN, PROGRAM & DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA
SPARKING IDEAS WITH THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Our quarterly Georgia Nonprofit NOW magazine is a leading voice for the sector, delivering original ideas from sector leaders, inspiration from both mission and management perspectives, and insight into what drives organizational High Performance. This year, we focused on governance, strategy, and leadership—and we introduced the IDEAS Issue, an annual round-up of innovation in the local sector. At GCN.org, members can access the complete NOW archive, along with a rapidly growing tool chest of resources to support their work—all available in an easy-to-navigate, highly searchable format.
“Like no other resource, NOW provides us with on-the-ground, of-the-moment perspective into the Georgia sector’s needs, priorities, and accomplishments.” ALICIA PHILIPP, PRESIDENT, THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA
2014 IN NUMBERS
1,048
GCN MEMBER REPRESENTATIVES ATTENDED GCN EVENTS LIVE AND ONLINE
80,712
SECTOR PROFESSIONALS REACHED BY GCN COMMUNICATIONS
138,900
VISITS TO THE NEW GCN.ORG, UP 28% SINCE 2013 LAUNCH
UP 47%
INCREASE IN READERSHIP OF GCN.ORG RESOURCES, INCLUDING GEORGIA NONPROFIT NOW ONLINE
A ROADMAP FOR COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING
Since 2006, GCN has partnered with The Home Depot Foundation on the Building Community Network, a program building peer networks and fostering game-changing, collaborative projects among a group of 120 of Atlanta’s top-performing organizations. In 2014, we explored the potential to generate collective solutions for community challenges, with a series of events leveraging the “Design Thinking” process.
We are deeply grateful to every one of our partners for making our work possible and showing common cause with Georgia’s nonprofits.
2014 PARTNERS Accenture Alston & Bird American Express Ames Scullin O’Haire Anonymous Arby’s Foundation ARRIS Atlanta Marriott Marquis Autotrader.com
John and Mary Franklin Foundation John H. and Wilhelmina D.Harland Charitable Foundation Jones and Kolb JPMorgan Chase Kilpatrick Townsend Knight Foundation Knox Foundation KPMG
The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area The Creel-Harison Foundation The Home Depot Foundation The Homestead Foundation The McKesson Foundation The Primerica Foundation The Ray M. and Mary Elizabeth Lee Foundation
BDO USA, LLP Bernstein Blad & Garvin Brooks, McGinnis & Company Cbeyond CertiPay Cox Automotive Cox Enterprises Cox Media Group Coxe Curry & Associates Creative Research Solutions Delta Community Credit Union Direct Data Corporation Donor Perfect Edelman USA Edge Business Systems Encyclomedia Enterprise Fleet Management Equifax Firespring Fiserv/Popmoney Fulton & Kozak Gannett Georgia Association of Broadcasters Georgia Cable Association Georgia Council for the Arts Georgia-Pacific Georgia Power Google GRM Gwinnett Braves Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta IBM InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) International Facility Management Association Intimacy
Leapfrog Services MailChimp Mattie H. Marshall Foundation Marshall, Jones & Co. Mauldin & Jenkins Mediacom Mohawk Industries Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Newell Rubbermaid The Nordson Corporation Foundation North Highland Outdoor Advertising Association of Georgia Philadelphia Insurance ProviDyn PwC Robert W. Woodruff Foundation RockTenn Signs By Tomorrow Smith & Howard Smith, Gambrell & Russell Social Solutions Southwest Airlines St. Marys United Methodist Church Foundation Sull Graphics SunTrust Foundation Taylor English The Allstate Foundation The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation The Coca-Cola Company The Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
The Rich Foundation The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation The Trustees of the Academy of Richmond County The Tull Charitable Foundation
“As a long-time partner of GCN, the St. Marys United Methodist Church Foundation continues to be impressed with the work and mission of GCN in supporting Georgia communities and the tax-exempt sector as a whole. GCN is truly instrumental in building the infrastructure for organizational impact.” JEFF BARKER, PRESIDENT, ST. MARYS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION
The Zeist Foundation Turner Broadcasting UPS Voya Foundation Warren Averett Wells Fargo Williams Benator & Libby WSB-TV Family 2 Family WXIA-TV 11Alive
2014 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Edward H. Shartar, Chair Partner Acadia Associates Rob Baskin President and General Manager, Atlanta Weber Shandwick Jeff Busch Chief Executive Officer TrueBridge Resources Steven Ferencie Partner, Business Analytics & Strategy Lead, Industrials IBM Global Business Services
“I had heard many wonderful things about GCN’s work and to now be a member of the board is exciting. Their leadership in providing coaching, training, and just plain support for all Georgia nonprofits is exemplary.” ANNE SCHWARTZ, VICE PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT, UPS
Everett Hill President Catalytic Advisors Joe Iarocci Chief Executive Officer Cairnway Center for Servant Leadership Excellence Udaiyan Jatar Founder Blue Earth Network Anne Schwartz Vice President of Global Leadership and Talent Development UPS Patty Tucker Executive Vice President, US Corporate Practice and B-To-B Center of Excellence Edelman Michel Vermette Senior Vice President, International and Commercial Business Mohawk Industries Jeff Woodward Attorney at Law Taylor English
2014 FINANCIALS GCN is a financially stable organization sustaining our programs and services with a combination of earned income and philanthropic support. In Fiscal Year 2014, earned income from membership dues, program tuition, consulting fees, and OpportunityKnocks.org revenue accounted for 81% of our annual revenues for the year. We spent 84% on programming, with corporate and philanthropy support enabling GCN to offer these programs at no and reduced cost to Georgia’s nonprofit community.
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