October 2024 Nonprofit Newsletter

October 2024

October 18, 2024

5:30 – 7:30 PM

Fifth Third Center

🎉 Online Auction Open For Bidding! 🎉

This event is not only for our sponsors and donors, but also a time to celebrate YOU, our nonprofit partners, where we work together to build a thriving community for all!

Scrumptious bites, festive drinks, and a thrilling auction—all before heading outside to witness the breathtaking wonder of BLINK. And wait for it... complimentary parking is on us, making your night even sweeter!

We can't wait to share a toast with you and yours. 🥂

Click Here for Bidding and Event Information

✨CHRISTIE'S ILLUMINATED REFLECTIONS✨

We’re excited to invite you to OneSource Illuminated on Friday, October 18, in the heart of BLINK on Fountain Square. This special event will shine a light on your incredible work as part of the nonprofit community, celebrating the power of collaboration. Just as individual lights come together to create a brilliant display, nonprofits like yours rely on one another to overcome challenges, share resources, and amplify impact.

This year, we’re celebrating how our collective efforts illuminate the path forward for nonprofits serving our communities—ensuring that no organization stands alone in achieving its mission. Together, we are stronger, and together, we can achieve so much more.

At OneSource Center, we’re here to support you. By offering services, resources, and guidance, we help strengthen the nonprofit sector, amplifying your impact and the impact of every organization we work with. We don’t just focus on one cause—we’re here to help you succeed so that you can make a bigger difference in the community.

Just like the radiant lights of BLINK, the combined work of our nonprofit sector shines as a beacon of hope, meeting the needs of our communities. As we approach OneSource Illuminated, I’ve been thinking about how interconnected we all are—how nonprofits like yours provide vital support to each other through shared knowledge, resources, and advocacy. I’d love to hear your thoughts on what collaboration means to you!

We hope you’ll join us at OneSource Illuminated on October 18 as we celebrate this vibrant, shared journey. Together, we’ll continue to support and uplift one another, lighting the way toward a brighter future for all.

Thanks!

Christie

NEWS YOU CAN USE

If your nonprofit is as reliant on your Canva account as we are, we want to inform you that Affinity's professional design software is now available for free download to anyone with a verified Canva for Nonprofits account!

You and your organization can now be among the first to access Affinity and benefit from:

Affinity Photo 2: Edit and retouch photos on their own or as part of multilayered photo compositions and photo art.

Affinity Designer 2: Create illustrations, logos, graphics, concept art and other vector designs.

Affinity Publisher 2: Layout images, graphics and text to produce digital and print publications.

Get started with Affinity now...free of charge. Learn more about Affinity and answers to common questions in this help article.

VoteRiders prints and ships physical cards to nonpartisan nonprofit organizations or government offices at no cost. All you need is a plan for distributing the cards to voters. Complete this order form to request cards for your organization.

If you are not affiliated with a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, you can download and print the cards independently here.

How can your organization use these cards?

Share with visitors to your nonprofit's offices and programs.
Share in canvassing and voter registration drives
Use to refer voters in need of voter ID assistance to VoteRiders
Place at local businesses
Reference by voters at their polling place when they encounter misinformed poll workers

OneSource Center is proud to announce our partnership with VIE Ability, the nonprofit community's one-stop-shop for office supplies, janitorial, breakroom and mailroom necessities.Your OneSource membership offers your nonprofit discounted pricing on their already competitive rates.

VIE Ability is proudly operated by the Cincinnati Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired (CABVI) which is a local, non-profit, mission-based agency that provides meaningful employment for over 4,000 blind and visually impaired people in the Cincinnati area.

Call today for more information at 513-487-4515 or sign up online.

The Steelcase Leap Chair, retail price $1299....is only $80 for OneSource Members!

OneSource Center is committed to supporting nonprofit organizations delivering on their missions to meet the needs of our community.

OneSource Center doesn’t just provide advising and training to help take your business to the next level – it’s also a place you can actually step foot into to shop for items to create a comfy physical space for your office in our Furniture Bank or buy necessary products for your organization or clients in our Marketplace.

Nonprofit Leadership Institute (NLI) programs are engaged with over 50 leaders of area nonprofits, building their capabilities to strengthen our local nonprofits ability to make their missions come to life in new and powerful ways. NLI develops leaders at the most senior level to those new to supervision, for agencies large and small, well-established or brand new. Our BUILD, ADVANCE and EXCEL programs are in full swing today!

Would you like to build your own leadership capabilities, or those of someone on your staff? We will have sessions of BUILD throughout the year for new agencies looking to build a strong foundation for success, and for ADVANCE, for strong individual performers who are in or about to begin their first role managing others which is open for enrollment for Winter and Spring.

Our EXCEL 2025 cohort is filled for this year, but we strongly recommend that you submit applications now to make sure there is a seat waiting for you at the program start in October 2025.

NLI offers you high caliber leadership development at nonprofit-friendly pricing for your hardworking nonprofit leaders.

2024 Annual Nonprofit Leadership Summit: Your Story Is Worthy Too

October 9, 2024

8:00 – 8:30 AM – Networking & Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 12:00 PM – Keynote & Workshop

Schiff Family Conference Center at Xavier Cintas Center

1624 Herald Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45207

Individual Cost (includes workshop & breakfast):

Member of AFP or LC: $55

Non-Member: $75

Student with vaild ID: $25

Group Member Cost:

Group of 3 or more: $50 each

Registration

WHAT'S THE GOOD NEWS?

The daily grind of our collective work sometimes causes us to lose sight of why we do what we do and just how impactful our work can be. In the words of Mike Moroski of the Human Services Chamber: "We should be proud of one another and support one another. If we do that, then there is no limit to what we can accomplish." Hear hear!

In that spirit, OneSource Center would love to receive the good news happening at your agency, from successful community events to stories of clients who have risen above their challenges because of your support. Let's celebrate our work, our clients and our vibrant community together!

Email L-A Stopa with all the GOOD news that's fit to print...you may just see it in the next newsletter!

Workshops, Trainings & Grants Calendar

October 8 CPL Introduction to Finding Grants
October 9 23rd Annual Nonprofit Leadership Summit
October 10 CPL Grants Research Lab
October 15 Warren County Discretionary Grant Deadline
October 15 HR Challenges & Solutions
October 15 CPL Introduction to Proposal Writing
October 16 Funder’s Panel with Grant Professionals Association, co-hosted by OneSource Center
October 18 One Source Center Illuminated Fundraising Gala🌟
October 28-30 LC Search Inside Yourself: An Emotional Intelligence Workshop
October 29 Grant Writing for Nonprofits with the CECH Impact Accelerator
October 30 Warren County Impact Grant Deadline
November 7 PBPO Employment Helpline
November 15 Andrew Jergens Foundation LOI Deadline

OneSource Center Calendar

Thank you to our wonderful sponsor, Fifth Third Bank, for your reliable support of the OneSource mission and for donating your beautiful space for our OneSource Illuminated Gala on October 18th.

We couldn't do it without you!