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Our summer e-news is full of excitement and fun for the MCFG team! And we have great partners in the nonprofit sector, which makes it even better. ❤️
Hello Friends, Remember back in April when we said our next enews was planned for July? Gotcha! We're popping back up in August because...well, th...
Case of the Mondays? Intermiss with the latest MCFG enews, easter eggs and all!
Greetings Earthlings! It's that time of year again...when McAlpine Consulting randomly pops into your inbox with a fresh enews, free from the conf...
Please see our enews below for more details on our current open position for a Project Associate at McAlpine Consulting! This is a chance to do some dreaming and scheming to help us maintain our 5-person pentagram (fly brooms not bombers) and grow to whatever shape we'll take on in the future. Additional details on our website http://www.lmcalpine.com/. Applications accepted now and we will begin contacting candidates after December 1st. Start date Jan 4, 2022. This staff person will be central to our work with both the Behavioral Health-Primary Care Integration Learning Collaborative and the Safety Net Learning Collaborative.
Join McAlpine Consulting for Growth! Check it out: unique full-time position with Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago that allows working with both organizations. Know someone who might be a great fit? Share, share, share!
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Hello Comrades! We are excited to offer an opportunity for a new staff person to join the McAlpine Consulting for Growth, LLC (MCFG) team. In partner...
JOB OPPORTUNITY: In partnership with Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago, we're hiring a full time Program Associate to support client project work in our office, and the School Health Access Collaborative (SHAC) and the launch of its Data Transformation Project at PHIMC. Learn more and apply-->
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Employment OpportunitiesProgram AssociatePublic Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago (PHIMC) seeks a full-time Program Associate to support the School Health Access Collaborative (SHAC) and the launch of its Data Transformation Project, and to provide project support to McAlpine Consulting for G...
WE'RE HIRING! We're seeking a Program Associate in partnership with Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago. Full time position, supporting client project work in our office and the School Health Access Collaborative (SHAC) and launch of its Data Transformation Project at PHMIC. Learn more and apply-->
https://phimc.org/opportunities/opportunities-employment/
We are so honored to be working in Cook County with healthcare workers who are doing similar innovative and heart felt work in the midst of the pandemic. This is fantastic, Oregon health workers! You guys are amazing!!!!
When a team of Oregon health-care workers stuck in traffic during a snowstorm was running out of time to administer leftover doses of the Moderna vaccine, one local public health official had an idea: Vaccinate strangers in the middle of the highway.
Mary Morten and Laura McAlpine are teaming up again! Time for reflection, humor, and a serious look at how to step into the staff leader role at nonprofits during the time of COVID-19 and the uprising for racial justice. We are looking forward to hearing from you and facilitating a cohort of peers who are new leaders at a time like no other. Check it out!
Executive Director/CEO Virtual Bootcamp REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Are you a new Executive Director or Chief Executive Officer? Do you need to gain a fi...
For your intermission today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU3cGLtULeI
I have been listening to Rhiannon Giddens for awhile now and stumbled across this song "Cry No More" that she wrote in the wake of the massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, NC. Her video of the song includes this: "Know Your History; Know Your Mind; Speak Up; Be Loud" Yes, yes, yes, YES!
The massacre at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June is just the latest in a string of racially charged events that have broken my h...
LGBT, DACA, Juneteenth - all things to celebrate this month. We will persist in our work for racial justice and have gratitude for all of you in the struggle!
Hi Friends, McAlpine Consulting is focused in June on supporting our clients who are cautiously re-opening while balancing the needs of their staff a...
MCFG is hosting a Virtual Community Care Call this Wednesday, 4:30pm CST, cock/mocktails welcome! Register via the link in our reminder: https://madmimi.com/s/5e03a01
Week Six of stay-at-home order is rough! Here's the latest on the nonprofit sector and McAlpine Consulting's work to support front-line safety net organizations - with cute animals pictures and intermission ideas, of course.
Hi Friends, We are now in the sixth week of our shelter in place order, and it seems like we're all hitting a bit of a wall. The stress, worry, an...
There is a webinar TODAY on how nonprofits can access funds through the CARES Act to keep payroll and operations going through this stressful time. Webinar registration is currently full, but if you register you will be added to the wait list and will receive the meeting recording. Register through the link in our email announcement.
Hi Friends, We received a notice from Polk Bros Foundation this morning about an important and time-sensitive opportunity that will soon be available...
As a long week comes to a close, MCFG sends our gratitude, support, and intermission guidance your way.
Yes, it's another COVID email. No, it's not all about lockdowns and toilet paper.
Mostly it's about animals.
Enjoy and stay home, stay safe, and take an intermission,
MCFG
Hi Friends, "Uggghhh" you must be thinking. "Another COVID email. Another notice from some group telling us how they're here for us...
Community Health Center advocacy needed today! The current rescue bill being discussed in Congress doesn’t have nearly enough money to save our safety net health services for the uninsured. Please take two minutes out of your day to have this automated system send some emails for you. You can also note your community health center, for example “Esperanza Health Centers – IL” at the drop down. https://www.hcadvocacy.org/takeaction/email/
We are a robust grassroots network of over 175,000 Health Center Advocates, fighting for good policies and sustainable funding for America’s Health Centers. Join us!
Charitable and social service organizations deemed essential businesses during COVID-19 pandemic. We think they are essential all the time! Huge virtual hug to our friends and partners working everyday to help their communities be healthy, safe, equitable and life affirming. See notice from City of Chicago below. ❤
NOW IN EFFECT: In response to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Chicago has joined the State of Illinois in issuing a Stay at Home order effective Saturday, March 21st at 5pm CT. Under the order, residents are to remain at home, except for essential needs like going to the grocery store, a doctor, to care for someone or work at an essential job.
A non-exhaustive list of businesses deemed essential are below. For more details, please visit: chicago.gov/coronavirus
- Stores that sell groceries, medicine, and pet supplies
- Gas Stations
- Restaurants (takeout & delivery)
- Hospitals & pharmacies
- Transportation (CTA, taxis, rideshare, etc.)
- Laundromats
- Financial institutions (banks, tax prep, etc.)
- Hardware stores
- Mail and goods delivery (FedEx, Amazon, etc.)
- Businesses that provide supplies for remote work
- Home-based care and services
- Daycare centers
- Critical labor functions (plumbers, cleaning, etc.)
- Hotels and motels
- Charitable and social service organizations
- Media (newspapers and radio stations)
- Bike and automobile shops
- Utilities and infrastructure.
Details at chicago.gov/coronavirus
Chicago Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) information Updates
As the world continues to grapple with the and MCFG wants to take moment to thank our community organizers, community health centers, public health experts, nonprofit organizations, foundations, and supporters who are stepping up to spread truth and real information, plan for continuing to serve people--especially those at higher risk, and just generally take care of each other. We are so grateful to have you as clients and comrades.
In accordance with public health recommendations and our own personnel policies, MCFG is transitioning meetings to web-based formats, and MCFG staff will be working from home as much as possible. We will continue to be available to support you however we can, so please don't hesitate to reach out to [email protected].
For updates in the Chicago area, please check out CDPH's page here: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/covid-19/home.html
Thank you all for your dedication, support, and determination. The way forward is together.
Chicago Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) information Updates
Early-bird pricing for the 2020 MCFG Salon Series for Nonprofit Executive Directors and CEOs closes TODAY! Make sure you take advantage of the reduced price and reserve your spot now!
McAlpine Consulting for Growth Salon Series for nonprofit CEOs and Executive Directors EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES DECEMBER 10th! This five-sessi...
Laura is now accepting registrations for her 2020 CEO/ED Salon Series! Check out our announcement email for details.
McAlpine Consulting for Growth Salon Series for nonprofit CEOs and Executive Directors REGISTRATION NOW OPEN This five-session Salon Series, designe...
Celebrate Halloween with our MCFG Boosletter!
Whhhooooo....OOOOhhhhh...Waahaaahhhhh Greetings Goblins Ghosts Ghouls and Gargoyles, What's spookier than the fact that it's already Halloween...
[Image description: A lit candle in the darkness, being shielded by the wind by a hand. Image by Ai Nhan on Unsplash.com] I know many of you are reeling from the domestic terrorism that happened ov…
Grateful for our co-worker, Kearney Grambauer, who brings the beauty into the workplace! She got these Tuesday when not yet bloomimg, and they gave me a happy smile when I came in this morning.
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Hello Friends and Colleagues, McAlpine Consulting for Growth is currently searching for an Events Assistant! MCFG is seeking to hire an Events Assis...
MCFG is conducting a job search for an Executive Director for Wellness House! Check out our email announcement for details and application guidelines.
Hello Friends and Colleagues, McAlpine Consulting for Growth is currently conducting a job search for an Executive Director position with Wellness Ho...
MCFG has had another whirlwind year! So whirly we haven't had a chance to update y'all on what we've been up to...until now! Check out our 2018 gratitude recap, and have an eggscellent Thanksgiving!
Hello Friends, It's happened again! Our bi-annual enews update has inadvertently become our annual enews update! It has been another action-packed...
Happy Monday Everyone! MCFGers are looking forward to the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance Night of Noise event this Sunday. Hope to see you there!
On April 29, the Alliance will be hosting Night of Noise - Celebrating the Past; Looking Toward the Future at Uptown Underground. We're uniting our supporters, community activists and youth (not to mention an extraordinary roster of talent!) to support young people who continue to live in silence because of their sexual or gender orientation or identity.
I hope you'll join us! Tickets are available here: https://www.uptownunderground.net/night-of-noise
Chicago's home for top-shelf-retrotainment featuring the finest burlesque, magic, comedy, cabaret and musical acts!
Happy Thanksgiving from MCFG! Check out our 2017 round up of activities and gratitude in our Thanksgiving newsletter. Gobble gobble!
Hello Friends, Who can believe it has been a whole year since our last update?! Certainly not us MCFGers--we are all still trying to wrap our minds a...
Hey Folks. As we approach the end of the year, those of us in the nonprofit world are gearing up for year-end giving campaigns and plans for 2018. When MCFG's Mac Grambauer hosted an Advocacy 101 salon session at the office at the beginning of the year, two things came up that the group seemed interested in learning more about: how to join/what is expected of a nonprofit board and its members, and how to figure out the best way to spend your donation dollars. Recently, there has also been a surge of folks interested in some more advocacy tips/support. So we are considering hosting another salon session at the MCFG offices regarding the triad of people's power: how to act (advo 101), how to give (donation basics), and how to lead (nonprofit and other public entity board membership.
So the question for YOU is: are you/would you be interested in coming to something like this?
Other important details: food and drink would be provided, we would ask for a suggested donation of $5-$15 dollars (to offset the cost of food, drinks, materials), and it would likely be a weeknight evening early (first week) in December. Feel free to contact Mac Grambauer with questions, and please let us know if this is something you'd be interested in.
Nonprofit AF shared an excerpt from this in the blog this morning. For those of us in the nonprofit world, those of us organizing our communities, friends, neighbors, those of us trying to figure out how to be advocates and activists in a world of madness, Clarissa's words may provide some comfort.
"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.
What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these - to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.
Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do."
http://www.grahameb.com/pinkola_estes.htm
My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations…
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Great op-ed by Marisa Novara at the Metropolitan Planning Council. Really resonates with my experiences as a white person when I speak about race with some other white people. I really want to keep the conversation going.
We can't address race-related issues if white people don't see their own whiteness as a race.
Uh oh! Laura's on her own today while her co-workers are out enjoying the end of summer. Which means she's listening to her favorite work music with the musician who brings her back to her days in San Francisco. https://www.pandora.com/artist/al-jarreau/original-album-series/closer-to-your-love/TR9kcgX66Xj9k5P
Al Jarreau - Pandora
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"“[R]ight-wing funders are offering support with fewer strings attached, with an eye toward the long-term health of the conservative movement. While progressive funders tend to support specific projects […] conservative funders are more likely to focus on leadership development, capacity building, or to give unrestricted funds. […] This has paid off through a new generation of conservative elected officials, judges, and thought leaders who have been trained by a well-oiled conservative leadership pipeline.”"
http://nonprofitaf.com/2017/08/progressive-funders-you-may-be-part-of-the-problem/
I’m still angry due to Charlottesville and our president’s horrifying words that are fueling the rise of neo-N**is, the K*K, White Supremacists, anti-Semites, and other groups that breed hate and v…
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We should all be embracing our collective anger. We as a sector need to get angrier at the ridiculous expectations put on us, like society’s destructive insistence on low “overhead” and on “sustainability,” which ties our hands while people suffer and die. We need to get angrier at funders’ risk-aversion and 5% minimum payout and lengthy processes and intellectualizing while people are getting deported and children are being torn from their parents. We need to be angrier at leaders who want to play it safe, who refuse to see race, while people are threatened with N**i salutes and Confederate flags and references to ovens. We should be angrier at donors and fundraisers who insist on seeing the people most affected by systemic inequity as “others” and the object for pity and condescension, not justice. We must still be grounded by Grace as a sector, but we need to channel more Anger.
http://nonprofitaf.com/2017/08/charlottesville-and-a-time-for-gracious-anger/
Hi everyone. If you have been reading the news this weekend about the white supremacists, hooded K*K members, and N**is protesting in Charlottesville and the car the plowed into counter-protesters,…
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