Fall is that time of year when we all talk about milestones. Children going to their first day of school, young adults leaving for college, election of our public officials and the ever forward creeping start to the holidays.
In the nonprofit world this is the time of year when we evaluate the year behind us and look to the year ahead. It’s time for audits, annual appeals and annual reports, webinars and workshops. A time to show those who care about our missions most, exactly what we’ve accomplished and where we see ourselves going.
For PIP, we’ve reached a VERY big milestone; we will celebrate our 20th anniversary in 2011. PIP will celebrate 20 years of capacity building in the New Jersey nonprofit community. Since 1991, PIP has helped 300 nonprofits and close to 500,000 people involved with and served by those nonprofits. In our 20 years, PIP has raised over $3 million dollars and our fundraising consultants have donated approximately 10,000 hours of their time to our clients.
We hope at PIP that what all these numbers mean is IMPACT. That we’ve had impact, that we’ve helped many nonprofits turn the corner to sustainability, that we’ve guided our clients in diversifying their funding sources, recruit better and more highly trained volunteers and become better leaders. And most importantly, that they’ve done all this while continuing to focus on their important missions: feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, employing the jobless, caring for the environment, championing the underserved.
In effect, after 20 years, PIP continues to fulfill its mission by helping nonprofits go from good to great. At PIP, we are so incredibly proud and privileged to be on this journey with our funders and clients. We hope to be given the opportunity to keep moving capacity building forward for another 20 years.
What milestone has your organization reached? And what milestones lay ahead?
