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Current
Network Providers
The members of
the Texas Nonprofit Management Assistance Network bring a wealth of
staff expertise and resources to nonprofit organizations throughout
Texas. The Network has 32 members in 21 Texas communities. The members serve as educating and consulting firms to the nonprofit
field. Information,
libraries, workshops,
consulting services,
and publications
are core services provided by the members. During the last twenty-eight years,
the Meadows Foundation started the majority of resource centers in the state as
well as providing funding for major projects of the centers.
Please select
from the cities below to learn more about members in your area and their
programs and services.
Member
Overview
Amarillo
Amarillo
Area Foundation Nonprofit Services Center
As a program
of the Amarillo Area Foundation, the Center provides nonprofit
management assistance to the 26 counties of the Panhandle.
Its Cooperating Collections library contains resources
on topics such as foundations, philanthropy and nonprofit
management, fundraising, and other nonprofit issues.
Workshops, consulting services, and a role as community
facilitator are the main services.
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Arlington
Sommerville & Associates
Sommerville & Associates, P.C.
offers tax and consulting services
to nonprofit organizations. These
services include preparation of
Forms 990, consulting regarding
various federal and state compliance
issues and assistance with
accounting, bookkeeping and payroll
needs. Training is also provided to
industry groups on these issues.
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Austin
OneStar Foundation
The OneStar Foundation has four key
programs: Service and Volunteerism,
Nonprofit Organizational Excellence,
Research, Evaluation, and Learning,
and Social Innovation and
Entrepreneurship. One of its key
events is the annual Governor's
Nonprofit Leadership Conference.
Center
for Community-Based and Nonprofit Organizations
This program of Austin Community
College assists community-based
and nonprofit organizations to be more effective by helping
to strengthen their organizational capacity. The
Center promotes professional and volunteer leadership
development through its learning opportunities, publications,
website, resource libraries, comprehensive database of
nonprofits, electronic forum, partnerships, and other
services.
D Crosson Group, LLC
With a focus on executive
transitions, D Crosson Group, LLC
offers continuity and stability to
nonprofits by providing interim
leadership during transitions.
Consultants can travel or
temporarily relocate throughout
Texas, bringing quality services to
your community. The firm guides
organizations through executive
transitions with consultation that
is tailored to meet the specific
needs and circumstances of the
nonprofit. D Crosson Group, LLC is
committed to strengthening
nonprofits through organizational
and leadership development.
Services include interim executive
leadership, transition consultation,
board training and development, and
mentoring new executive directors.
| contact
person: Diane L. Crosson, Founder |
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phone: (512) 217-5656 |
e-mail:
noworrys@dcrossongroup.com |
Greenlights
for Nonprofit Success
Greenlights is dedicated to improving the management effectiveness
of the Central Texas nonprofit sector. Services include
customized consultation and coaching, organization and
board advancement, information and referral, interactive
education, and nonprofit convening events.
NPower Texas
NPower Texas has begun operations in the
state. An affiliate of NPower, it will provide technology
services to nonprofits. They will focus initial
services in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, and
San Antonio communities.
Texas C-Bar
The mission of Texas C-Bar is to promote the dignity,
self-sufficiency, safety and stability of low-income Central
Texans by providing direct access to free, quality civil
legal assistance and related educational services which
address the basic human needs of eligible clients.
RGK
Center for Philanthropy & Community Service
An initiative of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public
Affairs, the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community
Service is designed to support the independent sector
through education, research, and community outreach.
| contact
person: Sarah Jane Rehnborg, Ph.D., Consultant
in Volunteer and Community Service |
| phone:
(512) 232-7062 |
e-mail:
rhenborg@mail.utexas.edu |
Texas Association of
Nonprofit Organizations (TANO)
TANO is the statewide association reflecting and
promoting Texas' growing and diverse nonprofit
community. Envisioning a Texas Nonprofit Sector
that works together to be among the healthiest and most
vibrant in the nation, TANO's concern and focus is every
Texas nonprofit no matter the size or budget. It's
mission is to connect, strengthen, and support the
nonprofit community for the public good of Texas.
TANO is a proud member of the
National
Council of Nonprofits and one of the national
satellite programs of the
Nonprofit Risk
Management Center in Washington, DC.
| contact
person: Barry Silverberg, Director |
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phone: (512) 381-1491 |
e-mail:
barry@tano.org
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Beaumont
Southeast Texas Nonprofit Development Center
The Southeast Texas Nonprofit Development Center has received
its tax exemption from the IRS. Its key programs will
be to provide information, a nonprofit library, workshops, and consulting
services to nonprofits in the Beaumont, Port Author, and
Orange areas. The new Center is the Cooperating
Collection Library for this part of Texas.
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College
Station
Bush School
of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University
The Bush School offers a Certificate
in Nonprofit Management, and 12
hours of graduate courses are
required. Students will gain
an understanding of the nonprofit
sector, organizational structures,
and appropriate management
practices.
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Corpus Christi
Change Dynamics CB
Change Dynamics CB, based in
Corpus Christi, Texas, is
committed to assisting
community-based organizations in
developing strategies to
welcome, integrate and grow with
the natural and positive changes
that are occurring in the
nonprofit world. Change
Dynamics CB works with clients
in building customized
consultation and training
packages that most effectively
address their needs.
Research-based and evaluated
curricula include strengthening
communities, strategic planning
for change, outcome-founded
programming, nonprofit
management, leadership
development, building strong
resources, and “top dollar”
marketing.
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contact person:
Robin West, Change Dynamics
CB Founder, Consultant and
Trainer |
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phone:
(361) 949-0444; cell (361)
947-6366 |
e-mail:
rwest@stx.rr.com |
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Dallas
Center for Nonprofit Management
The Center,
a United Way affiliate, is the largest resource center
in terms of budget and staff. It is dedicated to
increasing the quality of management effectiveness of
the nonprofit sector by providing staff development and
management assistance services. Services include
training, management publications, consulting services,
Opportunity NOC's, a classified newsletter listing
jobs in the nonprofit sector, low-interest loans to nonprofits
in Texas, and collaboration facilitation services.
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contact person:
Cynthia B. Nunn, President |
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phone: (214) 826-3470, ext.
226 |
e-mail:
nunn@cnmdallas.org
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GOAL Co nsulting,
LLC
A
Texas-based consulting firm
committed to the success of the
board and executive leadership
of our nation's nonprofits. Our
team cuts through the
information overload to provide
nonprofit leaders with practical
solutions to complex issues.
Our services range from on-site
consulting and executive
coaching, to board workshops and
vision retreats. Many of our
consultations will include our
two flagship services, the Six
Principles of Successful
Board/Executive Partnerships™,
and the Strategic Performance
Appraisal & Navigation (SPAN™)
system.
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Denton
College
of Public Affairs & Community Service
At the University of North Texas, students
can earn undergraduate and graduate online certificates
in Volunteer and Community Resource Management.
The American Humanics Program is only one of three programs
in Texas, and it is earned in conjunction with an undergraduate
degree. There is also a graduate level nonprofit
management track in the Public Administration Department.
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Edinburg
Southwest Border Nonprofit Resource
Center
The Center is a Cooperating
Collection Library affiliated with
the Foundation Center in New York.
It will also offer workshops and
consulting services to area
nonprofit organizations.
| contact
person: Lucila G. Lagace, Director |
| phone:
(956) 381-2681 |
e-mail:
lagacelg@utpa.edu |
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El
Paso
Nonprofit
Enterprise Center
This new center was established in 2004; it provides workshops,
consulting services, and free legal clinics to area nonprofit
organizations. The Center offers an annual nonprofit
conference as well as an awards program for area
nonprofits.
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Fort Worth
Funding Information Center
The Funding Information Center is a
Cooperating Collection library
affiliated with Foundation Center in
New York. Additional programs
include nonprofit workshops, and the
publication of the Directory of
Grantmakers.
| contact
person: Christi Stinson, CPA, Executive Director |
| phone:
(817) 334-0228 |
e-mail:
cstinson@fic-ftw.org |
Weaver
and Tidwell L.L.P. Certified Public Accountants and Consultants
Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. is the largest firm of certified public accountants
headquartered in the Southwest. Nonprofit Organizations are a significant
segment of the firm's practice. Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. currently
provides accounting, auditing, consulting, and tax preparing for a number of
charitable organizations.
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Houston
Executive Service Corps of Greater Houston
The Executive Service Corps of Houston, formed in 1984, is made up
primarily of retired corporate executives and professionals who volunteer as
consultants to help non-profit groups build sound planning, management and
service delivery programs. While independent, ESCH is one of 40 Executive
Service Corps programs in major cities throughout the nation.
Management
Assistance Program
As a program of the United Way of
Greater Houston, this program
provides management consulting,
seminars, mentoring, and computer
training to 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organizations. It offers a
computer lab provides computer
training in all types of software
training for nonprofit entities as
well as a Cooperating Collection
library for grants research.
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contact person: Ronnie Hagerty, MAP Director |
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phone: (713) 685-2312
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e-mail:
rhagerty@uwtgc.org
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Jacksonville
A Circle of Ten, Inc.
The Northeast
Texas resource center provides training in leadership,
community organization, program development, and grant
writing as a process. Services include workshop
retreats, staff, volunteer and board training, and consultation
to nonprofit organizations, schools, colleges, hospitals
and city/county entities with an emphasis on healthy collaborations.
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Laredo
Nonprofit
Management & Volunteer Center
The Center provides
technical assistance and workshops to all nonprofit organizations
within a 150-mile radius. One of sixteen Cooperating
Collections in Texas, the library contains resources on
the nonprofit management and fundraising. Management
of the Volunteer Center is another key program of the
Center.
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contact person: Diana Fullerton, Nonprofit
Management & Volunteer Center Coordinator |
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phone: (956) 795-2675 |
e-mail:
dfullerton@ci.laredo.tx.us |
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Lubbock
Volunteer
Center of Lubbock
As a United
Way agency, the Center coordinates the Volunteer Center
and management assistance services. Workshops and
consulting services are the key services offered to the
nonprofit community.
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Midland
Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin
As
a program of the Permian Basin Area Foundation, the Center
offers a Cooperating Collection library, workshops, and consulting services
to nonprofit organizations in communities in West Texas
and Southeast New Mexico.
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contact person: Mark Palmer, Director |
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phone: (432) 570-7971 |
e-mail:
markp@nmc-pb.org |
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San Antonio
American
Humanics Program
Nonprofit
Management Program
A program of
the University of Texas in San Antonio that offers nonprofit
professionals and volunteers the region's only Certification
in Nonprofit Management and Leadership, with CEU credit.
Undergraduate students can choose to minor in Youth and
Human Services and/or obtain the nationally-recognized
American Humanics Certificate. The university, also strives
to inspire young people to enter the nonprofit sector
by placing high school students in nonprofit organizations
throughout the city for a six-week summer internship.
The Center for Nonprofit Support
The Center is the oldest resource
centers in the state. Its core services include a Cooperating Collections library,
workshops, consulting and facilitation services, and publications.
Its publications, The Directory of Texas Foundations
and Am I Liable? are critical tools for grant researchers
and board training in Texas.
Richard Alvarado, Independent Consultant
Primary focus will be helping boards
of directors to understand the role
and responsibilities of nonprofit
directors and to assist the
directors in organizing their board
work in support of the
organization’s strategic plan. Will
assist individuals and groups in the
formation of a nonprofit corporation
and obtaining tax exempt status
under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS
Code.
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Tyler
Nonprofit Development Center
A program
of the United Way of Tyler/Smith County, the Center serves
the East Texas nonprofit community with training, resources,
and support to increase the effectiveness and efficiency
of nonprofit organizations. Services include a Nonprofit
Resource Library for funding research, grant writing,
and nonprofit management issues, as well as seminars,
training opportunities, and special support projects.
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Waco
McLennan Community College
McLennan Community College is part
of the Nonprofit Network serving
nonprofit organizations in the Waco
area. They will offer
workshops and seminars for the
nonprofit sector.
The
Waco Foundation
The Waco Foundation is a community foundation.
As part of its service to the community, it provides
assistance to area nonprofits with grants research,
editing, and writing . This service has
been provided in partnership with the City of Waco and
Library.
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Wichita Falls
Nonprofit
Management Center of Wichita Falls
The Center offers workshops and consulting services
to the nonprofit community. One of the twenty Cooperating
Collections libraries in Texas, the library contains resources
on reference assistance, board development information,
nonprofit organization, volunteer management, and research
information.
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contact person: Dee Decker, Executive Director |
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phone: (940) 322-4961 |
e-mail:
deedecker@cst.net |
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