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Association of Partners for Public Lands News and Notes May 2013

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APPL NEWS Learn more about the 2013 winners of our Excellence Award and Outstanding Vendor Award on The Exchange. Interviews with Manzanar History Association about their book, Children of Manzanar, and Concept360’s Sam Dunham are posted at http://goappl.wordpress.com/. Congratulations to all of the APPL members celebrating milestone anniversaries this year. Yellowstone Association 80 years Western National Parks Association 75 years Great Smoky Mountains Association 60 years Carver Birthplace Association 50 years Lewis & Clark National Park Association 50 years Canyonlands Natural History Association 45 years Arizona Natural History Association 25 years Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway Inc 25 years National Association for Interpretation 25 years Red Rock Canyon Interpretive Association / Southern Nevada Conservancy 25 years San Juan Mountains Association 25 years Santa Monica Mountains Fund 25 years Western Colorado Interpretive Association 25 years Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park 20 years Friends of DeSoto National Memorial 15 years Manzanar History Association 10 years Nevada Outdoor School 10 years We congratulate you for your hard work and commitment to all who benefit from your efforts on behalf of America’s public lands.

Online Forums News APPL’s Online Forums are available exclusively to staff, board members and volunteers of APPL Member organizations. A full list of the forums may be found at http://lists.appl.org/lists/lists. To join a forum, please contact us at appl@appl.org. Members Forum • Cooperating Association Annual Reporting • Maraquia, Inc - Potential funding source or scam? • Results of recent poll from HPPA regarding point of sale systems and inventory costs • Suggestions for awards fabricators • Funding requests related to the sequester • Can cooperating associations fund seasonal? • Do you sell Questar’s 58 National Parks in HD? • Online petition options for legislative purposes • Do you use a company to handle state registration compliance? • Use of volunteers as a substitute for paid staff • Are your Board members required to make a financial gift as part of their board

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Training News Learn how the APPL Training Corps can assist your organization at www.appl.org. APPL traveled to the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA April 10-13 to conduct partnership and fundraising training for representatives of the California state park cooperating associations and their agency partners. Reprising a similar training from March 2012, the sessions focused on building strong partnerships, strategic thinking in tandem, governance of non-profits, revenue development, and fundraising. Feedback for the trainings has been quite positive and with the prospects for APPL continuing the relationship in the future, more concentrated trainings are promising. Following the convention, requests for trainings and consultations are on the rise. If you would like more information on training and capacity building opportunities for your organization, please contact APPL Education Coordinator, Chuck Benjamin, at cbenjamin@appl.org or 301-946-9475 x 225.

Bridge To Tomorrow News APPL’s Bridge to Tomorrow (B2T) program provides young leaders an opportunity to develop their professional network and learn more about public land partnerships.

For the third year in a row APPL is offering a Young Professionals Mentoring Grant of up to $3,000 to fund a project of your design. This is a competitive grant opportunity, which means that while all proposals received will be reviewed, it is likely that only one proposal will be funded. While the donors are open to any proposal you would like to suggest, their preference would be for proposals that seek to mentor one, or a small number of young people, who might be in the next generation of emerging leaders for public lands. Guidelines for the grant as well as the application and budget form are available at www.appl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3436.

Applications must be submitted to APPL by Friday, May 10 to be considered. If you have any questions, please contact Alex Vidal at avidal@appl.org.

NEWSBITS Friends groups, nonprofits, public land managers, scout troops and all those interested in outdoor volunteerism are invited to host an event for National Public Lands Day (NPLD). NPLD's 20th Anniversary national day of service will be held on Saturday, September 28. Register your event today at www.publiclandsday.org. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has gotten a preliminary injunction against the Construct Data/Fair Guide scam that many of APPL’s members and exhibitors have received. The Construct Data/Fair Guide scam involved a Slovakia-based operation, called FAIR Guide, that allegedly tricked small businesses and nonprofits into collecting their information for a free guide, but signing the form commits the organization into paying money, which is irreversible once signed. The FTC is seeking to permanently halt this alleged scam and require the defendants to refund fees. For a full announcement about the injunction, please visit www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/03/fairguide.shtm.

AGENCY NEWS President Obama’s fiscal year 2014 budget request of $11.9 billion for the Department of the Interior has been released. It maintains critical funding for the Department’s core missions, while making strategic investments to sustain economic recovery and generate jobs, including vital funding for recreation and conservation programs, enhanced science to inform decision-making, domestic energy development and the advancement of American Indians and Alaska Native communities. The Budget is online: www.doi.gov/budget. Sally Jewell was sworn in as the 51st Secretary of the Interior on April 12. You can welcome Secretary Jewell to the Department of the Interior by following her at www.twitter.com/SecretaryJewell.

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National Park Service Strategies to strengthen the work of the National Park Service as it prepares for its centennial in 2016 are included in a report that was released last month by the National Park System Advisory Board (NPSAB). The report, Engaging Independent Perspectives for a 21st-Century National Park System, summarizes the board’s recommendations to Director Jarvis for the future in four areas – stewardship, education, relevancy and the National Park Service workforce. The NPSAB consulted with National Park Service employees and more than 100 outside subject matter experts, including scholarly and professional organizations, and private sector representatives. For a copy of the report, visit www.nps.gov/resources/advisoryboardreport.htm. As part of the National Park Service’s mission to tell the full story of America’s history, the Service is releasing the American Latinos and the Making of the United States: A Theme Study. This publication of the National Park System Advisory Board features 17 essays written by nationally recognized scholars addressing the contributions and experiences of American Latinos. It will provide a framework as the Service works with partners and communities around the nation to identify, preserve, and interpret buildings, landscapes, and other sites that tell the story of Latinos in America. The Latino scholars’ panel, in collaboration with the Organization of American Historians, guided the theme study. Funding was made available in part by the American Latino Heritage Fund of the National Park Foundation. American Latinos and the Making of the United States is the latest in a series of more than 65 National Park Service theme studies (see www.nps.gov/nhl/themes/themes-allnew.htm). A link to the theme study and a list of the scholars and essay authors can be found at: www.nps.gov/latino. Last month the National Park Service designated two new national natural landmarks, the Wade Tract Preserve in Thomas County, GA, and Zumwalt Prairie in Wallowa County, OR. In addition to the new designations, an expansion to the boundary of Garden Park Fossil Area National Natural Landmark was also approved. The expanded designation includes five significant quarries highlighting discoveries that include the three most complete Stegosaurus skeletons ever found. Garden Park Fossil Area is located in Fremont County, CO, and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Visit www.nature.nps.gov/nnl/ to learn more about the National Natural Landmarks Program.

National Park Service scientists and managers are taking a close look at the overall condition of the national parks in their care and have begun to report their findings in a series of State of the Park reports. Each park report has a “snapshot” of the status and trends in the condition of its most important resources and values; summarizes and communicates complex scientific, scholarly, and park operations information; highlights the stewardship efforts of park staff to maintain or improve the condition of park resources; and identifies key issues and challenges facing park managers. Reports completed thus far are available online at www.nps.gov/stateoftheparks and on each park’s website. More State of the Park reports are underway and will be available on the website as they are completed. Former Associate Director for Partnerships and Visitor Experience Chris Jarvis passed away peacefully at his home on Monday, April 22nd following a battle with pancreatic cancer. A memorial service and celebration of life will take place on May 9th at the Anaheim Hills Country Club. Additionally, there will be a fund established in Chris’s name called the Chris Jarvi Partnership Scholarship Fund; for those who wish to donate, more details will follow. This fund will provide scholarships to various conferences and trainings that allow the scholarship recipient to meet new partners and expand their network. Before joining the National Park Service, Jarvi served for 22 years as director of community services for the city of Anaheim. Jarvi was recognized with professional honors including an APRS Professional Award for Meritorious Service (1991), a National Recreation and Parks Association Distinguished Fellow Award (1992), and the California Park and Recreation Society's highest recognition, the Fellowship Award (1995). He was named a fellow of the American Academy for Parks and Recreation and received the Academy's distinguished Cornelius Amory Pugsley Award in 2000.

USDA Forest Service Joe Meade has been selected as the new Director of Recreation, Heritage and Volunteers at the USDA Forest Service. He previously served as the Director of the National Partnership Office.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has selected a painting of snow geese by Peter Coulter 17, of Washington, MO, as the winner of the 2013 Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest. Coulter’s painting will appear on the 2013-2014 Junior Duck Stamp, which the

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sells for $5 to raise funds for environmental education. The painting can be viewed at: www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/8646553086/in/set-72157633238798918. The Federal Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest is the culmination of a year-long Junior Duck Stamp conservation program used by educators across the nation. This year, more than 29,000 students participated in state Junior Duck Stamp competitions. For a complete contest results, go to the Junior Duck Stamp Program's website at www.fws.gov/juniorduck. A gallery of all state Best of Show entries can be found at www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/sets/72157633238798918/. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Endangered Species Coalition, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the International Child Art Foundation proudly announce the winners of the 2013 Endangered Species Day Youth Art Contest. The art contest is an integral part of the 8th annual national Endangered Species Day on May 17. The Grand Prize Winner, Category Winners, and semi-finalists in the 2013 Endangered Species Day Youth Art Contest can be seen at www.stopextinction.org/esd/434-2013-art.html. For more information about the annual art contest, winners and Endangered Species Day, visit www.endangeredspeciesday.org.

CONVENTION NEWS 2014 APPL Partnership Convention & Trade Show, February 23-27, Albuquerque, NM. Details coming soon to www.appl.org. Work has already begun on the 2014 APPL Convention and Trade Show, scheduled for February 23–27 in Albuquerque, NM. The RFP for sessions is taking shape and the program committee is beginning to form. We’re approaching the programming a bit anew this year, to take into account participant feedback and ideas. The restructuring includes a lot of new faces on the program committee, both locally and nationally, relative to the feedback. The focus for programming will once again be trends, hot topics, and content of importance to the public lands community. The RFP should be available by the middle of May. Please keep watch your email for further details.

Start your planning and budgeting now for next year’s Partnership Convention and Trade Show taking place in Albuquerque, NM. We’re pleased to be able to maintain the same early attendee registration rates for APPL members and government employees for the sixth year in a row while continuing to strengthen and enhance the convention program for you. The convention will be held at the Albuquerque Convention Center, within walking distance from the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, the convention headquarter hotel. Convention registration and the Hyatt hotel block will open in the fall. Early Attendee Registration* APPL Member/Government $450 Non-Member $575 Companion Registration $235 * The early registration deadline will be announced at a later time along with rates for regular and late registration. Convention Hotel Hyatt Regency Albuquerque - www.albuquerque.hyatt.com $139/night + taxes and fees (single/double occupancy) A block of government rooms will also be available at the prevailing government rate. Preliminary 2014 Convention Schedule Sunday, February 23 Optional workshops/fieldtrips*

Roundtable Forums Newcomers’ Networking Event Opening Reception*

Monday, February. 24 General Session Concurrent Sessions Keynote Luncheon* NPS & USACE Partnership Forums Trade Show Set-up

Tuesday, February 25 General Session Concurrent Sessions BLM & FS Partnership Forums Trade Show & Reception

Wednesday, February 26

General Session Concurrent Sessions Trade Show Closing Banquet & Awards Ceremony*

Thursday, February 27 Optional workshops/fieldtrips TBD*

* Designates ticketed events with additional fees.

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FEDERAL UPDATES U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has published a revised Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 for use. All employers are required to complete a Form I-9 for each employee hired in the United States. The revised forms are available in English and Spanish online at www.uscis.gov. For more information, please call 888-464-4218. USCIS has also scheduled free webinars to help employers learn about the new form. To order forms, call USCIS toll-free at 800-870-3676. For downloadable forms and information on USCIS programs, immigration laws, regulations, and procedures, please visit www.uscis.gov.

Legislative Update APPL is tracking the following legislation relevant to the nonprofit public land partner community. H.R.627 National Park Service 100th Anniversary

Commemorative Coin Act S. 336: Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 H.R. 684- Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 H.R. 1212 Charitable Driving Tax Relief Act of 2013 Track the progress of these bills by visiting www.govtrack.us. To let your congressional representatives know your views on these pieces of legislation visit www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt.

MEMBER NEWS Discover Your Northwest (DYNW) and University of Washington Press have jointly published The Pig War Standoff at Griffin Bay by Mike Vouri, the chief of interpretation and historian for San Juan Island National Historical Park. The book was designed by Ben Nechanicky of DYNW. First published in 1999, Mike Vouri's lively account of the Pig War crisis, when in 1859 Great Britain and the United States almost went to war over the Northwest boundary when an American farmer shot a British pig, has been revised and expanded into a definitive new edition. Additional photographs, maps, and drawings are combined with new material providing fresh insights into the boundary dispute that confounded diplomats of three nations, but never quite descended into a shooting war. Besides the $18.95 paperback distributed by University of Washington Press The Pig War is DYNW’s first Kindle Edition available through Amazon.

Learn more about the print version of the book at www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/VOUPIG.html. Information on the EBook may be found at http://amzn.to/11HgU5s. The Mount Rushmore Society presented Mount Rushmore National Memorial Superintendent Cheryl Schreier with a $100,000 sculpture preservation gift in a ceremony on April 24, coinciding with National Park Week. This will be the first of five $100,000 gifts that the Society will give to the park over the next five years to be used specifically for sculpture preservation at the Memorial. The funds are a result of an initial $214,000 bequest from the Betty Nelson, Yankton, SD, estate. The Mount Rushmore Society contributed an additional $200,000 and has managed the fund for its ultimate donation to the National Park Service (NPS). The National Association for Interpretation (NAI) is pleased to welcome their new Executive Director, Margo Carlock. Margo has spent the last 19 years with the Virginia Association of Museums (VAM), where she was Executive Director. Prior experience includes serving as a Foreign Service Officer in Senegal and Poland. She also spent an internship early in her career as an interpreter at a state historic site in Illinois and has volunteered as an interpreter in Virginia. Margo will be taking up her official duties as Executive Director full time in the office in mid-May. Paul Caputo remains as interim director until that time. You will be able to reach Margo by email at mcarlock@interpnet.com.

VENDOR SUPPORT NEWS

Concept360, winner of APPL’s 2013 Outstanding Vendor Award, is now a Vendor Support Program (VSP) Benefactor. In fact, they are the first company to make a VSP donation for

2014. Learn more about their personalized retail apparel programs at www.c360apparel.com or email Sam Dunham at samc360@gmail.com. Join Concept360 and make your 2014 VSP donation today. Details are available at www.appl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3308.

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Outdoor Nation and Merrell are proud to announce the launch of the 2013 The Pack Project Grants Program designed to increase participation in active outdoor recreation while also creating meaningful connections to the natural world. Merrell believes in encouraging everyone to get outside, be active and have fun. The Brand's mission is to increase participation in the outdoors through causes like Outdoor Nation. In 2013, Merrell will be awarding $25,000 to a minimum of 10 projects through their ambassador program called The Pack. There will be two cycles of the grant program, one in spring and one in late summer. Grants will be awarded to the most innovative, impactful and sustainable projects focusing on increasing outdoor recreation in communities across the country while also creating significant relationships with the environment. Applications are being accepted from individuals between the ages of 18 and 28 and 501c3 non-profits. Please note that individuals are eligible to apply but must have a 501c3 non-profit partner to act as the fiscal agent for the grant. Proposals must be submitted by June 1. Visit www.cybergrants.com/pls/cybergrants/quiz.display_question?x_gm_id=4494&x_quiz_id=4958&x_order_by=1 for details on how to apply for this grant opportunity. We-Care.com believes there are countless untold stories of impact and change and they want to help share those stories. The Untold Story Grant Giveaway was developed so that nonprofit supporters and representatives can tell their untold stories, listen to or share others, and be entered to win one of three social media grants. Each grant will empower the winning organization to tell their untold story in a new way. To enter the We-Care.com’s Untold Story Grant Giveaway submit up to a 1000 word written response, or a 20-second video on behalf of a charity about an "Untold Story" and how a social media grant would help the charity tell that story. Learn how your organization can benefit from this grant program at www.we-care.com/UntoldStory/About.

EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

June 2013 National Trails Day, June 1. Details may be found at www.americantrails.org. 13th Bruce F. Vento Public Service Award honoring Congressman Mike Simpson, June 5, Newseum,

Washington, DC. Hosted by the National Park Trust. Read the full press release at www.buddybison.org/news/press-release-and-media/598-simpson. National Get Outdoors Day (GO Day) 2013, June 8. To learn more visit www.funoutdoors.com. International PowWow, June 8-12, Las Vegas, NV. Visit www.ustravel.org for more information. APPL Board Meeting, June 15-16, Tally Ho Inn, Townsend, TN. Email appl@appl.org for additional information. Volunteering and Service Conference, June 19-22, Washington, DC. More information may be found at www.pointsoflight.org.

September 2013 National Wildlife Refuge Week, September 14-20. More information is forthcoming at www.fws.gov/refuges. National Public Lands Day, September 28. Details are available at www.publiclandsday.org. LEAD ON: 2013 Independent Sector National Conference, September 29-October 1, New York, NY. Conference registration is now open. Details are available at www.independentsector.org.

October 2013 Peaks, Plateaus, and Canyons Association Fall Meeting, October 22-24, Grand Junction, CO. hosted by Colorado National Monument Association.

November 2013 National Association for Interpretation Workshop, November 6-9, Reno, NV. More information may be found at www.interpnet.com. Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education Conference, November 7-9, College Park, MD. Details on this event at www.aore.org. 2013 BoardSource Leadership Forum, November 7 – 8, Century Plaza Hyatt Regency, Los Angeles, CA. Details are available at www.boardsource.org/blf/. To preregister visit www.boardsource.org/Workshops.asp?mode=events&ID=443.

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MARKETPLACE Featuring donors to APPL’s Vendor Support Program (VSP). View a directory of all our VSP donors at www.appl.org. Blubandoo Cooling Headwear’s USA pattern is available at below list pricing while the supply lasts! Also, ask about their new Hydration Buckets to help you hydrate Blubandoo products so they are ready for your guests to wear. See over 100 new patterns at www.blubandoo.com. They also offer name drop to promote your location. Contact them to hear their APPL success stories. Phone: 949-545-6105 / Fax: 949-545-6106 / info@blubandoo.com / info@blubandoo.com. Fulcrum Publishing recently released Hell on Wheels: Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad by Dick Kreck. The Wild West was more than just cowboys. It was also the raucous and unfettered railroad settlements that lined the tracks. Overnight settlements, better known as hell on wheels, sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate businesses, but also for gambles, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories, along with those heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West. A trade paperback original, Hell on Wheels is priced at $16.95. Questions about the book can be directed to Ingrid Estell at Ingrid@FulcrumBooks.com or 406-542-6243. A complete list of Fulcrum Publishing titles can be found at www.fulcrumbooks.com. Roadside Geology of New Jersey in the latest installment of the popular series from Mountain Press Publishing Company. Complete with 13 road guides and an overview of the geological history of the state this volume will orient any visitor to its geologic features. Visit http://mountain-press.com/item_detail.php?item_key=620 to learn more about this title. Xplorer Maps is excited to announce that Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks and Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be the featured new releases at the 2014 APPL trade show in Albuquerque, NM. Preliminary discussions and collaborative partnerships are taking shape with representative groups from each of these locations to brainstorm and create a truly unique and custom hand-drawn illustrated map of the featured regions. Once again, it was the opportunity to exhibit at the APPL show in Portland that facilitated these

partnerships and they are extremely grateful for the interest and support buyers have shown over the past two years. Xplorer Maps donates the original artwork and additional high-end signed artist prints (great fundraising opportunities) as well as a portion of the map sales in perpetuity to the participating organizations and works with designated committees to help ensure accuracy every step of the way. Please visit www.xplorermaps.com for more details. Xplorer Maps products are entirely made in the USA and are produced with only 100% post-consumer content with chemical-free, soy- based inks. Each map is original and includes absolutely zero reproduced artwork; they are hand-drawn by co-owner Chris Robitaille and every line, letter and icon is unique to each illustration. Note: Additional hand-drawn maps to be released in the next 18 months featuring public lands include Lake Tahoe, the state of California, Banff National Park, Sanibel-Captiva Island and a special commissioned project with the Yosemite Conservancy to help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant.

POSITIONS AVAILABLE Additional position listings may be found at www.appl.org. The Mount St. Helens Institute is seeking an Executive Director to lead the organization in connecting people to stewardship, science and appreciation of volcanic landscapes. He or she will be responsible for coordinating overall organizational management, strategy and fundraising. The ongoing development of the Mount St. Helens Learning Center at Coldwater and associated Institute programs, including a new summer camp program, which is a significant new initiative for the Institute and will require active, strategic fundraising and management attention from the ED. A full position description and information on how to apply for this position is available at http://mshinstitute.org/index.php/about_us/employment. Western National Parks Association is seeking a Program Manager for the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site in Ganado, AZ. Details on the position and application information are available at www.wnpa.org/jobs_openings.asp.

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The Yellowstone Association is currently seeking a detail oriented team player with a passion for Yellowstone and at least 3 years of experience in customer service, sales, or business management to join our team as Contact Center Manager. Please refer to the complete position description available at www.yellowstoneassociation.org/jobs. The East Bay Regional Park District in Oakland, CA is seeking a Chief of Interpretive and Recreation Services. Learn more about this opportunity with California State Parks at http://agency.governmentjobs.com/ebparks/default.cfm. The Save the Redwoods League is conducting a national search for a President and Chief Executive Officer. The President and CEO of Save the Redwoods League shall be responsible for leading and advancing the organization’s vision, strategic initiatives and priorities. For further information or to apply for the position, please visit Morris and Berger’s website at http://morrisberger.com/currentsearches/savetheredwoods. If you have questions please contact Jay Berger at jberger@morrisberger.com or Karin Stellar at kstellar@morrisberger.com. They can also be reached at 818-507-1234. The Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont is seeking an experienced and visionary Executive Director who has the abilities and skills necessary to build on their past successes and move them forward. Their ideal candidate will be a trained environmental education leader with strong non-profit business management skills. They will understand and be capable of managing the many facets of a residential environmental learning center working in partnership with the National Park Service. Skills at mentoring and coaching staff, recruiting participants, and communicating effectively with a wide variety of constituents are key. For further information visit www.gsmit.org. Send resume, letter of interest, including salary history and expectations to: Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, 9275 Tremont Road, Townsend, TN 37882, 865-448-6709 or email to: charlene@gsmit.org.

RESOURCES Suggest a resource by e-mailing appl@appl.org. Idealware has released their 2013 Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits. This edition, their fourth, covers more than 75 types of software, from association management to wikis and everything in between. It tells you what’s available, what it can do for you, how you might use it, which the most common vendors are, and what you can expect to pay. This year they have added a section to help you navigate the daunting process of selecting and implementing software, including hiring consultants, evaluating contracts, and conducting vendor demos. Find the right software for your needs at www.idealware.org/field-guide. Every year, the IRS publishes a compilation of tax charts in its Data Book. The tax-exempt pages, which begin on page 51, provide the latest figures about the size of the sector, how many new applications came in, and how many were rejected. Download the 2012 Data Book at www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/12databk.pdf. According to the latest Nonprofit Technology Staffing and Investments Report, the median nonprofit technology budget ranges from 1% to 2.2% of an organization’s total operating budget across all organization sizes. This latest research from NTEN provides benchmarks for assessing and planning nonprofit technology budgets, plus provides valuable benchmarks for the nonprofit sector as a whole in gauging the maturity and effectiveness of technology strategies and use. Download the complete free report at http://bit.ly/13PWrNw.

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