ImageboxSite LogoLeft ArrowPrevious ItemNext ItemRight ArrowBlog PostEventGrowIgniteLaunchLocationXMenuQuoteSearchGoogle PlusYoutube
New Sun Rising
Menu
Close
  • How We Work
    • Overview
    • Culture
    • Sustainability
    • Opportunity
    • Resources
  • Our Programs
    • Ignite
    • Launch
    • Grow
    • Fiscal Sponsorship
    • Vibrancy Funds
  • Projects We Support
  • About Us
    • We Stand Against Racism + Hate
    • What is NSR?
    • History
    • Team
    • Impact
  • Home
  • Events
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Ways To Give
New Sun Rising
  • Home
  • Events
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Search
  • Ways To Give
  • How We Work
    • Overview
    • Culture
    • Sustainability
    • Opportunity
    • Resources
  • Our Programs
    • Ignite
    • Launch
    • Grow
    • Fiscal Sponsorship
    • Vibrancy Funds
  • Projects We Support
  • About Us
    • We Stand Against Racism + Hate
    • What is NSR?
    • History
    • Team
    • Impact
The Blog of NSR

Tag: The Staunton Farm Foundation

Nonprofit Resilience Program focuses on leaders wellbeing to create trust, connectivity and build capacity

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Alyse Horn-Pyatt

Pittsburgh, PA — Eleven nonprofit executives have been selected as the first cohort to participate in a three month resiliency program to address personal and organizational pressures that have been exacerbated by COVID-19.

The program began on September 1, 2020 and will conclude on November 23, 2020.

Hosted by New Sun Rising in partnership with Neighborhood Allies, The Partnership Network, The Forbes Funds, and made possible with support from The Staunton Farm Foundation, the Nonprofit Resilience Program creates a resource that assesses individual leaders and provides them tools for personal healthy mental habits. It also addresses the overall health of the organization and provides capacity building tactics and tools to better understand the symbiotic relationship between the two. 

“Seeing the impact of COVID-19 and the ever present history of our country’s issues around racism, it is time to find a way for our nonprofit leaders to identify the tools and skills that fill them back up so they can continue to pour out,” said Jamie Johnson, Manager of Performance Improvement at New Sun Rising.

The Partnership Network, a group of intermediary funders and capacity building organizations mobilizing the community and economic development sectors to solve complex community challenges, have identified four goals for this program: Develop Healthy Leaders, Create Trust and Connectivity, Build Organizational Capacity, and Strengthen the Talent Pipeline. These goals have been broken down into phases and will be addressed over the program’s timeline.

  • Phase 1: Healthy Leaders: Acknowledge and support the needs of people as individuals. Research shows that higher emotional intelligence facilitates stress resilience. An online Emotional Intelligence Assessment will be administered and Development Sessions are created based on the results.
  • Phase 2: Stronger Connectivity: People need to heal from past trauma in order to actualize their own potential and ability to support others. Collective experiences will be promoted based on empathy and honesty. Participants will develop trust and strengthen peer relationships in new ways to help them better manage adversity in the future.
  • Phase 3: Building Capacity: A leader’s health, mental and physical, and the health of their organization are interrelated. Gaining a greater understanding of operational strengths and weaknesses helps professional service contractors address and organization’s most urgent needs

“As public servants and dedicated leaders, we can often be so driven by our passions that the personal health of a non-profit director is often secondary to the work. Over time, this can lead to burnout, exhaustion, and institutional knowledge loss in the system,” said Stephanie Chernay, Chief Operation Officer at Neighborhood Allies. “This program is designed to center the leader and their needs to accomplish both their personal and organizational goals.”

Program participants include: Andrea Matthews – Brashear Association; Jason Flowers – Omicelo Cares; McKees Rocks CDC; Emily Mitchell – Urban Redevelopment Authority; Joanna Deming – Perry Hilltop Citizens Council; Jordan Coughlen – Alpha House; Amber Epps – Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation; Ariam Ford – Grounded Strategies; Denele Hughson – Grow Pittsburgh; Jona Reyes – Neighbors Helping Neighbors North Braddock; Alyssa Lyons – Green Building Alliance.

Co-developer of this initiative, Terry Doloughty of Boss Consulting, will also be one of the technical assistance providers working with non-profit leaders to help them establish strong personal and organizational health habits.

Developing resilience is a transformational process that occurs over time through a multifaceted approach. By strengthening individual leaders and their relationships with peers, this initiative will ultimately improve organizational sustainability and help to achieve greater impact. This program recognizes the health of the organization and the mental health of nonprofit leaders are intrinsically intertwined. 

—

CONTACTS:

Jamie Johnson, Manager of Performance Improvement, New Sun Rising
jamie@newsunrising.org

Stephanie Chernay, Chief Operating Officer, Neighborhood Allies
stephanie@neighborhoodallies.org

 

About New Sun Rising
New Sun Rising supports nonprofits and small businesses to build vibrant communities through culture, sustainability, and opportunity. NSR believes that all people and communities hold the knowledge and power to make positive change. We envision a future where regenerative community development practices create the conditions for true social, environmental, and economic justice. 

About Neighborhood Allies
Neighborhood Allies’ mission is to support the people, organizations and partnerships committed to creating and maintaining healthy neighborhoods. They strive to support this mission by creating community partnerships, connecting distressed and transitioning communities with valued/vetted resources, and communicating and celebrating progress and success.

About The Partnership Network
The Partnership Network (TPN) is a group of intermediary funders and/or capacity building organizations working to mobilize the community and economic development sectors in the Pittsburgh region. TPN creates the conditions for change by collaborating to solve complex community challenges at the macro, meso, and micro levels of our communities. Collectively, TPN is focused on capacity building for the Community Development System to reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). TPN members are committed to being people-centered while implementing the following practices: Aligning Resources, Creating Transparency, and Articulating Shared Outcomes. Partner organizations include Allegheny Conference, The Forbes Funds, Grounded Strategies, Neighborhood Allies, NeighborWorks Western Pennsylvania, and New Sun Rising.

About The Forbes Funds
The Forbes Funds advances the well-being of our region by helping human service and community-based nonprofits build their management capacity and increase the impact of their mission work. They support these nonprofits both as individual organizations and as a unified coalition of leaders, funders, and advocates working collaboratively throughout southwestern Pennsylvania.

Posted in ProgramsTagged Building Capacity, covid-19, covid-19 response, Healthy Leaders, neighborhood allies, New Sun Rising, Nonprofit Resilience Program, pittsburgh nonprofits, pittsburgh organizations, Stronger Connectivity, the Forbes fund, the partnership network, The Staunton Farm Foundation

Categories

  • Events
  • Programs
  • Projects
  • Resources
  • Uncategorized

Archives

Tags

  • New Sun Rising
  • culture
  • millvale
  • sustainability
  • opportunity
  • Triboro ecodistrict
  • Vibrant Communities
  • Climate Change
  • Vibrancy Funds
  • Pittsburgh
  • Sharpsburg
  • One Northside
  • entrepreneurs
  • Pittsburgh Northside
  • Etna
  • VibrantCommunities
  • Ignite Northside
  • covid-19
  • networking
  • EcoDistricts
  • organizational development
  • one Northside mini-grant
  • equity
  • Training
  • Homewood
  • small business
  • nonprofit
  • evolveEA
  • professional development
  • un sustainable development goals
  • Etna ecodistrict
  • millvale Ecodistrict
  • one Northside mini-grants
  • RiverWise
  • #Grow
  • Impact
  • heinz endowments
  • teaching artists
  • GROW residency program
  • business mentoring
  • Strong Ambitious Women
  • G.O. girls
  • protohaven
  • hillman foundation
  • ONS
  • ecodistrict
  • sustainable pittsburgh
  • google
  • Wilkinsburg
  • technology
  • the Forbes fund
  • the partnership network
  • human services
  • grow pittsburgh
  • millvale food + energy hub
  • EIS Solar
  • Jamie Johnson
  • NSR
  • Sharpsburg ecodistrict
  • Sharpsburg community vision plan
  • Sharpsburg neighborhood organization
  • EcoDistricts protocol
  • Pittsburgh Northside mini-grants
  • digital bridges
  • Coraopolis Youth Creations
  • love rocks cafe
  • beaver county
  • Triboro Ecodistrict Food Relief
  • brown mamas
  • Allegheny Land Trust
  • The Pittsburgh Foundation
  • covid-19 response
  • pittsburgh nonprofits
  • Power in Numbers
  • vibrancy portal
  • AffordableHousing
  • LaunchWilkinsburg
  • ignite
  • awards
  • ACTION-Housing
  • My Place
  • 1stLayer
  • Emily Marko
  • LaunchStoRox
  • PittMovers
  • SVP Full Circle
  • Unity Through Creativity
  • The Grouding Lab
  • Greater Valley Community Services
  • Legacy Arts Project
  • Coraopolis Community Development Foundation
  • Associated Artists Pittsburgh
  • director of culture and operations
  • operations
  • Pittsburgh fringe festival
  • levels consulting
  • work hard Pittsburgh
  • academy pgh
  • hilltop workforce development program
  • mini-grant street team
  • northside
  • one Northside street team
  • launch sustainability
  • capacity building
  • Larimer
  • data
  • collaboration
  • advocacy
  • community development
  • nonprofit capacity building
  • Triboro
  • hurricane ivan
  • food
  • water
  • energy
  • air quality
  • mobility
  • the gardens of Millvale
  • the garden of Etna
  • Sharpsburg community garden
  • garden get down pittsburgh
  • steel city energy conservation
  • sigma luminous
  • center for energy
  • university of Pittsburgh
  • energy grid institute
  • 412 food rescue
  • spruzzatura
  • the food trust
  • fractracker alliance
  • millvale ecodisrict
  • Manager of Performance Improvement
  • Sharpsburg borough
  • Sharpsburg Sustainability & Civic Engagement Center
  • sharpsburg community library
  • smiles and tiles day
  • SNO
  • EcoDistricts summit
  • city of pittsburgh
  • Etna eco park
  • ecodistrict celebration Fugh hall
  • emergence millvale
  • emergence Sharpsburg
  • emergence etna
  • emergence a women's collective
  • christ lutheran church
  • north hills community outreach food pantry
  • bread of life food pantry
  • first English lutheran
  • collective change partners
  • Style 412
  • sprezzatura Pittsburgh
  • sprezzaturapgh
  • tupelo honey teas
  • mckees rocks
  • crisis mitigation relief fund
  • Barrels to Beethoven
  • Hello Neighbor
  • Hill District Consensus Group
  • Kitchen of Grace
  • Inside Our Minds
  • Latino Community Center
  • Revival Relief
  • Zellous Hope Project
  • vibrancy awards
  • nsr vibrancy awards
  • south hilltop men's group
  • hilltop rising llc
  • earth day 2020
  • earth day
  • earth week
  • earth day 50th anniversary
  • earth week pittsburgh
  • earth day Pittsburgh
  • COVID19
  • Environmentalism
  • Humanism
  • etna community organization
  • bread of life food pantry etna
  • boys & girls club millvale
  • second harvest
  • roots of faith
  • Christ Lutheran Church in Millvale
  • North Hill Community Outreach
  • dinners for friends
  • dinners for neighbors
  • milldam community library
  • millvale development corporation
  • Borough of Millvale
  • Climate Protection
  • Resilience
  • EcoDistricts Certified
  • second EcoDistrict
  • world
  • pandemic
  • justice
  • race
  • responsibility
  • environmental justice
  • Allegheny CleanWays
  • Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania
  • BikePGH
  • Breathe Project
  • Center of Life
  • Communitopia
  • Conservation Consultants
  • Construction Junction
  • Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services
  • Friends of the Riverfront
  • Group Against Smog and Pollution
  • Green Building Alliance
  • Grounded Strategies
  • Homewood Children’s Village
  • Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance
  • Landforce
  • Nine Mile Run Watershed Association
  • PennFuture
  • Pennsylvania Resources Council
  • Pennsylvania Solar Center
  • Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens
  • Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
  • Plant Five for Life
  • Riverlife
  • Student Conservation Association
  • The Forbes Funds
  • Tree Pittsburgh
  • UrbanKind Institute
  • Venture Outdoors
  • Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
  • Women for a Healthy Environment
  • Exploring COVID Impacts Through Visual Art
  • funding
  • financial support
  • Triboro ecodistrict essential workers
  • essential workers
  • first responders
  • front line workers
  • one Northside mini-grant showcase
  • one Northside celebration
  • double L bar
  • double L
  • kiya tomlin
  • 2 sisters 2 sons
  • coronavirus
  • Allegheny County
  • Exploring COVID-19 Impacts Through Visual Art
  • Allegheny County artists
  • beaver county artists
  • arts
  • neighborhood allies
  • The Staunton Farm Foundation
  • Nonprofit Resilience Program
  • pittsburgh organizations
  • Healthy Leaders
  • Stronger Connectivity
  • Building Capacity
  • ignote vibrancy: collective impact
  • ignite workshop
  • open field
  • northview heights
  • crafton heights
  • Coraopolis Alliance for Excellence
  • SURGE Braddock
  • Change Agents Mentoring Peers in Sport
  • Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh
  • Youth Places
  • ARYSE
  • Somali Bantu Community Association of Pittsburgh
  • JFCS Pittsburgh
  • one Northside pittsburgh
  • pittsburgh manchester
  • buhl foundation
  • nsr ignite
  • new sun rising ignite project
  • ignite Northside pittsburgh
  • farmer girl eb
  • growing with farmer girl eb
  • his place
  • his place pittsburgh
  • Spring Hill pittsburgh
  • Believe & Achieve Community Learning Hub
  • pittsburgh gardeners
  • Triboro Solar Co-op
  • Solar United Neighbors
  • Henry L. Hillman Foundation
  • pittsburgh data culture
  • muffy mendoza
  • sustainable development goals
  • tides foundation
  • save Girty's woods
  • Girty's woods
  • mr smalls
  • Girty's woods get down
  • Shaler Area high school
  • Shaler Area middle school
  • new sun rising director of operations
  • pittsburgh pennsylvania
  • community small business workshops
  • new sun rising ignite workshops
  • hilltop
  • vibrancy index
  • Omicelo Cares
  • pittsburgh entrepreneurs
  • arts equity re-imagined
  • drinking partners
  • Shana Simmons Dance
  • The Genesis Collective
  • The Tull Family Theater
  • Silver Eye Center for Photography
  • Hill Dance Academy Theater
  • COVID-19 crisis
  • Collective Action for Re-Imagining
  • new sun rising grant program
  • covid-19 grant funding
  • second harvest thrift store
  • fox chapel presbyterian
  • fox chapel area school district

New Sun Rising PO Box 58005
Pittsburgh, PA 15209
 USA

Email:

info@newsunrising.org

New Sun Rising is a GuideStar
Gold Participant

Connect with Us

© 2021 New Sun Rising. All rights reserved.

Website by Imagebox

Skip to content
Open toolbar

Accessibility Tools

  • Increase Text
  • Decrease Text
  • Grayscale
  • High Contrast
  • Negative Contrast
  • Light Background
  • Links Underline
  • Readable Font
  • Reset