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PRESS RELEASE
FIRE to Provide Free Training for NonprofitsFund for Investigative Reporting and Editing (FIRE) has received a $5,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina (CFWNC) for a series of "Nonprofits Online" workshops. The training will be offered free of charge to nonprofit organizations' staff members and active volunteers who are located in western North Carolina. The CFWNC grant, which is matched by a $2,725 grant from the New Leaf Fund, will also support a Buncombe County media forum later this year. The grant from CFWNC is funded through the Dogwood Charitable Endowment Fund and the Permanent Endowment Fund of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina. The Nonprofits Online training will help teach organizations' staff
and volunteers to use the full extent of computer and Internet resources
that are available to them. Topics will include where to get immediate
answers to critical problems; where to find information that leads
to funding and equipment donations; ways to share ideas and challenges
with similar organizations in other parts of the country; and how
to access vast databases that illustrate the need for programs. The first Nonprofits Online workshop is scheduled for August 22
from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. in the downstairs computer lab at Pack
Memorial Library at 67 Haywood Street in downtown Asheville. Other
workshops are currently being scheduled in Cullowhee, Spruce Pine
and Waynesville, and funds are available to offer the workshop in
other western NC locations where there is sufficient interest. To
register or find out more, please contact Mark Goldstein at (828)
259-9179 / mark@ncpress.net or visit the FIRE website at www.ncpress.net/seminars.html. # # # |
