Nonprofit Center, BRPC Offering Resiliency Workshops

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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires has partnered with Berkshire Regional Planning Commission to offer eight free workshops during the month of October to help nonprofits build capacity and become more resilient.  

The "Level Up Series for Nonprofits" is open to all nonprofit organizations. A limited amount of one-one-one technical assistance is also available.  

October offerings include a 3-part series on Fundraising Communications Essentials with one in-person workshop at Marble House in Lee, followed by two webinars on subsequent Friday mornings. Additional webinars include Nonprofit Digital Marketing 101, Program Evaluation for Lean Nonprofits, and Board Meetings & Best Practices. Some webinars take place during evening hours to accommodate all-volunteer organizations.

On Oct. 28, Boston-based Philanthropy Massachusetts will visit the Berkshires to present a Grant Research workshop at the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge. 

Small and grassroots organizations are encouraged to take advantage of these professional development opportunities. Register online at npcberkshires.org.


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Dalton Planning Board Establishes Sidewalk Subcommittee

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
DALTON, Mass. — The Planning Board established a sidewalk subcommittee during its meeting last week. 
 
The subcommittee will review the proposed sidewalk bylaw amendment that was not acted upon during the annual town meeting on May 7. 
 
The amendment proposes amending the town bylaw to make concrete sidewalks the standard.
 
During the meeting, Todd Logan, the citizen petitioner for the sidewalk amendment, reiterated what he had previously said during several meetings — that concrete sidewalks should be the standard — and presented the steps he had already taken while developing this amendment. 
 
"The way the proper way to do this is to have a subcommittee and have at least two people from the Planning Board, and you can have as many people as you want that are experts … and write the bylaw in the format that matches our bylaws," Planner Zack McCain said during the meeting. 
 
"Then the whole Planning Board will review it, and then we'd have a public hearing to let everybody have their input on it. And then we would make the changes based on the input and then have it go to the annual town meeting."
 
McCain is the voter who motioned during the town meeting to table the article until a public hearing. 
 
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