Membership Special Offer for New CAN Membership Sign-up for CAN membership today and receive a FREE office poster, 10 Principles & Strategies for Ensuring Nonprofit Integrity by CAN’s Executive Director, Flo Green. Valued at $20, this free step-by-step guide informs and supports your nonprofit’s response to accelerating calls for accountability from donors, policy makers and the general public. Be the first to receive this free poster and join CAN today with code: EIP0508     Member Benefits Scholarships Available for ePhilanthropy Training! Join the ePhilanthropy Foundations 2008 Nonprofit Internet Strategies Seminar on Tuesday, May 20th in Sacramento, CA, hosted by the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. This half-day seminar offers a highly interactive setting for participants to discuss their experiences and to apply new concepts to their online/offline fundraising strategies. A limited number of scholarships are available for CAN members.Click here to apply.  To learn more about the training, visit www.ephilanthropy.org/tour or call 877-536-1245, ext. 1. Ask- A-Colleague Listservs Join CAN's Ask-A-Colleague listserv where you can share valuable ideas and ask aboutbest practices on day-to-day management issues. You'll find email discussion groups on subjects such as Human Resources, Accounting, Advocacy, Fundraising, Compliance and Start-ups. Subscribe by visiting http://www.canonprofits.org/resources/staffroom/joinlistserv.html. Printing, Mailing and Copying Discounts Did you know your CAN membership can help decrease printing costs? CAN partners with three print shops to provide 15% discounts for CAN members. ColorTrend is a full service direct mail and printing company offering graphic design services, quick turnaround and 100% recyclable materials. Visit www.colortrend.net to learn more. Charlie Chan Printing handles professional-level copying and printing and can print full color with minimum quantities at a reasonable price. Find out more at www.charliechan.com. Sundance Press is a specialty shop printing short run, high-quality periodicals such as magazines, newsletters, annual reports or other publications with print runs of 15,000 copies or fewer. Check out www.sundancepress.com for details. Good2gether Partnership There's nothing quite like free advertising. Thanks to CAN's new partnership with Good2together, nonprofits can have their names and nonprofit profiles placed on high-traffic websites where they can connect with millions of donors, advocates and volunteers. For CAN members in the San Francisco Bay area, good2gether launches on SFGate.com (the San Francisco Chronicle website) in late June, with other California cities to follow. Even if your nonprofit is outside the Bay Area, you can still join by clicking here. Want to know more? Register for a "sneak peak."

CAN’s Career Center Find a job/Post a job Let CAN’s Nonprofit Career Center be your premiere online job source. Employers can specifically target nonprofit professionals and CAN members receive a special discount. For job seekers, here are a few recently posted positions: 2-1-1 Statewide Coordinator Executive Director, Santa Ana Watershed Association Visit CAN's Career Center today!   2008 Compensation & Benefits Survey Are your salary and benefits packages competitive in today’s job market? The Center for Nonprofit Management’s 2008 Compensation & Benefits Survey is an employer’s best tool for attracting and retaining the right employees. The 2008 survey will be released at the end of May. CAN members receive a $15 discount with code CBS08-CAN.

Events   NIAC Webinars It's not too late to register for the June 3rd webinar, Everything You Need to Know When Classifying Employees Exempt/Nonexempt. Beginning at 11 a.m. PST; the fee for this webinar is only $20. To register, click here.  Other upcoming webinars include: July 16 - Succession Planning for Nonprofits August 12 - What to Do When You Have an Accident, Claim or Lawsuit September 16 - Business Planning for Nonprofits October 7 - Properly Establishing Independent Contractor Relationships November 11 - 2008 Developments in Employment and Labor Law Registration opens two weeks in advance or call 800 359-6422 x 41 if you have questions. Labor and Employment Workshop This great half-day session will focus on current best practices for avoiding wrongful termination lawsuits, accommodating the disabled and preventing and investigating workplace harassment. The workshop will be held June 5th from 1 to 5 p.m. in San Francisco. The cost is only $25 and registration is available online. California CPA Education Foundation Nonprofit Conference May 21, 2008 - Universal City May 22, 2008 - San Francisco CAN members can save $90 by calling (800) 922-5272 to register at the CalCPA member rate of $300. The Nonprofit Congress will convene over 800 nonprofit professionals in Washington, DC from June 1-4. To register or learn more, click here.   Generational Shift Conference Join the Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership for a one-day conference on GenNext: Generational Shift and Your Organization on Thursday, June 12, from 8 am to 3 pm at California State University Long Beach. Learn to understand and manage the complexity of the generational hand-off impacting all nonprofits. First Annual MENDing Poverty Conference June 18, 2008 - Pacoima (San Fernando Valley) Click here for more information.   Nonprofit Accounting Boot Camp July 9 - 11, 2008 - Fullerton Click here for more information.       Money Matters: 2008 Nonprofit Finance Conference The 7th Annual CAN Money Matters Nonprofit Finance Conference will be held: Aug 13 - Los Angeles, Aug 20 - Riverside, Sept 10 - Oakland and Sept 17 - Fresno. This is the up-to-date conference for Resources, Reporting & Responsibility. Click here for more information. Click here to register now.   Building Strong Nonprofits: 17th Annual CAN Conference October 22-23, 2008 - Los Angeles Click here for highlights from the 2007 CAN Annual Conference.

Announcements New Form 990 Instructions The National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA) posted a Memo to Members to help small and midsized nonprofits in their review of the draft Form 990 instructions. Please email your comments on the instructions by June 1 to Form990Revision@irs.gov. NCNA can also file any comments received by May 15 and addressed to abeltran@ncna.org. Nonprofits may find it helpful to listen to the recent NCNA webinar on "Impacts of the New Form 990 on Accounting and Recordkeeping."