New Member Benefits CAN is excited to announce newly formed partnerships featuring a trio of online fundraising websites, reliable payroll services and efficient data management services. These organizations are offering generous discounts to CAN members to assist you in keeping your nonprofit financially robust so you can devote more time and energy to fulfilling your mission.  Click on the links below to contact these organizations and make use of your new membership benefits: Fundraising   GrantStation: Offers a continually updated, searchable database of private and public grantmakers, complete with up-to-date application details and hyperlinks, plus tutorials on grant writing, research and management. The CAN member discount is $269 per year off their $599 cost!  Visit www.grantstation.com for more info.   Qbase: Online secure data storage and management tool to help you sort and find the best approach for your pool of donors.  You can track constituent responses, appeals and to-do's, generate reports, work out solicitation strategies and keep your data up-to-date. It also offers data analytics to quickly find your most productive approach. Qbase is offering CAN members nine months ofservices at no charge! Take them up on this offer at www.qbasefundraising.com   PhilanTrack: A new customizable innovation which streamlines the writing of grant applications. You can keep track of all relevant information, eliminating needless repetition of the same information in different formats and significantly reducing data entry time. An added bonus is an online storage location to retain institutional memory. Philantech is offering a 15% discount to CAN members at http://www.philantech.com/products.htm   Payroll Services   CAN members will receive a 20% discount off reliable payroll services through our agreement with new CAN partner Paycare. Paycare can offer more personalized customer service than the bigger payroll firms, and has a particular interest in serving nonprofit organizations. It offers comprehensive tax service for all agencies, free reporting of New Hire, Workers Comp, Vacation and Tax Liability, online paycheck information and time and attendance service.  Contact Paycare for a price quote at www.paycare.com or (800) 218-9577.   Data Storage   CAN Partner K-Tech has just unveiled an exciting new product that will help you efficiently and effortlessly backup and recover your organization's irreplaceable computer data. K-Tech corrects many of the problems with traditional tape data by storing your information online. Incremental backups are small and fast and allows for backups several times daily. This minimizes downtime and allows you to write saved data to a new server in a short time. This is a “set it and forget it” backup system starting from just $100 per month and CAN members receive a 10% discount. For more information contact Khedouri Azair at 213-784-5330 x101 or visit http://www.ktechla.com.

Events   Booksigning by Attorney Anthony Mancuso at Building Strong Nonprofits: 17th Annual CAN Conference Wednesday, October 22, 5 pm to 7 pm Join us for a special book signing at CAN’s Meet and Greet Mixer. Attorney Anthony Mancuso is a corporation expert and author of the Nolo Press best selling corporate law series, How to Form a Limited Liability Company and Incorporate Your Business. Attorney Mancuso will be signing his newest book, Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records for conference attendees. Join us for this special evening event.   To register for the conference, please click here.   Exhibitor’s Expo at Building Strong Nonprofits: 17th Annual CAN Conference Thursday, October 23, 2008, 9 am to 5pm Knowledgeable, nonprofit-friendly businesses await you in CAN’s Exhibitor Expo. Talk with the experts on nonprofit banking, insurance, finance, technology, printing and more.   Also on hand (October 22 and 23): Buy nonprofit-targeted books at the CAN Bookstore, learn how you can save with CAN Insurance Services and become a CAN Member on-the-spot. You can also drop off information about your organization at the Resource Table.    Not a CAN Business member yet? For more information, email lbryson-charles@canonprofits.org       403(b) Retirement Plan Guidelines Webinar Bob Architect, Senior Tax Law Specialist at the IRS, will present two webinars (a basic session and more comprehensive presentation) for NCNA network members. The calls are open to the public, but CAN members can save $10 off the regular $35 price. The presentations -- with ample time for Q&A -- will be 75 minutes.   Tuesday, October 28 from 3:00 - 4:15 pm Eastern. A general presentation regarding the changes and how they will affect your organization. Designed for individuals who are not familiar with federal laws regulating employee retirement plans.   Wednesday, November 12 from 3:30 - 4:45 pm Eastern.  A comprehensive presentation regarding the changes for individuals who handle employee benefits and are familiar with retirement plans.  Renew your membership or become a member today and take advantage of CAN’s 2008 membership dues! For more information, call 213-347-2070. Capacity Builds LA “Specialty Workshops”   Community, faith-based/nonprofit organizations are invited and encouraged to participate in this free training series designed to enhance and augment the knowledge and skills of organizations working with special populations or issues. Space is limited and reservations will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis.   Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 10/17/08 Employment Law 10/31/08 Legal Issues for Non-Profits Serving Children 11/14/08 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) 01/23/09 Technology: Web Based Fundraising & Marketing   For questions, information and registration, please contact Maricela Hernandez at 213-744-9307 or Maricela.Hernandez@lacity.org (TTY# 213-744-9329)   Free Webinar: How to Use the Web for Communications and Marketing Thursday, November 6 10:00 - 11:30 p.m. PST   You cannot afford to miss this free educational webinar brought to you by the California Association of Nonprofits and Firespring. This session was specifically designed to educate nonprofit professionals on how to get the most from their website.   In just over an hour you'll learn: the three biggest mistakes nonprofits make when developing a web strategy, which functional tools are crucial to your end-users, the secret to creating a website with high vitality, and what exactly your constituents expect from your website.   To RSVP call 877-447-8941 OR register online at www.firespring.com/nonprofit.

Resources and Announcements    Hearing a lot about the financial sector meltdown and wondering what it means for you? We’ve found a few great resources that explain the situation clearly and concisely. Check out Nonprofit Quarterly’s The Cohen Report, “What the Financial Sector Meltdown Really Means for Nonprofits and Philanthropy” and NPR’s segment, “Assessing Impact Of Financial Crisis On Nonprofits.”