Nonprofit Resources
SCORE Silicon Valley nonprofit business team offers free, confidential consulting and mentoring to nonprofit businesses. Our mentors accelerate and increase the effectiveness of a nonprofit organization by providing training, facilitation, and a proven Board Forward Service. The board forward service is designed to increase the effectiveness of the board, staff, and operations of a nonprofit organization.
Our Vision & Mission
Our vision is to become the number one no-cost resource for local nonprofits by 2025. Our mission is to work closely with nonprofit businesses to understand their challenges and help create strategic execution plans for their success. For more information, contact us at: nonprofitinfo405@scorevolunteer.org
We Help to Solve the Following Nonprofit Business Challenges
Raising Money
- Mentoring
- Training & Education
Marketing the Brand
- Mentoring
- Board Forward
- Panel Discussions
- Roundtables
Managing People
- Mentoring
- Advisory Board
- Training & Education
Planning
- Mentoring
- Board Forward
- SWOT Facilitation
- Succession Planning
- Startup Guidance
- Strategic Planning
Is your organization able to fund all its projects and programs? Are you having trouble finding qualified board members, or getting more engagement from board and volunteers? Do your vision and mission statement need a revision? Are you effectively telling your story and does it resonate? Are your operations running effectively?
If your nonprofit is facing the above challenges and more, we are here to help you. We can help:
- Make your board more effective
- Improve your operations: Make it more productive
- Provide coaching and mentoring services for non-profit businesses at no charge.
We offer nonprofit workshops, roundtables, and panel discussions to enhance your nonprofit skills and knowledge.
Nonprofit Success Stories
WomenSV (Women of Silicon Valley)
WomenSV is the result of the accumulated wisdom of over thirty experts in the field of domestic violence. It is designed to address a gap in services for women involved with a powerful, sophisticated abuser. Abusers in this population often have the money, power, and influence to make it very difficult for a woman to escape safely, avoid crippling debt and bankruptcy, and keep custody of their children.
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FabMo Logo
FabMo - your source for exquisite rescued designer materials Whether you work in textiles, tile, leather or paper, come to FabMo, find your treasures, and keep valuable materials out of the landfill. Every year FabMo rescues approximately 70 tons of discontinued designer samples such as fabric, wallpaper, tile, and carpet and makes them available to the creative community for reuse.
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Shelley Wolfe of KMVT Logo
KMVT 15 Silicon Valley Community Media & Television is YOUR local TV station and voice. For more than 30 years, KMVT 15 has been a deeply-cherished institution, providing training in video production, media literacy, and a voice for hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay area residents as an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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In Home Support Network, LLC
In 2010, Janis decided to go back to her original business. Under the name of In Home Support Network, LLC, Janis started again a new home care agency. The Caregivers, which provides in home care services to seniors, developmentally disabled, cancer patients, and our veterans.
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Hydro Institute
He converted several struggling community-based programs into thriving centers of health and wellness, improving these center’s operational efficiencies and programmatic effectiveness. He has coached swimmers and triathletes of every age and ability to overcome fear of water, enjoy exercise and to participate in Paralympics. Some have even obtained national records and international rankings.
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Ethio Village
Ethio-Village is a non-profit organization which was started in 2008 in San Jose by several individuals who felt a sense of responsibility and desire to reach impoverished communities abroad to provide educational services. Ethio-Village members have engineering, business, social science, pharmaceutical and legal education background and most work full time.
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Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County
The Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County (LAS) was founded in 1960 to provide free, civil legal services and to ensure access to the judicial system for the needy residents of Santa Clara County and to protect the legal rights of those persons unable to obtain legal assistance through other avenues.
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Costume Bank
Costume Bank, the name itself explains their activities. It is a costume rental facility in down town Los Altos. The unconditional support and hard working Rose made the facility as the premier costume rental store in peninsula. The shop raises proceeds for the Assistance League of Los Altos, a nonprofit organization whose volunteers man the store and serve as personal costume stylists.
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Parents Helping Parents
Parents Helping Parents is here to give YOU support, resources, and information about raising your child of any age with any disability or special needs diagnosis. Raising a child of any age with disabilities or special needs has unique challenges and joys. Parents Helping Parents provides YOU with support, resources and information as you raise your child or adult of any age with any disability or special need.
Read Success StoryNonprofit Seminar: How to Drive Online Marketing Results with Constant Contact
As a nonprofit business, you may have heard that you need to be on social media in order to grow your volunteers... Read more
Diversity in Entrepreneurship
All-day program to provide necessary tools to underserved entrepreneurs through understanding what it takes to achieve success. Speakers will inspire, discussion group leaders... Read more
Nonprofit Seminar: Fundraisers and Compliance Issues - 6/2/22
This is not a tax class. Instead, this class reviews the responsibilities of nonprofit organizations to properly solicit funds and provide tools to help donors be compliant with... Read more
Nonprofit Panel: Operating a Nonprofit Business without a Paid ExecutiveDirector
This is a panel discussion. A short presentation by panelists followed by an open roundtable with all participants. Read more