List Description, Goals, Guidelines, and Disclaimer
Events, news, nonprofit administration questions, and other issues of interest to people involved with nonprofit organizations in Park County, Montana.
- You can subscribe or unsubscribe from the list using the links on the left.
- If you'd like to browse through the list archives, you'll need to use the login link at the top right.
- For first time users, you can have your password sent to you from the login form.
Subscribers can post messages to the list by addressing an email to the address at the top of this page.
This list is moderated by staff of the Park County Community Foundation. The electronic platform is provided by a worker-owned cooperative: Electric Embers. You can read more about their business model here: https://electricembers.coop/about-us/mission/
Goals of This List
The Park-County-Nonprofit list-serve will serve as a way for all Park County nonprofits to connect, coordinate, and collaborate. The Community Foundation hopes the list-serve will facilitate and empower more convenient communication amongst all of our community partners. Please use it as a way to ask questions about any of your organizational needs or share nonprofit community-wide news. We are grateful for the services you provide our community and hope to make your jobs easier.
Here are some of the ways we hope this list will be used:
- You’re planning a big event but need to coordinate scheduling with other organization events.
- Your event is scheduled and you want to share the details of time/location/ticket price.
- You need to create name tags, and you’re hoping someone can assist with a reminder of how to use the MailMerge feature.
- Your nonprofit is seeking a new employee / consultant / board member / volunteer – and you want to get that request distributed as widely as possible.
- You’re driving to Helena for a meeting and you would prefer to carpool.
- You have something to donate to the nonprofit community - such as a printer or a functional vehicle.
- You just heard about a new community service (free winter coats or reduced rate veterinarian services) and you’re eager to spread the word.
- Your youth program needs 600 purple crayons, and you’re wondering if anyone has a direct connection to the Crayola company.
- You completed your one-time youth activity, and now you have 600 slightly used purple crayons which you’d rather not toss into the trash.
We hope this short list of examples helps to spark some inspiration for how the list-serve can help optimize your productivity – while minimizing your frustration.
Please contact list administrator Barb Oldershaw if you have questions or concerns about any of these examples or guidelines: Barb.Oldershaw@pccf-montana.org
List Etiquette
Park County is a diverse community with residents of many different backgrounds and political orientations. The Park-County-Nonprofit list-serve will only allow civil, respectful discourse. We welcome posts addressing controversial topics or divergent opinions. However, we will not tolerate name calling, threatening behavior, or mean-spirited commentary.
Subscribers must include your name, email address, and your primary nonprofit connection. This list-serve will not be anonymous nor secretive. There will be an Archives page set in “private” mode – and only visible to existing members of the list, not to the general public. (The name of the list is viewable on the Electric Embers website, but the archives are only visible to current subscribers of the list.)
We welcome all members of our nonprofit ecosystem: staff, volunteers, board members, organizational members, funders, and interested citizens.
Terms of Use
We ask that you respect the primary focus of this list, and adhere to the following guidelines:
- This is not an appropriate forum for discussion of politics, given that the audience for this list is the nonprofit community, and all 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations are restricted from supporting or endorsing political candidates. Please respect these legal guidelines by not promoting political candidates or ballot measures.
- No fundraising appeals. Please share news about your programs and activities but refrain from direct requests for donations.
- No commercial posts. The Park-County-Nonprofits list is not intended to be a marketing channel; we are your friends, neighbors, and fellow nonprofit employees and volunteers. Please do not send us repeated reminders of your services or products or any commercial events. (And see below about Bulk Email services.)
- No posts that are unrelated to nonprofit issues and concerns. Please post queries related to residential rentals, items for sale, road conditions, or rides to the airport elsewhere. However, if you are sharing information specific to the nonprofit community, such as rental of an office space, items available for donation to a nonprofit, or carpooling to a workshop in Billings, that would be an appropriate use of this list.
Any posts that do not meet these guidelines will be removed from this list. The Park County Community Foundation retains the sole right to make decisions about whether a post violates the guidelines or is in some way inappropriate.
A Note About Bulk Email Services (such as Constant Contact, MailChimp, etc):
- Please do not subscribe Park-County-Nonprofits@groups.electricembers.net to your organization’s email distribution list (such as Constant Contact or MailChimp).
- Please do not forward the email that you get from an organization’s Constant Contact newsletter. Instead, please cut and paste the body of the email into a fresh email message, and address that to Park-County-Nonprofits@groups.electricembers.net
The Moderation Process
In order to keep this list-serve clearly focused, our plan is to moderate messages for the immediate future. This means that there may be a slight delay in your message being transmitted to the entire group. We hope this will only be a slight inconvenience in comparison to enjoying a list-serve that is free of potential spam and inappropriate topics.