Keeping a non-profit going these days isn’t easy, is it?

Funding cuts strain our budgets. No one wants to pay for indirect costs. Collecting data and reporting on outcomes requires even more resources. The demands on an executive director and non-profit board keep escalating. As we all strive to uphold our mission and serve our clients well, we have to find ways to ‘do more with less.’

Families First New York believes that by working together, we can change lives.

Families First New York works with non-profit agencies and boards to leverage your resources and build your capacity. We can help you change communities and improve lives by providing efficient, cost-effective services in accounting and financial management, human resources, information technology, fundraising, and marketing. We can provide organizational management for non-profits whose strength lays in providing direct service.

We invite you to get to know us now, before your non-profit hits hard times. Let us get to know you and share how we’ve worked with other non-profit agencies like yours.

You’ll learn a lot if you read through our website. It’s clearly ‘under construction’ – but you’ll find some useful articles and links. And, some stories about how we work and who we are. You can subscribe to our periodic e-newsletter to stay current on trends impacting non-profits today. And you can tell us what’s on your mind through our ‘Feedback’ page.

But, what we’d like best? Call us just to talk.

To see all the scheduled events go to the events page.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ulster County

 

Communities Empowering Youth Program

Families First New York’s Communities Empowering Youth Program works to increase the capacity of organizations serving youth in Poughkeepsie’s Weed and Seed areas. Families First New York looks to strengthen our seven CEY partner organizations’ ability to achieve their missions effectively and to sustain themselves over the long term.

In response to the needs of our CEY partners, Families First New York has developed an interactive web forum that includes up to date information on local capacity building trainings, CEY hosted events, and funding opportunities. The forum also provides an additional avenue for CEY Partners to discuss capacity building topics and concerns.