How high performing nonprofits attempt to aurvive turn declining government assistance for what the government should be providing. This article does a great job of articulating the fiscal situation the social service providers find themselves in and how some are managing to survive.

One page PDF information sheet on Illinois Partners.

Illinois Partners for Human Service is a statewide network of organizations that advocate for high quality, responsible and sustainable approaches to providing human service in Illinois.

We engage nonprofit, government, faith-based, business and education leaders who agree that our communities are healthier and safer when residents have access to bedrock public services such as early childhood learning, afterschool programs, family support, assistance to the disabled, workforce training, violence prevention, and homecare for the elderly.

GIS Mapping

Global conversations are taking place on the internet in real time. In response to such global conversations, it is possible to create local movements of people for the common good.

Frank Gens points to these reasons for why Cloud Based solutions has replaced the client/server model:

• Time to benefit
• Speed of deployment
• The scale of deployments
• The ability to attract developers (the best developers are developing on the cloud)
• Mobile

In a national survey, Illinois was also ranked #3 for contract payments not covering the full cost of services and #3 for government changing contract terms midstream, causing community support organizations to take extreme and unsustainable emergency actions.

The impact on local economies, communities, as well as the taxpayer is disastrous; system-level gains that took years to achieve are in danger of collapse.

NPR Morning Report, October 7, 2010: “States are leaning on nonprofits more and more in this economy for all kinds of services — public safety, housing, food assistance. But a new report says cash-strapped states aren’t paying the nonprofits on time. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.”

Nationally, 41 percent of human service nonprofits reported late payments from state, federal and local government sources in 2009, the survey found. In Illinois, that number reached 72 percent, highest in the nation.

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Protect Kids by Supporting a Responsible Budget

The national recession is taking a toll on families everywhere.  But it’s particularly harsh in Illinois, where a chronically weak state revenue system for years has failed to provide adequate support for critical public services.

Things have grown steadily worse for kids and families in need.  Priorities such as education, health care, human services and public safety already have suffered from harmful budget cuts and long delays in state payments – and now, those troubles could deepen further. “…