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  PANO
  777 East Park Drive, Suite 300
  Harrisburg, PA 17111

  Telephone: 717-236-8584
  Fax: 717-236-8767

Benefits:

Insurance Products:
  • Bonded Service Contract  (details)
     
  • Business Insurance: Discounts for nonprofits including automobile, Directors & Officers Liability, Unemployment, Fidelity Bonding, General Liability, Professional Liability, Property, and Volunteer & Participant Accident, and Workers Comp.
    Statewide in PA:   Domenick & Associates
     
  • Nonprofit Health Alliance (29 Western Pennsylvania Counties and Central PA) details
     
  • Unemployment Program: A unique way for 501(c)(3) organizations to save their unemployment tax dollars. A comprehensive program designed for every size nonprofit, big and small. 

Services and Products

Software & Technology

  • Internet Service, Web Design, Hosting and more
    NittanyLink provides a 10% discount on its services.
    Click here for more details.
     
  • Discounted Fundraising and Volunteer Databases through

    Mission Research (Giftworks) Click here for details.
    Tower Care Technologies Click here for details.
     

  • Discounted Technology Training with Idealware
     
  • Web Site Exposure: Members can have a free link from the member page to their web site.  We also allow our members to post job announcements and upcoming events at no charge here.
      
  • Free Color Printer Program with Xerox details

With the discounts you receive as a PANO member, your membership more than pays for itself.

Education:

PANO offers seminars on a variety of topics in various parts of the state.   Members receive discounts on these programs.  Check out our listing of upcoming PANO Events.  All Idealware training is discounted 15% for members.

Our newsletter, "Keynotes" is published quarterly for our members. "Keynotes" provides updates on current legislation and issues, posts current member benefits, and keeps members educated about what PANO is doing statewide.  It also included informational articles on each of its themes: Fundraising, Board & Governance, Risk Management, and Public Policy.

Our electronic newsletter, "PANO enews" is published bi-weekly and provides Standards Education pieces, event updates, special opportunities, member update, public policy alerts, and more.  If you are a member and are not currently receiving enews, email your name, email address, title and organization name to Jennifer Ross.

Affiliations and Public Policy:

PANO monitors changes in Federal and State legislation and regulations that broadly impact the nonprofit sector, and mobilizes members through “Action Alerts” and informational updates. Join the Public Policy Committee. The Committee meets monthly via conference call and is open to all PANO members willing to discuss the issues and get involved.

PANO is involved with a number of organizations which affect the nonprofit sector. PANO is a member of the National Council of Nonprofits and of Independent Sector.

Executive Director Joe Geiger conducts monthly interviews with leaders in the nonprofit sector and public officials for the Lincoln Radio Journal.  PANO participates in an annual charitable survey with the Lincoln Institute on Public Policy.

PANO members can access these services:

  • Training Seminars
  • Technical Assistance including Nonprofit Governance and Legislative Information
  • Information on the Legislative Process and on Getting to Know Your Legislator
  • Education on Public Policy Issues that Affect Nonprofits, such as:

Information on Stimulus Funding
Charitable Mileage Reimbursement
Lobbyist Disclosure Act of 2006
Updates on Regulatory Changes
Nonprofit Town Hall Meetings

Technical Assistance (Nonprofit Help Desk)

PANO provides free technical assistance to its members when possible. For long-term assistance, we provide a free referral service to consultants in fields such as accounting, fundraising, legal services, tax services, etc.

Members access most of our Standard for Excellence Educational Resources for free.

We sell the newest (eighth) edition of the "Pennsylvania Nonprofit Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Run Your Nonprofit Organization."  This publication is a veritable A-Z guide for new and established nonprofits in Pennsylvania.  For more information, you can contact our office at 717-236-8584. Visit our bookstore for more details.

Request a member packet!

Member Tips- Have questions?  Many may already be answered on this page.

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If you participated in the Nonmember Survey and are looking to order and download your copy of Improving your Media IQ, go to our online marketplace and search for "IQ" and follow the instructions.

Learn about PANO Member Benefits in this informative pre-recorded webinar.

PANO is an important partner with our Foundation in creating better governance and policies within the organizations we fund.  We trust that PANO’s leadership enables our agencies to better service their clients.  As CAHWF has done for its own development as well as enabling other organizations, we would encourage nonprofits to access these excellent resources.

 -Bets McManus, Executive Director of the Carlisle Area Health & Wellness Foundation   9/2009

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Overview of PANO- video

Print out or email this Member Guide for all of your staff and board members.

Member Tips- List of how to questions we receive


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