January / February 2025 | News to help you engage, connect & accelerate your impact

Only 10 days left until regular registration closes for the 2025 Texas Nonprofit Summit! ⏳🌅🧭 Start your year off strong with insight and inspiration from the leading voices of the Texas nonprofit sector. This year's theme of Navigating New Horizons Together addresses the rapidly evolving landscape today's nonprofits face and will encourage you to rethink challenges and explore new possibilities in your community.

View session descriptions and speaker bios and begin charting your course at this premier statewide conference for nonprofit changemakers! The last day for regular registration ticket pricing is Sunday, February 2.

Let your network know you'll be at the 2025 Texas Nonprofit Summit, and invite your fellow nonprofit changemakers to this year's conference. Click the image to download the badge, or share from OneStar's social media channels:

Can your nonprofit or agency benefit from the power of service? 💪🅰️ Get funding and support to build your own AmeriCorps Texas program in 2025 that expands the reach and impact of your organization! Our planning grants provide financial support to organizations interested in engaging AmeriCorps members in Texas. For more information, join our live virtual info session on Tuesday, January 28 @ 10 AM CT. Applications are due Wednesday, March 25.

2024 was a remarkable year for OneStar, marked by milestones that reflect our enduring commitment to engaging Texans in building stronger communities. Stay tuned for next week's launch of our 2024 Annual Report, featuring the theme of Counting the Years of Making it Count. Join us in looking back on the accomplishments of the past year and celebrating wins for Texas nonprofits!

Texas Nonprofit Strong Planning Session
Dec 10, Austin

OneStar Holiday Gathering
Dec 11, Virtual

In Case You Missed It: Events & Opportunities from the Sector

PACE’s Civic Language Perceptions Project seeks to understand peoples’ perceptions of the language associated with civic engagement and democracy work. The words Americans use to describe our civic values, ideals, and practices are also the words we use to connect, share, and co-create our community and national future. What can we know about how aligned we are on our language choices related to our civic lives? Perhaps a more important concern underlies this question: Are we talking past each other about values we think we share?

Presented by PACE (Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement)

Wed, Jan 29
Global Volunteer Month is a time to celebrate volunteers and inspire volunteerism around the globe. Join Points of Light for a webinar to learn how your organization can be a part of Global Volunteer Month and in doing so, thank your volunteers, uplift their stories and inspire others to join the movement. We’ll share easy steps to participate, available resources, and practical examples from organizations who have participated in the past.

Presented by Points of Light

Wed, Jan 31
Join us for an engaging presentation and interactive training designed to empower nonprofit and board members to understand and navigate advocacy at the city, county, and state levels. Led by experts in community engagement and government relations to help you work out what is and isn't considered 'lobbying' for positive change in our public policy discussion.

Presented by SVP San Antonio, H. E. Butt Foundation, Early Matters, and The Nonprofit Council

Proposal deadline: Mon, Mar 10
Are you a dynamic presenter interested in sharing valuable knowledge and resources with other nonprofit leaders? Southeast Texas Nonprofit Development Center is accepting presenter proposals that align with their 2025 conference theme, Exceeding the Vision. 

Presented by Southeast Texas Nonprofit Development Center

Application deadline: Thu, Mar 13
Texas Public Safety Office is soliciting applications for projects that support physical security enhancements and other security activities to nonprofits that are at high risk of a terrorist attack based on the organization's ideology, beliefs or mission. The Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) seeks to integrate the preparedness activities of nonprofits that are at high risk of a terrorist attack with broader state and local preparedness efforts. The NSGP also serves to promote emergency preparedness coordination and collaboration activities between public and private entities.

Presented by Public Safety Office

Wed, Apr 23 -  Fri, Apr 25
This conference provides an opportunity for preservationists and officials to network and learn with County Historical Commissions, Main Street managers and participants, historic preservation officers and design review boards, architects and engineers, historians, archeologists, curators, interpreters, managers of museums and historic sites, as well as THC staff, Texas Heritage Trail Regions, and many partner organizations. Real Places will again be available to both in-person and virtual attendees.

Presented by Texas Historical Commission and Friends of the Texas Historical Commission