SPARK Exchanges unite professionals around functional roles, as well as key issue areas. Networking opportunities include online discussion forums, roundtables, and more.

Enterprise engagement packages allow all staff at your organization to participate in our communities. SPARK Exchange members can connect and collaborate with one another, share solutions, and discuss emerging trends. It’s also a place to find specialized advice from peers in a noncompetitive forum.

Current groups are:

• Advancing Equity
• Advancing Financial Sustainability
• CEO
• Educational Success
• Fundraising, Marketing, and Communications
• Health and Mental Well-Being
• Human Resources
• Performance Excellence
• Transforming Child Welfare

Always evolving, SPARK Exchanges are created based on network interests and priorities, and they are supported by Social Current staff liaisons.

Social Current’s Knowledge and Insights Center equips social sector professionals with the research and resources they need to stay current on emerging trends, implement practices, and advance organizational excellence.

The Knowledge and Insights Center includes both self-service and personalized support offerings. This resource portal contains:

• Resource Library: Curated by professional librarians, this extensive clearinghouse library contains thousands of catalog records in more than 20 topic collections and special content including issue briefs, literature reviews, and other materials on specific topics and issues.
• Research, Business, and Media Databases: The Knowledge and Insights Center connects to multiple databases that offer access to thousands of journals, business book summaries, news sources, and other publications.
• Social Work Research and Practice. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, a core journal in the field, is the official journal of Social Current. It offers peer-reviewed research, practice, and policy content. Online access includes over 100 years of articles and special issues that have defined the profession.
• Ask-a-Librarian Service: Social Current’s team of specialized librarians fulfill personalized information requests.
  The Knowledge and Insights Center employs an evidence-first approach to scan and evaluate the knowledge base for requested topics, always assessing their scope, relevance, and utility. This includes working closely with subject matter experts to define specific questions to be answered, problems to be solved, or opportunities to uncover.

The Knowledge and Insights Center specializes in reviewing and evaluating information sources for credibility and thoroughness and systematizing the information in a way that professionals can quickly and easily understand.

What People are Saying about the Knowledge and Insights Center
“I’m thankful for the thoroughness of the resource list on the spectrum of issues involved in continuing health care reform and how our sector adapts.”
N. Ronquillo, president and CEO, Children’s Home & Aid Society of Illinois

“The assortment of materials on social media information and policies was great. The librarians always come through for us. It is a pleasure working with them!”
J. Walker, executive director, Family Services of Southeast Texas

“I can’t tell you how much I appreciated the librarians’ hard efforts in finding information on how to measure client satisfaction indirectly by gathering caregivers’ opinions.”
T. Lustig, Alpert Jewish Family & Children’s Service

Social Current’s engagement package holders receive customized support and advice from our Public Policy and Advocacy Team. We offer expertise on:

• Coalition building
• Advocacy and government relations
• Federal and state legislative advocacy
• Policy analysis
• Federal agency outreach

Our network also plays a pivotal role in developing our federal policy agenda.

Access toolkits, policy updates, online advocacy campaigns, and more through our Policy Action Center and sign up for our biweekly Policy and Advocacy Radar newsletter.

Special Network Rates
Enjoy special network rates on COA Accreditation, conferences, special events, enterprise learning solutions and learning exchange participation, and consulting.

PurchasingPoint Discounts
This savings program provides access to discounts of up to 30% at over 200 vendors including FedEx, Staples, Cintas, and many more. The discounts are negotiated based on $51.9 billion of annual purchasing power. Through Social Current engagement package holders can find and connect with vendors through the online portal but purchase directly from vendors. More than 8,900 nonprofits and their affiliates are already saving with the PurchasingPoint program.

Nonprofit Risk Management Center Membership
The Nonprofit Risk Management Center inspires effective risk management and Risk Champions across the nonprofit sector. It enables nonprofit leaders to identify and manage risks that threaten their missions and operations, while empowering them to leverage opportunities and take bold, mission-advancing risks.
Engagement package holders are automatically granted membership, a $900 value for nonprofit organizations. This includes:

• Unlimited risk management advice by phone or email
• Online access to six new live webinars per year and more than 200 on-demand sessions
• 25% discount for the Nonprofit Risk Management Center annual conference registration
• 20%+ discount on our self-directed risk assessment web app
• Online access to a risk management plan builder for only $29
• Online access to our bank of 100+ customizable policy templates for only $29
• Additional discounts are available on in-person training, custom webinars, and books