Berkshire County has nearly 1,200 nonprofit organizations competing for funding and other resources in North, Central and South counties, and acccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonprofits account for roughly one in four local jobs. They range in size from 2-3 employees to 3,000 employees, and a few thousand dollars in revenue to hundreds of millions. (Berkshire Health Systems is the county’s largest nonprofit, with 3,000 employees.) They play a central role in our economy, and since 2016 they’ve had their own one-stop-shop.
The Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires (NPC) was born from a vision in the mind of founding executive director Liana Toscanini. As she puts it, “I wanted to try to leverage the assets that we have instead of whine about the ones we don't."
Now, after putting in years of 60+ hour weeks, Toscanini has just handed over the Executive Director reins to a former NPC board m…
