What is the HSC Listserv?

The Human Services Coalition (HSC) Listserv is for not-for-profit organizations to share information with the local community regarding:

  • Upcoming events and how to get involved
  • Collaboration in service delivery or grant writing
  • Job opportunities
  • Other topics of specific interest to the health and human services community
  • Donations

The list is open to persons who are affiliated with the not-for-profit sector. This may include employees or volunteers at not-for-profit agencies, county and city departments, elected officials, board members, or other affiliates. 

Guidelines for Posting

These guidelines are subject to change at the discretion of the Human Services Coalition.

Following these Guidelines keeps our List operating successfully:

    • DO use the HSC Listserv to post announcements from annual meetings to donating furniture to posting job opportunities.
    • NEVER use attachments, electronic business card signatures, or large graphics.  Please note that ADA readers cannot read text in images.
    • ALWAYS create a new email message to tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu when posting, please do not reply to the digest in order to post to the listserv.
    • DO remember that you are posting to a public forum.  Sharing personal details about your client, their medical needs, or their personal struggles is not recommended as it may allow others to identify them.
    • DO NOT use this listserv to:
      • post your resume/ask for a job or internship
      • solicit funds directly from subscribers – Requests for client assistance should come from an agency – individuals should not post personal requests.
      • sell merchandise or services – If you represent a for-profit business or private practice, please do not advertise on this listserv.
      • find homes for kittens
      • search for lost/stolen items or pets
      • post partisan/political messages or campaign/PAC fundraisers
      • advertise the rental/sale of real estate.
    • DO NOT use this listserv for editorializing or ongoing dialogue. If you would like to respond to another subscriber, please respond to that individual only, not to the entire list.
    • DO use the List as smart way to request information for your not-for-profit or clients.
    • DO send readers to a link, or copy your document into the body of the e-mail.
    • DO use the subject line to specifically describe your event/information.
    • DO keep your message short and simple.
    • DO provide good contact information.
    • DO type your posting in simple text. “Bold,” “italics,” “bullets,” etc. may show up as embedded symbols in your posting.
    • DO NOT post information for the same event too often. Please respect others’ inboxes and limit posts for the same event to once per week.
    • SUCCESS: The Listserv works in a self-regulated way, owing its effectiveness and success to its own subscribers; now totaling almost 3,200.

To contact the Listserv Manager, please email tbeardsley@hsctc.org.

Subscribe

    Choose One (re-subscribe to change preference):
    Receive Individual Posts as ContributedReceive Digest (One Daily Combined Email)

    How To Post to the HSC Listserv

    Once you are subscribed, send email messages to tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu in order to reach all list subscribers directly with a single email. You must send from the email address you subscribed under.

    How To Ensure You Receive Posts

    Spam filters are getting aggressive these days. To ensure you stay an active member of this list – set your email filter to accept all mail from @list.cornell.edu.  If you are unsure how to do this, please contact your IT administrator or your email provider.

    Unsubscribe

      Frequently Asked Questions

      At this time we are unable change the formatting but if the digest format is not working well with your email provider we recommend the following option:

      • Go to our website www.hsctc.org/listserv and use the subscribe form to switch your account to ‘individual’ message mode.
      • Create a filter in your email to move emails from tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu to a folder, bypassing your inbox (contact your email provider or IT person for assistance, if needed). 

      This will allow you to free up space in your inbox and still read messages at your leisure.

      We try to give as much flexibility as we can but given our not-for-profit status there are regulations in place that govern what our resources can be used for. This informs much of our guidelines and we thank you for your understanding.

      Also, our main focus and mandate is to support not-for-profit organizations and through them, their clients which could be clouded by allowing too many other things. 

      Our format has worked successfully for over 20 years and we appreciate the efforts of our subscribers in helping to keep things running smoothly.

      Sometimes, but they also require constant moderation to remain productive in most online forums, plus the server space required would be more than we have available to us.

      We also believe in-person discussions provide great opportunities for the community to come together to learn and discuss important topics.  That’s why we offer our HSC Workshop Series, HSC Forums, Homeless and Housing Task Force Meetings, and Health Planning Council Presentations. Most of these opportunities are free and all are open to the public.

      Yes!  If you save posts to a folder in your email you can search through them any time you wish however, older posts from when you were not subscribed to the listserv are not accessible at this time.  We have presented this as something of interest to our provider.

      As with all good things in life, on occasion our listserv comes with some not-so-good stuff.  If we filtered out all of the things you might not be interested in then it would severely limit the inclusive, diverse, and cooperative entity that makes up the HSC Listserv we know and love. 

      We do contact users behind the scenes to encourage appropriate use of the Listserv and we will continue to post the guidelines as a reminder to subscribers.

      Questions, feedback, and other requests may be brought to the attention of the HSC Listserv manager by emailing tbeardsley@hsctc.org.