Out of the thousands of people milling around the Council on Foundations Philanthropy Summit last month, I ran into Diana Church, a Perspectives reader who works at the C. E. and S. Foundation in Louisville, Kentucky. Meeting Diana was so great because she is really just a burst of energy and has a clear commitment to helping her nonprofit peers in her area. That’s an exclusive picture I snapped of her at the Summit with my handy-dandy digital camera that goes everywhere with me now 
Diana shared with me the exciting work she’s been doing with Alina Prusak over at the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. They’re starting a new chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network in Louisville, and attracted 200 young leaders to their first event! Their goal is to engage the young nonprofit professionals in their city as well as the entire nonprofit community with this new group. They don’t have a website yet, but check out their Google group!
The great thing that Diana told me that exemplifies the non-hierarchal mindset of the next generation is that she and Alina did not make themselves the formal leaders of YNPN Louisville. Instead, they pushed power to their peers and did not take the titles of President and VP, but let others take up that leadership. I’m excited about what Diana and Alina will do to transform the landscape for nonprofit leaders in their community. And I hope we cross paths again!
Here’s more information if you would like to start a YNPN chapter in YOUR city.
