Comments on: Stop What You Are Doing Right Now and Donate to Idealist.org http://www.rosettathurman.com/2010/02/stop-what-youre-doing-right-now-and-donate-to-idealist/ empowering a new generation of leaders Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:15:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 11 Reasons Why New College Grads Should Pursue Nonprofit Careers | Rosetta Thurman http://www.rosettathurman.com/2010/02/stop-what-youre-doing-right-now-and-donate-to-idealist/#comment-50588 11 Reasons Why New College Grads Should Pursue Nonprofit Careers | Rosetta Thurman Mon, 10 May 2010 12:49:54 +0000 http://rosettathurman.com/blog/?p=4613#comment-50588 [...] in Urban Planning and got offered $32,000 to start at a real estate firm. When I did a short stint as a county court clerk in Virginia right after college, they paid me $29,000. So the numbers game [...] [...] in Urban Planning and got offered $32,000 to start at a real estate firm. When I did a short stint as a county court clerk in Virginia right after college, they paid me $29,000. So the numbers game [...]

]]> By: Who Teaches Us to Question? | Rosetta Thurman http://www.rosettathurman.com/2010/02/stop-what-youre-doing-right-now-and-donate-to-idealist/#comment-38716 Who Teaches Us to Question? | Rosetta Thurman Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:59:15 +0000 http://rosettathurman.com/blog/?p=4613#comment-38716 [...] When I first started out in my nonprofit career, I was constantly praised for implementing all the neat stuff I’d learned in grad school. “This is how you write a grant proposal,” I would say to organizations that needed help building their capacity. Not once did I broach a conversation with them about why they were using problematic language. Not once did I question the status quo. [...] [...] When I first started out in my nonprofit career, I was constantly praised for implementing all the neat stuff I’d learned in grad school. “This is how you write a grant proposal,” I would say to organizations that needed help building their capacity. Not once did I broach a conversation with them about why they were using problematic language. Not once did I question the status quo. [...]

]]> By: Lauren http://www.rosettathurman.com/2010/02/stop-what-youre-doing-right-now-and-donate-to-idealist/#comment-37459 Lauren Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:17:57 +0000 http://rosettathurman.com/blog/?p=4613#comment-37459 I was gunning for a job in the nonprofit sector from the moment I graduated college- in fact, before. The spring of my senior year, I found an unpaid internship at a youth-serving organization in Pennsylvania posted on Idealist, and after a lengthy phone interview one morning, I got the call that night that they were offering me the position! Despite being unpaid (I had to support myself with graduation money for the summer) the internship was the credential I needed at the time to help me get in the door interviewing for other nonprofit jobs. I was on Idealist day and night all summer, applying for jobs left and right. There was never a shortage of new opportunities being posted! By the time my internship concluded in late August, I had secured my dream job fundraising for a mentoring organization in DC. Although I ultimately decided not to stay at that first job, when the time came that I wanted to start searching again, Idealist was my first and only stop. I ended up finding my current job, where I have happily been working to save the world for the past few years. :) I owe it all to Idealist! I made my donation as soon as I got the email last week, and I hope others will do the same! I was gunning for a job in the nonprofit sector from the moment I graduated college- in fact, before. The spring of my senior year, I found an unpaid internship at a youth-serving organization in Pennsylvania posted on Idealist, and after a lengthy phone interview one morning, I got the call that night that they were offering me the position! Despite being unpaid (I had to support myself with graduation money for the summer) the internship was the credential I needed at the time to help me get in the door interviewing for other nonprofit jobs. I was on Idealist day and night all summer, applying for jobs left and right. There was never a shortage of new opportunities being posted! By the time my internship concluded in late August, I had secured my dream job fundraising for a mentoring organization in DC.

Although I ultimately decided not to stay at that first job, when the time came that I wanted to start searching again, Idealist was my first and only stop. I ended up finding my current job, where I have happily been working to save the world for the past few years. :) I owe it all to Idealist! I made my donation as soon as I got the email last week, and I hope others will do the same!

]]> By: Ben Merrion http://www.rosettathurman.com/2010/02/stop-what-youre-doing-right-now-and-donate-to-idealist/#comment-37455 Ben Merrion Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:28:48 +0000 http://rosettathurman.com/blog/?p=4613#comment-37455 Thank you Rosetta for telling your story and letting all of us who have worked for non-profits about the need to support Idealist now. Like yourself, I majored in English and didn't really know what my career path was going to look like. After doing 2 years in an AmeriCorps program, I went to grad school and got my MA in English, but I still didn't know exactly what I was going to do. I used Idealist to search for some jobs and actually got interviews with some of them - this was in 2001. I didn't get any of those jobs and eventually got a job in my field- adult literacy - through an ad in the Washington Post , but knowing Idealist was there for me greatly relieved my job search anxiety. Later, however, when that job lost funding, (funding for adult literacy in DC is particularly unstable) I was able to use Idealist and found a job at Catholic Charities teaching GED preparation. Then, when they were going to switch my job to part-time, I used Idealist again and found a job teaching GED preparation at the Latin American Youth Center's YouthBuild program. Both of these jobs helped me become a better teacher and prepared me to give trainings to adult educators which is part of my job at the MLK library. Now I use Idealist to help recruit volunteers for adult literacy programs in DC when we host our annual volunteer fair here at the library. I absolutely love my field and the jobs I have had and Idealist has directly contributed to my ability to stay in this field. We should all come together and support them now. Thank you Rosetta for telling your story and letting all of us who have worked for non-profits about the need to support Idealist now. Like yourself, I majored in English and didn’t really know what my career path was going to look like. After doing 2 years in an AmeriCorps program, I went to grad school and got my MA in English, but I still didn’t know exactly what I was going to do. I used Idealist to search for some jobs and actually got interviews with some of them – this was in 2001. I didn’t get any of those jobs and eventually got a job in my field- adult literacy – through an ad in the Washington Post , but knowing Idealist was there for me greatly relieved my job search anxiety. Later, however, when that job lost funding, (funding for adult literacy in DC is particularly unstable) I was able to use Idealist and found a job at Catholic Charities teaching GED preparation. Then, when they were going to switch my job to part-time, I used Idealist again and found a job teaching GED preparation at the Latin American Youth Center’s YouthBuild program. Both of these jobs helped me become a better teacher and prepared me to give trainings to adult educators which is part of my job at the MLK library. Now I use Idealist to help recruit volunteers for adult literacy programs in DC when we host our annual volunteer fair here at the library. I absolutely love my field and the jobs I have had and Idealist has directly contributed to my ability to stay in this field. We should all come together and support them now.

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