How much time do you spend on your own professional development? How much money do you spend in a year? Do you wait for your employer to pay for you to go to training or do you do it yourself? Do you go to conferences or do you take workshops instead? Would love to hear [...]
Thursday Reading: Entitled Nonprofits, Asking for What You’re Worth, and the Non-White Gen Y Experience
The blogosphere is rockin’ with some really good stuff! Here are a few gems that came my way this week. Jamie Notter tackles the corporate vs. nonprofit debate: Neither nonprofits nor corporations are entitled to exist. So forget your tax status for a minute, and forget any preconceived notions that you have about the corporate world. If [...]
Why Personal Branding is the Most Effective Career Tool for Young Professionals: A Bullet Point Manifesto
A lot of people have been asking me questions about personal branding – what it is, what it isn’t, and why they should be worried about it. So I thought I’d lay out all of my ideas here to explain why I think it’s so important for young professionals to consider personal branding an essential [...]
Race to the Top or Running in Place? The Pathway to Becoming a Foundation CEO
What is the pathway to becoming a foundation CEO? Last year, the Council on Foundations addressed that very question by releasing an enlightening report titled, Career Pathways to Philanthropic Leadership 2009 Baseline Report, which examined the professional and individual characteristics of 440 foundation and grantmaking executives who were appointed during a five-year period (2004-2008). Today, at EPIP’s National [...]
Teaching Two Upcoming Leadership Workshops in Baltimore and Rhode Island
I’m excited that some organizations are prioritizing intergenerational leadership development for the nonprofit community! If you’re in the area, please consider attending one of my upcoming workshops. Click the links for more information and how to register. March 23, 2010: Grants Collection at Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore. “Work With Me: How to Get the [...]
