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When my mom got remarried a couple years ago, our entire family flew in from around the country. My grama had to come down to Washington, DC all the way from Ohio, and as usual, she created the most drama out of everyone in the wedding. Grama goes to the salon every time there’s a [...]
This is a guest post by Laura Zabel, executive director of Springboard for the Arts, an organization out of St.Paul, Minnesota which connects artists with resources. Laura previously appeared on my radio show for the special episode, A Day in the Life of a Young Nonprofit Executive Director. When I present at conferences or meet [...]
I get a lot of emails from jobseekers about how to break into the nonprofit field. I love giving career advice about finding and keeping a great nonprofit job, but sometimes, however, it can be useful to have a complete book that you can keep going back to when you have questions. Luckily for you, Idealist.org [...]
This is a guest post by Brigid Slipka, a fundraiser and sorta philanthropist in Los Angeles. She blogs about giving at www.actuallygiving.com There are so many good fun things about having a career in nonprofits! Like not making very much money, and having no professional development, and also never having a life outside of work. [...]
Did you miss Monday’s radio show? Me and Kelly Cleaver talked about being Gen Y in the nonprofit sector. Good news for grads: The hiring climate has improved for MBAs, who are more likely to get jobs in 2010. On the flip side, Colleen Dilenschneider tells us why she chose an MPA over an MBA. Tera Wozniak-Qualls [...]
In most industries, there’s a clear path to leadership positions in your organization. In many companies, you might start out as an assistant, then get promoted to manager, then director, then VP, then senior VP, then hopefully one day the President if you have the ambition to be so. We love to read stories like [...]
This is the fourth post in the How to Start a Nonprofit Side Hustle series. Today, I share a real story from Sarah Fischler, a nonprofit professional and consultant who’s also getting her serious nonprofit side hustle on. I asked her a few questions to provide some insight into how she got started with consulting. [...]
This is the second post in the How to Start a Nonprofit Side Hustle series. First, the bad news. Because of the economy, many nonprofit professionals (in addition to many other professionals) are looking for ways to earn extra money due to being laid off from their jobs or being placed on part-time status by [...]
