by Tamar Cloyd Tamar is a Grants Officer for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Leading from the Bottom Up Being young in the nonprofit sector is challenging. Many times we enter the field, filled with energy and ideas on how we can improve our communities and ultimately our world. Yet as we [...]
YNPN 2009 Guest Blog: Khyati Desai, Results from YNPNdc 2008 Survey
by Khyati Desai, YNPN DC 2009 Guest Blogger Khyati is the Civic Engagement Manager at Points of Light & Hands On Network. She shares her great notes from the YNPN 2009 Panel: The Next Generation of Leadership Results From the YNPNdc 2008 Survey I’m not a numbers person but a great Statistics professor in Graduate [...]
YNPN 2009 Guest Blog: Opa Owiye, Fundraising is Not About Thinking Outside the Box
by Opa Owiye, YNPN 2009 Guest Blogger Opa shares her great notes from the YNPN 2009 Professional Development Workshop: Fundraising in a Tough Economy Luke Driscoll, Regional VP, CCS Fundraising, Development Services, Strategic Consulting did a great job of giving basic tools for young fundraisers in a tough economy. It seems that there isn’t a [...]
YNPN 2009 Guest Blog: Meredith MacMillan, Learning How to Work For Anyone
by Meredith MacMillan, YNPN 2009 Guest Blogger Meredith shares her great notes from the YNPN 2009 Professional Development Workshop: Managing Up– What Every Nonprofit Employee Needs to Know about Working Effectively with their Supervisors Managing Up to Improve Your Relationships (or Learning How to Work For Anyone) Managing up isn’t being fake, kissing up, or [...]
YNPN 2009 Guest Blog: Khyati Desai, Six Tips on Managing Up
by Khyati Desai, YNPN DC 2009 Guest Blogger Khyati is the Civic Engagement Manager at Points of Light & Hands On Network. She shares her great notes from the YNPN 2009 Professional Development Workshop: Managing Up– What Every Nonprofit Employee Needs to Know about Working Effectively with their Supervisors Six Tips on Managing Up In [...]
Liveblogging Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) 2009 Annual Leaders Conference
Thanks to everyone who celebrated my 2 year blog anniversary this week! Don’t forget to check out the We Are the Possible interview series with three dynamic, courageous Gen Y women of color working in the nonprofit sector. Stay tuned next week for 2 more inspiring interviews and more from my Who Moved my Values [...]
How Much is it Really Worth to the Nonprofit Sector to Put Ourselves Out of Business?
I have had many rich conversations with nonprofit leaders and grantmakers about the importance of being effective in doing the work it takes to achieve their missions. We all lament the lack of adequate funding, staff, and volunteers that it takes to serve our clients and communities. Within those discussions inevitably comes the mention of [...]
