Awards and Fellowships and Grants, oh my!

One of the best things about the nonprofit sector (at least in my opinion) is the vast array of opportunities available to those who want to work within it. There are so many different types of organizations, with different missions, budget sizes, and goals. There is almost no end to the kinds of work you [...]

Reformulating the 2009 Nonprofit Congress

To Nonprofit Congress supporters:
 
In 2007 the National Council of Nonprofits decided to convene the national meeting portion of the 2009 Nonprofit Congress in New Orleans. Since then, our nation’s economy has collapsed, hurting nonprofits and the communities we serve. This brutal economic storm, and the opportunity for significant change that is before us, challenges us [...]

Because Things in the Game Done Changed: Nonprofits Need Generation Y Leadership in an Uncertain Economy

This is a guest post from Rosetta Thurman. Rosetta is an emerging nonprofit leader of color in Washington, DC sharing career advice, resources and fresh ideas to inspire others in their work on her blog Perspectives from the Pipeline. This post was originally published on her blog.  
Pick up any newspaper on your way to work in [...]

Confessions from a webinar newbie

Ok, so I’m not a total webinar newbie: I’ve participated in a couple, but I’ve never led one before. Last week was my first chance as I led a webinar for the Nonprofit Workforce Coalition on our newest publication, Work With Me: Intergenerational Conversations for Nonprofit Leadership. I admit, I was kind of scared.
At first, I [...]

Learning to learn at work

Michele Martin, one of my favorite bloggers, is hosting the Working/Learning Carnival over at her dojo, the Bamboo Project Blog. She left the topic for this month’s carnival pretty open with the suggestion that people discuss how they “keep learning at work…How do you keep challenging yourself to learn? What do you do if you [...]

On track for nonprofit professionalism

This is a guest post from Sam Richard, President of the American Humanics Student Association at Arizona State University. He also authors the blog Deserted After Dark, which chronicles his life as a college student living in Downtown Phoenix. One day, he hopes to be a nonprofit professional with your permission. His thoughts are not [...]

Dissecting my brain, Part III (the final!)

At very long last, I am completing my series on the Project LEAP course I took that ended in late February (started here and continued here). It has taken me far too long to finish this reflection process, I admit. However, some distance has given me added time to assess the usefulness of the course [...]

Back at it!

The end of May and beginning of June was a pretty momentous time for me and for NCNA. In those couple of weeks, two major projects that I (we) have been working on for many, many months finally culminated: the Nonprofit Congress National Meeting and publication of Work With Me: Intergenerational Conversations for Nonprofit Leadership. [...]

Dissecting my brain, Part I

Note: This is the first entry in a series. Stay tuned for future episodes.
It’s taken me a few weeks to get to this post reflecting on my experience with Project LEAP, partly because it’s been so busy around the office (only 66 days until the Nonprofit Congress National Meeting!) and partly because reflection doesn’t always [...]

EPortfolios: A Tool for Organizational and Individual Development

This post was contributed by guest blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo Project Blog.
After reading the recent Ready to Lead report on nurturing the next generation of talent in the nonprofit sector, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking on the report’s recommendations about what nonprofits and their staff can do to improve the process. [...]