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by Eleanor Whitney School may be out for the summer, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop learning and honing your skills.  In fact, the summer is a great time to explore professional development opportunities that don’t break the bank while connecting with people who share your interests. Here are just a few options from organizations that offer low-cost professional development classes in New York City: 3rd Ward is a membership-based organization in East Williamburg/Bushwick, Brooklyn [ continue reading ]

by Anne Desrosiers As Millennials, we’re often looking for opportunities to grow and lead at our jobs. Nothing says “I have arrived!” more than the chance to leave your mark on organization in the form of a big project that you manage from start to finish.  However, while we may have a ton of eagerness and confidence, it can be challenging to land and lead a big project at work, especially if you have little [ continue reading ]

by Micah Goldfus   For any nonprofit employee, from fundraisers to community organizers, a basic knowledge of nonprofit financial management is essential.  From a professional development perspective, the higher up you move in your organization, the more you will have to deal with budgeting and other finance issues: just consider this list of ways that Executive Directors should be involved in their nonprofits’ financial leadership.  Additionally, when all employees understand how the organization is spending [ continue reading ]

by Eleanor Whitney Karina Mangu-Ward is the Director of Activating Innovation at EmcArts, which offers transformative programs for break through change in the arts and cultural nonprofit field. She curates the website ArtsFwd, a resource for innovative practices for arts leaders, which produced the NextGen Quick Poll, a survey of emerging nonprofit arts professionals, in early in 2012.  I interviewed her about the poll results and how organizations and young leaders can embrace innovation. What [ continue reading ]

by Anne Desrosiers As a full-time volunteer and founder of a new nonprofit organization (The World is Your Oyster), I have to juggle daily eight-hour commitment of my day job with the commitment of my own nonprofit.  But this is the life of a “practical dreamer”: someone who is in the process of taking on entrepreneurship while maintaining a 9-5 (or traditional job) until the entrepreneurship yields enough financial returns to be full-time. Yet beyond my [ continue reading ]

by Eleanor Whitney Before I even delve into nonprofit advocacy, let me address a common concern that many nonprofits have regarding this topic:  nonprofits can’t lobby. While the rules and regulations around lobbying are complex, advocacy and lobbying are very different. The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management defines advocacy as, “Embracing causes to persuade others to support our issues and pour point of view,” something that we do as nonprofit professionals every day. [ continue reading ]

by Micah Goldfus Even though it feels like winter just left us, we’re a few weeks away graduation season.  Within the next month, summer interns will start filling up your office, making now a perfect time to think about how your organization can get the most from your interns and how interns can have the most valuable experience with your organization. To get ready for upcoming summer interns, non profits should consider the following factors: [ continue reading ]