Tagged "Allison Jones"

At our anniversary celebration last week our key note speaker Steve Mariotti Founder of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship and JJ Ramberg our nonprofiteer of the year and Co-Founder of GoodSearch.com spent time sharing their experiences and paths that led them to careers in social change. Even though they work in different causes and have different backgrounds, they both shared one powerful piece of advice to changemakers: learn how to tell a story. The importance [ continue reading ]

Today was the last day of the YNPN Conference. While many folks are sharing some of the brilliant strategies and resources discussed at the conference, I realized something: These people know how to give a presentation! In addition to mastering their material, the presenters were engaging, fun, and humorous. While I scribbled down lots of ideas on how to strengthen YNPN-NYC I also couldnt help but take note of how so many presenters mastered the art [ continue reading ]

On Monday, Maritza Martinez–former Senior Associate of Fellows and Alumni at Echoing Green–hosted a workshop for YNPN-NYC on being a social entrepreneur.  It was fast paced and engaging presentation on what you need as an organization and as an individual to put your passion into practice. Throughout her presentation there were five questions that stood out that budding social entrepreneurs should consider when trying to launch an organization that will make a difference: 1.  How [ continue reading ]

When we talk about staying healthy, we often neglect an important component – our emotional health. All too often we chalk up challenges that wear on us emotionally, especially those stemming from the work place, as being a necessary part of life. In the nonprofit sector, it is so easy to become so focused on work and our cause that we fail to keep ourselves happy.