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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 ]

by Micah Goldfus As employees in nonprofit sector, we hold ourselves to high standards: we are called to serve the missions of our organizations, and we take our responsibilities to those missions seriously.  Society holds us to high standards as well, which is why people receive tax deductions for donations and some student loans are waived for working in a nonprofit. It’s because of those two sets of high standards that nonprofits have to ensure [ continue reading ]

by Micah Goldfus Many young nonprofit professionals have their time stretched thin; there is too much to be done and too little time to do it.  However, we often make things harder for ourselves. We are looking to gain new skills and move up in our organizations, so we try to become involved in as many projects as possible, say yes to every office request that comes our way, and volunteer for tasks to prove [ continue reading ]

These days, it’s pretty much a requirement that every organization throws a little (and sometimes not so little) holiday party.  Even in difficult economic times, everyone understands the value of taking a half-day to look back on all that you’ve accomplished, express gratitude for what you have, and have some fun with your coworkers. Unfortunately, too many bosses and organizations wait until December to celebrate, when they should be doing it throughout the year. We [ continue reading ]

by Micah Goldfus I recently began volunteering with an innovative website, Philanthroper.com.  In a nutshell, here’s how Philanthroper works: a different nonprofit is featured each day, and users can donate from $1 to $10 with a click of a button.   After its launch this past January, the website quickly gained attention; a Fast Company article called it “a daily deal site with a charitable heart,” while an article in Nonprofit Quarterly stated, “Philanthroper demonstrates crowdsourcing [ continue reading ]

by Micah Goldfus Unless you’ve been avoiding every newspaper or news show in New York City, you’re at least somewhat familiar with Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the roughly month-old, round-the-clock protest centered in lower Manhattan.  You may also know that Occupy Wall Street protests are popping up around the country, from as close as Jersey City to as far as Hawaii. As a young nonprofit professional, while I don’t agree with every message or tactic [ continue reading ]

by Micah Goldfus One of the most frequently heard buzzwords in today’s nonprofit sector is “social entrepreneurship”; for those new to the term, in his book, The Search for Social Entrepreneurialism, NYU Professor Paul Light describes social entrepreneurs as those who “seek sustainable, large-scale change with pattern-breaking ideas in what or how government, nonprofits, and businesses do to address significant social problems.” Many reading this blog post are likely social entrepreneurs or aspire to be [ continue reading ]