Dec
17
Please Excuse our Maintenance
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We will be working on the NP2020 Website a lot over the next few days. Please excuse us while we make changes.
Dec
15
Monday Mix - 12.15.08
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Every other Monday look for a blog with a list of links summarizing the past few weeks in conversation about continuing education, generational dynamics, the leadership deficit, leadership tools, professional development and working with emerging leaders.
Continuing Education
- Higher Education May Soon Be Unaffordable for Most Americans, Report Says - NYTimes.com - This article talks about the rising cost of higher eduation.
Generational Dynamics
- The Stories We Don’t Tell: Emerging & Established Leaders Keep it Real in Louisville - This blog talks about a workshop on intergeneration dynamics, presented by Rosetta Thurman. The thoughts from each cohort are very interesting.
- Boomers heading for the Peace Corps
Leadership Deficit
- 3 Reasons Why Working at a Nonprofit is Better Than Working at Target - A great article on 3 reasons why it is great to work in the nonprofit sector.
Leadership Tools
- What is Personal Branding? - The basics of personal branding.
Professional Development
- What’s the Good News?: 10 Keys to Work/Life Balance
- Even in a Terrible Economy, There Are Only 4 Reasons to Accept a Low Nonprofit Salary - This article discusses some benefits that may be worth it, if the salary of your dream job isn’t necessarily what you were hoping for.
- Writer’s Whirlpool | Where Personal Growth, Nature and Spirituality…: Personal Growth: It’s Your - This blog explains the importance of personal growth.
- DNA - Inner Spaces - Six Reasons to Set Goals - Daily News & Analysis
- Develop a career plan - A getting started guide for career planning.
- iLearn - Achieving Work-Life Balance - A course for achieveing your own work-life balance.
- 10 Ways Personal Branding Can Save You From Getting Fired - A list of 10 things goals to building your personal brand.
Working with Emerging Leaders
- Are Today’s Young People Policital Game-changers? - This article discusses the young vote in the 2008 presidential election, and explores the question of whether or not young people will stay civically engaged.
Dec
10
Next week I turn 30 and I’m having a pre mid-life crisis. As much as I enjoyed working for Aspiration (the technology) nonprofit that taught me about blogs, wikis and social media, I feel this new technology is connecting me more with millennial’s and distancing me from many of my older colleagues that aren’t as technology savvy.
I am constantly using new forms of technology and information. I just got a new MacBook and set up my firefox browser with awesome add ons that allow me to see my delicious bookmarks, twitter updates, facebook account, and my new favorite thing is tag and cite research through zotero without having to go to those individual sites. Read More
From the blog of Heather Carpenter.
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