All Nonprofits Considered

On Monday July 26, tune in to hear Alexis Terry of ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership, Gen Y blogger Anh Tran, and Erin O'Connor Jones, a consultant with the Nonprofit Professional Advisory Group and career advisor for the Jobs for Change blog on Change.org talk about board dynamics and the importance of board service for young nonprofit professionals.

Rahama Wright will share her experiences with her company Shea Yeleen, and her journey through the nonprofit sector and beyond.

I invite you to tune in on your lunch break to my internet radio show, All Nonprofits Considered on BlogTalkRadio! Join me for a live discussion with Ian David Moss of Createquity and Colleen Dilenschneider of Know Your Own Bone about the current culture of nonprofit leadership in museums and the arts. Don't miss it!

Join me for a live (and lively!) discussion with Aaron Dorfman of the National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy about the implications of the new Florida legislation on philanthropy, transparency, and nonprofit diversity practices. Don't miss it!

Join me for a live (and lively!) roundtable discussion on being a Gen Y professional in the nonprofit sector. Don't miss it!

Join me for a live (and lively!) discussion with Gen Y Blogger Jessica Journey about fundraising, leadership and her educational experiences in the nonprofit sector. Don't miss it!

Join me for a live (and lively!) discussion with Public Allies' MacArthur Antigua who was just named a 2010 American Express NGen Fellow. I'm taking this as an opportunity to sit down with him virtually and talk about his work at Public Allies and his views on nonprofit leadership. I've been following his organization for a while now, and he is definitely a strong now generation voice for the sector.

Nancy Lublin is the CEO of DoSomething.org and the self-proclaimed "Chief Old Person." Since August 2003, Nancy has overseen DoSomething.org's growth and led the effort to begin awarding more grant money to young people who want to make a difference. At the age of 23, Nancy founded the organization Dress for Success, which to this day provides women with interview suits, career development training, and boosts in their self-confidence in more than 70 cities in four countries. Join me for a conversation with Nancy about leadership, fundraising and the future of the nonprofit sector.

Join me this week for a conversation about racial diversity in philanthropy with Renée B. Branch, director of diversity and inclusive practices for the Council on Foundations.

Listen to perspectives from three different nonprofit voices around what organizations are doing to stay afloat in the economic downturn. Is there increased competition or increased collaboration? We'll share thoughts on how the economy has impacted leadership decisions and mission integrity in the nonprofit field including layoffs, program cuts, and innovation. Guests: Nelson Layag, Projects Director, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services; Patrick Sallee, Development Director for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City and a Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) national board member; Joe Brown, Human resources and management consultant to nonprofits at Slope Resources and Taproot Foundation volunteer.

Join us as we talk about one of the big fat elephants in the nonprofit room: the current state of fundraising and philanthropy. We'll take a look at the economy's impact on leadership and integrity in the fundraising field and examine the combined impact of decreasing foundation dollars, fundraising contests, and increased competition on the nonprofit sector. Guests: Dan Blakemore, Assistant Director of Development for Individual Giving at International House and member of the Young Development Professionals of New York City; Pamela Grow, GrowConsultingPA, author of “Five Days to Foundation Grants” and member of the Philadelphia Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Join us as we shed light on how the economy has impacted nonprofit hiring. How should jobseekers be approaching their nonprofit job search these days? This is your chance to get your career questions answered live on the radio, so be sure to log-in to the chat room and ask away! Guests: Lisa Brown Morton, SPHR, President and CEO of Nonprofit HR Solutions; Mark McCurdy, PHR, "The Nonprofit Career Coach" and President of Jobs in Nonprofits; Christine John-Fuller, President & CEO for the Lupus Foundation of America, Piedmont Chapter and Consultant for Phoenixfire Solutions.

Samuel Isaac Richard was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, by two public school teachers. Community service has always been a large part of his life, even before he knew what “community service” was. His family was always involved in church inadvertently learning what it meant to care for our neighbor. They traveled the country camping in National Parks during the summer unintentionally learning about responsibly caring for the earth and those dependent upon its resources, and as a Boy Scout he coincidentally learned the foundations of leadership, civic engagement, and group dynamics. Sam got married last year, and lives in Downtown Phoenix. I met Sam at the 2008 Nonprofit Congress after a speech I gave there. He came up to me with this ball of energy he seemed to be carrying around with him in his jacket pocket. We exchanged cards, and I started following his writing on his first blog, Deserted After Dark. Sam is a deep thinker on community issues, who has been shaking up the nonprofit world and is now running for office on the Phoenix city Council.

Dwayne Marshall currently serves as the Founder of The Hope Institute. The mission of The Hope Institute is to serve as a catalyst for social justice and civic engagement through youth empowerment, engaged citizenship and leadership development. The Hope Institute is currently developing a public policy training curriculum to educate youth in Georgia on the leading social issues that adversely affect their lives and communities. The goal is to empower Georgia’s youth by providing them with the education and training for them to become citizens that can make a difference in the future direction of their communities and inspire them to potentially pursue careers in public service. Prior to establishing The Hope Institute, Dwayne served as a Regional Field Director & GOTV Lead for the Obama-Biden Campaign for Change in Georgia during the 2008 presidential election. In this role, Mr. Marshall oversaw the field operations for Fulton County and played a vital role in the largest voter registration drive in Georgia history. The Campaign for Change in Georgia would produce the largest total of new voter registrations of any state (over 215,000) during the 2008 general election period due to the hard work of a dedicated team of campaign staffers such as Dwayne Marshall and a fiercely committed group of volunteers. These efforts contributed to the nearly 2 million votes cast for Barack Obama in Georgia on November 4, 2008. As a result of his dedication and involvement with the Campaign for Change, Mr. Marshall was featured in a documentary entitled “Movement of the People” which profiles the Obama- Biden campaign experience in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to the Hope Institute, Dwayne is currently involved with other organizations that promote social justice, community empowerment and youth education.

Maya Enista has been with Mobilize.org since July 2005. She has worked in both the Washington, D.C. and California offices as the Chief Operating Officer. On March 3rd, 2008, Maya became the Chief Executive Officer of Mobilize.org, following the departure of Founder and Executive Director David Smith. At 26 years old, Maya is a veteran in the public service sector, beginning her non-profit career 8 years ago. Maya has been active in public service since she was an undergraduate at Rutgers University, focusing mainly on voter empowerment and youth civic engagement. She began her career as the East Coast Coordinator for Rock The Vote at age 17, a position in which she registered over 30,000 young people. Through her work with Rock The Vote, Maya was awarded the first ever Rock The Vote "Rockin' The Street's" award. She continued her voter registration work when she accepted the position of National Field Director for the Hip Hop Civic Engagement Project, a project that grew out of the successful National Hip Hop Political Convention in Newark, NJ. Maya organized a 13 state campaign that registered over 300,000 new voters in the "hip hop generation." In addition to her work with Mobilize.org, Maya serves on the Advisory Board for CIRCLE, the Working Group for the Civic Health Index of the National Conference on Citizenship, and the Board of Directors for Youth Service California. For her leadership, Maya has been awarded a YouthActionNet Fellowship, the Independent Sector NGEN American Express Fellowship and Utne Reader’s 50 Visionaries Changing Your World Award. Maya, very proud of her Jersey roots, grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey and attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Her black labs, Hudson and Zin, have grown accustomed to her busy life style and have now lived in 5 states in less than 2 years.

Andre Blackman is an agent of change and innovation within the public health community. He is very passionate about the role of new media, mobile technology and other useful innovations as it relates to health communications and public health in general – resulting in Public Health 2.0. Andre feels that both public health and new media are focused on the people, so there should be parallels to how they both interact. Andre’s background has involved work with science and technology organizations, health nonprofits and traditional public relations. He aims to educate and provide strategy for public health focused organizations and projects who want to make use of the new social interactive landscape and innovative opportunities. You can find his thoughts on public health and innovation through his blog, Pulse + Signal (http://pulseandsignal.com) and via Twitter @mindofandre

We're gonna shine the spotlight on 3 emerging leaders in philanthropy: Melissa Johnson at NCRP, Trista Harris at the St. Paul Foundation, and Faith Bynoe most recently at the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund. We'll discuss how they all landed jobs at foundations and what the grantmaking experience is like. Callers are encouraged to dial in to join the discussion with questions or comments!

The nonprofit sector doesn’t do a very good job at promoting diversity. This is the reality and it's time to make some changes: 94% of foundation presidents are White, 86% of board members are White, and 82% of nonprofit CEOs are White. What should be done to increase the diversity of nonprofit leadership? Eric Giles of Nonprofit Roundtable, Rebecca Muse of African American Nonprofit Network & Keven Cotton of CFED join us for this discussion.

None of us are gonna get rich working in the nonprofit sector. We know that nonprofit salaries are typically the lowest when compared to business and government. So what's a next generation leader to do when you're dedicated to the cause, but tired of working for pennies even though you're doing good work? Elisa Ortiz from NCNA and job-seeker Loryn Wilson join us for this important discussion.

Live interview and discussion with Robert Egger, Founder and President of DC Central Kitchen, V3 Campaign, and author of Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient and Rewarding For All, which received the 2005 McAdam Prize for “Best Nonprofit Management Book” by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management.