Archive for October, 2009
This Thursday, October 8th at noon ET, Idealist.org will partner with the Chronicle of Philanthropy for an online chat on Breaking into the Sector. An intensely competitive job market is making it harder than ever for recent graduates and established business professionals to break into careers in the nonprofit world. What can you do to [ READ MORE ]
Contributed originally to the Nonprofit Career Month blog by Magdalena Montagne the Effective Practices Project Coordinator at the Resource Center. People come to national and community service for a variety of reasons. As a young person, my desire to help children along with a love of reading led me to the America Reads program. I [ READ MORE ]
A new online course helps mid-career professionals transition to a new career. Marc Freedman, an career author, and the head of Civic Ventures, will be leading a four-art online course during Wednesday afternoons in October helping people to transition to an “encore” career — or a second career a person takes on typically in the [ READ MORE ]
Friday, President Obama announced his intention to nominate Annie E. Casey Foundation senior associate Patrick Corvington as the C.E.O. of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) — the federal agency that oversees the AmeriCorps family of programs. Corvington’s focus areas at Anne E. Casey Foundation have included next generation leadership development and capacity [ READ MORE ]
News and blog reports reveal Peace Corps Volunteers had close encounters with the Samoan natural disasters of September 29. Erica Wales, who serves in Salesatele, Falealili, Upolu, Samoa and blogs at Peace Corps Adventures in Samoa writes about getting to higher ground before the tsunami destroyed her house and that of her neighbors. In the [ READ MORE ]
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