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Managing Millennials: Reflections from a recent trainingBy Kristen Lucas Our identities impact the way we engage, lead, and manage others at work, particularly across lines of difference. Looking through the lens of our generational identity gives us an opportunity to consider how we can better work with our colleagues, managers, and direct reports. In o…
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Leaning in to Learning: What the ProInspire Fellowship Taught Me About MyselfBy Crystal Cheng, 2015 ProInspire Fellow at Opportunity Fund When Gene Kunde, ProInspire’s Bay Area Executive Director at the time, sent me the Fellowship role description for the Business Process and Implementation Associate at Opportunity Fund, it felt serendipitous. In 2009, I was part of a sma…
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Two ProInspire Alumni Selected for American Express – Aspen Institute’s Fellowship for Emerging Nonprofit LeadersProInspire congratulates 2015 Management Fellows Maria Choi and Emmanuel Imah, who were selected for the 2016 American Express – Aspen Institute Academy 2.0: A Fellowship for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders. 15 Fellows are selected annually for this program, an invitation-only, yearlong Fellows…
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Congrats to the Graduating Fellows, Bring on the Next Class…By Mike Rocco, ProInspire’s Managing Director, Bay Area I recently celebrated my one-month anniversary with ProInspire and ended the day by joining the 2015 San Francisco Bay Area Fellows for their Graduation Dinner. While it is simplistic to say that I was impressed by the eight Fellows, tho…
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The Brioxy White House Summit: A Day of Energy, Excitement and HopeBy Dionne Galloway, ProInspire’s Director of Leadership Development Programs Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the inaugural White House Summit for Innovators of Color, hosted by Brioxy. Brioxy is an organization focused on bringing young people of color together to change t…
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ProInspire Releases Infographic on Millennials in the Nonprofit WorkforceProInspire released a new infographic today about Millennials in the nonprofit workforce. The infographic builds on insights shared through ProInspire’s report, A Force for Impact: Millennials in the Nonprofit Sector, released in October 2015. Nonprofit leaders will find this a useful guide to …
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ProInspire Alum Marcus Noel Selected to 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 listProInspire Alum Marcus Noel has been selected to the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Marcus is the Founder of Heart of Man, a social enterprise he started before the ProInspire Fellowship. Heart of Man operates at the intersection of education and retail, allowing middle and high school students to c…
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ProInspire Millennials report featured in Chronicle of PhilanthropyThe Chronicle of Philanthropy highlights ProInspire’s new Millennials report in “Millennials Present Big Opportunity for Nonprofits, Study Says.” Rebecca Koenig of the Chronicle of Philanthropy wrote a summary of ProInspire’s report, A Force for Impact: Millennials in the No…
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ProInspire Releases Report on Millennials in the Nonprofit WorkforceFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 28, 2015 ProInspire Releases Report on Millennials in the Nonprofit Workforce Research reveals ten strategies to help nonprofits recruit, retain, and advance Millennial employees. ProInspire released a new report today that provides nonprofit organizations a deeper un…
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Explore the Woods: Lessons from American Express – Aspen Institute Academy 2.0By Ellie Canter, 2014 Management Fellow “To anticipate, not the sunrise and dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine! So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the t…
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ProInspire Alum Marcus Noel – Advice to a Younger Me (Ashoka Changemakers blog)Marcus Noel was a 2012 ProInspire Fellow with Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS). Following his Fellowship, he stayed on at BCPS and continued working on the project he launched, Heart of Man. He then became a ConnectED Fellow & Education Pioneer Fellow at the Department of Education̵…
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Building a GradNation: How America’s Promise is Creating ImpactBy: Angela Richardson, 2014 Proinspire Fellow When I started my fellowship at America’s Promise, I came at a very exciting time in the GradNation campaign. The GradNation program at America’s Promise strives to achieve a 90 percent high school graduation rate across the nation. For the first…
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The MBA Debate…What should YOU do?By Christin Prats, 2014 ProInspire Fellow Why Start Down this Path? For many high-achievers in the professional world, you’re accustomed to pushing yourself to the “next level” of mastery in your field/industry. You did well in college, landed the respectable job, landed your sec…
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Congratulations to 2013 ProInspire Fellows!The 2013 ProInspire Fellows in Washington D.C. and San Francisco Bay Area completed their Fellowship programs this summer. All 26 Fellows spent one year driving forward mission critical work at their organizations. The good news is that most of them will be staying at their organizations and co…
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Nonprofit CEOs Share Lessons Learned With Managing for Success FellowsNonprofit CEOs Share Lessons Learned With Managing for Success Fellows ProInspire’sManaging for Success Fellowsrecently enjoyeda private panel with leaders from three of the D.C. Metro Area’s top nonprofit organizations: Jan Ridgely, Executive Director of United Charitable Programs Lidia Soto-Ha…
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Building a Nonprofit Talent Pipeline: An Interview with Monisha KapilaFor this month's Social Innovation Interview Series Nell Edgington, President of Social Velocity, interviewed our Founder and CEO Monisha Kapila. Nell: One of the things ProInspire does is train business professionals about how things are different in the nonprofit sector. Can you, a…
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You Don’t Have to be a Corporate Titan to Serve on a Nonprofit BoardBy 2009 ProInspire Fellow and Board Member, Nick Takamine We're on Day 2 of our 5 Days of Giving series on the blog with the goal of helping each and every one of you with your goals to change the world, in both big and small ways. Nonprofits in San Francisco, home to ProInspire’s ne…
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ProInspire featured in the Huffington PostDetermined To Make A Difference: How Young Professionals Are Changing The World, One Cause At A Time by Monisha Kapila It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges facing children and families in our communities and worldwide. In the U.S. alone, more than 15 percent of the population li…
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Lessons from “Emerging Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations”By Lucila Crena, Program Director and 2009 ProInspire Fellow The nonprofit leadership deficit is, by now, a well-known social sector challenge. The Bridgespan Group’s game-changing “The Nonprofit Sector’s Leadership Deficit” put stunning figures to the problem and, in the process, mobilized …
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3 Reasons Why Every Young Professional Should Serve on a Nonprofit BoardBoard membership is something that I almost never hear young professionals discuss. If I had to venture a guess why, I’d say that there is a perception held by many that it’s something you do later in your career when you’re older, wiser, more experienced, etc. This, however, couldn’t be far…
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Social Citizens who want to make a differenceby Monisha Kapila Today I wrote a guest post about ProInspire for the Social Citizens blog, a project of the Case Foundation: http://www.socialcitizens.org/blog/do-you-want-job-where-you-can-make-difference Social Citizens was started after the release of a discussion paper from the Case Foundation …