By John Troy, Founder of WorkMonger Over the last 6 years, I’ve worked with hundreds of people looking to switch from the private sector to an organization where social impact, not profit, is the primary bottom line. I too switched from the private sector to a non-profit, and as a non-profit di…
ProInspire’s Founder and CEO, Monisha Kapila, has been featured by Harvard Business School. Monisha is a 2005 MBA graduate from Harvard Business School (HBS) and was inspired to launch ProInspire after serving as an HBS Leadership Fellow with Accion International. In “A Talent Pipeline for Soci…
Congratulations to 2014 ProInspire Fellow Ivellisse Morales for successfully working with the San Francisco Chronicle to profile Year Up! As the only local Marketing and Communications Manager at Year Up Bay Area, Ivellisse taps into her PR/marketing agency experience to provide strategic marketing …
Last week, ProInspire celebrated the graduation of 60 fellows across four cohorts during our 2014-2015 programs. On July 26th, we marked the graduation of the 2014 Bay Area ProInspire Fellows with an outing at an Oyster Farm in San Francisco. Everyone had a great time, enjoyed lots of food and dri…
By Kate Perry, ProInspire Intern Last month, ProInspire’s 2015 Spring Management Fellows had their final workshop. The workshop included a CEO panel with leaders of three nonprofits based in the DC region: Ellie Hollander, President and CEO, Meals on Wheels America Janaye Ingram, National Ex…
By Sophia Oliverio, ProInspire Intern Tom Nelson is a father, a husband, an introvert, a country music fan, a sporadic yet very capable cyclist, and a man who has dedicated his career to serving nonprofits in several different roles. Tom serves on ProInspire’s Board of Directors, and as the Presid…
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…
By Monisha Kapila, Founder and CEO, ProInspire As I described in our last blog post, ProInspire is in the midst of a strategy process to define our bold goal and set the course for the organization’s future. We have completed the first phase of the process, an Internal Assessment. The goal of the …
This is an exciting year for ProInspire, as we have embarked on a strategy process to define our bold goal and set the course for the organization’s future. We were inspired to think about our bold goal by Community Wealth Partners, which wrote: “We challenge change agents to shift their attenti…
By Neelam Barot, ProInspire Intern On Wednesday June 24th, the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington held its Annual Meeting, including a cross-sector dialogue about the state of the region, at George Mason University’s Arlington campus. ProInspire’s CEO, Monisha Kapila, was elected to the …