By Nicolas Takamine, 2009 ProInspire Fellow Editor’s Note: This is part two in a series of blog posts by Nicolas Takamine (2009 ProInspire Fellow), inspired by ProInspire’s request for engagement in its strategy process in ProInspire Strategy Update 1: Start With Your Result. [Read Part 1 he…
By Monisha Kapila, Founder and CEO, ProInspire In April, ProInspire’s Strategy Steering Committee met and discussed the Internal Assessment based on stakeholder interviews. The Steering Committee includes a cross-section of ProInspire stakeholders, including staff, Board members, partners, and alu…
By Meetal Desai, ProInspire ProBono Consultant This past May I left a job that I truly valued after over 5 years of working at the same place. As a mid-career professional with two young daughters, I had been fortunate to work in a part-time position that provided interesting work and a flexible s…
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…