It’s hard to believe I’m already halfway through grad school! Hard to believe, but easy to enjoy. This is the first week in almost 10 months that I can really just relax when I get home from work. I know it won’t last long, my summer class starts up in June, but I’m trying to read more
Nonprofits, and those of us who work for them, sometimes get into a tizzy about fundraising, especially since some new trend or tool pops up every month or so and we feel like we have to jump on board or we’ll miss out on a great opportunity. It’s totally understandable, fundraising is the the water read more
Before I get into that, check out what came in the mail yesterday: My new personal business cards! I might be a little geeked out about these. They aren’t my first set, but they’re a new design and I think they’re really pretty Getting personal business cards was a tip I learned from Rosetta Thurman, read more
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve had the time and brain capacity to write, but in that short time a lot has changed and my last post is even more relevant to my new everyday life than ever before. When I wrote that post I was thinking about the young professionals I’ve met through read more
When you think of an expert, you probably think of someone who has 25+ years of experience, maybe a Master’s or PhD in their field, you think of someone other than you. What you’re forgetting is that everyone is an expert in something, you just have to figure out what your ‘thing’ is and what read more
In kindergarten when my teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I told her that I wanted to be a janitor like Miss Hardee (our school’s janitor) because she was really nice and she got to spend her day helping people. In 2nd grade for career day where we dressed read more
I’m not afraid to admit it, I’m currently wrapping up my first fundraising campaign that was a complete flop. Fundraising is an odd thing, and maybe an odd career to a lot of people. I’ve been doing it for about 6 years now and I’ve had campaigns that were wildly successful and ones that fell read more
I just spent the last 3 days at a leadership conference for grad school – Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 9am-9pm. All leadership, all the time. I’ve been to many conferences, but not many leadership conferences, so I’m going out on a limb when I say that I think this conference is probably different from any read more
