Agitating to get things done
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I was having a little conversation with a good friend of mine last night, and she shared with me that she was feeling very anxious about the future. Her next job choice, graduate school, finances, making it all work.
I had a little bit of an epiphany…. I’m beginning to think that feeling a sense of stress and urgency is an advantage. (more…)
Buzzworthy: Social Media and Nonprofits
Budgets are tight, nonprofits are competing for grant dollars, need is up… What’s a nonprofit to do?
Here are some interesting things I’ve noticed popping up:
Sunday Friends, which is the most interesting capacity building program I’ve ever seen, created a video that manages to do three things:
Getting Things Done – 3 Things I love about AmeriCorps
I’m in my second year of service as an AmeriCorps*VISTA – Volunteer In Service To America. I joined when I had just graduated college, and it’s been an excellent entry into the professional sphere for me.
VISTA has been around since the 60s, when President Johnson created the program to fight poverty. In the early 1990s, President Clinton created the Corporation for National and Community Service, which consolidated a variety of domestic service programs, including VISTA.
“Your pay will be low; the conditions of your labor will often be difficult. But you will have the satisfaction of leading a great national effort, and you will have the ultimate reward which comes to those who serve their fellow man.”
- Lyndon B. Johnson, to the first VISTA Volunteers
Here are three things I love about AmeriCorps:
Welcome to Deep Gladness
As I dip my toe into the blogosphere, I have high hopes for myself and for this blog. I long to help create online community where it’s encouraged and welcomed to ask the difficult questions about personal and professional development.
It’s clear that we face a different world than our parents and grandparents did. My grandfather retired early with social security and a nice stock portfolio, after a long career at one company. He had no college education, but provided his wife and four children with an affluent life, nonetheless. That’s not the reality that I face. And I doubt it’s the reality that you face, either… (more…)
