Trish Tchume, director of Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN), National, and Amanda Pape Lenaghan, Co-chair of YNPN San Francisco Bay Area (YNPNsfba) and Deputy Director Bay Area at Taproot Foundation, were recently interviewed by the Foundation Center for the Philanthropy Front and Center blog. They discussed the recent YNPN report Good in Theory Problems in Practice: Young professionals’ views on popular leadership development strategies. The interview provides a great overview of the findings, what was [ continue reading ]
...The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently named the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network an “Nonprofit to Watch in 2012“. Citing the hiring of our first national director Trish Tchume, the Chronicle includes YNPN in a list of organizations poised to “grab the spotlight because they are charting a new course or because they have appointed new leaders.” We are certainly excited for the upcoming year as YNPN celebrates its fifteenth anniversary! Excerpt from the article: A new [ continue reading ]
...Hello YNPNers! I’d like to take the opportunity to thank all of you who’ve offered your congratulations on this milestone for YNPN and this personal milestone for me. It’s been inspiring and fun to see all the tweets, facebook posts and to receive the emails and calls from all of you expressing your excitement for this new position and what it means for YNPN! First, I wanted to bring you all up to speed on [ continue reading ]
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