Welcome to YNPN Email Lists
The purpose of the YNPN lists are to facilitate communication for nonprofit and community leaders, specifically pertaining to social and professional development and career opportunities. The lists are intended to share ideas and resources to help our professionals improve the quality of work in the organizations.
These lists are for emails that relate to the YNPN mission which is as follows:
The Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) promotes an efficient, viable, and inclusive nonprofit sector that supports the growth, learning, and development of young professionals. We engage and support future nonprofit and community leaders through social, professional development, and networking opportunities designed for young people involved in the San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit community.
YNPN does not pre-screen email posts which are generally member-regulated; However, YNPN does regularly monitor list activity and we reserve the right to remove anyone who abuses the privileges of participation and who violates list rules. Removal policies are included towards the end of this policy document. If you have a question about the appropriateness of a posting, please email the list administrator.
YNPN Email List How-To Guidelines
The following guidelines will assist you in better understanding how to begin participation in YNPN’s dynamic on-line community.
1. If you have a question about the appropriateness of a posting, please email the list manager ListAdmin@ynpn.org.
2. Please USE SUBJECT LINES with your messages that will enable people to delete messages that they are not interested in or will enable them to sort their emails by subject lines (e.g., housing, introduction, development, event, discussion, etc.).
3. Please DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS to the list. They can, among other things, contain viruses, slow down message distribution, and be annoying to those who cannot open them.
4. If you will no longer be using an email address that you used to subscribe to this list (e.g., you leave your job and therefore your work email address), please PROACTIVELY UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THE LIST.
5. Please do not respond to the whole list when answering a particular person’s question – RESPOND TO OTHERS DIRECTLY, following the same rules of courtesy as posting to the list. If you post a question and get a number of responses from the list, you may compile them and email them to the whole list so that those resources are made available to everyone. For additional guidance, please visit our FAQ page.
YNPN Email List Courtesy Rules
Participation on the lists and in the YNPN community is voluntary. YNPN does not pre-screen list postings. We request members to be mindful and to dialogue with the intention of building a positive nonprofit community. You are subject to removal if you disregard the following courtesy rules.
YNPN reserves the right to remove anyone who violates these courtesy rules. You will be warned once and subsequently removed from the list. Please read the complaint and removal procedures down below. Email list removal procedures
1. Please DO NOT SPAM the lists by sending unsolicited/inappropriate emails that do not pertain to professional development within the non-profit sector. This includes petitions (both email and web-based), advertisements, sales pitches or any other material inappropriate to the YNPN email lists. The lists are a forum for discussion and professional support for nonprofit professionals – not a marketplace.
2. DO NOT “FLAME” LIST MEMBERS by sending emails that are confrontational and/or unnecessarily hostile. This includes both individuals and groups of persons related by gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion, etc. Please be respectful of other members and be cautious about your tone. Disregard for YNPN’s non-discrimination policy is grounds for immediate removal from the list.
3. DO NOT ADD YNPN LISTS TO ANY OTHER DISTRIBUTION LISTS. This includes sending a YNPN list name/email to a third party without the person’s consent (e.g. if you manage a list that advertises nonprofit consultants, you would be spamming the other members of the list by adding them by default to your list). YNPN.org Privacy Policy
4. If you respond directly to a list member’s question or post – please follow the same rules of courtesy as posting to the list. All messages should be considered professional correspondence.
5. Please use the appropriate YNPN list for your post. YNPN maintains a separate job board/list for job seekers and employers. YNPN CareerCenter
**Remember, this list is not moderated and emails are not pre-screened; the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the sentiments of YNPN as a whole nor the members of the YNPN Advisory Board.**
YNPN does reserves the right to remove anyone who abuses the privileges of participation and who violates list rules. Email list removal procedures
PLEASE PARTICIPATE – you are the ones that make the list. If you have a question about something you would like to post, please email ListAdmin@ynpn.org. You have a choice of lists to join: all above rules apply to all lists.
To file a complaint:
If you think someone violated one (or more than one) Courtesy Rule, please contact the list administrator and include the following information:
1. Your Name
2. Your Email Address
3. Date that the violating action occurred
4. Describe how the email came to your attention (YNPN List or sometimes, violations occur via email, but not directly through YNPN’s list.)
5. Describe offence – what rules did the person violate (Forward any correspondence you send & received from violator)
6. Action you are requesting of YNPN
1. Our list administrator will review complaints when received
2. Depending on the severity of the complaint, they will:
- Send warning to offender, explaining that a complaint was filed & they are on a ‘watch-list’
- Send complaint to the YNPN Advisory Board (AB) review committee.
For Rule 2 “Flaming” – violators will be removed for first offense, but the committee will review complaint.
3. An email will be sent to complainer, letting them know of the action taken.
4. Repeat offenders: If someone violates rules a second time, the AB review committee will review offenses. It is to the committee discretion to take one of the following steps:
- send warning to complainer and violator
- send complaint to full board for a vote of removal*
issue removal notice
*violator has the option to present arguments against removal to the AB in writing.
5. Violators can be removed for 2 offenses even if they are breaking different rules.
All decision of the list administrator, AB review committee, or full AB are final.
Violators can appeal in writing to the AB review committee within one week of removal. Full AB will review appeal at next regularly scheduled board meeting.
Questions regarding YNPN Removal Procedures, please contact the list administrator at listadmin@ynpn.org.
