Nonprofit
The Encore Career is emerging as a major social trend.
There has been plenty of anecdotal evidence that people are launching a new stage of work that combines social impact with personal meaning and continued income. Now a nationwide survey shows these pioneers may represent millions of others, and may be followed by tens of millions more.
The 2008 MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Encore Career Survey found that between 6 percent and 9.5 percent of Americans ages 44 to 70 are already in their encore careers, even if they don’t yet use that term.
Advancing Your Nonprofit Career Through Higher Education
Graduate degrees and professional certifications can provide nonprofit jobseekers with a leg up in their careers. In many cases, a degree or certification in a specific field is a necessity to landing certain nonprofit positions. In addition to advancing career prospects, post-bachelor's education provides the opportunity establish professional contacts, experience an internship, and increase knowledge about a specialized function or field within the nonprofit sector.
Using Transferable Skills to Make a Career Change
Every day, we talk to jobseekers who are seeking to transition into careers at socially entrepreneurial organizations. Some come from the corporate world, some are recent graduates, and others are teachers. Whatever the specifics, there is one key factor to these jobseekers' capacity to catch the eye of a nonprofit employer: the ability to identify, demonstrate, and market their transferable skills.
Nonprofit Salaries: What Should I Earn?
A common myth about nonprofit organizations is that salaries are low and can't compare with the corporate world. Depending on your expectations, nonprofit salaries may be more competitive than you think.
Pursuit of Meaningful Work Blurs the Business, Nonprofit Culture Gap
By Penelope Trunk November 11, 2007 The Boston Globe
Jobs in the nonprofit sector are growing at a faster rate than jobs in the business sector. But this might not even be the big news. The big news is that the difference between the two sectors is fading.
Talking About Compensation in Your Nonprofit Job Search: Q&A with Bridgestar's Karen DeMay
Nonprofit World Offers Jobs, Challenge, Purpose
BY MARY ELLEN SLAYTER
The Washington Post Sunday, October 14, 2007
The nonprofit sector is one that both private sector and government workers can find mysterious. They like the idea of putting their skills to use for the greater good of society but aren’t quite sure how to make it happen.
The Social Impact of Social Networking
Learn more about how social networking initiatives are helping non-profits with online marketing and collecting donations at the Berkeley >Play Digital Media Conference, coming up at the end of this month. One of the panels is on the social impact of social networking and features an interesting panel:
Premal Shah - President - Kiva.org
Joe Green - President & CEO - Project Agape
Slava Rubin, Co-founder, IndieGoGo.com
Volunteer Your Way to Experience on the Way to a Fund-Raising Career
By Roni F. Noland The Boston Globe September 9, 2007
