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Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, San Diego Launches Logo Design Contest as Cornerstone of Re-branding Campaign
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Dec. 4, 2011 - The Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, San Diego (YNPNSD), recently began the process of re-branding their organization. YNPN San Diego has grown over the past three years to serve a base of 1000 nonprofit sector leaders and their re-branding campaign seeks to reflect the talents, values and diversity of the growing membership. In an effort to incorporate local talent into their re-branding campaign, they have opened this logo design contest to the San Diego design and arts community.
Designers have liberty in color choice and may include an image element that reflects the personality of San Diego. Full brand guidelines are available for download at http://ynpn.org/wp-content/uploads/ynpn-brandmanual.pdf/ and full contest rules may be viewed at http://bit.ly/up7bct. Logo design submissions will be accepted until February 3, 2012 at 11:59 PM PST. All submissions will be reviewed and a winner will be announced no later than February 21, 2012.
The winner designer will receive a Grand Prize of a year-long YNPNSD Membership, recognition at the YNPNSD March Meet & Greet event, and a featured article to be published via all YNPNSD media outlets.
“We are excited to see how designers characterize the identity of our organization in their logo designs. It is important to us that our image reflect the true spirit of YNPNSD.” says Jaci Feinstein, YNPN San Diego Board Co-Chair.
About YNPN San Diego
YNPN San Diego is a vibrant, volunteer-driven membership organization that connects and develops young nonprofit leaders to leverage our collective strengths. YNPN San Diego’s activities focus on attracting talented people to the sector, helping young nonprofit professionals connect with their peers, providing programs that help develop current and emerging nonprofit leaders, and advocating for the interests of young nonprofit professionals. For more information, visit http://www.ynpnsandiego.org.
Contact Information:
Dani Reyes-Acosta, YNPNSD Advisory Board Member and Brand Task Force Co-Chair
Nicole Borunda, YNPNSD Brand Task Force Co-Chair
communications@ynpnsandiego.org
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Recognizing the Unrecognized
I had the honor of attending Stay Classy’s 3rdAnnual Classy Awards last weekend - a red carpet event recognizing the top philanthropic achievements by charities, businesses and individuals nationwide. What an amazing evening it was: I cried, laughed, and gave big hugs to those sitting around me.
Leading up to the event, people from all over the country nominated and voted for Charity of the Year, Volunteer of the Year, Best Use of Social Media, Most Creative Fundraiser, and for the first time, Young Nonprofit Professional of the Year. Reading the stories and impact of the young nonprofit professionals that were nominated was inspiring, but did make me think about all those young nonprofit professionals that were not nominated. There are so many of those who, day after day, make a difference, touch lives, and often times go unrecognized.
To all you young nonprofit professionals, I would just like to say, THANK YOU…
- For dedicating your professional career to the nonprofit sector,
- For working long hours,
- For volunteering on your off-hours for other causes you care about,
- For being a philanthropist,
- For turning down other higher paying jobs,
- For dealing with “old school” technology,
- For leading the way in cause awareness through social media,
- For asking questions and challenging the status quo,
- For “volun-telling” your friends and family to donate, volunteer and get involved,
- For taking your professional development into your own hands, and
- For dedicating your professional career to the nonprofit sector.
You aren’t necessary the founders, executive directors, board chairmen, or sometimes even part of the leadership team at your organization (yet!), but you work tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure your organization meets its mission. Whomever you are and whatever your role within your organization, thank you!
Thank you, too, Stay Classy for having given us the opportunity to recognize the achievements and impact of our sector.
Thanks to YNPN San Diego Co-Chair Jaci Feinstein for the blog contribution! To learn more about YNPN San Diego, follow us @ynpnsandiego or find us on Facebook. We look forward to seeing you at our next event.
Friday, September 16, 2011
YNPNSD and IdeaEncore: Working Together
Lately you might have noticed that our blog is featuring a new guest contributor representing the IdeaEncore Network. We have been partnering with the San Diego-based IdeaEncore Network for a while now (you might remember their contributions featured in our now-quarterly newsletter), and as they have grown, we've welcomed the opportunity to share educational resources with this community stakeholder.
Establishing a connection with IdeaEncore is important to us not only because they have a collection of great resources to share, but also because their vested interest in both growing and grooming the next generation of nonprofit leaders means that their mission aligns with our own.
IdeaEncoreNetwork is an online learning marketplace for nonprofits to share, buy, and sell information resources such as policies, presentations, plans, and templates that improve their effectiveness and efficiency. It is a community of people like you who have been through situations like yours. It is a place where nonprofit professionals share, buy, and sell tools and resources that improve effectiveness and efficiency. By aligning individual and organizational incentives, including earned income, we reduce “reinvention of the wheel” and increase both the social and financial return on philanthropic investment.
Sharing your experience and documents helps emerging and experienced nonprofit professionals the world over by saving them and their organizations time and money. When you share with IdeaEncore, you have the opportunity to generate earned income for your organization by selling resources that you’ve created.
Scott Bechtler-Levin, President of IdeaEncore, stated “All of us can benefit from sharing what we have learned with each other. And the credibility and recognition can really help emerging nonprofit leaders establish themselves.”
It’s free to create an account, and 90% of resources are free to download. Unlike Idealware, another resource-driven site, IdeaEncore is a crowdsourced platform that facilitates its users own personal and professional growth in the resource-sharing process. Learn more here, and let us know what other resources you use for knowledge management.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Highlight: Classy Awards Nominee for Young Nonprofit Leader of the Year, Meg Storer
Meg Storer first came to 2-1-1 when it was located in a small shop with a few folks on the phones, taking calls from hard-pressed individuals needing help and not knowing where to turn. Meg played a major role with the launch of 2-1-1 in 2005, writing and sending press releases to convey the message of what 2-1-1 is, responding to media inquiries about this new organization, and conducting outreach at events. Meg then moved into the role of ensuring that 2-1-1 staff gave accurate referrals via her position as Quality Assurance Manager. CEO John Ohanian recognized Meg’s tremendous efforts to spread the word and promoted Meg to Communications and Development Manager.
In this position, Meg helped to re-brand the organization, building out an entirely new website, managing the development of 2-1-1 social media, managing the needs of the Board of Directors, being the “handler” for the 2-1-1 CEO, and writing grants to support the organizations operations and new special programs, which she simultaneously assisted in building out. Meg is known for “getting it done” no matter what the effort. Her current passion lies with helping 2-1-1 develop its current partnership with other organizations to grow its military and veterans program, a program Meg finds very dear to her heart because of her own experience as a military wife. She knows the isolation one can feel when you don’t know where to turn when your loved one is abroad, and she uses those emotions as fuel to help 2-1-1 and its special programs thrive more than ever.
Thanks to our partner, StayClassy, and best of luck to Meg. Visit the Stay Classy site to get tickets for the September 17 awards ceremony.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Highlight: Classy Awards Nominee for Young Nonprofit Leader of the Year, Amy Harmon
Raised in a struggling low-income family, Amy blossomed as a woman sweetly fierce about her calling to make higher education accessible to all. Amy has over 11 years of service and commitment in nonprofit management and fundraising, from Executive Director of an organization empowering young woman (which she appeared on Oprah for) to recently becoming the San Diego State University College of Education’s Director of Development.
Where does vision and commitment to a cause come from? Amy’s story is rare and one of transcendence and persistence. In modern society it is one thing to grow up urban poor and it is another to grow up rural poor, with very litle access to resources/services, dilapidated and unfunded schools, and no community supports for miles. Amy grew up in rural Kentucky, with her three older brothers and parents, in a place where school success could have easily taken a back seat to the growl of a hungry stomach and the struggles of home life. Not to mention, without the simple luxury of indoor plumbing, mid-night treks to the outhouse do not lend to a good nights sleep, particularly in the winter. Many times it is through difficulty and trial the most beautiful things form. Amy’s spirit and humble altruism is a testament to that proverb. Thanks to the help of a high school guidance counselor, Amy discovered Berea College; a small private liberal arts college where bright low-income students attend tuition-free. It was there that she discovered her passion for the power of education to change lives.
Only in her early 30s, Amy has raised millions of dollars for numerous worthy causes, none dearer to her heart than giving those less privileged a shot at higher education. For Amy, these stories are personal and will tell you of the impact a college education had on her life. To her and those she fundraises to support, college is more than classes that lead to a job, but a saving grace, a pathway out of poverty and a shot at destiny. Amy is a living testimony of her work, work that is breaking generational cycles of poverty and bringing hope to society’s forgotten youth.
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