5 Years, 5 Events

I'm pretty excited. YNPN's Advisory Board and Committee members are excited too. Why are we so excited? Because... 

YNPN San Diego is turning 5!

We're celebrating our fifth birthday with five events throughout the month of April. 

At this milestone, we're reflecting on the past five years and thoughtfully planning where we're going next. Your feedback from my last message, at our events, and through our social media is helping us to assess where we are and to chart the course ahead.

Many of you have told us you're in a similar situation of figuring out the next steps for your career, so we've put together a slate of events this month to provide the tools, skills and connections you need to advance professionally.

• At our Book Club on April 10, we'll be thinking about the obstacles to success and how to overcome them (there's a free, short, and thought-provoking article as well for the book-averse).

• The next night, April 11, we're having fun running around San Diego together on a scavenger hunt with a free beer from Stone. Join our team, make new connections, and have a blast. The first 25 to sign up get a free YNPN shirt!

• For our Professional Development Workshop  Leveraging LinkedIn on the 18^th, we've tapped emerging leader and LinkedIn fanatic Brandon Buzbee to share how we can best use this tool to grow professionally.

• Our capstone event is our first-ever Saturday Meet & Greet on April 27. This free and fun event is a great time to mix and mingle with colleagues and friends, new and old. We are also thrilled to have Novak Photos shooting themost affordable professional headshots in town. Photo sittings are limited, so RSVP quickly!

• Finally, closing out the month on the 30^th, we'll have an informal networking breakfast with details to come soon. 

Whether you're new to YNPN or have been with us from the start, I hope you'll join us in celebrating our history and our next chapter as you each write your own. 

Sincerely and excitedly yours,
Lauren Grattan
Chair
YNPN San Diego

We Want To Hear From You

If you’re like me, your January might have been a bit busy with reflecting on your career path, goal-setting, meetings, catching up after the holiday break and fending off a constant stream of germs -- without all that much time to focus on your priorities.  So February is a perfect time to put resolutions into practice. 

As I catch my breath after a whirlwind month, I’m so thankful and inspired that you’ve committed to strengthening yourself and the nonprofit community by engaging with YNPN, and hope you'll join us at an event soon.

I am thrilled to serve YNPN as Chair with a fantastic Advisory Board and Committees full of dedicated young professionals (note:we’re recruiting if you want to join the team!).  We’re here to provide the connections, resources, and leadership opportunities you need to advance your career and create a thriving San Diego.  

To that end, we’d like to hear what challenges and opportunities you’re facing, what you want to see more of, and what your plans are so we can help. We’ve partnered with a graduate researcher to look at trends among emerging nonprofit leaders, and would love your participation in her survey as well as your direct feedback to me or other YNPN leaders.

You can reach me personally at lauren@ynpnsandiego.org, on LinkedIn, on Twitter or at an event. (Full disclosure: I have some pretty goofy tweets mixed in with the #emergingleaders)

Whether you’ve started a new role, are in transition, or are rocking your current position, we’re delighted to have you with YNPN San Diego and look forward to a fantastic year together.

Sincerely yours,

Lauren Grattan
Chair
YNPN San Diego