Second Annual Bday Bash

Save the date - We're celebrating our second birthday at Karl Strauss in La Jolla on April 15th and we want YOU to be there! Register here.

Join YNPN San Diego as we celebrate two years in San Diego providing networking, professional development and community for nonprofit staff, board members, and volunteers throughout San Diego. We've made quite an impact in this town and we want you to be there to help us celebrate!

Doors will open at 5:00 p.m. and we'll have happy hour drink specials through 8:00 p.m. Register today and THANK YOU to Karl Strauss La Jolla for hosting us!

Meet the Board: Joe Buehrle

What are your roles within the nonprofit community?

I love the nonprofit field and have worked in a variety of sectors from child welfare to adult mental health. Currently I serve as the Program Coordinator for SAY San Diego’s Healthy Start Military Family Center where we provide parent support and empowerment activities for military parents and children. I also enjoy volunteering on the YNPN San Diego Board (Partnership Committee Co-Chair) and with a local community organizing group, the San Diego Organizing Project.

Tell us about a great experience you have had with YNPN San Diego.
I moved to San Diego about a year and a half ago without a job. YNPN San Diego was a great networking resource to meet great likeminded folks. My favorite part of YNPN is the Meet and Greets. Beyond professional support, being new to San Diego, YNPN lead me to a great group of friends I now hang out with on a regular basis.

Name a person or resource that has helped you in your nonprofit career and why.

I must continue the shout out to YNPN. I finished graduate school ready to “change the world” and moved to San Diego only able to find a minimum wage job. YNPN became my only source of hope, sanity and professional fulfillment. Through [YNPN], I have met [many] people, opened doors to numerous professional opportunities, found my current job and was lead to great resources… not to mention spending many fun nights on the town at award events, conferences, galas, and taking in the arts.

Just for fun – what was the last dream you had?

Well… you may regret to have asked, but the truth is… my last dream was about me and a buddy from graduate school kicking guacamole filled soccer balls around in a field of guacamole. Why I dreamed this, I have no idea but it is an odd combination of three of my favorite things: soccer, guacamole and good times with friends!!!

Thanks for sharing Joe! Who knows, maybe guacamole soccer may become a reality – Guacamole Goalie – I like the sound of that!

Last Week to Register - Limited Space

YNPN San Diego is about to put on an amazing professional development workshop with fantastic panelists – we hope you will join us. Only 20 spots total available by registering here!

About the workshop:

Join YNPN San Diego and leaders from the San Diego nonprofit community to discuss what leadership looks like throughout the generations. Listen in as our panelists discuss what each generation brings to the leadership table and how we can together prepare for the future of leadership. Following the panel, we will open the space with facilitated group conversations about multiple generations working together to advance the nonprofit community in San Diego. Join our panelists and your colleagues as they share their own experiences and lessons learned related to leadership and provide you with an opportunity to ask questions, get feedback and share your own input on multigenerational leadership.

Date: March 18th 6 – 8 pm

Location: Dean’s Conference Room @ The School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Please follow THIS LINK for directions and the nearest parking structure. Dean’s office on the second floor of the RBC 4 (Student Affairs/Dean’s Office) Building.

Fee: $10

Registration: http://ynpnsdmarch10.eventbrite.com/

About the Facilitator and Panelists:

Ryan Feinstein – Facilitator
Co-Founder, Next-Gen Collaborative

Ryan Feinstein is the Co-Founder of the “Next-Gen Collaborative” – a strategic consulting and leadership development organization that offers collaborative tools and practices for next-gen leaders to be successful professionally and fulfilled personally for making a contribution in their lives, communities, and organizations. He is also the founder of the Global Youth in Action Programs and Program Development Director for the Bali Institute for Global Renewal, a non-profit that offers programs on leadership and indigenous wisdom. Working with the World Café Community Foundation, Ryan is currently helping to develop new ways for conversational leadership to be brought into communities and organizations as a basis for social innovation and transformation.

Emily Davis – Panelist
President, EDA Consulting & Co-Founder/Chair YNPN San Diego

Emily began her career working in the field of ending violence against women more than 10 years ago as a community activist, victim advocate, and trainer. She now focuses her attention and expertise on next gen issues in both philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, presenting her research and trends throughout the country. Since Spring 2007, Emily has been serving as a nonprofit consultant and philanthropic advisor to various individuals and organizations through her company, Emily Davis & Associates Consulting. She has served on numerous nonprofit committees and boards in Colorado and San Diego and recently completed her Masters of Nonprofit Management from Regis University. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Fundraising Professionals San Diego; as an adjunct-professor at UCSD Extension's Fundraising Certificate program; Editorial Advisor for Nonprofit World Magazine; and serves on many other committees.

Sherri Petro - Panelist
President, VPI Strategies and founding partner in Workplace Evolution

Sherri Petro has been consulting for 10 years in the for-profit, nonprofit, and government sectors after a 16 year corporate career. Sherri creates financially sustainable organizations and helps bridge the gap between generational misunderstandings that result from different belief structures and lack of coherent communication. She shares the motivations of each generation to help organizations create better targeting, messaging and connections to the marketers. Her diverse professional background includes customer service, operations, administration, sales, marketing and strategic planning. Sherri earned an MBA from Pepperdine University and BA in Psychology from Youngstown State University, magna cum laude.

John Falchi - Panelist

The general purpose guiding John in his calling is "Positive Well-Being for All Living Things." Although he is retired from being a College Pol. Sci. Professor, a Chief Development Officer for Major NGOs, and a Development Consultant to Non-profit Organizations, John continues to help many organi-zational leaders, who are in concert with his general purpose, to meet their goals and objectives, in fund raising, organizational planning, membership building and PR work, pro bono, through the Global Culture Network of P.A.C.E

Register here: http://ynpnsdmarch10.eventbrite.com/

Panelists Announced for March 18 Workshop!

Limited space available - register today!!!

Nonprofit Leadership from Every Generation
March 18th 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Location: TBD

Join YNPN San Diego and leaders from the San Diego nonprofit community to discuss what leadership looks like throughout the generations. Listen in as our panelists discuss what each generation brings to the leadership table and how we can together prepare for the future of leadership. Following the panel, we will open the space with facilitated group conversations about multiple generations working together to advance the nonprofit community in San Diego. Join our panelists and your colleagues as they share their own experiences and lessons learned related to leadership and provide you with an opportunity to ask questions, get feedback and share your own input on multi-generational leadership.

Ryan Feinstein - Facilitator
Co-Founder, Next-Gen Collaborative

Ryan Feinstein is the Co-Founder of the “Next-Gen Collaborative” – a strategic consulting and leadership development organization that offers collaborative tools and practices for next-gen leaders to be successful professionally and fulfilled personally for making a contribution in their lives, communities, and organizations. He is also the founder of the Global Youth in Action Programs and Program Development Director for the Bali Institute for Global Renewal, a non-profit that offers programs on leadership and indigenous wisdom. Working with the World Café Community Foundation, Ryan is currently helping to develop new ways for conversational leadership to be brought into communities and organizations as a basis for social innovation and transformation.

Emily Davis - Panelist
President, EDA Consulting & Co-Founder/Chair YNPN San Diego

Emily began her career working in the field of ending violence against women more than 10 years ago as a community activist, victim advocate, and trainer. She now focuses her attention and expertise on next gen issues in both philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, presenting her research and trends throughout the country. Since Spring 2007, Emily has been serving as a nonprofit consultant and philanthropic advisor to various individuals and organizations through her company, Emily Davis & Associates Consulting. She has served on numerous nonprofit committees and boards in Colorado and San Diego and recently completed her Masters of Nonprofit Management from Regis University. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Fundraising Professionals San Diego; as an adjunct-professor at UCSD Extension's Fundraising Certificate program; Editorial Advisor for Nonprofit World Magazine; and serves on many other committees.

Sherri Petro - Panelist
President, VPI Strategies and founding partner in Workplace Evolution

Sherri Petro has been consulting for 10 years in the for-profit, nonprofit, and government sectors after a 16 year corporate career. Sherri creates financially sustainable organizations and helps bridge the gap between generational misunderstandings that result from different belief structures and lack of coherent communication. She shares the motivations of each generation to help organizations create better targeting, messaging and connections to the marketers. Her diverse professional background includes customer service, operations, administration, sales, marketing and strategic planning. Sherri earned an MBA from Pepperdine University and BA in Psychology from Youngstown State University, magna cum laude.

John Falchi - Panelist

The general purpose guiding John in his calling is "Positive Well-Being for All Living Things." Although he is retired from being a College Pol. Sci. Professor, a Chief Development Officer for Major NGOs, and a Development Consultant to Non-profit Organizations, John continues to help many organi-zational leaders, who are in concert with his general purpose, to meet their goals and objectives, in fund raising, organizational planning, membership building and PR work, pro bono, through the Global Culture Network of P.A.C.E

Why Charge?

Many of our members will see a change to March's professional development workshop on Nonprofit Leadership from Every Generation...a small fee. To date, YNPN San Diego has been able to keep our events and workshops free, but as we grow there is a greater need for funding. YNPN San Diego has started to charge a small fee for our workshops for the following reasons:

• Covering costs - YNPN San Diego is like any other organization in that our programs cost money and although it is a small amount, we do need to charge for our workshops to cover our costs of conducting them.
  

• Diversified funding - it is important for ANY nonprofit to have a diversity of fundinf sources to support the organization. From grants to individual donors to program fees YNPN San Diego recognizes that we need to have a variety of funding sources to sustain the organization.

• Improved speakers/moderators - we would like to be able to bring increasingly better speakers, moderators, and panelists which often require funding to pay for their services. By raising money for these efforts we can better serve our membership!
  

• Attendance - In the last year when we have offered our free workshops, we slowly had fewer and fewer people follow through with their attendance despite confirmation emails, etc. We feel that charging a nominal fee to cover our expenses will also help people to commit to their registration and attendance for the program.

There are a whole host of smaller reasons for why YNPN San Diego is now charging a small amount for our workshops and we hope you will join us in supporting these efforts. We want to continue to provide free and low-cost resources to the YNPN San Diego community as long as we can - your support both in volunteer hours and funding will make this possible. If you are interested in helping us develop our fundraising efforts, please be sure to consider joining the YNPN San Diego Fundraising Committee!

YNPN San Diego Partners with BetterGiving

The San Diego Foundation is pleased to announce a new resource under development for our communities. BetterGiving is a powerful online tool to inform, empower and enrich charitable giving in the region--benefiting donors, nonprofits and the community at large. The underlying database provides access to information about local nonprofits, including financial, governance and programmatic details.

YNPN San Diego and The San Diego Foundation are excited to partner on outreach for this new resource. The San Diego Foundation values young professionals and their work to enhance the sector.

Powered by GuideStar, and supported by foundation staff, data is assembled into information and, over time, matures into a deep knowledge base of nonprofit organizations, providing essential services for the Greater San Diego region. For more information, please visit http://bettergivingsd.guidestar.org.

Benefits for Nonprofits

• Simplifies application process to local funders and saves nonprofits time in completing applications
• Increases awareness of your organization with potential donors
• Free source of marketing wand outreach with photos and videos of your work
• Tells your story at all levels: management, program, and finances
• Helps the community understand the need for your services and your results
• Advances the nonprofit community in San Diego by strengthening individual organizations and providing a resources to analyze need

To get started: Visit the BetterGiving website at www.bettergivingsd.org and click on “Request a portrait for your organization.”

If you have questions, please contact Lori Finch at 619-235-2300 or email bettergiving@sdfoundation.org.

Let YNPN San Diego Help YOUR Career!

Career Resources Page at YNPN San Diego

Many YNPN members are unaware of the great career resources available on the YNPN Website (http://www.ynpnsandiego.org/career.html). The YNPN Career Resource Page highlights local and national resources for non-profit organizations, including links to local non-profit job listings, industry news and professional development sites. The page is managed by YNPN members who have their fingers on the pulse of the San Diego non-profit community and best of all – it’s free!

One of the questions we often get is, “why doesn’t YNPN San Diego have a job board?” The answer is simple: there are already many great resources out there in the community and nationally. It is our job to connect you with those resources and promote the efforts of others. At YNPN San Diego we focus on collaboration, not duplication. You can see a perfect example of this in our Career Resources page on our website.

Many people are looking for a job these days or know someone who is – be sure to take advantage of this great resource to find the job and information you need in your career. We are always looking to improve our member benefits so please be sure to send comments, suggestions, or feedback to: sandiego@ynpn.org.

Last Chance!

Join YNPN San Diego for a fantastic night at the theater!

YNPN San Diego is partnering with Ivy Hour young professionals for a special Meet and Greetand the San Diego Rep on February 18th. Enjoy Culture Clash in AmeriCCa on February 18th at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are only $24 and include a free drink, a pre-show networking reception for YNPN & Ivy Hour, and a post-show event, Talkin’ Theatre with Todd Salovey, a discussion with the stars of Culture Clash. This is an amazing opportunity to meet with other young nonprofit professionals from across San Diego, supportYNPN San Diego, as well as meet with an amazing theatrical group.

Last chance--call the box office at (619) 544-1000 and use the code “YNPN” to get your tickets before they sell out! Click here to get box office details.

About the show:

As in all of their memorable comedic sketches, the characters in AmeriCCa are adapted from real interviews with people from across the U.S. who live radically diverse lives. The troupe’s signature use of satire, vaudeville, mime and spoken word dramatizes the voices of the socially invisible and the New Americans, offering a fresh examination of cultures in flux. From Cuban exiles and Haitian immigrants in Miami, to a Puerto Rican political activist in Manhattan, to commies and dot-commers rubbing elbows in San Francisco’s Mission District, to expatriates in Tijuana and Ugandan cab drivers in San Diego, these are unforgettable characters who will leave you gasping, laughing and cheering. Read more on the San Diego Rep website:http://www.sdrep.org/event4.aspx

About San Diego Rep:

San Diego Repertory Theatre produces intimate, exotic, provocative theatre. They promote a more inclusive community through vivid works that nourish progressive political and social values and celebrate the multiple voices of our region. San Diego Repertory Theatre feeds the curious soul. Read more online: http://www.sdrep.org/abouttherep.aspx

About Ivy Hour:

Ivy Hour was created in 2001 to provide get-togethers for young professionals in the San Diego area. More important than what school you went to, is that you want to be part of the cultural and social life in San Diego! Read more on their website:http://www.ivyhour.com/aboutus.html