Glee-ful for TV Do-Goodery

As a former chorus-geek and eternal lover/practitioner of vocal music, there was no denying I was going to love Glee. This may garner eye-rolls from the more serious and somber of TV-viewers, but I can’t help myself. It’s fun, it takes itself just seriously enough, and here’s a big plus in my book–It frequently illuminates the social issues and problems teens (and adults!) face in a...

Random Acts of Kindness Week and Developing a “Kindness Instinct”

When our Nonprofit Management professor asked if any one had any nonprofit news to share last week, I informed my classmates that February 14 – 20 was the annual Random Acts of Kindness Week in the hopes of getting my peers’ do-gooder inspirational juices flowing. “Random acts of kindness just this week?” Our professor cheekily replied, and I smirked. No, I explained, Acts of Kindness —...

Case Study: How the Coalition to Unchain Dogs is doing everything right

Every once in awhile you stumble upon an organization that blows you away in terms of the way it presents itself, operates, includes others, and succeeds. While I have not yet personally had the opportunity to get involved with The Coalition to Unchain Dogs, I have been an observer of this organization in the community for a few years, ever since I met some of their volunteers at a fundraising walk in Durham,...

Generation Y? For a good cause, of course.

Many leaders in the nonprofit sector have heard the forecasts by groups like the Annie E. Casey Foundation or the Bridgespan Group that we are facing a nonprofit leadership deficit that will culminate in this decade. The results of the 2004 Nonprofit Executive Leadership and Transitions Survey by the Annie E. Casey Foundation indicated that if current executives stick to their plans to transition out of their...

Want to save the world? You may be an ENFJ.

My nonprofit management professor has a theory that the personality type most likely to be involved in trying to save the world is an ENFJ. He demonstrated this by showing the results of a Myers-Briggs test he asks all of his nonprofit students to take every year. Apparently, about 24-25% of the people in his nonprofit classes are consistently ENFJs, even though this personality type makes up only about 2-3% of the...