Tera Wozniak is an emerging nonprofit leader living and working in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After graduating with her BS in Public and Nonprofit Administration from Grand Valley, Tera began her blog Social Citizen to chronicle her career, and promote social entrepreneurship and innovation in the nonprofit sector. Her blog also focuses on the lives of Millennials in the nonprofit sector, and discusses ideas on how they can promote their entrepreneurial spirit in their careers and communities, using her own life as an example.
Tera is currently working at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, a nonprofit academic center at Grand Valley State University, as a Program Assistant. Outside of work, Tera is extensively involved in community efforts, such as working on a voting project with the League of Women Voters of Grand Rapids. She is also the founding board chair of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of Greater Grand Rapids, an organization that provides professional development and networking opportunities to young nonprofit professionals in the Greater Grand Rapids area.
Tera Wozniak's blog is Social Citizen.
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As I develop my career in community service, I am being strategic about the skills I develop to ensure I am a well-rounded employee, able to work in any type of nonprofit organization. To build my skills I have been focusing on three activities besides traditional professional development and mentoring.
Over my lifetime I will get to everything important. Because the things I set aside become less and less important over time. So don’t worry if you put something at the bottom of your list, you will get to it when you are supposed to.
From what I have heard about most foundations, they are stuck a lot like many nonprofits are. There have to be changes made in both nonprofits that do the service and those that fund it, and Bill Somerville provides his readers with some great ideas for how to make those changes in the foundation field.
I have heard from other Millennials that feel they are not being validated in the workplace by their older peers either. It is hard to gain their trust and as soon as one little mistake is made you feel like you have to start all over […]
Alright, so maybe Mr. Walton started out with the idea of giving the community something they needed, low cost goods, but what happened? I would not consider anyone who creates a business such as this to be a social entrepreneur just because they see a need in the community […]
We’ve all been stuck there, or we will be soon. But next time, don’t let the droning voice of the “professional trainer” turn off your brain. Here are three ways to make it not a total waste of your time.
In one of my last few classes, we discussed challenges in the nonprofit sector and what is unique about the nonprofit sector. As we began our two lists it was evident the challenges list was much longer. It rather saddened me; the sector I love really has these many challenges? However, I am not worried, I […]
Every morning we wake up to mews, loud mews, that persist on-and-on through the morning until Lucy (that’s our cat) gets fed. She repeats her ritual when we get home from work until she gets fed again. She knows when it’s her time and she let’s us know until we feed her. […]
Every day a thousand ideas, well at least it seems that way, run through my head. Plus, I’ve got ideas about how to avoid losing my ideas. I need more.
