If you are good company outside of work and can connect on something besides the business, it will greatly benefit your career. So here’s how I managed to connect with the older people in my office.

It’s good to know that leadership opportunities ARE indeed out there for young nonprofit leaders like me and you and everyone we know. I just have to stay committed to my own work/life balance and do the things I’m already doing well - in addition to my full-time day job […]

Walking into a room full of people who have decades on you in age and experience can leave you feeling tongue tied and anxious. Here’s how I have been able to get a grip and become more comfortable in this scenario.

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.

I spent today with social enterprise on the brain. In a class that’s part of my non-profit management program at Duke University, David Rendall, a Mt. Olive College business professor and author of some very cool books, proposed social enterprise as the future of non-profit funding. As of 2006, there were nearly 1 million 501(c)(3) […]

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 […]

Meet Mazi Mutafa, Executive Director of Words, Beats, and Life (WBL), a hip hop nonprofit dedicated to the development and support of a community of young artists by providing consistent artistic instruction through hip-hop, with a focus in Ward 7, a community of color in Washington DC. Say what? A hip hop nonprofit […]

I have very definite feelings about the need to give back to the community. And I am involved; I just don’t like to talk about it unless I am asking you for help. But I also disagree with forced charity. My law firm requires it’s employees to contribute to charity. My law school required it’s […]

I can be personable and friendly to people who are nice to me. Yet sometimes, I feel like such a dork. I realize that part of my awkwardness stems from the fact that I meet all of the men I date online.

Keven Cotton is one of those guys that you know you’re going to get along with as soon as you meet him. We met 3 years ago when he was applying for a position at my organization with his proud Howard grad self. Unfortunately we didn’t get to work together, but it’s been great watching […]