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April 2009
From the PYNL President: PYNL awarded grants from the Philadelphia Foundation and United Way
PYNL was recently awarded an Organizational Effectiveness grant from the Philadelphia Foundation and a Direct Investment grant from the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
This financial support comes during a critical period of capacity-building for PYNL. With it, we'll now be able to:
- manage our membership program more effectively
- grow our arsenal of technology resources
- roll-out new, relevant programming for our members and make our current programs stronger, and
- offer scholarship support for our Board Prep program
We're especially excited about using our support from the Philadelphia Foundation to engage the board, PYNL members, and the community-at-large in a strategic planning process. During the summer and early fall, PYNL will work with a renowned local consultant to complete a strategic plan that will guide our direction and activity over the next several years.
We need your help to make this plan reflect what is really needed among the region's next generation of nonprofit volunteers and professionals!
Stay tuned to our website and newsletters - we'll be giving you more information about how you can get involved in this energizing work!
Naomi Christine Leapheart, PYNL president
PYNLers on the Move
Governance Committee Chair Christopher Waters was recently named a 2009 Pennsylvania Political Leaders Fellow by the Center for Progressive Leadership. This Fellowship is a nine-month, part-time leadership development program for a select group of organizational leaders, future candidates, community organizers, and progressive activists across the state. Through training, coaching, project-based work and mentoring, the program gives up-and-coming leaders the skills and networks they need to advance progressive political change in their communities.
PYNL board member Brett Shiel was recently named a 2009 Environmental Leadership Program Fellow by the Eastern Regional Network. This fellowship is an innovative program designed to build the leadership capacity of the environmental and social change fields' most promising emerging practitioners in the greater Eastern area. The year-long Regional Fellowship offers unique networking opportunities, intensive leadership and skills training, support, and time for personal and professional reflection. The Fellowship provides an opportunity for talented individuals to have a unique and substantial impact on environmental and social progress in the Philadelphia metropolitan region through collaboration with other emerging leaders.
Share what you're doing with the PYNL membership! To get featured in the next PYNL newsletter, email information about your exciting work to board member Naomi Christine Leapheart at Naomi@matchstickgroup.org.
Register now! PYNL presents 2nd Annual Board Speed Dating
Join us for our annual Board Speed Dating event - a casual space to meet with other energetic, dynamic young leaders and connect with nonprofit organizations that are recruiting board members and volunteers.
Date: Thursday, April 16, 6pm - 8:30pm
Applebee's Philadelphia | 215 S 15th Street (15th & Locust)
Cost: $15 (includes appetizers and soft drinks)
We have a variety of great organizations lined up to participate, including:
- Computers for Youth
- Bike & Build, Inc.
- Life Unchained
- CHOICE
- Mountain Meadow
- United Communities Southeast Philadelphia
- Spiral Q
…and many more!
Learn about the many ways to get involved in nonprofit leadership at Board Speed Dating. Event attendance is limited -- sign up by April 14 by emailing the registration form to board member Leadership Development Committee Chair Sarah Friedman at sfriedman@womensway.org. Please indicate whether you will be paying by check (to PYNL) or cash at the door.
Fundraiser Morrie Warshawski to be featured at upcoming Nonprofit Technical Assistance Fair
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 9:30am-1pm
Parkway Central Library | 1901 Vine Street | Philadelphia
Can you benefit from some guidance about operating nonprofits more effectively? Whether your organization has fundraising, accounting, financial planning, or legal support needs, the Regional Foundation Center's free Nonprofit Technical Assistance Fair is here to help!
The Fair begins with a dynamic and pragmatic presentation by Morrie Warshawski on raising more money for your nonprofit cause. The challenge of raising money in this economic climate is substantial, even as the need for more funding escalates. Morrie is an experienced educator, facilitator, fundraiser and author of The Fundraising Houseparty: How to Get Charitable Donations from Individuals in a Houseparty Setting.
Visit the TA Fair, hear Morrie, and explore the options available to your nonprofit organization in the TA marketplace in the library's lobby.
To RSVP, visit the RFC on Idealist.org or call (215) 686-5423.
PYNL's Spring Tour of the Regional Foundation Center
Date: Saturday, May 2, 9am-11:30am
Parkway Central Library | 1901 Vine Street | Philadelphia
Wondered lately how foundations are dealing with the current economic crisis? How does one go about starting a non-profit? Where can nonprofit leaders find information about funders and philanthropists in Pennsylvania?
Join PYNL on Saturday, May 2, 2009 to tour the Regional Foundation Center with Collection Supervisor Gloria Hibbett to find the resources to answer these questions.
The RFC at the Free Library of Philadelphia Central Branch offers the region's largest public information collection of print and electronics available on all aspects of nonprofit management, grantseeking, fund development, and proposal writing.
For more about the RFC, visit their website.
PYNL Leadership Lunch with Louis Massiah of Scribe Video Center
Date: Friday May 22, 12pm-1:30pm
Have you thought about how you would like to start your own non-profit but unaware of the task ahead? What obstacles should you expect? What works and what does not?
PYNL is pleased to present yet another leadership lunch. Louis Massiah of Scribe Video Center will talk about his experience of founding and running Scribe, a fixture in Philadelphia's filmmaking scene for over 25 years.
For more information about Louis and Scribe, please visit scribe.org
Want to learn about nonprofit board service? Apply today to Board Prep!
Board Prep is a comprehensive training program for young individuals who are interested in serving on nonprofit boards. A major goal of Board Prep is to help narrow the leadership gap that exists within the nonprofit sector. Whether you are looking to join a board for the first time or increase your effectiveness on your current board, Board Prep will help you gain insight and skills to serve the nonprofit world as a responsible board member.
The Board Prep application is now available online.
Phil Jodz, Assistant Vice President, Wachovia and Co-Chair, Friends of Please Touch Museum
Application deadline is May 22, 2009.
For more information and to download the application, click here. Questions? Email the Leadership Development Committee
Organizations to Watch - Life Unchained
Life Unchained is a non-profit organization that helps create unique, first-time service projects by providing seed money to individuals looking to develop life-changing endeavors in their parts of the world.
Local Life Unchained members meet regularly to review project ideas, fund project ideas, and help share and connect resources to launch successful, new project ideas.
PYNL is excited to partner with Life Unchained at next week's Doing Good Networking Night, an event where nonprofits will intermingle and network with other organizations, socially-responsible businesses will share information about their reduced cost services to nonprofits, and individuals who want to get involved in volunteer work will connect with other like-minded folks. The evening will benefit 3 local projects funded by Life Unchained: the Philadelphia Orchard Project, Roxborough's Relay for Life, and a new after-school arts program at Cook-Wissahickon Elementary School.
Date: Wednesday April 15, 6pm-9pm
Triumph Brewing Company, Philadelphia, PA
For more information about Life Unchained, RSVP for Doing Good Networking Night or meet Life Unchained board members at Board Speed Dating.
A new book on nonprofit generational leadership
Working Across Generations offers a comprehensive look at the leadership and generational shifts in the nonprofit sector. The book presents ideas and gives practical advice on how to approach generational changes in leadership so that the contributions of long-time leaders are valued, new and younger leaders' talent is recognized, and groups are better prepared to work across generational divides. Read the Table of Contents and Part 1 of the book, and go to the Working Across Generations Website to purchase.
ProCalendar: The Multi-tasking Tool for Nonprofit Professionals
Did you hear about that last event at the last minute? Want to spread the word out about your organization's events, workshops, and resources to the rest of the nonprofit community? The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance has created a new web-based shared calendar that offers a categorized, at-a-glance view of events around the region. Learn more PhilaCulture.org.
