Have you ever had a workplace so toxic, that you have to process everything that happens with your coworkers, excoriating the wrong-doers until you feel better?

Think about your old or current workplace.

How your emotions have gone from soaring hope to plunging despair in an instant.

How you kept asking yourself, why why am I going to this job that I hate?

Why can’t I find a new job that’s better?

Or even, “Why am I looking for a new job at all? All jobs are the same!”

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Gen Y has been accused of a lot of things. Ego-centricity. Being not able to finish things. Needing a trophy for everything.

I disagree with labeling people Gen Y. The challenge with classifying people according to arbitrary periods of time is that you will find that many people, perhaps too many, are exceptions to the rules you’ve laid out for a “generation.”

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Do you know what keeps your donors up at night? Do you know how they’ve tried to solve this issue in other ways? Do you know what their dream is? Do you know their ideal solution? Say you’re a museum in a small city. Your donors may come to you because they fear they are [...]

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“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men AND WOMEN are created equal.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott August 26th of each year is designated in the United States as Women’s Equality Day. Instituted by Rep. Bella Abzug and first established in 1971, the date commemorates the passage of the 19th [...]

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People complain all of the time that there’s no way to measure what nonprofits are really accomplishing. Take a recent annual report from a certain nonprofit which I shall not name. I looked at their staff page and then at their annual report. They seem to have an education program, with a big picture, and [...]

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Have you ever had a bad boss? Are you worried that if and when you start working again, you’re going to run into the same bad personalities that you left behind?

How are you going to deal with this fear that may be preventing you from doing your best at searching for jobs right now?

Come see us at the Nonprofit Career Club, at 2500 Exposition Blvd, Austin, TX, Howson Library, at 5:30pm on Tuesday, August 24th.

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What is your safety net?

Who can help you when the chips are down?

Here are two ways to create your own safety net.

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