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Teach For America Makes the Top Ten
July 01, 2008
Teach For America has proven once again that it can pinpoint fresh opportunities for talent. It earned 6th place on CollegeGrad.com’s list of Top Entry Level Employers. The organization works to close the education gap in America by recruiting recent graduates from across America to invest two years in teaching in urban and rural public schools.
A little while back, Alice Lunsford, Teach For America’s Director of External Talent Recruitment, told us about some opportunities for entry-level jobseekers at her organization. She said that “[Teach For America] is filled with people who are passionate about their work and working in a smart manner toward measurable goals. It’s the culture that I think makes it a great place to work, especially coming out of college.” (Read the whole article here.)
That sounds to us like CollegeGrad.com had it right when they chose Teach For America for the top of their list!
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In the News, Social Entrepreneurism
June 29, 2008
Service Nation , an effort headed by Be The Change Inc. , is building strong foundations.
Habitat for Humanity just joined the movement, whose goal is to engage 1 million Americans in a year of full time national service by 2020 and inspire a culture of civic service nation-wide. Habitat’s added support makes the list of organizations backing Service Nation 100 strong. Support for the movement is impressive and expansive. The organizing committee includes entrepreneurial organizations like College Summit, Teach For America, Year Up and many more.
Service Nation aims to engage the country in a dialog about national service. Keep an eye on them as they set forth bold goals for national service in America at their Service Nation Summit Sept 11-12 this year.
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June 26, 2008 Jumpstart doesn’t kid around when it comes to building literacy and helping children succeed, but it knows how to throw a good party too! More than 150 young professionals attended its Read for the Record launch party, which raised nearly $46,000 for Jumpstart and its programming.
The national Read for the Record effort is designed to build awareness for America’s crisis in early childhood education and Jumpstart’s role in solving the crisis by breaking the world record for the greatest number of children reading the same book on the same day.
While the campaign’s spokesperson LL Cool J wasn’t there (see him voice his support in this YouTube video) the party did boast a few celebs, including Boston Bruins player Bob Sweeney.
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June 25, 2008 Echoing Green just announced its Fellows for 2008. The Fellows’ program spans the globe and its impact will be felt in regions as diverse as China, India, Israel, Mexico, and across the U.S. The impressive group of 27 adults, nine of whom are under 26, is both the organization’s youngest and one of its largest.
This year’s Fellows will tackle issues as wide ranging as community improvement, economic development, education, the environment, health, human rights, and legal advocacy.
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June 23, 2008 DonorsChoose.org is enriching education by connecting donors with teachers who need funding for their school projects. This has some of its supporters from San Francisco blooming into lovely young philanthropists.
Neil Armstrong Elementary’s 4th and 5th grade students grew over 5,000 marigolds from seeds that they planted at school. By growing and selling the marigolds in the past year, the Neil Armstrong Elementary students funded over 20 teacher proposals on DonorsChoose.org, resulting in over 2,500 hours of instruction to over 600 students.
This coming year, they are hoping that their efforts will have an even greater impact. So far, they’ve met over half of their $10,000 goal. Visit their challenge page to see their progress, an adorable photo of the class, and how you can help them out!
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June 06, 2008
Venture philanthropy is getting quite the buzz, from MBA campuses to nonprofit conferences. This model of taking a business-minded investment approach to funding new organizations offers a viable alternative to traditional grantmaking, and allows emerging nonprofits to obtain the capital they need to get off the ground and scale their programs.
An innovator in venture philanthropy, New Profit Inc. has helped some of the nation’s most entrepreneurial and effective nonprofits get off the ground and grow to achieve huge social impact. New Profit provides multi-year financial and strategic support to a portfolio of social entrepreneurs working in education, youth development, workforce development, and other areas.
New Profit is also the main driver of America Forward, a coalition of more than 60 social entrepreneurs and high-impact organizations that have come together to present presidential candidates and policymakers with a new and transformative way to solve the difficult social problems facing our nation.
Are you looking for way to get in on the ground floor of this amazing organization? New Profit Inc. is currently seeking a Portfolio Analyst to join its team. The Portfolio Analyst is an essential role that encompasses a broad set of responsibilities requiring analytical skills, project management capabilities, and general research abilities. This person will work closely with the New Profit Portfolio Management Team, representatives from New Profit portfolio organizations and other relevant external stakeholders. Read the full job description.
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May 02, 2008 Heralding more exciting times at Commongood Careers, we are proud to announce the launch of our San Francisco office!
For the past several years, we have been honored to help facilitate hires at several West Coast-based organizations, such as Kiva, TechSoup, Room to Read, Craigslist Foundation, Breakthrough Collaborative and Springboard Forward. As many of our national partners are focused on scaling their programs and operating sites across the country, we’ve also been able to help support the regional growth of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, College Summit, City Year and others. Helping these amazing organizations has inspired our own expansion into the Bay Area.
Heading up the office as Regional Director is Missy Longshore. Missy brings nine years of experience in nonprofit organizations and most recently served as the Business Development Manager at New Door Ventures. She served as a nonprofit management consultant at TDC after completing her MBA with a concentration in Public and Nonprofit Management at Boston University. Her prior nonprofit work in the Bay Area included work in advocacy, public television, and youth development. Missy can be reached at or 415-531-3998.
Joining Missy as a transplant from Boston is one of our senior Service Managers, Kevin Flynn. Prior to his work at Commongood, Kevin was with National TenPoint Leadership Foundation, working with high risk and gang involved youth to reduce violence in the most underserved neighborhoods in cities through the country. Kevin holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Boston College and is a board member of the Boston chapter of Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN).
Hitting the ground running, Missy and Kevin are already hard at work supporting our existing West Coast clients, connecting with new organizations, developing connections with local talent pipelines, and generally enhancing our nationwide capacity for social impact. Keep your ears open for exciting workshops, programs, and networking opportunities made available through our new office.
Thanks to all of the talented individuals and dynamic organizations that have made this growth possible. We are so excited to help to create even more social impact from our new office on the West Coast!
Comments (0) April 16, 2008
No, this is not guacamole gone bad. Blue Avocado is a new online magazine created by and for people who work and volunteer in community nonprofits. According to the Director and Editor-in-Chief, Jan Masaoka, Blue Avocado’s “aim is to engage and support the people of community nonprofits, the ones who do the heavy lifting in building social justice and strong communities, and who create and drive the ideas that change our world for the better.” Standing features include of the publication include:
Blue Avocado offers a few ways for its readers to get involved, such as writing articles, spotting stories, posting comments on the site, and joining as a member. Check out the inaugural issue at Blue Avocado.
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April 14, 2008 The Conference Board, an independent business research and membership group, is reaching out to learn more about the challenges and successes of boomers and experienced workers, age 50 and over, who have moved, or want to move, from for-profit or government jobs into the nonprofit sector, as well as the experiences of nonprofits that recruit and/or hire boomers and experienced workers from other sectors.
The Conference Board Research Working Group on Managing an Aging Workforce at Nonprofits, part of the Mature Workforce Initiative, is surveying boomers and experienced workers to better understand the key challenges (cultural, generational, intergenerational) they face, and which pathways they find most effective in moving to the nonprofit sector. They are also surveying nonprofit organizations to better understand how they reach out to this talent pool and which recruitment and “crossover” strategies work best.
If you are an experienced worker who has moved or wants to move into the nonprofit sector from a for-profit or government job, or if your organization has recruited and/or hired experienced workers from these other sectors, we invite you to participate.
Please click on the appropriate link below to complete the survey:
Employer—for nonprofit organizations
For further information, please contact
Comments (0) April 03, 2008 Finding real-time data for nonprofit salary benchmarks can be challenging. That’s why we were happy to discover the salary tools offered by Indeed and SimplyHired, two job search engines that aggregate millions of job listings from across the web. For example, for a nonprofit Program Manager position in New York, NY, here’s what SimplyHired came up with an average salary of $70,000.
Both sites also offer data on similar job titles. For the search above, data for job titles such as Individual Development Manager, Manager Community Development, Volunteer Manager, and Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships were also listed and graphed at Indeed.
Each tool uses its own database of job postings to populate this information. Indeed Salary Search is based on an index of salary information extracted from over 50 million job postings from thousands of unique sources over the last 12 months. As new jobs are added each day, the Indeed Salary Search index is automatically updated with fresh salary data. Similarly, SimplyHired uses salary data from millions of job listings indexed by Simply Hired’s job search engine.
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March 28, 2008 Civic Ventures, a non-profit organization leading the call to engage the baby boomer generation as a vital workforce for change, is conducting a research project to better understand your issues when it comes to work in the second half of life. You’ve been invited to share your opinions via an online survey that will take approximately 15 minutes.
Please click the link to take the survey:
Commongood Careers supports Civic Ventures’ efforts and sees this kind of research as crucial to the goals we share. Please note that this study is being done for research purposes only. Your responses will remain confidential, and you won’t be added to any mailing lists or be solicited for any reason as a result of the survey. The survey results will be made public on the Civic Ventures website in June 2008.
Your experience is valuable to the field and your help is most appreciated.
Comments (0) March 24, 2008 What drives today’s nonprofit talent? What can nonprofit employers do to better meet the needs of a changing talent pool? To answer these questions, we developed and distributed a 25-question survey to the 15,000 members of our candidate pool. The survey asked jobseekers to share their attitudes, motivations and challenges in pursuing careers in the social sector. The resulting report is intended to provide employers with a deeper understanding of what employees prefer and expect from them. This information can help organizations be more effective at recruiting, hiring, developing and retaining talented individuals.
Comments (0) March 24, 2008 In his Friday column, David Brooks recognized Gerald Chertavian, Founder of Year Up, and J.B. Schramm, founder of College Summit, for their unique social entrepreneurship. We are honored to be able to support the work of both of these organizations and congratulate them on this much-deserved recognition.
Comments (1) February 25, 2008
Interested in learning more about social enterprise? Does your organization use market-based strategies to advance social change? Then join Commongood Careers at the 9th Social Enterprise Summit, hosted by the Social Enterprise Alliance.
9th Social Enterprise Summit
Through this conference, get connected to this exciting movement for social innovation through:
Social enterprises can do more together than alone, and the Summit will be an opportunity to discuss ideas for advancing the field and creating a more conducive climate for social enterprise. Be there, and tell your friends and colleagues.
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January 28, 2008 Our very own James Weinberg was quoted in Maggie Jackson’s Balancing Acts column in last Sunday’s Boston Globe. Here’s a snippet:
Will portfolio work turn epidemic? Probably not, although its incidence is growing, according to recruiters, career coaches, and others who follow trends in work culture. James Weinberg, a recruiter for nonprofits, sees an uptick in those willing to work this way - and those willing to hire them.
More job candidates are asking Weinberg for part-time work, saying, “ ‘I’m trying to knit together a career’, or ‘I’d like to have multiple roles that will allow me flexibility,’ “ observes Weinberg, chief executive of Commongood Careers in Boston. Sometimes, executives work on a shared basis for several groups, splitting their time between jobs, he says.
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Jumpstarting a Good Time
Echoing Green’s Newest Fellows
Since 1987, Echoing Green has invested $27 million in more than 450 leaders to make a difference in lives all over the world. This year’s promising Fellows will be an excellent addition to Echoing Green’s impact. Congratulations and best of luck to the 2008 Fellows!
Philanthropy in Full Bloom
Getting In on the Ground Floor of Venture Philanthropy
Look Out, San Francisco!
Introducing Blue Avocado!
Boomers, Experienced Workers and the Move into Nonprofits: Tell us your stories!
Job Seekers—for individuals seeking nonprofit jobs
Job Holders—for individuals who have transitioned into nonprofit jobs
Salary Tools for Nonprofit Jobseekers
Calling All Baby Boomers!
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The Voice of Nonprofit Talent in 2008
A Nod to Social Entrepreneurs in the New York Times
Come to the 9th Social Enterprise Summit
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