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Keep The Ride Alive- A Tradition to Celebrate the Power of the Individual

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
April 18, 2010 at 12:24 pm
‘We are called a nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which ... (more)

Perhaps We’ve Got it Backward: Businesses Are Turning to Nonprofit Practices

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
April 9, 2010 at 11:56 am
Photo credit to agentgenius.com More and more for-profit companies are beginning to function like nonprofits– and perhaps for good reason. It seems that nonprofits are becoming ... (more)

Advance Review: Earth, Inc – on Sustainable Profits

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
April 2, 2010 at 11:01 am
What will dinosaurs and companies that are not integrating “green” practices have in common in the next century or so? Extinction. How’s that for a call to action ... (more)

The Nonprofit Manifesto for Generation Y Leaders

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
March 23, 2010 at 10:44 am
Attributes of Generation Y will shape the nonprofit sector as older members of the generation turn 30 and take up more powerful positions in organizations. Just for fun, I’ve ... (more)

4 Trends that Will Have Growing Impact in the Next 5 Years

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
March 16, 2010 at 2:48 pm
image from psfk.com   Trends toward using social media, obtaining ”must-have” gadgets (iphone, ipod), and celebrating green practices were the bigger trends of ... (more)

Discover Your Public Service Identity

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
February 22, 2010 at 2:20 am
Brewer, Selden, and Facer, in a shockingly under-discussed academic article published in 2000, contributed to theories of public-service motivation by identifying four individual ... (more)

Encyclopedic Museums Must Focus on the Present

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
February 18, 2010 at 9:05 pm
An exhibit on the stairs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (designed by Scott Reinhard) says it all. As encyclopedic museums transform into active community centers, ... (more)

How to Lead with Empathy: Read Fiction

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
February 16, 2010 at 3:46 pm
It’s not a surprise that great change-makers and buiness leaders (like Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Nelson Mandela), when asked about their favorite book, say something ... (more)

When Art Museum Directors Talk Trash, Everybody Wins.

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
February 6, 2010 at 2:19 am
Directors at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Max Anderson) and the New Orleans Museum of Art (John Bullard), after a series of playful trash-talking, have made public bets on who ... (more)

Jeffrey Deitch and the Management-Trained Museum Director

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
January 27, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Jeffrey Deitch will become the Director of MOCA on June 1, 2010. Photo from cityfiles.com Earlier this month, LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) announced their nontraditional ... (more)

Lessons from Haiti: Mobile Giving in 2010

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
January 18, 2010 at 7:26 pm
This post is a prompt by the Nonprofit Millennial Bloggers Alliance to further increase awareness of the Haiti earthquake and its victims, and highlight take-aways for nonprofit ... (more)

The Nonprofit Leadership Deficit Won’t be as Bad as We Think

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
January 17, 2010 at 4:03 pm
The Bridgespan Group released a study in 2006 revealing that we’ll need a staggering 640,000 new nonprofit senior managers by 2016 (that’s 2.4 times the number currently ... (more)

Survival of the Kindest

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
January 6, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Photo by lmnop88a According to a recent article, there’s scientific reason to believe that human beings may have evolved from the inherently selfish beings of the past (think ... (more)

Decline of the MBA, Increase in Social Good?

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
January 5, 2010 at 7:23 pm
In November, The Economist wrote an article predicting the decline of the MBA in 2010. It calls the MBA a mythical cupid attracting the nation’s best and brightest to a less ... (more)

Nonprofit Careerists are Brazen (or, Thanks for Naming Me Brazen Careerist’s Blogger of the Year 2009)

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
December 30, 2009 at 9:29 pm
I was honored to be named Brazen Careerist’s Blogger of The Year last week after this post got me nominated with 49 incredible Gen Y bloggers, and after receiving several ... (more)

Nonprofiteers: Personal Branding Will Make You Better At Your Job

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
December 17, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Photo from brandyourselfmarketing.com There are many benefits to personal branding and utilizing social media–of sharing your insights and telling your story for whatever ... (more)

5 Unexpected Ways in Which Grad School Loans Are Changing My Lifestyle

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December 13, 2009 at 8:22 pm

In August, I summoned my life savings, took out a Stafford loan on top of them, and headed back to school to pursue a master’s degree in Public Administration at the University

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A Good Nonprofit Leader is Worth a Million Bucks

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
December 7, 2009 at 5:30 pm
(or 5 reasons why you should care that Jeffery Raikes doesn’t make 7 figures) The debate over nonprofit CEO compensation seems a never-ending issue that has professionals ... (more)

When Learning is Cool: What it Means to Be Sparked

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
November 22, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Sparks fly at the Boston Museum of Science. Photo from bostonvisitorsguide.com From a little spark bursts a mighty flame” -Dante Allghieri The spark is more than just a concept ... (more)

Weighing Outputs: Measuring Social Impact in Museums and Nonprofits

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
November 18, 2009 at 3:05 am
Photo from hollis333.wordpress.com Since writing my last post, I’ve done a bit more thinking about our most recent prompt within the Nonprofit Millennial Bloggers Alliance: ... (more)

Does Writing a Check to a Nonprofit Equal Social Change?

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
November 12, 2009 at 9:20 pm
photo from ehow.com I was listening to Rosetta Thurman’s blogtalk radio program on full-blast while preparing to head to campus on Wednesday morning, when a question arose ... (more)

Social Change is Sector Agnostic- and Gen Yers Know It

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
October 31, 2009 at 2:35 pm
photo from http://glenkirk.blogspot.com Consider this situation: an elderly family member asks for your help in choosing between two nursing homes. Both appear to be equal in ... (more)

Sizing up the Graduate Degrees of 17 Top Museum Directors

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
October 23, 2009 at 2:27 am
I’ve often heard that you create your own career success and there isn’t one “correct” path to follow. Tonight I looked up the academic backgrounds of the ... (more)

She-roes Speaking Up to Redefine Feminism

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
October 16, 2009 at 5:13 am
In October of 2007, only two months after I relocated to Seattle, Emma Bee Bernstein and Nona Willis Aronowitz asked me a simple question that has been on my mind for the last ... (more)

Meet the Millennial Nonprofit Bloggers Alliance

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
October 13, 2009 at 11:24 pm
I’d like to introduce you to a team of hip, young rockstars… and by rockstars, I of course mean a team of nonprofit professionals with an aim to share ideas in order ... (more)
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