NONPROFIT CAREER RESOURCES
THE IDEALIST GUIDE TO NONPROFIT CAREERS: SELF-ASSESSMENT
The Idealist Guide Self-Assessment section: http://www.idealist.org/en/career/guide/unit2/selfknowledge.html Career Tracks and Four Lenses: http://www.idealist.org/en/career/guide/unit2/findacareer.html Financial Assessment guide: http://www.idealist.org/en/career/financialadvice.html TWO VERSIONS! Free, comprehensive career guides with chapters on assessment, networking, negotiation, www.idealist.org/careerguide
NETWORKING
Realtime networking events Idealist Groups: http://www.idealist.org/if/as/Org/ig Green Drinks: http://www.greendrinks.org/ Young Professionals of America (YPOA): http://www.youngprofessionalsofamerica.com/ World Affairs Council-Young Professionals Network: http://www.world-affairs.org/young_professionals.html Young Women Social Entrepreneurs (YWSE): http://www.ywse.org Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN): http://ynpn.org/ Online networking LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/ FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/ MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/
INFORMATION ABOUT THE SECTOR
Research Idealist.org’s 77,000+ organizations in 190 countries: http://www.idealist.org/if/as/Org/npo Search the Nonprofit FAQ—a resource for all things nonprofit: http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/npofaq Professional associations via NYU Wagner School of Public Service: http://wagner.nyu.edu/careers/resources/ Guidestar.org: http://www.guidestar.org/ To read Chronicle of Philanthropy: http://www.philanthropy.com/ Stanford Social Innovation Review: http://www.ssireview.org/ Nonprofit Times Weekly: http://www.nptimes.com/ Research to peruse Ready to Lead: a new survey on next generation nonprofit leaders: http://www.meyerfoundation.org/newsroom/meyer_publications/ready_to_lead Stepping up or Stepping Out: a YNPN survey on the readiness of next generation nonprofit leaders: http://ynpn.org/national/YNPN_SteppingUp.pdf Blogs to check (there are plenty of others, but these are a good start) Idealist blog (on our homepage, left side): http://www.idealist.org/ Social ROI: http://www.socialroi.com Nonprofit Blog Exchange: http://nonprofitblogexchange.blogspot.com/ Have Fun*Do Good: http://havefundogood.blogspot.com/ WorldChanging: http://www.worldchanging.com/
FIND JOBS, INTERNSHIPS, VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Idealist.org—Search over 13,000 jobs, 13,000 volunteer opportunities, and 1,500 internships: www.idealist.org Personalized email alerts: http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/Mail/EmailAlerts/default CommonGood Careers: http://www.cgcareers.org/ CraigsList: http://www.craigslist.org VolunteerMatch: http://www.volunteermatch.org United Way: http://www.unitedway.org/jobs/index_all.cfm
RESOURCES FOR “EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS”
Civic Ventures http://www.civicventures.org and http://www.encore.org Bridgestar http://www.bridgestar.org look for the “Bridging to the Nonprofit Sector” Resource Link Coming of Age http://www.comingofage.org