Why do YOU work in the nonprofit sector?
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Yeah, My reason is none of the above!
I went to a vipassana meditation retreat and realized I wanted to help people. So I quit NYC and the Economist and went off to figure out how to do that.
I have never blogged about it, though maybe I should, now that you mention it!
Thanks for tweeting about our fundraising video game, would you be interested in being a beta tester later in the summer?
Mazarine
I’m putting your reason in the “Other – Life changing experience related” category.
Btw, I would love to test your game. Consider me in!!!
Other? I was raised around fundraising, saw so many organizations just doing it ineffectively. I hit the point shortly after college where I felt like I should help make our field more efficient.
I suppose if you called Nonprofit Sustainability a cause, then I would care for my cause…
the main reason i work in the nonprofit sector: the casual dress code. i don’t know how to work an iron.
Can’t argue that!
Babes.
Well it is the “pink ghetto”…
“Where? How did I get here?” – Talking Heads.
For 22 years I’ve worked for the same nonprof org in San Francisco and now Scottsdale, AZ. I liken it to being an entrepreneur with a tolerant venture capitalist for two decades. I create, lead, innovate, and deliver profound community change. And they pay me to have the time of my life. Always perfect? Absolutely not, however it’s not the obstacles and barriers it’s how we tackle them that matters most.
It’s the journey that counts, eh!
Midlife Crisis.
What about when you do it with your whole heart, and after a while you fall in love..? Does that count twice ???????
http://www.jeffsjustice.com
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Basically, I can’t see a problem and keep my mouth shut. Then I saw a problem and couldn’t just talk about it, I felt I needed to be part of the solution. 10 budgetless months later, here I am, still going. I know, non-profit isn’t supposed to mean no-funds-at-all, yet here I am. Who would have thought the bugets in amateur theatre would be bigger?
Think I may fit into ‘other’ too, it’s not an option though
Anyway, although I accidentally fell into a job in the not for profit sector and although I’m passionate for the cause I promote, I would say that I remain in the sector because I have a passion for using social media for social good. To make a difference.
I sort of… fell into it after my city was hit by a major earthquake that killed 181 people outright and lead to the deaths of god knows how many more. The part of town I live in was damaged but we weren’t quite as bad off as some others so when we eventually got power back I started following discussions on Twitter to find out where I could help out. I applied for a volunteer position doing data entry for the Red Cross, but when I got there they decided to move some of us to processing aid grants, and because of the auditing process that needed to be paid work. Six months later I just signed an extended contract that’ll last until the end of November and I now work in the inbound call centre trying to give people whatever obscure information might make things easier for them, or just talking if that’s what they seem to need, and in the payments department processing the actual, er, payments.