A new episode of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact is up for your listening pleasure. Lara Galinsky, the Senior Vice President of Echoing Green offers advice to two listeners (questions below) about creating a career with impact. I'm the show's host.
Send in your questions about how to create a career with impact to bebold@echoinggreen.org.
Question 1: I'd hibernated for twenty years as a home maker and due to changed circumstances that I found myself in I had to pursue a career to bring up my children all by myself. I was successful in this endeavor and have also completed an eight year stint in the social sector. I now want to set up my own nonprofit organization that will create resources for women, as well as help them set goals for themselves and become self-reliant. Where can I seek start-up funds for such an organization?
Question 2: Does an organization have to be nonprofit, or not-for-profit to be considered a social entrepreneurship project?
A new episode of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact is up for your listening pleasure. Lara Galinsky, the Senior Vice President of Echoing Green offers advice to two listeners' with questions about creating a career with impact.
Send in your questions about how to create a career with impact to bebold@echoinggreen.org
Question 1:
I've been a development professional for 3 years (1.5 in membership and 1.5 in grantwriting). I would like to move out of development and into programmatic work, but am having no luck. I've tried to highlight the skills I've gained that would be valuable to program work (communication skills, research, project management, etc.), but I'm worried that they're just not perceived as good enough (i.e., related enough) to qualify me.
I've heard that most development professionals have a hard time breaking into program work. Is this true? What can I do?
Question 2:
How do I overcome hesitation and fear of public speaking? I feel like this is holding back my career.
A new episode of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact is up for your listening pleasure. Lara Galinsky, the Senior Vice President of Echoing Green offers advice for 2 listeners' questions (below) about creating careers with impact. I'm the show's host.
You can listen to the show online on Echoing Green, subscribe via iTunes, or listen to it on the little player below.
Question 1. What professional resources (i.e., legal, marketing, accounting, etc.) are available to take an idea, which has received great reviews from various constituencies that I have discussed it with, from the concept stage to fruition while running a small commercial business with its daily responsibilities? Are there consultants available and, if so, how do they get compensated and how is the concept properly protected?
Question 2. When thinking about my future and what programs of higher level education will best prepare me to make the impact I want to make, I get really caught up in how long it's going to take. I get frustrated thinking about the time it takes, when really all I want to do is start NOW. Move now, and start working now to make people's lives more comfortable, and to help more children survive into adolescent and adult years. However, I know that educational preparation is important to fully realizing my goals.
Medical school takes years, and an MD/PhD program can take 8 years or more. I plan to apply for a Fulbright grant for personal research after my senior year to help me get a better idea about what my part should be in the greater scheme of things--but this sets me back a year, and I'm already behind a year because of other exciting opportunities I've taken. What can I do to start making my impact now, while I'm pursuing graduate level education (and will be strapped for cash and therefore unable to contribute financially to programs I support).
A new episode of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact is up for your listening pleasure. Lara Galinsky, the Senior Vice President of Echoing Green offers advice for 4 listeners' questions. (I'm the show's host).
1. What does it mean to be a leader working for social change, as a community organizer, where the emphasis is on collaboration, to build upon the natural skills and talents already present within the community and to share power?
In other words, describe leadership models that support social change organizing.
2. I am 41 years old and work as a nonprofit ED and grant proposal writing consultant. I will start courses towards an MBA in October, and would like to earn a CFRE (Certified Fundraising Executive). I really want to advance into a CEO realm, and lead a large organization, but I am not sure if I am positioning myself correctly.
What advice would you have?
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1. I'm launching a CPA/consulting firm dedicated to advising and helping organizations and individuals who value people and planet. I'm interested in locating highly qualified business partners, but so many people want the guarantee and stability of a firm paycheck.
How do I locate and entice dreamers, risk takers and do-gooders to collaborate in an entrepreneurial venture and share some of the risk?
2. I am passionately interested in the future, and in cutting edge ideas and solutions. I would like to empower women, youth and seniors (underserved people) by providing easy to understand information and resources on alternative energy, sustainable living, green jobs and old and new conservation practices.
Do you have any suggestions on where I can amass extensive information on these subjects on my own? Are there government agencies, nonprofits, individuals, trade organizations, or businesses providing this service now?
Some of the conferences are quite expensive. and as a single parent, often a six-day-a week full time employee, I am unable to attend a college courses, or a university at this time
1. I recently quit from an organization where I worked for the last 11 years. I haven’t decided what to do next and am considering doing consultancy work. How do I market myself given that I’ve never done this kind of work before?
2. I am currently completing a Ph.D in Anthropology with a focus in U.S. Historical Archeology. I am now interested in pursuing a career with either a nonprofit or NGO abroad, working primarily in the area of education and educational development policy. My question is twofold:
a. How do I now market myself for this field when most of my education and research has been in another field, and primarily in the US.
b. While looking for organizations to apply to, I have not had much luck in finding any geared towards education, and education development abroad. Are there any particularly useful websites, or organizations that I could direct my search to?
Send in your questions to be answered on the Be Bold Podcast to bebold@echoinggreen.org. Also, check out the Be Bold Resources page, and the New York Times'Social Impact Career Center, created in partnership with Echoing Green.
1. How does someone like me with problem solving skills, passion, intelligence, experience and judgement, but with a resume not steeped in social issues work, find their niche in making an impact?
I want to help people become the heroes of their own stories—I think storytelling and mythmaking is the missing link in getting people to connect deeply to the causes we all know need attention – and I know how to do that-but how do I make a career out of it?
2. a. I feel guilty for wanting to work in social impact-my main motive is that I find social impact work fascinating and fun, and helping others—isn’t really a huge priority in comparison. Is it wrong that I’m not totally altruistic?
b. How can I combine being creative (or creative industries in general) with social impact?
I'm excited to announce that I'm hosting a new podcast produced by Echoing Green, the Be Bold Podcast. Echoing Green invests in, and supports emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new organizations.
The show features Echoing Green Vice President for Strategy and Communications, Lara Galinsky, answering career questions from listeners. Lara is also the author of Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact.
