Accepting Applications: 2014-2015 BCLI
Nexus' Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) is a 7-month leadership program that supports, trains and places people of color and other underrepresented community members on city and county publicly appointed boards and commissions that influence and impact equity in the Twin Cities Metro Area in economic development, health, housing, transit, and workforce development. The BCLI is a facilitated learning community of fellows who meet face-to-face (one full Saturday and one Thursday evening each month) from October through April. Fellows also complete online assignments together including readings, discussions, and webinars, for a total of approximately 80 hours. Fellows are given a small stipend for their commitment to and participation in the program. [Read more.]
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Wild Gift Fellowship
At Wild Gift, we are committed to supporting young leaders who are creating solutions to today's global challenges. We recognize that real change takes out-of-the-box thinkers capable of blazing new paths. The purpose of our Fellowship is to provide critical support for those choosing the challenging work of social change. Using wilderness as a springboard, our unique 16-month program provides inspiration, mentoring, seed funding, and a community of support that continues long after the Fellowship year to ignite and accelerate these visions into reality. While the Wild Gift program is designed to fuel solutions by young social enterpreneurs who are driven by their vision of a better world, our Fellowship is an investment in the individual's originality, insight, commitment and potential to become a leader of tomorrow. [Read more.]
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Inaugural RISE Program in Twin Cities
New Sector AllianceNew Sector Alliance is expanding to the Twin Cities! We are excited to join the social impact community in the Twin Cities with the launch of our Residency in Social Enterprise (RISE) program in September 2014. Our Twin Cities program will build on the impact we've made on communities in Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Chicago. The RISE Fellowship is an 11-month professional development program for early career professionals committed to careers in social impact. Fellows serve full-time to strengthen nonprofit organizations, while engaging in intensive training activities to strengthen their skills for immediate and future impact. Join an inaugural cohort of 15 early career professionals in the Twin Cities, and build your career in the social sector! [Read more.]
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Volunteer Spotlight: Lauren Satterlee
Cross-posted from the MINN website
MINN is pleased to feature Lauren Satterlee as our next volunteer in the spotlight. Lauren's leadership and ingenuity have resulted in an overhaul of the IDEA Summit registration system, an upgrade in online systems in general, as well as a sustainability plan to train new MINN volunteers. Lauren is consistently pushing her work a step beyond what is asked, or even dreamt. She is a true visionary who can see not only where a project is going, but which barriers may impede success and then identify a system to tackle each challenge. Lauren joined MINN as a volunteer in 2011 before going to graduate school to study international development in Boston. [Read more.]
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