odd jobs

Odd Jobs: Convention Planner

Posted Tue, 10/27/2009 - 09:18 by Amy Potthast

Posted by Tera Wozniak Qualls, Program Coordinator in the Nonprofit Leadership Institute at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy in Grand Rapids, MI. Read more from Tera Qualls and Sam Davidson on Sam Davidson's blog. Follow Tera on Twitter.

In the final blog of the series “Odd Jobs” I will be exploring the job of a nonprofit Convention Planner.

In the nonprofit sector there are a lot of event planners, at one time I actually thought about this position, because of the prevalence of need in the sector. All nonprofit organizations have fundraising events that need planning. After a recent flight to Baltimore, where I sat next to a nonprofit Convention Planner I realized that beyond event planning this nonprofit job takes a lot of marketing, fundraising, and organization skills.

Career Return on Investment – Working for a Community Foundation

Posted Wed, 10/21/2009 - 13:40 by Amy Potthast

Contributed by Ian Esquibel, Program Associate in the Office of Philanthropic Outreach at the Albuquerque Foundation in New Mexico.

Community Foundations strive on grantmaking, fundraising and convening. On top of this three-legged infrastructure, donors invest in their community and staff members also invest in their community, while receiving the benefit of investing in their careers. For the past two years, I’ve had the good fortune of working for the Albuquerque Community Foundation and the professional rate of return has been incredible.

Here is one 20-something guy’s take on the benefits and challenges of being a young person working for a community foundation.

Odd Jobs: Farmer

Posted Tue, 10/20/2009 - 11:02 by Amy Potthast

Posted by Tera Wozniak Qualls, Program Coordinator in the Nonprofit Leadership Institute at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy in Grand Rapids, MI. Read more from Tera Qualls and Sam Davidson on Sam Davidson's blog. Follow Tera on Twitter.

Odd Jobs: Clinic Manager

Posted Tue, 10/13/2009 - 10:38 by Amy Potthast

Posted by Tera Wozniak Qualls, Program Coordinator in the Nonprofit Leadership Institute at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy in Grand Rapids, MI. Read more from Tera Qualls and Sam Davidson on Sam Davidson's blog. Follow Tera on Twitter.

This is the second blog post in the series titled “Odd Jobs”. The focus of “Odd Jobs” is to shed light on nonprofit careers that aren’t thought of as the traditional nonprofit job.

Odd Jobs: Community Engagement Specialist

Posted Tue, 10/06/2009 - 15:01 by Amy Potthast

Posted by Tera Wozniak Qualls, Program Coordinator in the Nonprofit Leadership Institute at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy in Grand Rapids, MI. Read more from Tera Qualls and Sam Davidson on Sam Davidson's blog.

The nonprofit sector is extremely diverse. Jobs can range from direct social service, to hospital administrator, to dancer. There isn’t such thing as a typical nonprofit job. Although when you think of jobs in the sector they typically get lumped into categories such as volunteer management, fundraising, marketing and communications, or administrator, there are plenty of other jobs in the sector. In this blog series, I will explore four nonprofit jobs you may not have thought of when exploring a career in the sector.

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