Posts Tagged ‘NC Triad’
I am delighted to have met a number of talented and passionate young nonprofit professionals in my home state of North Carolina. Even better, several of them maintain informative and insightful blogs — check them out!
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Tags: NC Triad, NC Triangle, Nonprofit
Buying local is all the rage. I hadn’t given much thought to local art until I stumbled across the Ehle Family, when I discovered a rich legacy of artistry and leadership from my home state of North Carolina.
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It is easy to become disillusioned with the grand-standing associated with Southern religion, politics and culture. Two recently published books, however, explore North Carolina’s legacy of progressive philanthropic, educational and political leadership.
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Tags: Community Development, NC Triad, NC Triangle, Nonprofit
My humble dwelling of Greensboro, NC is hosting a city-wide book club throughout the month of October including discussions, symphony and theater performances, workshops and more. All activities are based on the themes in the book and popular film The Soloist.
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Tags: Arts, Community Development, NC Triad
I opened my local Sunday paper to find an appeal to young people to see reason and submit to the inevitable, the driver of our capitalistic system: the ubiquitous corporate job. I’m proud that so many members of my generation–including myself–are choosing to pursue careers of service in the nonprofit and public sectors.
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Tags: Career, Gen Y, Job Search, NC Triad, Nonprofit, Purposeful Career
Sixty-some years after its debut, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie–the classic play of memory, familial dysfunction and, yes, youthful yearning and discontent–still rings true.
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Tags: Arts, Gen Y, NC Triad, Reviews
Yes, it was devastating when my post-graduation Plan A (also known as Plan 1 and Plan-only: an Americorps position in Connecticut I was dead set on) fell through. And yes, there were a few days of manic depression and battling the conviction that life would be one failure after another from that point on (don’t judge–graduation is a fragile time! And the mind naturally quivers: if Americorps won’t have a fervent young Arts Studies graduate, then who will?).
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Tags: Career, Gap Year, Gen Y, Job Search, NC Triad, Nonprofit, Personal Development, Purposeful Career
Art Works: Impact of Arts & Culture on Communities Panel feat. NEA’s Rocco Landesman in NC Triad
This past Friday afternoon, roughly 200 mildly sweaty arts advocates and “arts enablers” filed onto UNC School of the Arts activity buses to ride to UNCSA Performance Place Theater to attend Art Works: The Impact of Arts and Culture on Communities, a panel discussion featuring National Endowment for the Arts Chair Rocco Landesman and NC Triad arts leaders.
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Tags: Arts, Community Development, NC Triad, Nonprofit
