How to negotiate a raise at your nonprofit job: An interview with Marc Pitman

Editor's Note: This interview originally appeared on the Wild Woman Fundraising website and is excerpted with permission. You can read the full interview here. Mazarine Treyz: Hey, everybody. Welcome. This is Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising and I am so pleased...

Job search advice for fundraisers: An interview with Phil Gerard

Editor's Note: This interview originally appeared on the Wild Woman Fundraising website and is excerpted with permission. You can read the full interview here. Mazarine Treyz: This is Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising, and today I am so excited to be...

Career portfolios give you a competitive edge

Editor's Note: Struggling to come up with achievements to include on your resume? We partnered with Dana Zaruba from the YWCA’s Westside WorkBC Employment Services Centre for a free webinar on February 11, 2016. Watch the recording here! A career...

Managing change and transition in your work life

Whether it comes about by conscious choice, or is forced upon us by the proverbial pink slip, a career change or job loss catapults us into external changes that can leave us feeling disoriented and dis-identified, while struggling to dismantle...

How can you become a successful fundraising consultant?

Editor's Note: This interview originally appeared on the Wild Woman Fundraising website and is excerpted with permission. You can read the full interview here. Mazarine Treyz: Hey, everybody. Welcome. This is Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising, and I am so pleased...

Stress and the job hunt: Are we dealing with stress the wrong way?

For most of us, job hunting, and interviews especially, can be stressful. We have long-held beliefs, or mindsets, that stress is bad for us and that we need to calm down to be at our best. The truth is, stress...

Why being of service is the best form of networking

Have you ever heard the expression, "It's not what you know, but who you know"? Well, that’s the idea behind networking. Networking is not a new concept. It has been around for a long time, has taken on many forms...

Raise your leadership confidence by establishing these three daily habits

Walking into a boardroom and averting your eyes as your stomach clenches is a horrible feeling. When you are worried about what you need to say and how you will say it, you begin to agonize. The doubt creeps in....

Fundraiser Fail: What to do when your new fundraiser isn’t living up to expectations

It was like it was a deep dark secret that no one wanted to talk about. Finally, we found a staffer at a nonprofit who emphasized that everything he/she said had to be highly anonymous. This person admitted, “I like...

Healthy boundaries, healthy workers: How good workplace boundaries help nonprofit professionals

On October 22, CharityVillage and Sheena Greer presented a webinar where we explored this topic in more detail. Watch the full recording here. Before you read this, I want you to hold up a mirror and look at what you...