STEM Like a Girl As of 2019, women hold just 29% of jobs in STEM fields. All-female founded startups make up just 2.5% of all startups backed by venture-capitalist firms as of 2019. By age…
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JRP Builds a New Village
Reposting this news to celebrate Ten Thousand Villages’ Fair Trade Rug Event. Check out the rugs through Sunday at 567 South Lake Ave., Pasadena , CA 91101. Melanie really, really loves her fair trade rug…
JRP Places Board Members to Plant Trees & Build Communities
Jericho Road Pasadena’s mission is to support other nonprofits. One of the ways JRP does this is to recruit, train and place board members. Cheryl Leutjen (cherylleutjen.com) attended JRP board training class in 2017 and joined the…
Board Member Placed at Shepherd’s Door
Boston Private Bank values nonprofits: they understand the special banking needs of nonprofits, they sponsor events, and they encourage their staff to join nonprofit boards. 2 staff from Pasadena’s BPB location have gone through JRP’s…
Reconciling the Supply & Demand of Good Intentions
Reconciling the Supply & Demand of Good Intentions: Why we must strike a balance between high-volume and high-touch service programs. This 2014 article by John Cary from the Stanford Social Innovation Review is still so…
Board Member Matched with Friends of the Pasadena Public Library
Board Member Matched with Friends of the Pasadena Public Library How much does Shelley De Leon love libraries? Her husband proposed to her at the lovely Pasadena Central Library and they were married at another…
A Very Harmonious Match
When Javier, an accountant, first approached JRP about board training and matchmaking, he told us that although he was happy to share his accounting skills, he also wanted to support an organization attuned to the…
JRP Builds a New Village
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. The saying, attributed to Roman philosopher Seneca, could describe how Holly Hight and Edrina Calderon made their own luck due to excellent timing and training. Within months of…