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Board Member Placed at Family Promise San Gabriel Valley
JRP has several ways of placing board members; people who haven’t served on a board before can attend our annual Leadership Connection class; others may be our volunteers who are interested in board service; yet…
Board Member Matched with the Arboretum Foundation
JRP is matching more people each year to nonprofit boards. Chris Bragg, who attend the March 2017 session of The Leadership Connection, wanted to serve on the board of a family-friendly nonprofit so he could…
Board Match Made for Ten Thousand Villages
I love Ten Thousand Villages‘ fair trade store on South Lake Avenue. I have a beautiful Pakistani rug among other lovely items from the store. So I was very excited when Holly Hight, who attended our…
Cause Cupid: Matching Great People to Great Boards
Envision Consulting’s next board match-making event, Cause Cupid (www.envisionnonprofit.com), will be Thursday, May 31, 2018, 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Downtown Los Angeles. It’s an opportunity for great nonprofits and outstanding professionals to mix and mingle with the hope they…
Tackling Tough Conversations
Talking about race and racism isn’t easy for most Americans. But nonprofits should be at the front line of increasing equity and inclusion. The Pasadena Executive Roundtable (pasadenaexecutiveroundtable.org) tackled this tough conversation in our March and…
What’s your idea of fun?
Hiking, golf, gardening, Netflix? What’s your idea of fun? For Jericho Road Pasadena co-founder John Blue, it’s doing something constructive for the community. “I’m very serious. It is fun when I’ve done something useful and…
The Leadership Connection
We post a lot about nonprofit boards, because they are such a crucial piece of nonprofit success. Find out more about how Jericho Road Pasadena matched Bret Schaefer with the board of Friends in Deed and…
A Fresh Look at Diversity and Boards
Thanks to Jan Masaoka for her great 3-part series in Blue Avocado on diversity and nonprofit boards: read part 1 at http://www.blueavocado.org/content/fresh-look-diversity-and-boards. JRP’s Leadership Connection board training and placement program is a great way to empower…
Registration for AABLI’s Board Leadership Program is now OPEN!
AABLI’s Board Leadership Programs are leadership development courses designed to prepare African American professionals for positions on governing boards. AABLI now offers two courses, BLP 101 and BLP 201, to provide the foundation and expertise for…
Mix and Mingle with a Purpose
Registration is now open for Envision Consulting’s Pasadena Board Matchmaking Mixer on January 25, 2018! We bring together exceptional professionals and impactful nonprofits in one room for a night of mixing and mingling to create…
#Unselfie Day 3
Jericho Road Pasadena primarily assists nonprofits in the greater Pasadena area, but Exec. Dir. Melanie Goodyear is the Board Chair for Advancing Students Forward (advancingstudentsforward.org), which gives scholarships and provides academic support and professional development…