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…
Tag: board service
Board Service: Anne Kennedy
Thinking Through Organizational Plans with RASopathies Network
Board Development with School Yoga
Board Service: Lynn Miyamoto
Flashback Friday: The Volunteer Who Came to Stay
In honor of JRP’s 10th anniversary and volunteer appreciation month, we are reposting oldies but goodies. This is from September 2016. Louise continues to volunteer with JRP and is the Board President of the Pasadena…
Building a Flexible Board
If your organization is yoga-related, you should have a flexible board, right? But building good boards is hard for most nonprofits. JRP has done many projects for School Yoga, which teaches mindfulness techniques rooted in…
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…
Nonprofit Strong
Have you considered serving on a nonprofit board? JRP offers a quarterly board development series, which is great for people who would like to join a board, people already serving on a board, or nonprofit…
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…