Know Your Own Bone

I’d like to introduce you to a team of hip, young rockstars… and by rockstars, I of course mean a team of nonprofit professionals with an aim to share ideas in order to strengthen the sector and cultivate discussion among emerging leaders.

I decided to start this very blog back in July after closely following the innovative thoughts and ideas featured on the blogs of several young nonprofit professionals. I cannot express my delight when one of these inspirational and forward-thinking bloggers, Allison Jones, contacted me a few weeks ago and invited me to take part in the Nonprofit Millennial Bloggers Alliance. We are a collaboration of young nonprofit bloggers aiming to collectively bring important issues facing the nonprofit sector to the forefront of thought through active engagement and the sharing of ideas.

Meet the Nonprofit Millennial Bloggers Alliance:

• Allison Jones-  @ajlovesya: Entry Level Living
• Elisa M. Ortiz @emortiz-  Onward and Upward
• Elizabeth Clawson- @eclawson: Nonprofit Periscope
• James Elbaor- @jameselbaor: From the Desk of James C. Elbaor
• Kevin Gilnack- @kgilnack (Nonprofits + Politics)2.0
• Rosetta Thurman- @rosettathurman: Perspectives from the Pipeline
• Tera Wokniak Qualls- @terawozqualls: Social Citizen
• Tracey Webb- @blkgivesback: Black Gives Back
• Trina Isakson- @telleni: Trina’s Nonprofit Blog
• Colleen Dilenschneider-  @cdilly: Know Your Own Bone (blush)

I encourage you to follow these folks on twitter, subscribe to these blogs, and join the conversation! The alliance collectively features a broad range of interests in the nonprofit sector, highlighting everything from civic engagement, social change, media relations, strategy, efficiency, philanthropy, and board development- all the way to gender, race, and just being a Millennial on the move.

I’m excited to be a part of this incredible group of bloggers, and I hope that you’ll keep an eye on these folks and lend your voice to the conversation. The alliance will surely be a success if it can provide a space for active discussion among all leaders. As the alliance continues to develop and ideas begin to form, please respond to these bloggers! Leave comments on posts and help us get the conversations started! We are all members of Generation Y with interests in the nonprofit sector, but I hope that the alliance will engage thinkers regardless of generation and sector. I’m thrilled to continue to develop partnerships with these great bloggers, and I’m simply giddy just thinking about the endless possibilities that may arise from this alliance!

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”- Margaret Mead