By Beth Cougler Blom
It’s only been eight weeks since we launched our Emerging Leaders Network but the group’s membership has already risen to 85 people and we’ve held several fantastic events so far. This is an update on what has been happening with the Network since it began in late May, and is also a glimpse of the exciting events we’ve got planned for the next few months.
It didn’t take long after we announced the creation of the Network’s online community for younger nonprofit professionals in the Victoria area to start signing up in droves. In fact, within a week 42 …
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By Lori Elder
NOTE: This post is part of the Embracing the Future-Leading for Change post regarding our Annual General Meeting.
Volunteer Victoria held its Annual General Meeting on June 24th, 2010. The meeting featured a panel of three speakers talking about leadership in the nonprofit sector. Our first presenter, Beth Cougler Blom, Manager of Training and Outreach at Volunteer Victoria, spoke on the recent creation of our Emerging Leaders Network in Victoria and what local emerging leaders think about sector leadership and the path to get there. Here is the text of her speech:
About a year …
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