Preface

It is a cliché to say this book is our labor of love, but it really is. This idea has been percolating in us for years, and we can trace it back to when we served on our first national committee together. We were by far the youngest participants in the Nonprofit Workforce Coalition, which the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (then American Humanics) formed in 2006 with the mission to connect talented, skilled, and diverse young people to nonprofit sector careers and “help nonprofit organizations recruit, retain, and cultivate the diverse leadership they will need in the decades ahead” (Nonprofit Workforce Coalition, 2009). We then both joined the Next Generation Leadership Forum and served on the advisory board for Independent Sector's ...

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