YNPN Leaders Conference: Our Greatest Strength is our Knowledge Network

YNPN has over 15,000 members in almost 20 chapters across the nation. Because of this, YNPN members work in practically every sub-sector and region in the nation as well as are employed in every type of nonprofit job (e.g. development, programs, operations).

It is amazing and exciting to think about the collective knowledge and expertise of the YNPN network. We should share this knowledge and learn from one another!!

For example, at YNPN San Diego we recently created our annual strategic plan and fundraising plan and will be posting these items on our website shortly. We are also documenting best practices on our blog (e.g. creating the board of directors, using social media for fundraising and much more). However, it would be really helpful to learn what other chapters are doing to.

YNPN also has members with amazing individual knowledge and expertise. For example, I've already a learned a lot from talking to/and or reading blog posts from these individual attendees at the YNPN Leaders Conference:

• Barbara Camacho, Program Associate, Member Services Northern California Grantmakers
• Jessamine Chin, Program Manager, Adobe Foundation
• Naomi Leapheart, Philadelphia's Young Nonprofit Leaders
• Michael Lartigue, Founder and President of Voices Under Forty
• Meredith MacMillan, Senior Editorial Associate, NAEYC
  
• Opa Owiye, Affilate Program Director, The Brookings Institute

YNPN national has a great opportunity to be a collector and disseminator of this individual and collective knowledge.

Update: Just learned about YNPN's new internal best practice document center and online external resource site that will be launched soon. Yah!