Louisiana's 'Helping Sector' is hiring!

Forty jobs are now listed at LANO's Career and Volunteer Center, with three new listings made by members just this week! To date, LANO's network has helped fill more than 160 Louisiana nonprofit positions; let's keep up the good work! 

Here's a quick roundup of recent postings (Nov-Dec) by LANO member nonprofits.  Check the listings for more information and applications:

Director of Development, Providence House
Shreveport

President and CEO, Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge

Accountant, Academic Distinction Fund
Baton Rouge

Clerical Support/Data management, CASA Jefferson
Gretna

CASA Advocate Supervisor II, CASE Jefferson
Gretna

Office Manager, CASA Jefferson
Gretna

Marketing Coordinator, Easter Seals Louisiana
New Orleans

Director of Programming, Advance Innovative Education
Baton Rouge

Program Officer for Organizational Effectiveness, Greater New Orleans Foundation
 
Session Facilitator Consultant, Leading Educators
New Orleans

National Program Manager, Leading Educators
New Orleans

Managing Director, Downtown Business Association of Baton Rouge
     

LANO's General and Associate Members receive unlimited job postings; Members and Friends of LANO are all welcome to view postings, subscribe to job categories and post resumes at LANO.org

While nonprofits realize social media is a cost-effective tool for growing their base of friends and supporters, they must set goals and strategically network online just like they would with in-person donor cultivation. In my interview with Kanter and Paine about Measuring the Nonprofit Network , I asked them about their favorite chapters in the book as well as what was left on the editing floor. You'll appreciate their insights and surprising answers ...

Answer your social media questions in our live author interview on Dec 17

by Denise McMahan, CausePlanet

Special thanks to the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation for providing every LANO member with access to CausePlanet's Page to Practice book summary library and live author interviews during 2012.

As we kicked off the holiday season with Thanksgiving last week, many Americans were not only thankful for their personal well-being, but they were also volunteering to help others in many human service organizations throughout the country. For those of us who work in or with the nonprofit sector, we're viewing the likely recipients of these volunteer hours with a sympathetic lens. Why? Our society is asking these human service organizations to ... 

Read about funding solutions in the Finance Fundamentals Blog

By Erica McGeachy Crenshaw, President/CEO of Execute Now!, Inc.

Nationally-recognized, local author and speaker, and nonprofit founder, Jill Rigby Garner will be presenting Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World and Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Absorbed World, through the FLOW platform; a bold new approach to life empowerment featuring online conferences that bring global experts and practical solutions right to your computer screen.

The first of many, the upcoming Global Parenting & New Media Summit 2012, will address the challenges of parenting in the new media age in a series of conferences themed "Parenting: Media, Technology and the Brave New World". Along with Jill, several prominent international speakers will provide parents with practical knowledge and tools needed to navigate the drastically changed landscape created by social media, online games and web 2.0 in general. Protect your children from the new ABC's: Cyber Addiction, Bullying & Crime. Get a parenting upgrade and stay ahead of the curve.

The summit starts on November 30, 2012, on your computer. Log in live or catch up later at your convenience.

Registration provides anytime access to all sessions for one year.

For a $50 discount register at www.flowsummits.com/registration and use discount code: mannersoftheheart.

The summit features 12 experts delivering more than 20 sessions. Other notable presenters include: Dr. Larry Rosen, international expert on the psychology of technology, Bob Waliszewski, expert on parenting & media discernment, and Dr. Marilyn Campbell, expert on cyber-bullying.

Log on to http://www.flowsummits.com/ for additional information about all the experts who will be speaking and the specific topics they will cover like:

• Practicing respectful online behavior. Ignoring disrespectful messaging.
• Internet addiction. Gaming addiction.
• The face of cyber bullying and cyber-crime. Motives and consequences. What parents can do about it.
• Understanding and managing our obsession with technology.
• Raising media-savvy kids with love not war. Tech-savvy parenting.
• How the media is prematurely sexualizing our kids.

Leading Educators develops teacher-leaders in order to raise student achievement and retain talented educators in urban schools. We aim to ensure that public education successfully trains its middle managers, thus retaining our best teachers and bolstering the pipeline of future principals.

To date, Leading Educators has trained 41 teacher-leaders in its New Orleans pilot region. Building upon the New Orleans region and Teaching Leaders (UK), Leading Educators is now an independent 501c3 organization assembling an ambitious team to expand the program nationally. In New Orleans and the first national expansion site, Kansas City, we are currently working with 106 teacher-leaders across over 60 schools. Our expansion model aims to serve 12 regions by 2016.

Multiple new positions are now being advertised (click position titles to enter LANO Career Center for more information): 

National Program Manager: As Leading Educators continues to grow our impact nationally, we are seeking a National Program Manager (NPM) to support the National Program Team with the development and quality of the national training program design, as well as the integration of learning across various regions.

Session Facilitator Consultant: Leading Educators is recruiting outstanding facilitators to grow our facilitator pool and deliver leadership development training across our Leading Educators Fellowship and customized programs. Outstanding facilitation that challenges participants to openly reflect on their practice, learn new skills and concepts, and develop themselves and their teams is essential to achieving our mission by empowering participants and developing exceptional teacher-leaders.