Action, Advocacy, Arts, An Open Mind is a Canvas for Change
April 3, 2009 at ASU Downtown Phoenix Campus, copp.asu.edu/aaa

Photos posted by Aaron Stiner, MNpS
March 25, 2009

Taken with my Blackberry Bold (love). Go here or here to read more and see better photos.

Or, better yet, come to the 4th Urban Gallery Exhibition from 6 to 10PM on April 3 to see the beautiful, powerful, storytelling artwork yourself. I'll be here, it's the second floor of my building!

Part One


My Father's Son
Artist Martin Moreno


Born and Died in the U.S.A.
Artist Martin Moreno


Captain America is Off Balance
Artist Luis Gutierrez


Todos Conocen Mi Dolor
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Cruzando la Frontera
Artist Ruben Galicia

Proprietary Information?

A blog by Aaron Stiner, MNpS
Tuesday, March 24, very early AM

Goals for Nonprofits in using New Media:

• Be a central hub / virtual meeting / conversation space and information / tools / referral source for your organization's stakeholders: stakeholders include supporters, volunteers, recipients, civic and business leaders and media
  
• Build and grow relationships with and among your nonprofit and it's stakeholders
  
• Increase the visibility, credibility and connectivity of your staff to community stakeholders
• Market your organization and it's activities online, including creating opportunities for fundraising
  

Good eats, Matt's Big Breakfast.

Young and No Profit

A blog by Aaron Stiner, MNpS
Tuesday, March 24, very early AM

Program Manager, Advancing Philanthropy
ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation
Phoenix, AZ
aaron.stiner@asu.edu

Vice President
YNPN Phoenix Board of Directors
Phoenix, AZ

This blog is about being a young nonprofit professional - one of the roles I play in this life.

A little bit about me. In addition to walks in the park and rides on the trails, I like meeting friends and making connections. I truly enjoy talking with passionate, hard working people about how to make our world a better place - yes, I know that is tres nonprofit nerd!

I am from Michigan, and after six years I consider the Valley my home and count friends and colleagues among both the non and for profit communities. I think this community has so much to offer on a wide variety of fronts - personally, professionally, recreationally, etc - and I am a big promoter of Metro Phoenix life (and also a vocal critic of poor policies and governance).

My work includes two and half years selling pharmaceuticals to veterinarians, six years at Valley of the Sun United Way in development and a Master of Nonprofit Studies from Arizona State University. I joined the ASU Lodestar Center in January of 2009 to begin developing programming for the Advancing Philanthropy initiative.

I am married to my lovely wife Beth, Director Organization Development at Banner Health and we have one son, Omar, five. We have two dogs and two cats - all from rescue organizations. We have a lot of fun together!

My personal goals include working to understand others, creating connections and building a strong social fabric. I think nonprofit organizations play an incredibly important role in providing opportunities for individuals and families to lead the happy, successful lives of their choice. I think most people want to be happy, healthy and self sufficient without getting ripped off by someone in more power. Building community seems an important contributor to happiness and so that's one thing I like to do.

I also like plants and taking mobile phone photos.

I hope you will return on a regular basis to read my and my friends musings on a host of topics related to building happy healthy communities of happy healthy people. I look forward to your thoughts and comments.

Best regards,

Aaron

A mobile upload. If you are a Facebook friend you are used to seeing these! All taken with my Blackberry Bold - oh yeah!

Conversations and connected communities. It's one thing I think young professionals want to create. A place where friends and colleagues can gather, face-to-face, to talk about important issues with people they like and respect.

I think it's something I want to see. And it's something I have heard my friends say they would like to be a part of and help create. It's a big reason why I am involved in YNPN Phoenix.

The driving force behind the creation of YNPN Phoenix is the idea of connecting people - specifically young nonprofit professionals - and supporting their community. In our first 16 months we have accomplished a lot on the way to that goal.

From the tactical side, we have hosted 13 events with more than 500 people in attendance between those 13 events. We have had some great professional development speakers and fun social events. We are up and running on New Media, like Twitter and Facebook, and we have a robust website with event management software to help us connect with our members.

What we hope has happened in that time is that our members have started to make connections with one another and we hope that is building into a community.

What we hope is members come to our YNPN events because they know they are going to get to connect with a great community of other young nonprofit professionals, nice smart people wanting to change the world. Hopefully at a YNPN event members are connecting with people they knew before ever coming to a YNPN event as well as people they meet through our organization. Both help build a community.

We want our members to be excited about coming to our events because they know it's going to be filled with some great conversation. Robust conversations about how to be a better professional and how to find personal balance, conversations about forming communities and conversations about saving the world. And mixed in all that is a lot of fun and laughing! =)

Sort of like shoving all the nonprofit geeks in one room and shaking their heads around - good stuff is going to fall out!

We hope our members have fun, learn and build community. That's why we exist.

Eventually, we hope the YNPN Phoenix community grows into a deeply embedded aspect of our larger community's social fabric. Young nonprofit professionals aught to be strongly connected to one another, it only makes sense! They are the front line changes makers in the Valley, making our community a better place in which to live and work. We need these people!

If you are interested in a community of young, smart, funny nonprofit professionals, you have found your place - come connect!

Alright, that's about all I have to say on that point today. Thanks to Shawn Rudnick, an MNpS student, young nonprofit professional and YNPN member, for the inspiration!