I attended my first YNPN Boston event on Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 6 pm at Boston University’s School of Management, Room 416. The YNPN Boston leadership team team was looking to recruit new members to its board, and I was interested in connecting with a nonprofit community in Boston. I had moved to Boston a year earlier from the Twin Cities, and I was searching for my local nonprofit people. I was familiar with the YNPN chapter in Minnesota, and hoped to find the same passion for nonprofit organizations in Boston.
After attending that first event, it became clear that these people might, in fact, be my people. The enthusiasm in Room 416 was contagious, and it was clear that the YNPN Boston’s leadership cared deeply about the organization’s mission and about professional development for emerging leaders in the nonprofit sector.