The Enliven Project Blog

How to Hack Your Next Professional Conference

This week, I had the pleasure of spending time with early career advancement professionals at Boston University. We had a great time talking about ways to hack your next professional conference. What did we miss? What’s your favorite hack?

Come with a plan. You can attend a conference to team-build, deepen your network, learn a new […]

By |July 7th, 2016|Nonprofit Management|0 Comments

Running to Wholeness

What I have learned about healing from sexual violence helps me run, and what I have learned about running helps me heal. Last weekend, I ran the Cause and Event 5K to benefit the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. As I dedicated my run to the thousands of survivors they serve each year, the […]

By |May 24th, 2016|Sexual Violence|Comments Off on Running to Wholeness

Don’t Be a Booger Bystander

If you have a booger on your face, chances are, I’m going to tell you. I might say, “Hey, you have something hanging off your nose.” Or maybe I’ll silently hand you a tissue. But I’m not going to let you walk around town a minute longer with that booger on your face. Unless […]

By |May 16th, 2016|Random Thoughts, Sexual Violence|Comments Off on Don’t Be a Booger Bystander

Mastering the Art of the Pivot: Fundraising Edition

In dance, a pivot is a quick turn you make to move in another direction. In the media, a pivot is a way to respond quickly to a question and get back to your key talking points.

 

What is a pivot for fundraising? It’s a way to guide the conversation back to what you want […]

By |April 18th, 2016|Nonprofit Management|Comments Off on Mastering the Art of the Pivot: Fundraising Edition

Four Things Every College Freshman Should Know About Sexual Violence

It’s real. You are going to college. You visited campus, signed on the dotted line, and started planning out the décor for your dorm room. Your freshman year of college is a time of excitement, intense learning, and independence. New friends. New experiences. New adventures.

But it’s hard to miss the increased coverage and attention […]

By |April 5th, 2016|Sexual Violence|Comments Off on Four Things Every College Freshman Should Know About Sexual Violence

Why I Support the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (and hope you will too!)

I have the great fortune of serving on the board of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) here in my current hometown of Boston. This year, like every year, I’m raising money to support the organization, and am writing to inspire you to join me in making a gift.

BARCC is one of over […]

By |March 28th, 2016|Sexual Violence|Comments Off on Why I Support the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (and hope you will too!)

First Love, A Poem

I fell in love with you at 2am on a snowy evening.
You walked your dog down my street as I walked mine out the door.
And we talked and talked and were tangled up in leashes and snow on our eyelashes and by the time the ground became white, I was in love.

eighteen months later, […]

By |March 23rd, 2016|Enlivening|Comments Off on First Love, A Poem

How I Told the TSA I Was a Sexual Assault Survivor

I didn’t expect my Sunday afternoon flight from Boston, MA to Washington, DC to turn into a moment of activism for survivors, but it did. I travel a lot for work, so I know the security drill. Shoes off. Laptop out of your bag. No liquids. Remove your belt. Take everything out of your […]

By |March 8th, 2016|Sexual Violence|5 Comments

A New Year’s Tradition: 100 Mini-Goals

Whether you are for or against New Year’s Resolutions, there’s no doubt that the New Year can bring a breath of fresh air and energy to redefine or realign your priorities.

For the last couple of years, I’ve embraced a practice that works really well for me, a practice that pushes me beyond resolutions, which […]

By |January 19th, 2016|Enlivening|Comments Off on A New Year’s Tradition: 100 Mini-Goals

Office housework: Do it or Don’t Do it? 

Don’t do office housework. So says Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant. Sounds simple, right? Until you realize that it’s not getting done and then you are living and working in a big mess. Office housework, according to Sandberg and Grant, work that includes taking meeting notes, volunteering for committees, training colleagues, and other administrative […]

By |January 14th, 2016|Nonprofit Management|Comments Off on Office housework: Do it or Don’t Do it?