What have been your experiences with professional development?

Do you wish you had an opportunity to learn new things for your nonprofit job? Would you love to refine your skills, but need the support from your boss to do so? The Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) supports enhanced professional development opportunities for young professionals in the nonprofit sector. So here’s where you come in. We need your stories, your examples, and even your frustrated attempts at gaining the training you need to get your job done.

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Provide at least one example of ways your employer has allowed you to gain professional development. If there have not been any opportunities, please indicate so. * (Feel free to get as detailed as you want.)

Provide at least one example of a professional development opportunity outside the work place that has taught you skills and given you resources to use in the work place. * (ie. Editing a newsletter for a club or hobby that taught you software you could then use at work)

Give at least one example of how an employer has directly encouraged or supported outside professional development? * (ie. Tuition reimbursement, flexible time for outside seminars, reimbursement for professional association membership fees)

What have been the reasons employers have given you for not encouraging professional development?

How could your employer make it easier for you to participate in professional development opportunities outside of the workplace? *

What would increase your liklihood of finding outside professional development? *

flexible work hours
reimbursement for seminar/conference registration fees
a raise
requirement to participate in some sort of professional development opportunity
Other:

In what City, State do you work?

Please indicate your gender.

Male
Female

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