




Heather is an experienced Nonprofit Manager, Researcher, Trainer, and Blogger. She teaches and presents on a variety of topics in the nonprofit sector and she participates on a variety of national nonprofit committees including the Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition and Independent Sector's NGen Advisory Committee.
I have also written three nonprofit toolkits you can purchase on my website:
Starting a Nonprofit
Nonprofit Operations Toolkit
Setting up a Nonprofit Office
In this blog I write about nonprofit leadership, nonprofit careers, the nonprofit workforce, nonprofit technology, and nonprofit management education.
Nonprofit Day 2010 was the BEST nonprofit conference that I have EVER attended – and I have attended many nonprofit conferences!! I am not just saying this–there was truly something magical about this conference. The awesome theme, networking opportunities, and talented speakers made this event top my charts. The theme of Nonprofit Day was storytelling. [...]
Storytelling is the focus of this year’s Nonprofit Day. Before I get into the notes from the keynote this morning, I want to tell a story about CompassPoint. Before I moved to San Diego (from the San Francisco Bay Area) I took full advantage of all the amazing professional development resources and trainings that CompassPoint [...]
On Tuesday, August 31st I’ll be live blogging CompassPoint’s Nonprofit Day 2010 in San Francisco. I am super excited to attend this conference and spend time with my nonprofit peeps in the San Francisco Bay Area!! I’ll be blogging and tweeting (@Heather Carpente) the conference alongside some of my long-time friends and colleagues in the [...]
I am swarmed with work right now so I’ve been slacking on my blogging, but I wanted to share an awesome new initiative happening over at Tactical Philanthropy. Tactical Philanthropy is one of my all time favorite blogs and I am excited to share Sean and his team are launching Tactical Philanthropy Advisors. Here’s the [...]
