In a few weeks, the NP2020 will be bring together individuals from around the country to begin a discussion about leadership in the nonprofit sector at the Pew Campus of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. One of the conference participants is Young Nonprofit Professionals Network which is focused on the next generation of leaders in the nonprofit sector by supporting their career needs.   So, this got me thinking about women who may in the early stages of their nonprofit careers and also blog.  Do they exist?  What are they writing about?

I follow the Nonprofit Management and Operations blog written by the very talented Heather Carpenter.   Heather recently left her job at Aspiration and is moving to San Diego to pursue a PhD in Leadership with nonprofit focus at the University of San Diego.   I hope she will find time to continue blogging or at least guest blogging!  Her last blog post at her old job is how to prepare for employee transition!

A few weeks ago I discovered the Nonprofit Management Wiki facilitated by Rosetta Thurman who calls herself a "nonprofit geek."   The wiki includes an excellent resource list and schedule of nonprofit management professional development opportunities.

Rosetta grew up in the public housing projects in Cleveland, Ohio and went on to college, earning a undergraduate degree in English and a Master's in Organizational Management in Nonprofit Management.   She works the Director of Development and Finance for a membership association in Washington, DC.  As notes in her biography,  "My family didn't have a lot of resources, and if it weren't for the nonprofits in our community who helped us in our times of need, I don't know where I'd be today.  Given my own experience, I firmly believe that change is possible, no matter what the situation.  I cam to the nonprofit sector to be part of that change."

She writes a blog, called "Perspective from the Pipeline" - a nonprofit professional development blog.  It's her observations on the nonprofit sector from the next generation.   She received a scholarship to attend the recent Bridge Conference in DC.  I attended the conference, but I presented there as well and didn't get a chance to attend as many sessions I would have liked.  So, I was pleased to come across her blog posts about the conference.

I spent quite a bit of time searching on Technorati and following blogrolls, but was not able to find other young women working in the nonprofit sector and who are blogging their observations and thoughts about the sector.  If you write about this topic, or know of a blog, please leave a url in the comments!

Beth Kanter, BlogHer Contributing Editor for NGOs and Social Change, also writes Beth's Blog.