If people can take the time to turn off their PDAs for 150 minutes during a romantic comedy, why not during the discussion of solving the challenges of people living on less than $2 a day?
Financial challenges facing nonprofits have recently driven organizational mergers and closings; there are valuable leadership lessons to be learned from boards that have undertaken the serious responsibility of transitioning or winding down a nonprofit.
Teamwork, communications, listening and body language, diversity sensitivity, and problem-solving are key skills described as areas of personal and professional growth by volunteers returning from international pro bono deployments.
