A Message From Jessica
Dear YDEKC Members, Colleagues and Friends: After a little more than a decade of leading YDEKC, I have decided that's its time for me to transition away from my role as founder and Executive Director in the fall of 2022. While there never is a perfect time to step away, this feels like the [...]
Topic: Newsletter
Thank you, Amazon!
by Jessica Werner YDEKC is thrilled to have received a continuation grant from Amazon for $50,000 to support YDEKC’s operations in support of Thriving Leaders, Thriving Organizations and Thriving Youth! This is our second grant from Amazon. Amazon shares in YDEKC’s belief that young [...]
Topic: Impact, Measurement and Evaluation, Newsletter
Advocacy in Motion!
by Rene Murry The Advocacy Team at YDEKC is in transition! After over six years at YDEKC, I will be retiring as of April 28. There have been many successes that we can celebrate. From the early days of Best Starts for Kids, conversations have been growing at all levels of government about [...]
Topic: Hiring, Lunching with Leaders, Newsletter
YDEKC Annual Member Summit – Rebuilding our “Mycelium Network”
On Tuesday, November 9, YDEKC members joined together in our annual member summit – for the first time virtually, to share celebrations, commiserations, and to get clearer on our collective policy agenda for the next few years that will support thriving leaders, thriving organizations, and [...]
Announcing YDEKC’s Thriving Leaders of Color Fund
In Fall 2020, when a former colleague and I read the Transformational Capacity Building report authored by leaders affiliated with capacity builder RVC, one of the strategies for nonprofits of color called out to us: “invest in the inner well-being and growth of leaders.” At the same time, [...]
Topic: Member Opportunities, Newsletter, Racial Equity