Dr. Nancy O'Reilly

Relationships

Planning and Implementing a Mentoring Program

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FLiP Establishes Mentoring Program for Women in Transition Springfield’s Female Leaders in Philanthropy has for several years helped women in transition. The Suit Yourself Boutique, by appointment, has provided each woman referred in by community agencies with several complete outfits of appropriate, gently used, work-ready clothing. The membership decided to undertake a further mentoring program

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Beginning a Mentoring Program

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Initial Organizing Meeting for FLiP’s Mentoring Program Dr. Nancy shares the preliminary information here. This is a work in progress that we hope may assist others in setting up their own programs. Springfield’s Female leaders in Philanthropy, a group that Dr. Nancy chairs, has started a mentoring program for women who have been referred to

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Retain Volunteers with Consideration, Communication and Smart Tools

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Have these volunteer-busters happened to you? • Reply-all-email overload? • Showing up and not being needed? • Wanting to volunteer and not getting a call back? The Case Foundation interviewed Karen Bantuveris, the founder of VolunteerSpot <https://www.volunteerspot.com/>, a volunteer management platform whose basic service level is free. You’re not alone and it doesn’t have to

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Women’s Vulnerability Brings Secret Strength to Business

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By Dr. Nancy D. O’Reilly, Psy.D Women will really love this idea: We can actually feel womanly without guilt.  Get ready to embrace your feminine vulnerability. Women’s special gifts––relational intelligence, holistic perspective, seeing connections among things, web thinking, admitting mistakes––just may save the world! So says Dr. Birute Regine, a developmental psychologist who received both

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What Women Need for Social Profit Activities

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Women Connect4Good conducted an online survey of women’s experiences in social-profit (not-for-profit or community) activities in order to assess the demand and determine content for an online resource. Of the 98 women who responded, nearly all (90%) said they participated actively in social-profit ventures with two-thirds of them filling leadership roles. Nearly 40 percent said

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Feminism's Generation War

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I’ve  heard midlife women fretting recently that younger women today aren’t feminists and that they think all the battles have already been won. Not so, according to a very smart post by Katha Pollitt about Feminism’s Generation War. Pollitt gives a knowledgeable overview and concludes that the grievances among older and younger women come down

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