Special Olympics Volunteer Event

Special Olympics Wisconsin needs volunteers on Sunday, March 14th , for the District Team Basketball Competition. NLSA, our graduate program’s student association, is proud to announce it will be participating in this event and looks forward to showing our commitment with a high turnout. All members, non-members, families and friends are encouraged to attend this event! Please complete the attached application and submit to us by Friday, March 5th. Let’s help make this a big success for Special Olympics and its athletes!

WHEN: Sunday, March 14th.

SHIFT ONE: 7:30AM to 12:30PM

And/Or

SHIFT TWO: 12:30PM to 5:30PM

WHERE: Homestead High School Mequon, WI

Go Panthers - Join us for a Men's Basketball Game

The UWM Basketball season is almost over and the Nonprofit Leadership Student Association (NLSA) hopes you will join us for the final opportunity to support our men’s team at their last home game. This is a last minute, open-to-all invite. Enjoy an informal, early break from your coursework with classmates and faculty. If that’s not enough, next Saturday is an ESPN-U BracketBuster broadcast!



Date: Saturday, February 20th

Time: Meet at 6:30PM, Game starts at 7PM

Location: U.S. Cellular Arena---meet at Ticket office (Kilbourn Ave)

Cost: Students Free (BRING A STUDENT I.D.)!!!

$5 for faculty, family, or those without ID

Let’s meet at 6:30 at the ticket offices, near the Kilbourn Avenue entrance. Please feel free to contact me with any questions at wer@uwm.edu or 414.477.7432. We look forward to seeing you.

February Monthly Meeting

PLEASE NOTE! TIME CHANGE!

Due to threats of severe weather the Nonprofit Leadership Student
Association meeting formally scheduled for Tuesday, February 9th has
been rescheduled.

We look forward to seeing you at our first monthly meeting now scheduled
on:

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16th from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The meeting will take place in the union and a specific location will be
announced later in the week.

Thank you in advance for your understanding!

Welcome to Spring 2010

We are one week in to the semester and I realize I have not officially welcomed in the new semester. The Nonprofit Leadership Student Association has grown leaps and bounds thanks to your hard work and determination.

For those of you new to our organization, NLSA was founded in 2008 with a simple goal in mind - to develop students into leaders within the nonprofit sector. As a means to that end we have sent students to the premier nonprofit research conferences, hosted study groups, established a resource library, sponsored our first ever professional networking events, and we are the reigning intramural trivia champions.

If you are just starting in the program, finishing your last semester, or checking out this blog to keep up as an alumni we look forward to providing you the most up to date information about what we are doing.

With that said, we had an executive meeting a few weeks ago and established a few goals, I would like to share.

·Training: Need more comprehensive training for next year. Perhaps have training with a social component to get to know one another.
·Meetings: Leave more room for member discussion.
·Events: They should have a clear, professional purpose. Are they social or professional? Announce event dates far in advance.
·Grants: Obtain more suggestions from general membership regarding grant allocations. Educate members about conferences.
·Connections: Continue making connections with UWM, the greater MKE community, and NLSA alumni. Have alumni events, such as an alumni banquet, b-ball game, etc. We have more of a comprehensive email list now.

That is all for now and I look forward to seeing you in class or one of our future events. Please stop by and hear Melissa Brown speak tomorrow and have some snacks after. We also would like to invite you to our first monthly membership meeting, next week Tuesday, at 8:30 p.m. in Room 147 of the Student Union.

Have an amazingly successful semester! And if you ever need anything, please do not hesitate to contact me personally.

~ Annie Reifsnyder,
NLSA President
reifsny2@uwm.edu
847-212-7806