It’s so nice to get up on my millennial soapbox once again and find a few more folks standing up here with me: Kristen Eddings of the Washington Global Health Alliance and UW School of Law student Jessica Smith. These two fellow impassioned millennials gave a great presentation at last week’s Northwest Development Officers Association winter conference entitled “The Anatomy of a Young Donor,” and it got me all fired up to report back on their findings (and add a few of my own). Continue reading →

Millennials: we’re everywhere, and the workplace has started to notice. If you haven’t been to a webinar about how to deal with us or read an article outlining our predilections and whims, no doubt you will soon. Rumors are flying about our priorities and our motivations, and I’m wondering: has anyone actually talked to millennials about all this, or have we just been “studied”? Continue reading →