The publications provide useful advice, strategies, and resources for people considering a career in the nonprofit sector, and include the following titles:

The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for First-time Job Seekers
This book is a free resource for emerging professionals pursuing their first position in the nonprofit sector. Whether you’re a current student, a recent graduate, or someone entering the workforce for the first time, this book is meant for you.

The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for Sector Switchers
This book is a free resource for transitioning professionals pursuing new career options in the nonprofit sector. If you call yourself a mid-career transitioner, a re-careerer, an encore careerist, a bridger, or a sector switcher, this book is meant for you.

Service Corps to Social Impact Career – A Companion to The Idealist Guides to Nonprofit Careers
This Companion is for prospective, current, and former participants of a wide range of service corps who want to use their service experience as a building block to their next steps. Written by Amy Potthast of Idealist.org, the book’s sections are available as free PDFs.

From Serving Your Country to Serving Your Community – An Introductory Companion to The Idealist Guides to Nonprofit Careers
This booklet is for soldiers on active duty as well as veterans who are interested in transferring their talents from service in the armed forces into a social impact career in the nonprofit sector. Written by Steven Joiner of Idealist.org, the booklet is available as a free PDF.

No more sorting, no more Saturday trips to the Recycling Center, no more excuses!

Sproutreach is pleased to have played a part in this exciting new program by creating the outreach materials recently mailed to city residents. Each of the city’s nearly 30,000 households was issued a packet containing a tri-fold brochure with the program’s guidelines and a tear-off collection schedule, a large sticker to label a recycling container, and a letter from the Mayor.

Our studio also created a website for the program, HaverhillRecycles.org. The site is designed to serve as an online guide to the program, a collection calendar, a resource for additional information, and a place for community feedback and interaction.

The website, as well as the printed outreach materials, were all funded by Team Haverhill —the driving force behind this expanded recycling initiative. Team Haverhill is an independent, volunteer action group dedicated to making Haverhill a better place to live, learn, work and play.

The donations that they collect and distribute keep babies safe, make children feel valued, and help families achieve self-sufficiency. By putting gently used baby equipment, toys, and clothing into the hands of deserving local families, they’re also keeping these items out of the landfill.

Grand Opening Celebration: Sat., June 12
Saturday, June 12, from 10 AM to 1 PM, the nonprofit organization will celebrate the opening of their brand new Community Giving Center, located at 570 Main St, West Boxford, MA. If you’re in the area, consider stopping by to learn more about the organization’s mission and services and discover rewarding opportunities to get involved. The event will include a building dedication, tree planting, ribbon cutting, open house and tours.

Below: A bi-fold brochure that Sproutreach recently designed for Community Giving Tree

In their Behind The Logo campaign, Greenpeace UK is leading an effort to rebrand BP with a logo more befitting their operations, and is welcoming your suggestions! They’ve created a Flickr photostream where they’re accepting submissions for revised BP logos. As sample entry is shown at right.

Last week, Greenpeace climbers scaled the front of BP’s corporate headquarters in London to brand them with a logo that better suits their dirty business (photo below).

Shown above is a portion of Fischer’s map of Boston. The different colors represent different modes of transportation: Black is walking (less than 7mph), Red is bicycling or equivalent speed (less than 19mph), Blue is motor vehicles on normal roads (less 43mph); Green is freeways or rapid transit (43+ mph). More black and red, please!

Immediately upon encountering these maps on the Flickr Blog, I was reminded of visual representations I’ve seen of dendrites – the branched projections of neurons that conduct electrochemical stimulation within our cells. The image shown at right is from the University of Wisconsin – Madison Department of Physiology’s Binaural Physiology Lab. It shows the onset response revealed through intracellular labeling as part of the lab’s anatomical studies of brain cells. The “dendritic tree” is shown in red, along with a system of axons is shown in black.