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Kayla and Carmen started the Project Management Volunteers Puget Sound chapter in 2021. We had the honour to speak to Bob Prenovost, the founder of the parent organization, Project Management Volunteers (PMV).

Bob founded PMV in 2009, more than 10 years ago, with the mission to provide free project management resources to local non-profits.

Besides his work at Project Management Volunteers, Bob has extensive experience in both public and private sector organizations. He engages with senior leaders, enabling them to translate business strategy into positive and measurable results.

➡️ Connect with Bob on LinkedIn

➡️ Email: [email protected]

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In this latest episode, Kayla and Carmen shared their experiences and lessons learned from managing administrative tasks for their non-profit organization, Puget Sound Project Management Volunteers. They discussed their go-to communication and documentation tools and how they have optimized them to improve operations.

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PROJECT MANAGERS:

Become a part of our Project Management community: https://forms.office.com/r/f7d14Zim3L

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Join us for our conversation with Tonya Peck, the Executive Director at Dress for Success Seattle.

Tonya’s background is a blend of global technology & design and organization development. She has extensive experience growing teams, leaders, and organizations at Fortune 500. While she has decades of volunteer & board member experience, working as the Executive Director was her first non-profit staff role. Beyond her day job, she’s civically active locally and nationally, with a strong focus of empowering women, creating inclusive environments, and preparing organizations for the future.

Stay till the end to hear a tough love message from Tonya.

➡️ Find out more about Dress for Success Seattle

Website: https://seattle.dressforsuccess.org/

Twitter @DFS_Seattle

Instagram @dfs_seattle

LinkedIn @Dress-for-Success-Seattle

➡️ Connect with Tonya

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NON-PROFITS IN PUGET SOUND:

Fill out this form to let us know how we can help with your project management efforts: https://pm-volunteers.org/form-projects/

PROJECT MANAGERS:

Check out our volunteer project manager postings: https://pm-volunteers.org/volunteer/

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HOSTS:

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Email: [email protected]

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TRANSCRIPTION

Carmen Leung

Welcome to Everything Non-profit, a podcast where we reveal the secrets, tips, and tricks for leading a nonprofit. My name is Carmen.

Kayla Quijas

And I'm Kayla. As non-profit founders, we know firsthand how challenging and overwhelming it can be to build a non-profit from the ground up. This is a podcast for non-profit executives by non-profit executives. If you need advice on starting your own non-profit organization or are looking to expand your knowledge of non-profit operations, stay tuned.

Carmen Leung

For today's conversation, we have with us Tonya Peck. Tonya is the Executive Director at Dress for Success Seattle. She was recruited in the fall of 2019 to come on board as the Interim Executive Director to grow the organization's capacity to scale for the growing number of women living in poverty in this region.

Kayla Quijas

When the pandemic hit in 2020, Tonya was asked to stay on as the executive director where she led the organization through the crisis of growing, strengthening, and expanding their organization's capacity to serve more women through these challenging times. Tony's background is a blend of global technology and design and organizational development. She has extensive experience growing teams, leaders, and organizations at Fortune 500s like Microsoft, Amazon, and Salesforce. While she has decades of volunteer and board member experience, this was her first non-profit staff role. Beyond her day job, she's civically active locally and nationally, with a strong focus of empowering women, creating inclusive environments, and preparing organizations for the future. Welcome to the show, Tonya,

Tonya Peck

Thank you. And thank you, Carmen and Kayla, for having me.

Carmen Leung

Tonya, I think it was a year ago that I connected with you on LinkedIn. It's crazy how we're finally sitting down to chat. I'm very excited. At a high level, can you give our listeners a quick snippet about yourself?

Tonya Peck

Absolutely. And I love that you reminded me that we met through LinkedIn. It's been such a great platform for connecting. Well, I really appreciated your intro I guess I would just say that I consider myself a designer in every way whether that's designing physical products, digital products, organizations, supporting people in designing their careers, or making a meal. I just think everything is a design problem. And I really enjoy that creative problem-solving mindset and appro...

In this month's episode, we had the privilege to speak with Lee Lambert on navigating a successful non-profit career and his strategies to leading the largest statewide bicycling non-profit.

Lee is the Executive Director at Cascade Bicycle Club and Washington Bikes. He has had a long career in public service and nonprofit leadership prior to his current role, with stints as Executive Director of City Year Seattle/ King County and the Washington STEM Network. It has come full circle to pairing his professional and personal passions through his work.

➡️ Find out more about Cascade Bicycle Club: https://cascade.org/

Twitter @CascadeBicycle

Instagram @cascadebicycle

➡️ Find out more about Washington Bikes: https://wabikes.org/

Twitter @WAbikes

Instagram @wabikes

➡️ Connect with Lee

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NON-PROFITS IN PUGET SOUND:

Fill out this form to let us know how we can help with your project management efforts: https://pm-volunteers.org/form-projects/

PROJECT MANAGERS:

Check out our volunteer project manager postings: https://pm-volunteers.org/volunteer/

FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE:

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@Puget Sound Project Management Volunteers on LinkedIn

HOSTS:

➡️ Carmen

➡️ Kayla

Email: [email protected]

We sat down with Yudha Pratama, who is the President of the PMI Puget Sound Chapter to chat with us on leading a non-profit during the pandemic.

Yudha is a Senior Technical Project Manager and Agile Coach at Realtor.Com. He's also a Lecturer at Northeastern University – Seattle campus teaching traditional project management and advanced agile courses. Since September 2021, Yudha was elected as the President of the PMI Puget Sound chapter and has led the team to advancing the profession of project management.

➡️ Find out more about PMI Puget Sound: https://pugetsoundpmi.org

➡️ Connect with Yudha

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NON-PROFITS IN PUGET SOUND:

Fill out this form to let us know how we can help with your project management efforts: https://pm-volunteers.org/form-projects/

PROJECT MANAGERS:

Check out our volunteer project manager postings: https://pm-volunteers.org/volunteer/

FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE:

@Everything Non-Profit on Apple Podcasts/ Spotify/ Amazon Music/ Radio Public

@Puget Sound Project Management Volunteers on LinkedIn

HOSTS:

➡️ Carmen

➡️ Kayla

Email: [email protected]