How do nonprofit practitioners learn to understand themselves as nonprofit professionals? Although the literature has explored the extent and repercussions of nonprofits becoming more business like and professionalized, little attention has been placed on the process through which this professionalization occurs. Using an autoethnography based on my practice as cofounder and eventual manager of a small nonprofit organization, this article narrates the range of practices and mechanisms through which I came to understand myself as a nonprofit professional. Following Mitchell Dean, who draws heavily on Michel Foucault’s later work, this article argues that professionalization is taught to nonprofit practitioners through two intertwined mechanisms: the “technologies of performance,” which include funding, and evaluation and monitoring procedures; and “technologies of agency,” which involve the often subtle socialization mechanisms into the sector.

Does every ache and pain require a doctor visit? Short of a catastrophic sign like crushing chest pain or unexplained bleeding, my approach is to wait a week or two to see if a new symptom resolves without medical intervention. I awoke one January morning with pain in my right wrist and forearm so intense I couldn’t brush my teeth. Perhaps I did too much crocheting or slept on it wrong.

For vehicles that have Electronic Throttle Control (ETC) and a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) 10,000 lbs. (4,536 kilograms) or less, the proposal would also require manufacturers include a Brake Throttle Override (BTO) system to ensure the vehicle would stop if both the brake and the accelerator pedals are simultaneously applied. Many manufacturers are already including BTO systems in their vehicle fleets..

While doing my daily jones on the fashion news circuit, I was a tad surprised to learn by British Vogue that the former Canadian fashion brand Club Monaco, was being introduced to the European market via UK retailer Browns. To attract the fashion crowd, they teamed up with fashion elite such as Lou Doillon, Lauren Hutton and artist Jade Berreau. Hmm, interesting..

University of Michigan is not a private institution, Steinberg said. Are certain parts of the that are generally open to the public for the free expression of ideas. The University of Michigan cannot use the trespass statute as if it was a private entity to bar individuals from participating in the public life and in the public exchange of ideas in places like the Diag.”.