When it comes to networking, what happens at the IS conference doesn’t stay at the IS Annual Conference. It can impact your work well into the future.

Thank you @IndSector for a great experience! I leave #inspired #exhausted #hopeful #overwhelmed #challenged and as a #changemaker. - @mobilizer - David B. Smith, National Conference on Citizenship

Yes, rave reviews come in all forms. Our conference goers send out super tweets.

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Why should our staffs reflect the diverse mosaic of communities across America? Find out in Diana’s blog.

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In Diana's blog, read a Q&A with Luz Vega-Marquis, president and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation.

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In 2012, will you be “pushed by your problems” or “led by your dreams?” Read on to learn Diana’s answer and her outlook for 2012.

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Guest post by Emily G. Culbertson, a Chicago-based nonprofit consultant

Why do we tell stories? To make friends, entertain, and teach, no doubt, but I also suspect we tell stories to make sense of the world around us. If we're working for social change, we tell ourselves stories -- about hunger, homelessness, lack of health care, you name it -- to help understand urgent problems and bring them to life, and more importantly to human size, where we might do something about them.

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