"In our youth we harbor grand ambitions....
My dream was to become a journalist wielding the power of the pen to craft breaking new stories and conduct exclusive interviews.
Other than a stint as the sports editor for my local high school paper, the pinnacle of my journalistic career, that dream was thwarted for other career aspirations.
Yet, writing has remained a constant beacon.
Fast track 30 years, after a long and fully satisfying career in health care and community outreach, and today as CEO of United Way of San Joaquin County, Stocktonia presented me with an opportunity to share stories about our community, particularly our nonprofit organizations."
Those organizations include Goodwill Industries, Hospice of San Joaquin, Haggin Museum, the Community Center for the Blind, or YMCA.
With a much larger percentage, over 71%, in fact, are young and maturing nonprofits, and in San Joaquin County alone, nonprofits employ more than 21,000 people, and across the state, one in 14 people work in the nonprofit sector.
"I am not a professional journalist, but I did get an A in creative writing my freshman year at Lincoln High School and have a deeply rooted vision that fact-based reporting might just save us from ourselves," writes Stocktonia reporter and United Way CEO Toni McNeil in her first column for the Read the Entire Article
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