I’ve heard coed sports stuff is also really great! And gym classes too!

One of our friends met his girlfriend that way, and another has met a ton of friends through it.

I saw you said you’re going to be in nursing? Fortunately nursing around here is often tight knit, which is great. Highly recommend Newark Beth when you’re looking for roles, I know a few people in nursing there and they’re super sweet (not that sometimes stereotype of mean girls).

Hey!

Welcome to the area, we’re not far from you! It takes some doing, but going to bars and just talking until people stick works. Being a little flexible on age range to strike up a convo with too is a good idea. My husband and I met a bunch of our friends that way, we’re 26/27 and our friends are a few years younger and we met them at a bar nearby. Husband didn’t know a soul when we moved here and now he’s got golf bros lol

I get it though, most of my girl friends live elsewhere too, and it sucks trying to branch out when in the suburbs because it feels like most people have found their niche or aren’t interested in befriending new people

Nonprofit is my academic field and field of work and I promise those of us who give a crap about the causes work really hard to try to fix it :(

My advice is always to look at charity navigator for info on a nonprofit’s reliability, and whenever possible (just like in the private sector) give to someplace local! I’ve only ever worked for state level or smaller focused organizations and programs, and from the top down we all are not making much money and give crazy hours and effort to our missions. Once where I worked my executive director was mopping the homeless shelter because we needed an extra hand.

TLDR: Pls don’t discount the whole sector because the big guys suck, us smaller orgs give a crap and work crazy hard and usually make a LOT under what we’d make in the private sector to do something we care about