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From recent graduates and first-time job seekers to mid-career transitionists and career services professionals, The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers is intended to be a useful source of information for people seeking a meaningful career in the nonprofit sector.

As a reader of The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers, you can also help us improve it. If you have any comments, critiques, or compliments about the content of the book, please feel free to send us an email at books{at}idealist.org. We would love to hear from you.

Several readers have inquired about the availability of a printed version of The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers. We decided to publish The Idealist Guide as PDF files in order to allow readers to access the information freely and to share the book with friends and colleagues. We are exploring the possibility of making available a printed version of the book.

In the interim period, readers who wish to print the entire book can download all the sections of The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers in a single PDF file. Please note that the pagination in the single PDF still relates to individual sections, not to the book as a whole. To download the complete book, right-click (or control-click on a Mac) the following link and select "Save file as": Download complete Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers (9.1 MB). Once the PDF has downloaded, you can press print once and the entire book will print.

The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers is available as free PDFs. If you are experiencing problems with the PDFs, here are a few helpful solutions you can try.

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• If you are unable to upgrade Acrobat Reader, or if you continue to experience problems after doing so, you can download a special version of the Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers in a single file. This file is saved in Acrobat 5.0 format and should display correctly in most older versions of Acrobat Reader. Right-click (or control-click on a Mac) on the following link and choose "Save file as": Download complete Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers in Acrobat 5 format.
• If you continue to experience difficulties with the PDFs, please write to us using the contact information listed in the "feedback" section above. Please include a description of the problem you are encountering in your correspondence. Thank you.