Fresh Faces on Board

More students participate in nonprofit-leadership programs

Betsy Poirier recently landed a plum job in the for-profit world — as manager of new business development for Toys "R" Us. But she also had a nonprofit goal that many young professionals would not dare to reach for so early in their careers: to serve on a museum board.

Ms. Poirier, who this month earned her master's degree in business administration from Columbia Business School, in New York, got a taste of what it would be like to realize her ambition last year, as a

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