Orgforward

What kind of Energy is your Organizational Identity?
https://orgforwardopine.blogspot.com/2024/07/what-kind-of-energy-does-your.html

Orgforward has updated and expanded our outcomes to include the following:

affirmation - agency - asset
people are affirmed in their humanity, their lived experience & perspective are acknowledged and understood

people are free from oppression and feel they have influence over choices in their life

people are able to meaningfully contribute to their life, their work, and their community

In a world where community health and wellbeing are at stake, knowing and being accountable to values and organizational culture are the paramount responsibility of board members

We Need to STOP Undervaluing Our Values: A Call to Board Action on Values and Culture Integrity Quick question (really a series of questions because you all know by now that, I never stop at one...) How regularly does your board evaluat...

We make choices everyday with our dollars that have a far greater impact than all our blogs, tweets, and advocacy. Here's a site that helps add values to your purchasing

The Official Website Of The Black Dollar Index (BDI) | Search Ratings Now The Black Dollar Index (BDI) is a first of its kind multi-factor scoring system that rates consumer-facing corporations by a set of public data factors including, but not limited to, investments in Black employment, leadership, communities, and suppliers.

https://orgforwardopine.blogspot.com/2021/07/how-creativity-can-inform-our-work-aka.html

How Creativity Can Inform Our Work (aka how my mother influenced what I do) My mother recently gave an intimate talk on creativity. She has been creating for over seven decades as a painter, gardener, chef, house ren...

When we start with a slightly different focus to our questions, we can get dramatically different decisions and outcomes

Stop Serving and Start Affecting I sit on the board of an organization called Creating the Future . The tagline is ‘Change the questions, Change the world.’ The underlying p...

https://orgforwardopine.blogspot.com/2021/03/9-critical-questions-to-ask-before.html

9 Critical Questions to Ask BEFORE Deciding to Embark on a Strategic Plan I will be honest. I am a bit of a Strategic Planning skeptic – so best to get that bias out first. My overall experience is that the cli...

Looking forward to the opportunity to speak at the Equity Summit with the Greater Washington Urban League. A movement to bring about social change for the benefit of us all is afoot. Excited to be with executive leaders from across the greater Washington area to explore and discuss community benefit based leadreship and engagement. Visit gwul.org/equitysummit to learn more!

Want to Build ?

If you or someone you know in the Greater DC area is looking for an opportunity to build leadership comfort, confidence, and competence, consider Montgomery Colleges Nonprofit Leadership Institute. I'm honored to be partnered with the college for another spring session (Friday morning from Mar - June). While it has a nonprofit focus, it's appropriate for anyone looking to build values-based personal and organizational leadership skills.

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Nonprofit Leadership Boot Camp | Montgomery College, Maryland This six session boot camp over 4 months is designed for new and middle managers of nonprofits to develop leadership skills, strategies, and operational skills. Workforce Development and Continuing Education, Montgomery College, Maryland

Continue to think about how a board of directors can be an asset to an organization. In this piece - shift from drawing on leaders (extraction) to developing leadership (infusion)


https://orgforwardopine.blogspot.com/2020/12/boards-stop-recruiting-leaders-and.html

https://orgforwardopine.blogspot.com/2020/12/its-time-to-break-free-of-our-myths.html

Break free of the 'demonstrating organizational strength' myth Many of you may have had an experience with a common strength demonstration activity that I first experienced when my freshman English t...