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G.R.O.W. is looking for an experienced business development professional to support the succession of our Executive Director. The main responsibility of this role is to work closely with the current Executive Director and HR Manager to create, drive and execute plans that will effectively help the organization scale and support the succession of our Executive Director. We need someone who is willing to roll up their sleeves and jump right in. Our executive director is busy managing all aspects of the organization and we need someone who is a self-started and action oriented person. Ideally this person would have experience in nonprofits and education, but is not a requirement for this position.

This person will familiarize themselves with our core values and programs, and be able to translate this into succession strategy and execution. Our ideal candidate is someone who has working knowledge in talent outreach and fundraising for organization development needs.

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The Board of Directors is a dynamic group of leaders committed to FACT Oregon’s mission, vision, and values. They actively champion and steward the organization to help us do the best work possible in pursuit of our goals to equip and empower families and transform disability. As an organization that is family-led, FACT Oregon’s board maintains a majority presence of parents of youth with disabilities and seeks to have diverse leadership that reflects the racial, cultural, geographic, and linguistic diversity of the families and communities we serve.

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Join our Board, located in the south San Francisco Bay area, we are currently meeting virtually once per quarter. We are looking for someone with a passion for environmental education and preserving wildlife habitat. Helpful skills include fundraising, event planning, social media, legal, technical, accounting, diversity, organizational culture, and executive level skills.

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Unique Leadership Opportunity!
Are you looking for a unique leadership opportunity? Have you been yearning to put your talent
in strategic thinking, financial forecasting, organization behavior, project management and/or policy advocacy in the service of a great cause?
Well, look no further!

Lyme Disease Resource Center, Inc., is an all-volunteer, community-based 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2013. EIN 46-3986105 Our mission is to be a peer guided, supportive and safe place for those living with Lyme Disease and their care partners, sharing strategies and resources for living well.

If you are one or more of the following, we’d like to talk with you:
** Energetic and entrepreneurial business people, who are not already overextended with other commitments, eager to put their enthusiasm for changing the world to work for our clients.
**Community leaders and philanthropists willing to engage their peers to facilitating a consensus among diverse individuals.
**Astute governmental advocates who can assist in navigating the political landscape of policy development, funding and legislation.
**Leaders at our partner agencies -- Lyme/tick borne illness advocacy and educational services -- interested in building strong programs with us.
**Health care professionals – pediatricians, public health, health associations – dedicated to creating supportive resources for those living with Lyme Disease and their care partners.
**Scholars/academics who want to put their expertise in tick borne illness, social services and advocacy to work in the community.
**Care Partners, Family and others who have a demonstrated talent, joy and energy in chairing successful fundraising events and promotions.

If you hold yourself to high expectations, then you’ll find board service very rewarding. We are looking for folks who will:
**Attend board and committee meetings
**Review agenda and supporting materials prior to board and committee meetings
**Serve on committees or task forces and take on special assignments
**Be alert to community concerns that can be addressed by LDRC’s mission, and programs
**Represent the LDRC to stakeholders, and act as an ambassador for the organization

If you are interested in being considered for our board, please contact
Maria Malaguti at: info@lymedrc.org or call 413-588-7388

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Finance Forward LatAm 2021 is an Investment Readiness Program that supports entrepreneurs building tech-enabled solutions to place-based challenges in financial health, economic mobility, and labor force resilience in the region.
In this session, mentors will provide feedback to the companies on their milestone plans and help them think through their plan for investment.

The session will follow this format:
-Introductions and Break into Small Groups (two companies per group)
-Small Group Work: Each company will have 40 minutes to go over their milestone plan and get feedback from mentors.
-Full Group Debrief

Before the Session:
-Volunteers will receive a calendar invitation and a Mentor Packet including information about the session and the companies one week before the session.
-The sessions will be held in spanish, but live translation to portuguese/english will be available if needed.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Finance Forward LatAm 2021 is an Investment Readiness Program that supports entrepreneurs building tech-enabled solutions to place-based challenges in financial health, economic mobility, and labor force resilience in the region.
The goal of this mentoring session is for the entrepreneurs to gain insight into the biggest strategic challenges they are facing as a company and gain experience leading a board meeting.

The session will follow this format:
-Introductions and Break into Small Groups
-Small Group Work: The entrepreneurs will introduce their company and present their strategic challenges to then receive insight from the advisory board
-Full Group Debrief

Before the Session:
-One week before the session, volunteers will receive a calendar invitation and a Mentor Packet including details about the session and information about the companies.
-Volunteers will meet with 2 companies during the session.
-The session will be held in spanish, but live translation to portuguese/english will be available if needed.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Finance Forward LatAm 2021 is an Investment Readiness Program that supports entrepreneurs building tech-enabled solutions to place-based challenges in financial health, economic mobility, and labor force resilience in the region.
In this session, volunteers will participate as mentors to the entrepreneurs participating in the program. The companies will describe their business model, starting with their value propositions by way of introduction and to tell the mentors at what scale they have modeled their business.


The session will follow this format:
-Introductions and Break into Small Groups
-Small Group Work: The company will have 30 minutes to walk you through their business model and receive feedback.
-Full Group Debrief

Before the Session:
-One week before the session, volunteers will receive a calendar invitation and a Mentor Packet including guidelines and details about the session, as well as information about the companies.
-The session will be held in spanish, but live translation to portuguese/english will be available if needed.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Finance Forward LatAm 2021 is an Investment Readiness Program that supports entrepreneurs building tech-enabled solutions to place-based challenges in financial health, economic mobility, and labor force resilience in the region.
In this mentoring session, startups meet in a simulated Advisory Meeting to learn more about the stakeholders in their industry and to gain new perspectives around their strategic milestone plan, specifically around client acquisition, differentiation, and product-market fit.

The session will follow this format:
-Introductions and Break into Small Groups
-Small Group 1 (40 mins): The company will do a product demo and will outline a strategic challenge they are facing in customer acquisition to then get feedback from mentors
-Back to the main room to share learnings
-Small Group 2 (40 mins): The company will do a product demo and will outline a strategic challenge they are facing in customer acquisition to then get feedback from mentors
-Full Group Debrief

Before the Session:
-Volunteers will receive a calendar invitation and a Mentor Packet including information about the session and the companies one week before the session.
-Each mentor will meet with two different companies during the session.
-The sessions will be held in spanish, but live translation to portuguese/english will be available if needed.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	12	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Finance Forward LatAm 2021 is an Investment Readiness Program that supports entrepreneurs building tech-enabled solutions to place-based challenges in financial health, economic mobility, and labor force resilience in the region.
In this session, volunteers will participate as mentors to the entrepreneurs participating in the program. They will meet with the companies to provide feedback on their market sizing and analysis, and their strategies for how to operate and add value within their market.

The session will follow this format:
-Introductions and Break into Small Groups: Each group will be formed by two mentors and two companies.
-Small Group Work: Each company will have 30 minutes to present their market analysis and receive feedback on whether they have correctly analyzed their market size and capture.
-Full Group Debrief

Before the Session:
-Volunteers will receive a calendar invitation and a Mentor Packet including information about the session and the companies one week before the session.
-The session will be held in spanish, but live translation to portuguese/english will be available if needed.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

CrowdDoing aims to show how social innovation can scale to the scope of our collective challenges by leveraging under-utilized capacities and how it can drive new participation by individuals and institutions to make that possible. Social innovations and social enterprises have insufficient support today to address Sustainable Development Goals. Organizations in both the public and private sector meanwhile face a shortage of skills for navigating a world increasingly challenged by VUCA - ""volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.""

A study of CEOs conducted by IBM found that ""rapid escalation of complexity is the biggest challenge confronting [the world’s public and private sector leaders]."" . Research has connected the increase in VUCA as a critical cause of the doubling of the ""topple rate,"" the rate at which ""big companies lose their leadership positions"". Research finds that the current approach to training for a VUCA world isn’t working . CrowdDoing conducted primary and secondary research on what effectively prepares workers of the future for a VUCA world. The authors of this paper studied the evidence of what kinds of education and training prepare individuals with the skills of the future that a VUCA world demands. This report lays out CrowdDoing’s findings.

In sum, this report indicates that service learning and skilled volunteering have demonstrably been efficient and effective approaches to helping individuals acquire skills for a VUCA world in a diversity of fields-from human resources to engineering to project management to data science. This report builds upon both primary research from CrowdDoing’s experience and secondary research into evidence of service learning’s effects, skilled volunteering and its effects, ad cases I which service learning ad skilled volunteering have been applied to social innovation

The report is meant to help organizations understand how virtual service learning & skilled volunteering can help organizations overcome current and future skills deficits in their workforce. It is also meant to help individuals appreciate the ways in which participation in social-innovation-oriented skilled volunteering can accelerate their problem-solving abilities... and make employees under their supervision more effective.

On the basis of our primary and secondary research, CrowdDoing recommends that each organization consider the CrowdDoing paradigm as viable preparation for an increasingly VUCA world. Helping individuals grapple with complex systems and their consequences for stakeholders through skilled volunteering and service learning in support of social innovation can help give them skills that can help them succeed in a VUCA world.

There is increasing evidence of an ""executive skills gap"" - a gap between the skills needed to cope with a volatile, uncertain, ambiguous, and complex (VUCA) business landscape and the skills being imparted by executive development programs. This gap is ""increasingly obvious-and, costly."" This volatility-a cause of companies losing leadership positions vis a vis the ""topple rate"" - also relates to the increasing inter-connectedness of the world and the decreasing length of the period during which current skills remain current. ""Many executives have acknowledged the extreme compression of the time scale on which dramatic change occurs at the technological, industry, customer demographics and preferences, organizational, operational, and interpersonal levels. A pharmaceutical executive observed: ""Ten years ago we had a decade to adjust and prepare for what was coming, but today the adjustment cycles are much shorter. How do you prepare for that?""

This challenge has been building for some time. Already in 2010, IBM’s ""Capitalizing on Complexity: Insights from the Global Chief Executive Officer Study"" reported that the complexity of operating in an increasingly volatile and uncertain world is the ""primary challenge of CEOs."" Since then research has connected the increase in VUCA as a critical cause of the doubling of the ""topple rate,"" the rate at which big companies lose their leadership positions, suggesting that even ""winners"" are in a precarious positions.""

VUCA has come to intersect with each professional role, including that of project management. One example of research in this area is Booz Allen Hamilton’s ""Redefining Program Management for the Unique Challenges of Complex Programs,"" which identifies complexity in projects as ""the exponential increase in ambiguity surrounding stakeholder expectations, especially regarding the certainty of program outcomes and schedules."" Similarly, scholars of the information technology and communications fields have noted that ""workers in the digital economy should be able to generate and process complex information; think systematically and critically; take decisions weighing different forms of evidence; ask meaningful questions about different subjects; be adaptable and flexible to new information; be creative; and be able to identify and solve real-world problems"".
One leverage point for achieving Sustainable Development Goals through social innovation is to create new depth and breadth of participation by stakeholders. CrowdDoing aims to scale participation through skilled volunteering and service learning opportunities to help enterprises and institutions foster social innovation.

Better mental health, physical health and productivity among employees are among the intrinsic incentives that prompt companies to adopt employee volunteer programs. Learning, creating impact, and achieving mental and physical health benefits are intrinsic incentives that prompt employees to participate in volunteering & service learning programs.

Service learning has historically been efficient at achieving learning goals but inefficient at achieving impact goals. Scaling service learning in support of social innovation can intervene to change this pattern.

Our increased awareness of the interconnectedness of societal challenges requires that we train professionals to be more than excellent in their particular fields: they need be able to collaborate across disciplinary lines. These collaborations on real-world social innovations shift the perspective of professionals to an empathetic frame of reference vis a vis the stakeholders they aim to serve. Grappling with complexity is not easy, but in order help social innovations reach their impact potential to achieve Sustainable Development Goals and beyond, people are willing to learn more about complex systems and the systems that have implications for a social innovation and the stakeholders it is created to serve.

Skilled volunteering and service learning in support of social innovation is an efficient way for individuals to gain skills that that further their success as project managers, human resources professionals, marketing professionals, and engineers. Service learning focused on social innovation can be efficient simultaneously at achieving impact, and at teaching skills needed in the future.


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CrowdDoing Service Learning Project Coordinator Volunteer

Coordinate project management activities, resources, equipment and information
Break projects into doable actions and set timeframes
Liaise with clients to identify and define requirements, scope and objectives
Assign tasks to internal teams and assist with schedule management
Make sure that clients’ needs are met as projects evolve
Help prepare budgets
Analyze risks and opportunities
Oversee project procurement management
Monitor project progress and handle any issues that arise
Act as the point of contact and communicate project status to all participants
Work with the Project Manager to eliminate blockers
Use tools to monitor working hours, plans and expenditures
Issue all appropriate legal paperwork (e.g. contracts and terms of agreement)
Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports
Ensure standards and requirements are met through conducting quality assurance tests
CrowdDoing Service Learning Project Coordinator Volunteer
Proven work experience as a Project Coordinator or similar role
Experience in project management, from conception to delivery
An ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts, schedules and step-by-step action plans
Solid organizational skills, including multitasking and time-management
Strong client-facing and teamwork skills
Familiarity with risk management and quality assurance control
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project and Microsoft Planner
Hands-on experience with project management tools (e.g. Basecamp or Trello)
BSc in Business Administration or related field
PMP / PRINCE2 certification is a plus


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