Our Non profit organization started only 1 and a half years ago. The organization's compiled of educators, grant writers, humanitarians, and specialists in art all over the globe. Our first meeting was in London. I wasn't familiar with anyone in the organization, except the founder who I'd only met personally 2 weeks prior to the London meeting. The founder of our organization sent out recommendations for a hostel to stay in while we were in London. The Hostel was around the corner from the tube where we'd have to convene to make a trip to some town. The eve of the first meeting, she organized a get together, an initial meeting of sorts at a variety show. It was such a fun night, entertainers, comedians called on our group and interacted in front of many people on a stage. This initial meeting still resonates as my grand impressions of these people. Basically as independent as we were from the leader, she made us seem almost nurtured. We met daily from 9:00Am - 5PM discussing all the aspects of our programs, the funding, the advisers,etc. When we met the next day, everything we had worked on previously was seamlessly put together on a white board and we cultivated our programs further with more energy conserved, and focusing on ideal effectiveness. I video taped portions of our meetings and we posted them to our website. Our organization's leadership and culture is projected through the egalitarian cultivation of projects we each volunteer to perform.
(We're all volunteers.)
The organization no longer has a leader. Our leader decided to make it our own organization, it's global. our members are from Australia, England, The Caribbean, Uganda,and throughout the East Coast of the states. So how we experienced our organizations culture, we transfix that to our members we're recruiting. When I come to think about it, the way work is asserted and dealt with in my organization is as if the first meeting has never concluded. We have meetings seasonally. And we bring up goals to reach (We're currently trying to organize a fundraiser) and the people that are working on this are so talented, so capable, and extremely generous (Including myself) that it's a very seamless and organic process for us to cultivate projects, and interoperate, as well as act as leaders:-)
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I'm grateful for the structure we've utilized in our NFP. We make all of our meetings Lax. We try and surround ourselves with culture when we do meet. Like the example of a variety show. We've recently met in some gala's at the Brooklyn modern museum of art. Like you mentioned, with all of our independent and like minded managers we try and meet on a moderate basis. If we see each other more often than 4 times a week it might hurt us in some aspects. Like trying to keep our perception fresh. It's interesting that now two of the leaders are currently starting their education again now In Sustainable Business management(Me included)
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