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MAY 2011
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» Get Ready to Innovate
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Dear ,
A year ago this month, I turned to my friends at Mom-entum Resources in a quest for some flexible, part-time support for my growing consulting business.
On May 20, project manager Cara McDaniel, celebrates her one year anniversary with Floricane.
Cara's first project with Floricane was a staff retreat with the Virginia Poverty Law Center team; coincidentally, Cara and I will be back with that same team on May 23.
As project manager -- not the most accurate of job titles, honestly -- Cara not only keeps our projects in motion, but she takes copious notes and generates summary reports for many of our client interactions. Her work allows Sarah Milston and me to focus on our facilitation when we're with clients, and we have the benefit of her rich summaries to generate the right level of detail in our follow-up work.
Today, Cara has become an instrumental part of the Floricane team -- even as we begin exploring new developmental opportunities for her to grow and contribute with the business.
It's exciting -- and pretty daunting -- to find myself responsible for the success of a small team of Floricane professionals. If you've done work with us, you know that each of them contributes in unique ways to our efforts.
Growing together, and supporting each other's success, is one of the things that makes this emerging chapter in Floricane's brief history so exciting. I'm thankful to have talent like Cara, Juliet, Tina and Sarah on this journey.
PS: You can wish Cara a happy anniversary here.
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GET READY TO INNOVATE
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Every day, in offices and labs, studios and galleries around the Richmond Region, a diverse range of RVA creatives develop impactful, innovative and imaginative solutions across all disciplines. i.e. is an inspired initiative to launch Richmond into the limelight and over time, put us on the map for innovative excellence.
i.e. connects Greater Richmond's existing creative resources and multiple perspectives to focus on a common goal: igniting creative innovation.
Floricane is excited to partner with some of the region's more forward-looking catalysts in the development of i.e. Join us at the front of this inspired movement on June 23.
» learn more about i.e. | meet i.e. June 23 |
RECENT FLORICANE ACTIVITY
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Cultivating A Healthy Organization
Join Sarah Milston and John Sarvay for this half-day workshop designed for groups of nonprofit staff and board.
Explore key elements of healthy nonprofits, and conduct your own self-assessment and organizational inventory.
Offered July 19 by Southside Community Partners in Hopewell. |
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CultureWorks' Cultsha Xpo
Richmond's arts and culture umbrella organization is bringing more than 50 arts, history, science and cultural organizations to the Science Museum for a full day of entertainment and education. It's their way of introducing Richmond's robust cultural scene to the region, and to encourage more of us to become Cultsha's (Cultural Shareholders). It happens on Saturday, June 25.
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| Community Conversations
The Valentine is hosting another community conversation, this time on May 16th at the Weinstein Jewish Community Center with John Moeser as the featured speaker.
If you haven't heard Prof. Moeser's updated presentation on poverty and immigration trends according to the 2010 census data, this will be a great chance to catch him.
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Thea turned three last month, and suddenly our lives changed.
A year ago, a weekend in the mountains meant carrying a toddler along rocky paths. Dinner out? Forget it. First Fridays? Nah.
It seems that our family agenda has evolved along with our child.
Over the span of a week, we've been on the go with our newly independent youngster -- dinner and Mother's Day brunch out, our annual trip to cheer her uncle as he hiked to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis, rocking out on the lawn at Lewis Ginter, Ed Trask's First Friday art opening, the start of the South of the James Market, a community clean-up in Fulton and planting our garden.
We've been busy. We've had fun. We've ignored a few bed-and-bath traditions along the way. And we've managed to be productive as a family -- a departure from the "I'll watch her while you work" approach we used to juggle.
More important, we've watched our daughter laugh, dance and explore new boundaries.
I've seen her caring side as she carefully guided 18-month-old Caroline up the trail at Carver's Gap - Thea darting ahead to explore, then periodically circling back to help her younger cousin. (Caroline has Cystic Fibrosis, but that hasn't slowed her down a bit!)
A week later, I watched her zealously patrol the southwest corner of Government and Williamsburg roads during a Greater Fulton clean-up event.
She wielded her orange trash grabber in earnest, grabbing cigarette butts, broken glass and old bottle caps and dropping them in a trash bag. She may have only snagged a few dozen pieces of trash, but she was very excited to be helping.
When we got home, she brightly told her grandmother, "Omie, I helped clean up the neighborhood so it is pretty and clean again!"
I've seen her glow with happiness as she ran and danced for hours during our first extended evening out as a family -- watching Prabir and Cracker perform in picture-perfect weather at Lewis Ginter.
Caring, helpful and full-of-heart are the aspects of Thea's personality that Nikole and I hope to continue to nurture, even as she explores other aspects of her rich personality. Having opportunities to explore with her -- and for her to explore with us -- makes everything that much more exciting.
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