News & Noteworthy 2012

Voice for Oregon Innovation & Sustainability Alliance (VOIS)
Facilitation & Process has been selected by the Voice for Oregon Innovation & Sustainability Alliance  to assist them in facilitating a Strategic Planning board retreat in January.  With a focus on developing a goals and objectives for the coming year, this strategic planning process will help the VOIS  Alliance team focus, prioritize, and develop strategies that will be used as the basis of operational planning. Facilitation & Process welcomes the VOIS Alliance to our growing list of clients.

Partnering with Right Brain Initiative in Development Planning
Facilitation & Process has been selected by the Right Brain Initiative to assist them in facilitating a resource development planning meeting in January.  With a focus on developing a sustainable business model, this strategic planning process will help the Right Brain Initiative team focus, prioritize, and develop strategies that will be used as the basis of operational planning. Facilitation & Process welcomes the Right Brain Initiative to our growing list of clients.

Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods Continued Support
Last Fall, Facilitation & Process was asked to facilitate the board – staff strategic planning retreat for the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods (NECN).  Over the course of the year, I provided coaching to the executive team and in November will, again, be facilitating a Board Retreat for this great community resource.

Board Assessment & Retreat Projects
Facilitation & Process is wrapping up work on three board development projects with the Portland Reading Foundation, the Leadership and Entrepreneurship Public Charter High School (LEP) and Resolutions Northwest. These three projects involved assessment, process design, and retreat facilitation.  Let us know if we can help your agency.

Partnership with NPC Research Continues
Facilitation & Process continues to work with NPC research on the final six-months of a two (plus) year project that supports the evaluation efforts of ten local nonprofit organizations providing youth mentoring services that are funded by the Portland Children’s Levy.  Over the past two years we have supported the continuous improvement of data collection, tracking and evaluation efforts across the ten diverse agencies.  During this final period, efforts will be directed to supporting the institutionalizing of the changes made over the last two years.