Monthly Archives: March 2010

Apr 29: Spring Party!

With Net Impact, MassInc, The New Prosperity Initiative, and the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network

Date: Thursday, April 29
Time: 7pm – 10pm
Location: 33 Restaurant and Lounge in downtown Boston (view map)
RSVP: Because we are expecting several hundred attendees, please RSVP to Alexis at alexis.vanderhye@gmail.com

Enjoy an evening of free wining and dining with four of Boston’s finest civic organizations and their extended communities. The whole purpose of the evening is for you to have a good time meeting good people you might not otherwise cross paths with. Come alone or bring friends who want to become more engaged in the greater Boston community.

Mar 30: Equal Exchange: A Most Unlikely Story with Rodney North

Date: Tuesday, March 30
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: Lir, 903 Boylston Street (Hynes Conv Ctr) (view map)
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/y8da8cf

Equal Exchange is the award-winning, employee-owned and governed, $35 million social enterprise that helped create the Fair Trade food category in the United States. Rodney North is their Answer Man, as well as a 14-year employee-owner and Board Director.

Rodney will share the story of Equal Exchange’s highly improbable success at creating a new trade model that benefits small farmers around the world even while creating one of the most successful worker co-operatives in North America. He will focus on the lessons Equal Exchange has to share with future social entrepreneurs.

President’s Corner: March 2010

It’s hard to believe that the gloom and doom of winter is nearly over. What better way to celebrate the waning of the season than with the 2010 Olympic Games, which I must admit, I’ve been following with great enthusiasm. It’s incredibly inspiring to watch the athletes – who have been working toward a dream for so long – finally realize that vision, be it with a gold medal or the satisfaction of simply competing. We are all individuals; we all have our own visions of who we are and what we want to accomplish in life. However, one thing we have in common as readers of this newsletter is that we are involved in Net Impact Boston. I’d like this installment of the President’s Corner to serve as a reminder that being engaged in Net Impact is a great way to meet new people and learn new things. The relationships you form and what you learn could perhaps help you realize your own dream, be it through a new career opportunity or mere inspiration.

That said, we have a host of fantastic events lined up for March, including our New Member Social on March 3rd at Tavern in the Square. I’m particularly excited about this event and we currently have over 50 RSVPs that run the gamut from seasoned members to folks interested in learning what Net Impact is all about. I’m hoping to see a lot of new faces as well as catch up with folks I haven’t seen in a while – and I hope you are as well.

Devon Long-Lytle
2010 Net Impact Boston President