Local Mentoring Spotlight: Michelle Kosta
We asked local mentoring advocate Michelle Kosta, Executive Director at Family of Friends, why mentoring was so important to both her nonprofit and to her professional success. The following is her response: Family of Friends Why is youth mentoring important? This quote from one of our kids, 11-year-old Yaslene, says it best, “My mentor helps me come out of my cocoon. We balance each other out. We help each other find the meanings of things. Mentors go through things with you
Tips to Maximize Your Year!
There are many reasons you may be looking forward to 2020. It is a fresh new decade for you and your business to thrive in, but where do you start? This month we are focusing on Strategic Planning, but there are many other ways to jumpstart your personal or organizational growth. Below are just a few examples, but check out our website for even more options. 1. Set Goals This may seem fundamental, but you would be surprised how many professionals fail to set monthly, quarterl
OurOffice: The First Business Platform to Manage Diversity & Inclusion
Recently SRG joined Our Office’s team because of our shared mission to transform workplace culture to an all inclusive one by using a framework and a fully integrated technology solution. We all know Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) are important to business success. But what about measuring D&I as a data point, just like the rest of your business objectives? OurOffice is the first business platform for measuring and managing (D&I). You can visualize your diversity data, selecti
Clever Scam: An Unfortunate Mistake Offers Valuable Lessons for Employees and Bosses
It seems that our inboxes are always full of poorly crafted emails with questionable attachments from unknown senders, trying to gain access to our information or our computers. Email scammers are ubiquitous, and often a pesky but easily avoidable hazard in our digital -- and our real -- lives. However, we recently heard from a client of ours who shared the alarming story of their business being scammed by an insidious and highly creative scam, which leveraged not only partic
We're Sponsoring Another Female-Centric Play Production: THE TAMING
Continuing Synergy Resources Group's tradition of providing for a cause that supports women in their careers and/or their passion pursuits, we're sponsoring the CoHo Theater production of a new play THE TAMING. THE TAMING is self-described as a "hilarious, farcical, all-female power-play" in which "beauty queen Katherine needs to revolutionize the American government with the help of one ultra-conservative senator’s aide, and one bleeding-heart liberal blogger who will do any
Moderate Alcohol + Caffeine Contribute to Longevity
As she celebrated her 100th birthday last week, Matilda Curcia of San Diego credited her nightly habit of consuming one beer and three potato chips before bed along with daily exercise for her long life, NBC reported. She may be on to something. Researchers conducting a long-term study of people in their 90s found that consuming moderate amounts of alcohol or caffeine is a common factor among the oldest Americans, and that movement continues to be important as we age. Learn M
Mapping Your Own Environment
The EPA has a tool called My Environment, which, when given a specific address or zip code, can give interesting data on your neighborhood -- like the quality of the air you breathe, the water you drink, the energy you consume, your overall health, and much more. Give it a visit with your business or home address and see how you measure up. Try "My Environment" with Your Location >> #environment #health
Fundraising Thermometers + Events = New Heights
You’ve seen fundraising thermometers before. Everyone uses them—elementary school fundraisers, church fundraisers, building funds, and other events. Today, nonprofits use them for peer-to-peer fundraising, capital campaigns, and lots of other places. But it’s when they combine event fundraising with fundraising thermometers that really exciting things happen. Because they’re such a classic fundraising tool, it’s easy for donors to overlook fundraising thermometers. Learn more
Are You 21 to 37? You Might Be a Millenial
Are you a millennial? Like it or not, you might be. It’s a roughly defined group, but on Thursday, the Pew Research Center tried to impose some order on the chaos. If you were born between 1981 and 1996, the group said, it will consider you a millennial. That definition is slightly more restrictive than the one used by the United States Census Bureau, which sets the cutoff years as 1982 and 2000. Learn More About Pew's Research >> #millenials
Workplace of the Future, or Living on Mars?
Amazon opened its new downtown Seattle office space in January, revealing a campus that looks more like a rainforest than a typical cubicle farm. The reveal of the new Sphere Complex comes after the world's largest online retailer spent seven years planning and constructing a cutting-edge space that it hopes will help spark its employees' creativity. Rather than the usual mix of closed hallways and traditional conference rooms, the space features winding walkways that lead to
