Road Trip to Sanity
Any business owner knows that vacations quickly become illusive. Time off? What’s that? There is always more to do to serve their customers and grow their businesses. Suddenly I found myself in the same boat as many of the clients I had counseled about work/life balance.\n\nI left a corporate job with a generous vacation package […]
Volunteer Center is now OneOC
The Volunteer Center of Orange County has taken on a new look and a new name – OneOC. Starting as the Volunteer Bureau of Newport Beach more than fifty years ago, the organization’s main emphasis was to connect volunteers to nonprofits who needed their help. As time progressed, they outgrew their mission statement, […]
Vital Link is Connecting Students, Schools, and the Business World
An Orange County based nonprofit, Vital Link, will benefit from a Federal grant from the Strengthening Communities Fund made possible through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Janine McDonald, in affiliation with the Volunteer Center of Orange County has been engaged by Vital Link for consulting services for organizational and leadership development. […]
Orangewood Announces Capacity Building Sub-Award Grantees
On May 13, 2010, Orangewood Children’s Foundation, lead agency of the Orange County Capacity Building Program (OCCBP), announced the sub-award recipients of its competitive application process. The sub-awards are provided through a two-year Federal grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Strengthening Communities Fund. \n\nWhat is the Orange County Capacity Building Program?\n\nThe […]
Leadership Program for Nonprofit Executive Directors Launches
The Volunteer Center of Orange is offering a new leadership development program called Leadership@Work for Executive Directors in the nonprofit sector facilitated by Janine McDonald. A grant from American Express provided scholarships for emerging leaders to attend the program. In a time where resources continue to be tight, community leaders jumped at the […]
Taste of a turn
All the sunshine in Southern California is making people smile, and now an article by Jonathon Lansner featured in the OC Register points to positive economic signs for the county as well giving people even more reason to smile. This includes Mari Kurtz president of OC Metals and Cal Pac Sheet Metal who is featured […]