Build Better Relationships with DiSC

Community Senior Serv (CSS) an Orange County nonprofit dedicated to meeting the needs of older adults, engaged Janine McDonald in affiliation with OneOC to provide training for 130 employees including kitchen staff, case managers and executives. Their mission is to improve the quality of life for older adults and their families by creating a safety […]

Lessons in Leadership

Lynda Perring, former CEO and current Director of Programs of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Orange County, a non-profit organization that trains community volunteers to serve as powerful mentors and advocates for our community’s most severely abused, abandoned and neglected children recently held a round table leadership discussion with emerging leaders at Taller San Jose. […]

How to tell a Good Story

I am officially in the Andy Goodman fan club after attending his “Telling Your Story” workshop hosted by OneOC. Storytelling is an integral part of our history, identity, how we remember and why we give. It is part of the human experience to tell stories. The problem he reminded us is the way we tell […]

Be Aware Foundation

The Be Aware Foundation has engaged Janine McDonald through her affiliation with OneOC to lead and facilitate a strategic board retreat.  Be Aware is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving women’s lives by ensuring that breast cancer is diagnosed at its earliest stages.\n\nIt is estimated that 3 million women in the U.S. are living with breast […]

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, […]