Net Impact Seattle :: Professional Chapter

Leading Change Dinner Tickets Now Available

Be sure to purchase your tickets for next week’s Microsoft event on Brown Paper Tickets.

Guest Speaker: Dan Bross, Senior Director, Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft

Clearly, today’s economic and social challenges are beyond the ability of governments to solve and will require a cross sector response. Business success in our flat, interconnected, multi-cultural world will require forward looking, socially aware leaders. Leaders who recognize the opportunity to increase business value by addressing social challenges. As the role of business in society, particularly in the US, evolves beyond Friedman (Milton and Tom), corporate leaders need more than the basic toolbox of traditional business skills—finance, marketing, human resources, strategy. Successful executives will need creativity, empathy and context to help their businesses compete and grow across multiple cultures and geographies.

For more info on the event, see last week’s post.

Book Club: Portfolios of the Poor, May 5

Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 9:00 PM
Location: email sharanicolesenior@gmail.com

Please join us to kick off a new activity – the monthly Net Impact Seattle Book Club!

The premise is this:
-We read primarily non-fiction books focused on current global issuesthat cover economic, social, political, business, and environmental issues.

-We meet monthly, and take turns hosting the group for dinner. The host gets to pick the book that the group will read for that month. [...]

During the week of Earth Day 2010, people around the world will capture the state of (un)sustainable living in their community as part of A Day in a (Un)Sustainable Life 2010, an annual, global research & policy project lead by the Net Impact chapter at the University of St. Thomas. Net Impact Seattle would like to invite everyone to join in!

Simply wander out into your community during the week around April 22nd with a digital camera and a journal. As you wander, photograph examples of what you see as the best and worst in sustainable living practices. As you compose a photograph, use your journal to capture the thoughts and feelings you are experiencing. Then share your photos and your thoughts with us.

Share your photos, thoughts, and feelings with the project by sending your photos and journal entries to niseattle@gmail.com. Please include the photograph files as attachments rather than embedding the photos in the email. Then, put all of your journal entries in a Word attachment or in the body of the email. At the end of each journal entry, make sure you clearly identify which of the photos you’ve written about and, if you’re sharing it, the address/location where those photos were taken.

Once all the participants have shared their images, thoughts, and feelings, the University of St. Thomas will begin the process of organizing and interpreting everything that was shared.

Thanks for participating!

Networking Happy Hour at Hotel Deca Lounge

Date: Friday, April 23, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Location: 4507 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105

Join us on Friday, April 23 at the District Lounge for networking and happy hour! Meet other Seattle Net Impact members and mingle with Seattle’s CSR community.

The event is free and open to members and non-members alike.

We will also provide more info about our 4/27 Networking Event with Dan Bross, Microsoft’s Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship.