Since formally announcing my New Year’s Resolution to go my own way in my career this year, I’ve been spotting new opportunities everywhere. It’s as if I’m manufacturing rocks to turn over just to have some place to stash all of the possibilities. The board members of Compass Yoga tease me sometimes about my unending [...]
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Leap: You’ll Find Opportunity Everywhere. Now, Plan.
Posted in career, nonprofit, work on January 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Beginning: Compass Yoga is Officially Incorporated
Posted in business, nonprofit, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on October 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Rob, Michael, and I trekked downtown to see our rock star attorneys to review our by-laws. They surprised with the wonderful news that in record time the Department of State has granted incorporation status to Compass Yoga. We are official, moving us one more step down the road to getting more yoga and wellness programming [...]
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Beginning: Compass Yoga Files with the New York Department of State
Posted in business, nonprofit, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on October 12, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Compass Yoga has taken another step on the journey toward incorporation. A few weeks back our attorneys filed our Articles of Incorporation with the Department of Education. The Articles of Incorporation explained our reasons for being, and the board and I worked closely with the attorneys to get our objectives and the associated language just [...]
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Beginning: Meet the Compass Yoga Board of Directors
Posted in nonprofit, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last Monday, Compass Yoga held its first Board of Directors meeting. I had been anticipating that moment, dreaming about it, for many months now. I am beyond lucky and exceedingly grateful to these talented people who have made the decision to walk this path with me and build something truly extraordinary. I could go on [...]
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Beginning: Compass Yoga’s Story Resonates with Lawyers to Secure Pro Bono Legal Counsel
Posted in career, nonprofit, story, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on July 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.” ~ Ben Okri This week I learned an enormous amount about the power of authentic storytelling. I founded Compass Yoga to provide yoga and wellness programming to populations dealing with specific health concerns. Given the incredible need, we are focusing our efforts on [...]
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Beginning: By-donation Yoga Workshop on the 5 Elements of Chinese Medicine and Yin Yoga to Benefit the Nonprofit Blissful Bedrooms
Posted in health, healthcare, meditation, nonprofit, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I put an ad up on Craig’s List last week looking for volunteer yoga teachers who would like to be matched to nonprofits to offer free yoga classes through the Compass Yoga program Karmi’s Angels. I received a lovely email in response to the add from Joyce Cobb, a Structural Yoga Therapist and committed civic [...]
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Beginning: Cathie Black, Donald Trump, and the Difficulty of Building Consensus
Posted in business, education, leadership, nonprofit, tagged postaday2011 on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On the New York Times blog Room for Debate several experts batted around Cathie Black’s quick appointment and quick dismissal as the Chancellor of New York City public schools. Most of them recapped what I thought were less-than-insightful points-of-view. One response, by the Cato Institute’s Neal P. McCluskey, brought up a very intriguing idea that [...]
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Step 337: Get Involved with Taproot Foundation
Posted in business, community, community service, nonprofit, philanthropy on December 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Today I went to an orientation for new Taproot Foundation consultants. Taproot Foundation matches professionals with nonprofit organizations to create functional and sustainable products, services, and programs in human resources, strategy, marketing and technology. Taproot consultants donate 100 hours of their time over 6 months, an equivalent of $12,000 of services per consultant. To-date Taproot [...]
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Step 145: MercyCorp’s Action Center to End World Hunger
Posted in community, hunger, nonprofit on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” ~ Mother Theresa My company sponsors MercyCorp’s Action Center to End World Hunger, a small interactive museum in Manhattan’s Financial District that helps individuals contribute to the cause to end hunger by giving whatever time they can – a minute, an hour, a day, [...]
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