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Welcome to Ripple Effect Community Impact
I'm so glad you're here. This community is for business leaders and HR professionals who want to create meaningful connections between their employees, communities, and nonprofit partners. Together, we'll explore practical ways to turn good intentions into lasting impact while building stronger, more engaged businesses. If you would like to book a discovery call please click here. To get started, I'd love to get to know you. Please introduce yourself in the comments and tell us: - Your name - Where you're from - Why you decided to join Be sure to check the Calendar tab for upcoming events, live conversations, and new opportunities to connect. This community is brand new, and we're building it together. I'll be adding new resources, discussions, and ideas regularly, so keep checking back. Thank you for being one of the first people to join. I can't wait to see the ripple effect we create together.
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Relationships Before Initiatives, Part 2: Trust With Your Partner
When's the last time you talked to your nonprofit partner about something other than logistics? Not the event details, not the sign up sheet. Just them, their work, what they actually need. If it's been a while, or never, tell me honestly. No judgment here, I've been there too. It's so tempting to skip straight to "let's plan an event" with a new partner, because that's the part that feels productive. Meetings that are just about getting to know each other can feel like they're not going anywhere. But if your partnership has ever felt transactional, like you're just funding their calendar instead of actually knowing them, that's usually why. The relationship got skipped in favor of the plan. That's an easy thing to do when you're busy. It doesn't mean the partnership is broken.
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The Vocabulary Nobody Handed You
Here's something I don't think gets said enough: most people running engagement and community programs were never taught the language for what they're building. You got a title, maybe a budget line, and an expectation that you'd figure out the rest. So if you've been calling it "CSR" or "giving back" or "that volunteer thing we do" because you didn't have better words, that's not a gap in your ability. Nobody handed you the vocabulary. The words come with the work. You're not behind for not having them yet.
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Try it! - Relationships Before Initiatives
Relationships before initiatives. Employees show up differently for something they helped create; invite them into the process before the program is already built. Here's a script you can use this week to invite someone onto a committee, without it sounding like an ask for volunteers. "I'm building something at [company] around community and I don't want to do it alone. I thought of you because [specific reason, something true about them]. Would you want to help me shape this from the beginning, not just show up once it's built?" That's it. Fill in the brackets with someone real and send it today. Come back and tell me who you sent it to. While you’re here, take a quick peek at this week’s conversations—you may have missed a good one, and we’d love to hear what you think!
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Relationships Before Initiatives, Part 1: The Committee
If you asked three people on your team, today, to help you build something meaningful for the company, who comes to mind first? Not the person with the most free time. The person who'd actually want to be part of building it. Tell me who came to mind, even if you haven't asked them yet. It's so much faster to just announce a program than to invite people into building one. I know, because rolling something out top down feels efficient when you're already stretched thin. But if you've ever launched something with a nice internal email and gotten a lukewarm response, that's not because your team doesn't care. It's because they were told about it instead of asked into it. If that's happened to you, it doesn't mean the idea was bad. It just means the invitation came after the decision instead of before it.
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