About Our Chapter

 
Net Impact Orlando - a Professional Net Impact Chapter 
Net Impact Orlando is a new professional chapter of Net Impact supporting the Greater Orlando community.  Net Impact looks to inspire and enable business communities and students and to use business to drive social and environmental change...particularly in their day jobs within the organizations that they work or study.  Net Impact is an International organization with over 200 chapters and 10,000 volunteer, student and business members.  It is supported by leading companies and business schools worldwide.
Net Impact Orlando is building its membership and its local capabilities to provide learning resources and opportunities for the Greater Orlando economic community focusing on sustainability growth and development.  Due to businesses’ ability to innovate, change, inspire, and get things done, we believe business has the power to drive fast action and movement to sustainable living and working.  We are a local group of business people driven to accelerate sustainability awareness, action, and a sense of urgency in Greater Orlando.  Our big dream for America is ‘to lead the world in sustainable living and business’.
Benefits for businesses of all types:

• Provide leadership and professional development opportunities related to sustainability through resource and expert support to your employees.
• Give employees access to sustainability learning opportunities through Net Impact workshops, events, member meetings, Web, Newsletter, and other communication
• Give your employees a forum to share their learning in sustainability and benefit from others working sustainability locally—a growing local network of sustainability focused business people and experts.
• Do the right thing.

Benefits for employees and those looking for employment in Greater Orlando economic community:

• Gain leadership experience with proven sustainability learning, engagement, and results.
• Enhance your career development related to sustainability to make you more valuable on your current job, to advance your current career and make you more marketable for new jobs.
• Get access to sustainability related learning resources, experts, and mentors both locally and nationally to increase your knowledge and education of topics related to sustainability such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), zero waste, renewable energy potential,
• Make a contribution to sustainability through Net Impact Orlando support to magnify your impact through your business.
• Engage with a local and national network of business people and experts focused on advancing sustainable living and business.

Join our team at an exciting time to further shape Net Impact Orlando’s future, expand the Chapter’s ability to inspire sustainability action in Greater Orlando through the power of business, and to initiate your own sustainability action on your job within your company!
Who We Are

• With our understanding of current world reality and a sense of responsibility as Americans, we believe in a next big dream for America:: America leads the world in sustainable living and business progress within 10 years.
• We are a local group of people that believe in responsible capitalism and the urgent need to move sustainable living and business.
• We believe that one person can make a difference.
• We actively promote diversity in our membership and community involvement, including all races, ethnic backgrounds, economic status, religious affiliation, political affiliation, sexual orientation, employed, unemployed, retired, government, for profit, not for profit and charity organizations, etc. No discrimination is tolerated. Mutual respect is expected.
• We welcome different perspectives because they make our team better and help us challenge our own mental models. We invite positive conflict, but don’t tolerate obstructionism.
• We have a long term and ‘systems thinking’ view of the world, including considering the total cost of our actions from creation to retirement of a product or service.
• We understand that achieving sustainability is a journey not a destination.
• We seek out alliances and avoid duplication of work and/or focus of other local organizations and avoid reinventing the wheel.
• We are non-political/bi-partisan organization that does not take positions except in relation to sustainability issues based on membership agreement.
• We foster:
  • Open dialog, both individual learning and team interaction learning.
  • An action and measurement focus with a science-based and common/universal principle foundation based on vetted research and analysis.
  • Sustainability advocacy with Orlando businesses and are not an activist oriented group