Chapter Description

Vision

• Significantly contribute to ongoing sustainability action and learning in the Greater Orlando community with primary focus on business.

Mission

• Regularly inspire and enable individuals to use the power of business to create a socially and environmentally sustainable Orlando with a bias towards action and learning.

Chapter Goals

• Inspire and enable the Greater Orlando economic community to improve their social and environmental impact through the power of business.
• Develop and support sustainability opportunities and a learning environment for members and the community to continuously increase their sustainability knowledge and sense of urgency.

How We Plan To Implement Our Goals

Membership

• Recruit and develop a diverse membership from the Orlando business community, including private and non-private sector people through community presentations and personal contact.
• Recruit local experts in various private industry segments, government departments, non-profits, and NGOs to ensure local connection, diverse input, and objectivity in a consultative role for the Chapter.
• Connect with local business leaders as the Chapter infrastructure and initial membership is in place.

Learning

• Provide, create when necessary, and present valuable sustainability information for members and the community that helps achieve our goals and supports member projects and initiatives. This will be in the form of member meetings, workshops, presentations, events, sustainability action summaries, book summaries, member communication, our Web site, etc. Tap into the volumes of learning resources Net Impact International provides and the wealth of proven successes on the Web and in books.

Action

• Actively promote the Net Impact ‘Impact At Work’ Program to inspire and enable members to take on sustainability projects on their jobs and/or within their companies. The Chapter will enable member ‘Impact At Work’ projects through identifying low hanging fruits for any business, for specific industries with recipes (how to) for implementation and access to mentors and experts.
• Inspire and enable employees across Greater Orlando to find ways to integrate sustainability into their day jobs to create positive social and environmental change.
• Develop and continuously expand community awareness, understanding, and relevance of sustainability action and Net Impact Orlando, including access to learning resources for members and the community.
• Identify, investigate and target 2 areas in our community where we feel we can make the most positive impact in the shortest time to accelerate sustainability awareness and action, e.g., increase recycling and engage people to work sustainability on their jobs.
• Select a non-profit, charity to mentor for sustainability progress.