Net Impact Orlando Business and Government Entity Member



Overview

Net Impact Orlando looks to inspire, educate, and enable individuals to work sustainability on their jobs in their companies and in their communities. The chapter also looks to engage individuals that are business experts in their fields or discipline (project management, new product development, marketing, etc.), as well as individuals that work for companies that support other companies taking sustainability action through their products, services, and expertise. Both these business and sustainability experts coach and support individual members that want to take on sustainability action within their company or the community.

 

A Sustainability-Enabler Member is a crucial part of Net Impact Orlando membership because they are the expert coaches and/or resources to individual members and their management teams for seeing the value of specific sustainability action steps (even if baby steps) to their business and the overall environment. In Central Florida, there is not the sustainability momentum of many other places across the country. That’s OK.

 

A Business or Government Entity Member is a bit different than our other memberships, individual and sustainability-enabler. This membership is not our Net Impact Orlando sponsorship program, which at the present time is purposefully ad hoc. This membership is about engaging businesses’, schools’, and government employees in Net Impact Orlando to accelerate their sustainability learning, accelerate the business, school, or government entity leadership’s sustainability learning, and most importantly to use the Net Impact Orlando team to support sustainability action in that business, school, or government entity by enabling both employees and leadership.

 

 

 

 

Member Benefits (Value for You)

Free PR and Promotion for Your Company or Institution

  • Formal name of entity posted on Net Impact Orlando web site

  • Local Sustainability Action Examples (3 page mini-business case(s) of a sustainability action(s) one or more of your customers implemented) that we post on our Web site and send to members, member companies, and others considering that action. Both your entity and your customer are highlighted for a successful sustainability implementation here in Central Florida whether pre-Net Impact Orlando membership or as a result of work through Net Impact Orlando Membership.

Free Training/Learning for Your Employees

  • Net Impact Orlando will provide 2 customized, on site workshops for a specified business, government, or school audience that teaches Business Sustainability, The Natural Step Sustainability Framework and/or how to engage employees, including nudging behavior.

  • Provide employees a zero to no cost way to learn more about business sustainability, options for action, the multitude of things going on nationally and locally, e.g., workshops, key articles, member discussion and lessons learned, project updates, etc.

  • Via Net Impact Orlando meetings and events provide learning opportunities for employees on The Natural Step Sustainability Framework, the basics of Systems Dynamics, Lean and Six Sigma Quality Management practices, how to engage adults and children, etc.

  • Through Net Impact Orlando Mission Zero Tips project enable employees to learn how to live a more sustainable work life and create a more sustainable work place for themselves and others—use the sustainability minded members of Net Impact Orlando to help change employee consciousness.

  • Give employees access to all kinds of ideas and support for initial projects from the very simple to more complex.

 

 

New Business Opportunities and Employee Job and Career Enhancement

  • Expand and enhance the value and reach for new business opportunities and sales of your sales/business development employees

  • Provide learning and new ways for employees to build relationships with existing and new customers that help them on the path to more and more sustainability action

  • Learn how to utilize other expertise to add value for your existing customers and for target potential customers in a non-sales mode

  • Provide opportunity to participate in venues, whether training, awareness, or talks in a non-sales mode

  • Expand and enhance your employees access to career development opportunities; increase their job, personal and employment value and satisfaction

  • Provide opportunities for employees to network with local business, government, and other leaders by impacting their business and lowering their environmental footprint

  • Provide opportunities to work with other expert business and sustainability coaches for collaboration and partnering opportunities

  • Help employees to change their mental models, e.g., to one where one person can have a major impact.

 

Community Service

  • View community service volunteering differently by directing encouraging use of their time to accelerating sustainability action in your work place.

  • Connect employee desire to do community service to the sustainability progress your organization needs to make.

 

 

  Member Expectations

The Net Impact Orlando Chapter is an action-oriented set of sub teams. Although issue discussion and learning are key elements of our chapter, visible and measurable action is what we are about. We have quite a lot going on and need resource support in every aspect. For a Business or Government Entity Membership, we strongly encourage reviewing and learning about our programs and projects and working on how you and your organization can support and enhance them, particularly which employees you would nominate to join Net Impact Orlando. We highly encourage you to assign employees to develop local sustainability action examples on two or more of your customers to promote both your organization, your customer, and/or your sustainability-enabler suppliers/vendors but more importantly, to provide a straightforward sustainability action any business can take.

 

We are a very flexible, open to all and to anything kind of team. Don’t be scared off by our member expectations. Our intent is to ensure that the time you, we, spend working with Net Impact Orlando has a significant impact, i.e., makes a measurable and visible contribution.

 

We strongly recommend that members (for business or government entity members’ individual members):

  • Regularly attend our 2nd and 4th Wednesday Team Meetings and RSVP for each meeting.

  • Read two, easy read books to set their foundation both in a sustainability framework and systems thinking/systems dynamics. Please see our required reading menu for the two life changing books we recommend.

 

We expect Business and Government Entity members within 45 to 60 days of their first meeting to have:

  • Identified and had one employee join Net Impact Orlando.

  • Complete Two Sustainability Action Examples with Net Impact Orlando expert member.

  • Developed or updated a key Central Florida Business Sector Sustainability Best Practices Summary for your sector.

  • Take the Kilowatt Crackdown for the organization’s buildings and work to sign up 3 or more commercial and/or institutional buildings for the Central Florida community-wide challenge, the Kilowatt Crackdown, aimed at reducing CF energy use 30% by 2012.

  • Consider sponsorship opportunities to support Net Impact Orlando when they support your organization’s vision, mission, and goals.

 

Member Dues

  • To be a member of Net Impact Orlando, you must be a member of Net Impact Central.

  • Annual dues for Net Impact Central are $55 currently to be paid at www.netimpact.org. For Business or Government Members, we request paying for lifetime membership if at all possible. Please be sure to show your primary chapter affiliation as the Orlando Net Impact Chapter.

  • Net Impact Orlando annual dues for Business or Government Entity Members are $500 paid by check and handed to our CFO at a meeting until we can get this payment and the Net Impact Central dues payment online on the Net Impact Orlando site.

  • Total Annual dues are $555.

  • Unemployed, retired, and student members are exempt from Net Impact Orlando dues and, upon the discretion of the management team can be exempted from Net Impact Central dues. If exempted from Net Impact Central dues, the individual does not appear as a national Net Impact member.

 

 

Member Process

  • Joining Net Impact Orlando is very simple.

  • You are welcome to attend as many meetings as you like.

  • Upon paying the Net Impact $55 annual dues and the $100 Net Impact Orlando annual dues, you are an official member of Net Impact and our Chapter and can participate in our programs. You cannot participate or use our program information and direction on CFEEA/KWCC, LEED Profile, and Local Sustainability Action Examples until all dues are paid.

  • Upon or even before joining, a new member overview of the Chapter and its programs is scheduled regularly prior to 2nd and 4th Wednesday team meetings, i.e., starting at 5:30pm and/or various members meet one on one with new members to help them understand our programs and projects and how to participate.

  • New Sustainability-Enabler Members can take advantage of the materials provided on our Web site under About Us, Programs and Projects, as well as under Resources, immediately upon dues payment. We do this on the honor system, since we want Sustainability-Enabler Members and visitors to our site to understand our programs, projects, how they can benefit them, and the work completed to date in each area. We expect Sustainability-Enablers not to use our programs, strategies or approaches until they have paid the national and chapter dues.

 

First Steps for New Member

  • Make it a point to regularly be at meetings.

  • Even as a Sustainability-Enabler Member, you may need to work on your personal work life and work space sustainability. See the Net Impact Orlando Mission Zero Tips Project description and checklist.

  • Read the two recommended books over the next month or so, i.e., The Natural Step: Seeding A Quiet Revolution and Systems Thinking A Primer.

  • Under Programs and Projects, review their descriptions.

  • Under Resources read the basic sustainability readings and access the work already developed and posted by program or project.

  • Talk and meet with members offline. Develop relationships to help you identify and define an initiative and/or your involvement that supports your purpose or passion and/or your business objectives.

  • Get involved with a LEED Profile or Local Sustainability Action Example and either a Business Sector Sustainability Best Practice Summary or signing up buildings for the Kilowatt Crackdown within 30 days. No later than 60 days, submit the project or initiative that you will be acting as a coach for and supporting OR a work package you want to work from the Chapter work package listing.