Net Impact Orlando Individual 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 engaged on sustainability action in their companies to help others take sustainability action.

 

The major focus for individual Net Impact Orlando members is to join or initiate a sustainability related project related to their own job or within their company. However, individual members also provide support for broadening and developing Chapter resources, community outreach, and actual community impact.

 

Member Benefits (Value for You)

Job and Career

  • Expand and enhance the value you provide through your job; contribute on the job, during and outside work hours

  • Expand and enhance your career development, opportunities, and marketability, increase your job, personal and employment value

  • Network with local business, government, and other leaders by impacting their business and lowering their environmental footprint

  • Work with expert business and sustainability coaches for action you take in your company and/or in the community

Energize Yourself

  • Engage with enthusiastic, giving, and energized people taking clear action and having impact

  • Integrate into your mental model through experience that it is a systems dynamics fallacy to think one person can’t have an impact

  • Broaden your impact on environmental and social issues beyond your own and your family’s personal environmental footprint

Learning

  • Zero to no cost way to learn 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.

  • Learn The Natural Step Sustainability Framework, the basics of Systems Dynamics, Lean and Six Sigma Quality Management practices, How to engage adults and children, etc.

  • Learn how to live a more sustainable work life and create a more sustainable work place for yourself.

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

 

Community Service

  • View community service volunteering differently, by directing your time to accelerating sustainability action in your company and in your community.

  • Connect your desire to do community service to the work you do.

 

 

  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 an individual member, we strongly encourage learning and research to define an action, project, or initiative to join or lead within your company. There are many first step kinds of projects that require little or no cost to initiate and implement with very quick potential savings for your company.

 

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 has a significant impact, makes a measurable and visible contribution.

 

We strongly recommend that members:

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

  • Read two, easy read books to set your 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 members within 45 to 60 days of their first meeting to have:

  • Identified a LEED Profile to develop (2 page summary of a recently completed LEED certified project in Central Florida) OR a Sustainability Action Example to work with a sustainability-enabler member or a member that has a sustainability action success story in CF to tell (3 page mini-business case summary of a sustainability action that highlights the problem/opportunity, the action, the company that took the action and the supplier(s) that enabled the action, as well as before and after quantified results and lessons learned).

  • Identified a key Central Florida Business Sector to write a Sector Sustainability Best Practices Summary OR 3 or more commercial and institutional buildings to sign-up for the Central Florida community-wide challenge, the Kilowatt Crackdown, aimed at reducing CF energy use 30% by 2012.

  • Defined a chapter work package to support or a project to develop for working on the job and in your company.

 

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. Please be sure to show your primary chapter affiliation as the Orlando Net Impact Chapter.

  • Net Impact Orlando annual dues for individual members is $25 paid by check handed to the treasurer until we can get this payment and the Net Impact Central dues payment online on the Net Impact Orlando site.

  • Total Annual dues are $80.

  • 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 $25 Net Impact Orlando annual dues, you are an official member of Net Impact and our Chapter.

  • 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 Members can take advantage of the materials provided on our Web site under About Us, Programs and Projects, as well as under Resources.

 

 

First Steps for New Member

  • Make it a point to regularly be at meetings.

  • To take on sustainability, you 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 that supports your purpose or passion.

  • 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 a high level description of a project or initiative that you will join or lead within your company OR a work package you want to work from the Chapter work package listing.