Tips for getting the most out of your session
Familiarize yourself with the nonprofit. Do some quick research and skim through anything you can find such as their website and/or social media.Make a list of questions you have to clarify your understanding of their challenge.
Have the mindset of keeping the call focused on an issue that can be addressed in a 1-hour consultation, and steer the nonprofit to tangible next steps.
Session Overview
The New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute (NORLI) is a non profit in Southeast Louisiana that provides nonpartisan platforms for leaders to grow networks, build leadership capacity, and enhance management skillsets. We deeply value diversity, equity, and following the protests of racial injustice last year, we made a formal commitment to incorporate DEI at every level - governance, programs, operations, and policies. I would like to consult on first steps in this process (assumably a DEI audit), and how to then create an action plan towards addressing the deficiencies identified in the audit. I want to understand what should be included and how we should go about codifying our commitment to DEI.
Nonprofit Overview
The Mission of NORLI is to help promote regionalism and to provide a diverse cross section of current and emerging leaders from the business, non-profit, and governmental sectors from throughout the New Orleans Region with a more thorough understanding of issues and an enhanced ability to collaborate for the greater good of the community.