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Well said Maggie Swift!! I always leave these quarterly Entrepreneurs' Organization workshops feeling inspired and energized. Yesterday's session covered Strategy - what is it, how do we communicate it, and is it sustainable to meet long-term goals? We workshopped the differences between strategy (what) and execution (how), what makes our firms unique on delivering our brand promise, our core purpose/passion and how we make a difference in this world, and our 10-year BHAG. Strategy has been a central anchor in our business and the development of our brand, purpose, and long and short-term goals. It was re-affirming to workshop this and arrive to similar conclusions with some refinements and new ways of thinking about various aspects of it. The other fun part is how applicable so much of this is to a capital project. Projects need an overall strategy and definition of success, otherwise the teams will never execute and align on a cohesive plan to get you there! EO Los Angeles

📣Appropriations Update 📣 We want to thank everyone who took action this week to protect funding for @AmeriCorps & @AmeriCorpsNCCC, and the vital resources they provide community-based organizations all over the country. This week, the House Appropriations Committee approved a bill that would jeopardize more than 71,000 AmeriCorps positions, risking the loss of vital resources for community-based organizations all over the country in 2026. Congress still has opportunities to protect and strengthen this funding, and we’ll need advocates like you to voice your support in the months ahead. ➡️️ TAKE ACTION: Urge Congress to reconsider this decision and protect funding for AmeriCorps by filling out this form, bit.ly/CCFY25, or share this and tag your representative, asking them to #Stand4Service [Image description: 1 graphic a black background saying, ‘Congress just jeaprodized 71,000 AmeriCorps positions, including vital roles at FoodCorps' and all capitalized text saying, ‘take action.’]

Looking for ways to get involved in your community? Check out this article about the Caney Community Betterment Group Foundation and our local Chambers of Commerce in Montgomery County!

BOARD MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Follow these tips from Jamie Luke, Associa OnCall's senior vice president, to learn everything you need to do before opening your HOA community pool. https://ow.ly/PKTg30sBOAE

Join the Zone In: City Core community meeting to review the proposed rezoning plans, share community feedback, and learn the next steps in rezoning your neighborhood. Reconnect with the Zone In: City Core Leadership Circle and invite your neighbors! Learn more at bit.ly/zicc_zoning_draft.

When children and youth engage in discipleship ministry, volunteer leadership grows, families strengthen, and communities thrive together. ✝️ 💪 💓 What if we prioritize reaching children and youth first to impact families for God's Kingdom? You can be the key. You can be a catalyst for a world where there is a church for EVERY child. 🙏 Click the link to learn more. https://bit.ly/3toCgb6

This is very insightful.

When the algorithm places posts on my feed, I try to react honestly without regard for hurting anyones feelings. I am being targeted with content, so I am being prodded to react. I am a social justice warrior at the core. I don't give a damn what religious lable anyone wishes to wear or more realistically had it branded on them as children and are doing their best to leverage that lable into doing something worthwhile for the world, their neighbors, or themselves. It is good to see people doing good work. We need social groups like these in every town. America would be a significantly kinder, friendlier, and safer place to live. However, it is extremely difficult to comprehend local social justice when globally we as American's (both Jews and Christians) are being programmed to support mass murder and the total destruction of life and property of people overseas that we cannot see or hear or help in any real way. It matters immensely how one answers this question. Is it only regional or local social justice we care about or does that notion apply to all people, everywhere? The lables Christian and Jew have been destroyed and redefined by those who lust for power and wealth. They have manipulated of our media and our government at every level to such an extent that we now have churches and temples cheering for mass murder labeled as self defense. White Nationals are not Christian and Zionists are not Jews. Anyone joining any social justice organization should be clear about the definitions going in because even Hitler and the Nazi's had millions of innocent families engaged in what they believed were social justice groups that were entirely for the benefit of the German people.

ICYMI: We celebrated Juneteenth with a conversation on Black Men's Health with Collin Mays and LaRon Evans, MS, MHC, LLPC who highlighted our YMCA's Boys & Young Men of Color Strategy! Watch. Share. Discuss.