Braving in Nonprofits: A Series of Community Accountability Conversations
Three years ago, Network for Victim Recovery of DC (NVRDC) began a multi-year journey to create our organizational theory of change. This year, in addition to sharing this document, we’ve engaged the entire NVRDC staff in a series of “fireside chats” to further build on the ideas and philosophies we want to center as an organization. The next step in this journey will be for NVRDC to host a series of shared spaces with external partners to discuss how our field is evolving and the role we all can play in shaping progress in the larger nonprofit sector.
Over the course of the next year, we hope to bring local nonprofit leaders together for a virtual discussion on strategies to drive impact, lessons learned in organizational advocacy, culture shifting, community empowerment, and transforming systems. Our hope is that by creating this shared space for like-minded visionaries, together we can discuss and explore the ways we can promote these ideas at our own organizations while also working together to advocate for broader systemic change that strengthens the nonprofit community.
Then, as we move into 2022 we will invite national leaders to share ideas and approaches around core values that support sustaining talented and diverse staff in this mission-driven work.
Below is a tentative schedule for these discussions. We hope you will join the conversation and invite you to share lessons and ideas on how we move our collective work strengthening and supporting communities forward.
Sustainable Passion
This discussion will focus on encouraging and retaining nonprofit staff that are passionate about their work through an organizational commitment to sustainable living and healthy work culture (e.g. living wage, mental health support).
Date: January 13, 2022 at 12pm
Equity & Allyship
This discussion will focus on how to promote equity and allyship through inclusive policies and cultures driven by racial justice that support staff and clients while navigating limitations on time, funding and resource challenges, and the force of white dominant culture on the larger nonprofit sector.
Date: March 10, 2022 at 12pm
Innovation
This discussion will focus on promoting innovative thinking, services and policies among our own organizations while navigating resource scarcity and its impacts on authentic collaborations.
Date: May 5, 2022 at 12pm