Delegates attend ODI Training in Orlando

Every year JL's across the country travel to reap the benefits of Organization Development Institutes' training geared specifically for League leadership. The Nominating and Placement commitee prepared a powerful slate of delegates to attend this year's ODI, right in our own backyard. This threesome traveled to Orlando this past weekend for a educational and inspiring ODI. Esteemed delegates, pictured above, attended 2 different tracks. Jancie Tucker, CRPD, and Paula Orcutt, Super Saturday Chair, attended the community impact course where they learned to create community impact by implementing significant, systemic change in our community. Through the identification of issues, development of programming, partnership and coalition building activities while involving our trained volunteers, we can prepare members to become effective volunteers and to take on leadership roles in the community as well as our League. Jill Barton, Treasurer, attended the fund development track. This track included information on creating a diversified revenue base, is essential to a healthy League. Key fund-development principles, and a how-to approach to traditional funding sources, will allow us to maximize the potential of new, cutting-edge fund-development. Building and sustaining a strong, mission-driven, diversified funding base by impleting these strategies is essential to our league during these economic times, and Jill was there to soak it all up. I am so proud of these ladies, as we continue to build strong leadership within our league and ignight the passions and the "Junior League Dork" in us all! You go girls! Look for a full report at our October meeting next week.