About Leadership Eastside

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About Leadership Eastside
Leadership Eastside was created to address
community leadership needs for the 21st
century. It is distinguished by our focus on
enhancing six community leadership capabilities
and building regional perspectives.
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About Leadership Eastside
Founding sponsors include a broad base of public,
private and not-for-profit organizations
committed to the health and vitality of the
Eastside region, including The Seattle Times.
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Mission
Leadership Eastside is an inclusive organization
that promotes connections, develops and enriches
leaders, and is a catalyst for communities to
address important issues and meet the challenges
of a diverse and dynamic region.
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Vision
Leadership Eastside envisions a diverse, vibrant
region served by skilled leaders engaged in
creating healthy and mutually supportive
communities
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Inaugural Class
The first class of 38 came from 15 Eastside
communities and Seattle. About half work in
private industry 10 work for non-profits 10
are public sector employees 9 are at the VP
level and up 17 are at the director
level. After a year of team building, capability
development and issues immersion, they will be
graduating June 8, and you are welcome to join us
at the Columbia Winery!
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Integrated curriculum
Community issues forum Team project
experience Monthly leader days

• Six community leader capabilities
• Volunteer curriculum consultants facilitators
• Connections with community leaders
• Personal, professional and community
  application
• Creates regional collaboration and dialogue

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Six capabilities
Sustaining stewardship

• Effectively managing that which is entrusted to
  the leaders care, ensuring
  healthy communities and reflecting a deep
  commitment to serving others

Thinking holistically

• Identifying and illuminating the ways in which
  seemingly disparate actions and events affect
  each other over time and across space

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Six capabilities
Valuing dialogue

• Embracing the voices, perspectives, and ideas of
  others to increase ones own understanding and
  use that understanding to create solutions
  together

Envisioning possibilities

• Imagining interpretations and alternatives that
  expand options, ignite passions, and create
  opportunities for excellence and progress.

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Six capabilities
Building community

• Working with diverse individuals with both
  shared and competing priorities to find common
  purpose and mutual ownership of outcomes.

Influencing outcomes

• Shaping decisions to ensure advancement of
  healthy and mutually supportive communities.

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Team Projects
1 Civic Engagement  The Value of the
Story Discovering what motivates volunteers to
become involved in their communities. 2
Homelessness on the Eastside Partnering with
Eastside communities to improve the current count
and increase awareness. 3 Dawn of the Sunrise
Side Exploring Hunger on the Eastside Understand
ing and influencing a major regional issue -
hunger - with the expectation that we can and
will affect social change on a regional basis. 4
Eastside Connections / Community
Awareness Developing and publicizing an internet
portal (www.EastsideConnections.com) to connect
Eastside residents with Eastside resources. 5
Climbing Higher with Math and Science Partnering
with Eastside organizations to provide
non-traditional interactive math and science
challenges for teens ages 12-15. 6 Community
Mentor Connections for Education Facilitating
connections among high school students and the
community through a mentoring program that is
sustainable and widely adaptable for school
district use.
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Team 3 Community Consciousness Raising The
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Our goal
Our goal is to understand and influence major
regional issues this year, hunger - with the
expectation that we can and will effect social
change on a regional basis.
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How we got here
We started with the desire to act as a catalyst
To raise awareness of the diversity
and interconnectedness of the Eastside.
Our goals

• Benefits someone
• Measurably achievable in 9 months
• Connects the region
• Engages people, pulls in others from across the
  region
• Creates regional collaboration and dialogue

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What we accomplished

• Community Connections
• Series of Service Projects
• Food Bank Client Focus Groups

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Community connections

• United Way Janice Jaworski
• Doug Whalen
• Hopelink Doreen Marchione
• Mark Brown
• Rochelle Clayton-Strunk
• Shelley Noble
• Theresa Andrade
• DSHS Hector Martinez
• The Seattle Times Janet Farness
• Nadine Selden 
• Food Lifeline Linda Nageotte

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Service projects

• Assisted with distribution at Bellevue and
  Carnation food banks
• Prepared and served meal for Tent City 4
• Food donation sorting for Food Lifeline
• Harvest for Humanity gleaning the fields
• Design, conduct and deliver client focus groups
  for Hopelink food banks.

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Food bank client focus groups

• Situation
• Hopelinks 6 food banks serve
• Over 15,000 People
• More than 90 different languages
• Food supplies are based upon the American diet
• Research Objective
• To learn which staple foods best meet the dietary
  needs of Hopelinks diverse client base

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Food Bank Client Focus Groups

• Methodology
• Conduct 2 focus groups with each of these
  groups
• American (Carnation)
• Mandarin Chinese (Bellevue)
• Portuguese (Kirkland)
• Russian (Bothell)
• Spanish (Redmond)
• Romanian/ Eastern European (Bellevue)
• Vietnamese (Shoreline)

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Food bank client focus groups

• Preliminary results
• (Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Eastern European)
• 1) Rarely use prepared/canned foods
• 2) Needs
• Rice a lot of it
• Dried beans
• Tortillas
• Dairy
• Fresh fruits and vegetables
• Frozen or fresh meats
• Daily basics Diapers, dish soap, laundry
  detergent, hand cream
• 3) Translate labels

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How we can help

• Contribute Money
• Contribute Time
• Contribute Food
• At your grocery store or to a food drive
• At your local food bank

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