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SUMMARY:May AL!VE Academy: Consider, Evaluate, and Re-imagine: Co-Designing Community-Centered Volunteer Opportunities
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
DESCRIPTION:May AL!VE Academy: Consider, Evaluate, and Re-imagine: Co-Designing Community-Centered Volunteer Opportunities\n\n05/13/25 02:00 PM EST\n - 05/13/25 03:00 PM EST\Description:\nMay AL!VE Academy: Consider, Evaluate, and Re-imagine: Co-Designing Community-Centered Volunteer Opportunities with Breauna Dorelus -Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 @ 2:00 PM EST- 60 minutes\n\nThis workshop offers a reflective approach to designing volunteer opportunities that are rooted in the voices, needs, and strengths of the community. Participants will learn practical methods for engaging communities in the Co-Dreaming process including how to facilitate collaborative conversations, align volunteer roles with community goals, and ensure equity and inclusivity throughout the process. Join Breauna Dorelus of Connecting the Cause as we explore how to shift from top-down volunteer planning to shared decision-making, fostering opportunities that empower both volunteers and the community. By the end, you’ll have reflective strategies to assess and build impactful volunteer partnerships with neighbors, clients and communities.\n\n\nAbout Our Presenter\nBreauna Dorelus is the Founder and Cause Consultant at Connecting the Cause, a consultancy dedicated to dismantling harmful volunteer practices implemented by organizations and volunteers specifically towards Black communities. She started her career as an AmeriCorps member and spent 10+ years in various volunteer management roles in humanitarian aid efforts, refugee resettlement and ministry. Breauna believes in community inclusion in all aspects of the volunteer process, and has dedicated her work to ensuring that service is centered around co-dreaming and not harmful charity. For the past 7 years in her consultancy,  she's served as a keynote, speaker, session and webinar host, trainer, and facilitator. Her heart work is connected to seeing others have moments of reckoning and reimagination as they move from charity to Co-Dreaming and has worked with a number of organizations who are on that journey. In her spare time, she loves playing with dinosaurs with her 4 and 2 year old, thrifting, and having a hot matcha latte.\Location:\nZoom Webinar\n\n,
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:May AL!VE Academy: Consider, Evaluate, and Re-imagine: Co-Designing Community-Centered Volunteer Opportunities<br /><br />05/13/25 02:00 PM EST - 05/13/25 03:00 PM EST<br />Description:<br /><strong><span style="color:#008000"><span style="font-size:20px">May AL!VE Academy: Consider, Evaluate, and Re-imagine: Co-Designing Community-Centered Volunteer Opportunities with Breauna&nbsp;Dorelus -Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 @ 2:00 PM EST- 60 minutes</span></span></strong><br />
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This workshop offers a reflective approach to designing volunteer opportunities that are rooted in the voices, needs, and strengths of the community. Participants will learn practical methods for engaging communities in the Co-Dreaming process including how to facilitate collaborative conversations, align volunteer roles with community goals, and ensure equity and inclusivity throughout the process. Join Breauna Dorelus of Connecting the Cause as we explore how to shift from top-down volunteer planning to shared decision-making, fostering opportunities that empower both volunteers and the community. By the end, you&rsquo;ll have reflective strategies to assess and build impactful volunteer partnerships with neighbors, clients and communities.<br />
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About Our Presenter<br />
Breauna Dorelus is the Founder and Cause Consultant at Connecting the Cause, a consultancy dedicated to dismantling harmful volunteer practices implemented by organizations and volunteers specifically towards Black communities. She started her career as an AmeriCorps member and spent 10+ years in various volunteer management roles in humanitarian aid efforts, refugee resettlement and ministry. Breauna believes in community inclusion in all aspects of the volunteer process, and has dedicated her work to ensuring that service is centered around co-dreaming and not harmful charity. For the past 7 years in her consultancy,&nbsp; she's served as a keynote, speaker, session and webinar host, trainer, and facilitator. Her heart work is connected to seeing others have moments of reckoning and reimagination as they move from charity to Co-Dreaming and has worked with a number of organizations who are on that journey. In her spare time, she loves playing with dinosaurs with her 4 and 2 year old, thrifting, and having a hot matcha latte.<br />Location:<br />Zoom Webinar<br /><br />,  
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