Rising Sun Center for Opportunity
Project: Strategic Planning, Board Development, Retreat Facilitation, Design and Implementation of Board Member Engagement Contracts
Rising Sun is a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of economic equity and climate resilience empowering individuals to achieve environmental and economic sustainability via green training, employment, and residential efficiency programs. Rising Sun engaged Lyons-Newman Consulting to lead its strategic planning process and also to facilitate board development and training. Board development support included designing a process in partnership with the executive director and board chair, facilitating two board retreats, and individual board member engagement contracts. Rising Sun’s 2017–2020 strategic plan prioritized the organization’s policy focus to advance social and environmental systems change as well as elevating Rising Sun’s local and national leadership.