Okay, so it has literally been ages since I posted here. What can I say, I fell out of the blogging spirit for a while. But I am back! So, let’s catch up shall we?
- 1. My eldest daughter turned Five
- 2. I entered a 6 month trial as Executive Director of Summa (www.summainstitute.org). Finished the trial and passed the “test” with flying colors. Was voted in unanimously by the Summa board of directors as Executive Director and was offered the permanent job. Accepted said job.
- 3. Found a building and lost a building (“lost” is an interesting concept here, I didn’t lose it, it just didn’t come together for any number of reasons. In this case, it was because the owners decided to sell it to someone else.)
- 4. Found another building and lost that one too (in this case it was because the owner could not see the social value of what we were doing as worth the investment he would have had to make to get us into the building – his loss!)
- 5. Successfully navigated the loss of a board member under somewhat sticky circumstances.
- 6. Found another building.
- 7. Successfully navigated the signing of a Letter of Intent with the owners of building mentioned in #6. This was no easy feat – it took a marathon meeting in which I refused to leave the table until we had reached agreeable terms and signed the thing. Sometimes lessons from my five year old are helpful in the business world! A side Thank You from the bottom of my heart to our commercial real estate broker, Sara Daley, I thank my lucky stars every day for bringing us together.
- 8. Have begun the process of working with the city of Portland to get the necessary permits for the building so that we can open our school there THIS FALL!!!!!!
