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Press Release: September 10, 2009

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIP WITH ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE EXPERTS LEADS ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK TO MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE

Atlanta, GA – Organization Change Alliance (OCA) meets on Friday, September 18 to present Learning & Service:  Atlanta Community Food Bank and OCA, a case study of the collaboration of the two not-for-profit groups since 1993.

“OCA and its members have helped us explore and implement best practices in most key areas of our organizational processes, all of which have significantly contributed to our achieving acknowledged excellence in management and service to our community,” says Rob Johnson, Chief Operating Officer at the Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB).  Since working with OCA, ACFB has been awarded the Community Foundation of Metropolitan Atlanta’s top award for management excellence, the Southeast Association of Facilitators (SEAF) Facilitation Impact Award, and was nominated for the Georgia Coach Association’s PRISM award.

OCA Chair Liisa Hardaloupas, M.O.D. will welcome both ACFB staff and OCA members to share their experiences over the last 16 years to build ACFB into a well-managed organization.

OCA’s monthly meeting will be held Friday, September 18th from 9 am to 12 noon at the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Registration is $20 for non-members.

OCA is the learning community of choice for Organization Development practitioners in metro Atlanta.  Formed in 1992, we come together to explore new topics, learn from one another and enhance our knowledge of Organization Development.

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OCA is on Twitter!

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

OCA has a Twitter account for those who would like to follow:

@OCAAtlanta

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Message from the Chair

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

As the OCA Chair for 2009 I would like to welcome you to our Organization Development community for sharing, learning and connection. This year we have two themes:

1. Community Building within OCA
2. Public Awareness in Greater Metro Atlanta

I’d like to talk about our first theme, because it’s at the heart of it all. This is the foundation. And we will talk more about Public Awareness in the coming months.

Community Building within OCA
It is a pleasure to host our monthly OCA program meeting at the Atlanta Community Food Bank and to see all of you come out to learn and share wisdom.

As a new community-building feature at our meetings, we will start each meeting with “Table Talk” – a proposed question and time to discuss it at your tables.  The discussion question will be relevant to that day’s presentation, and our intention is that it will provide an opportunity for each of us to connect with and learn from our colleagues.

New Blog
We have developed this blog as a means to better share news, meetings and events, and also to provide you with an opportunity to share your experiences.  We will be posting program highlights after each monthly meeting and encourage you to engage in an online conversation to extend the conversations and build in between meetings. The blog is moderated.

Blogging is new for our organization and new to me, so we are experimenting with how this can assist us in building community and awareness of our programming and what we care about as people in the business of supporting change in organizations. We appreciate you chiming in.

I look forward to seeing you at a meeting. Be sure to say hello.
And please let us know your thoughts on the blog.

Building Community Through Conversations

Liisa Hardaloupas, M.O.D.
Chair 2009
Organization Change Alliance

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