A note from Janine: Throughout 2013, JVA Consulting will be using our blog to bring you some of the best and most interesting ideas to advance community and social change. Titled Big Ideas for 2013, these blogs will feature a combination of our staff, interviews with changemakers and guest blogs. We are starting this feature [...]
Can Colorado be the healthiest state if large numbers of its residents lack access to health care? That's one of the questions that is being discussed by a diverse group of stakeholders convened by Clinica Tepeyac with funding from The Colorado Trust's Convening for Colorado initiative. JVA Consulting is facilitating the conversations. As part of our [...]
Last year, Congress and President Obama took strong steps to make a down payment on the deficit. First, they cut spending by $1 trillion over 10 years; second Congress appointed a supercommittee to recommend further deficit reduction of at least $1.2 trillion. The supercommittee failed to reach a consensus on where the cuts should be made. Anticipating [...]
Divapreneurs, a Colorado women's business magazine, featured a story on JVA in its Sept./Oct. 2007 issue.
JVA's work with the Rose Community Foundation and The Colorado Trust on the Boomers Leading Change initative garnered attention from all over, including the Denver Newspaper Agency's YourHub. A correspondent covered the June 28, 2007 forum on Boomers Leading Change.
By Sarah Hidey, JVA Consulting Guinness—the beer of all beers and staple of any Irish pub. Millions of people around the world love Guinness—demonstrated by the 1.8 billion glasses consumed each year (that’s 10 million a DAY!). What most of us beer-lovers do not know is the incredible philanthropic legacy of its founder, Arthur Guinness, [...]
by Collin Lessing, JVA Consulting “People make parks,” said Lindy Eichenbaum Lent, Executive Director of Civic Center Conservancy, as we sat at the Civic Center EATS Outdoor Cafe on a sunny Tuesday afternoon. We first met Lindy when she was a participant in the spring 2009 Executive Director Academy at JVA, and have followed her [...]
It’s hard to believe that it’s almost Thanksgiving! It’s also the time for JVA’s annual ritual of ordering our 2010 planners for next year. (Yes, even those of us who do everything electronically like ordering those wonderful books with tabs that make you feel so organized.) And with that, it prompts us to stop and [...]
On October 17 and 18, the 9Health Fair will take place at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City. The event is offering over 20 free health screenings including health screenings for men and women, diabetes and blood pressure screenings, immunizations for children ages 4-18 and children’s vision and oral health screenings. There will also [...]
On October 6, sessions will begin for JVA’s fifth Executive Director Academy (EDA). Started in 2007, EDA has helped nonprofit leaders from across the region and the country develop the abilities needed to succeed as an executive director. The seven-week intensive course focuses on areas that are integral to the role of executive director—management, leadership, [...]