Unfortunately, due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, an initial soft-launch and student/employee feedback event scheduled for March 31st, 2020, had to be postponed. "The Positive Space Committee welcomes folks to the conversation with questions, concerns, or ideas on how we can achieve a truly positive space and experience on all of our campuses." "We recognize this work will be ongoing and always reflective of the needs of our community", adds Gillies. The Positive Space Committee also exists to engage in the prevention of discrimination through engagement, education, awareness, and celebration of our diverse population. This means proactively creating opportunities to educate, engage, and actively promote the inclusion of LGBT2QIA+ persons in every area of campus life". “It’s about awareness, but it’s also about action. “The purpose of the Positive Space Committee is to challenge the patterns of silence and inequity that continue to marginalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, and queer students, staff, and faculty even in environments with anti-discriminatory and inclusive policies,” explains committee Chair Jewell Gillies. Comprised of members from all corners of the college, this group is dedicated to creating and fostering positive spaces that support gender and sexual diversity on all OC campuses. Okanagan College has launched a Positive Space Committee. Okanagan College Launches New Positive Space Committee Until next week, stay safe, and take care of each other.
#Orbis corporation community action team update#
This week's update also contains two additional free training session announcements, another installment from our I.M Possible series, and a great story on the work Okanagan College has been doing around inclusivity with their Positive Space Committee. With all the ideas coming forward, we will be starting to limit how long requests will be open for voting before taking them down - so make sure to log in and have your say. We are still getting our feet underneath us, but there are lots of comments and feature requests coming in. We would like to extend a thank you to everyone who has started participating in the new Community of Practice. This week's newsletter highlights a few of the platform options for validating off-campus volunteering and experiences managed by outside organizations. Summer has traditionally been our busiest period, and this year is shaping up to be no different. The next few weeks promise product and company announcements that will have a major impact on our campus partners.
#Orbis corporation community action team full#
Social responsibility is at our core and ORBIS strives to make a positive difference by supporting organizations, agencies and projects in the communities in which we operate. ORBIS is a part of Menasha Corporation, one of the oldest family-owned manufacturers in the United States. Headquartered in Oconomowoc, ORBIS has more than 3,000 employees and 45 locations throughout North America and Europe.As we slip past the halfway point in June and push full steam ahead into the long days of summer, we are heavy into some really exciting new developments at Orbis. As a steward of sustainability, ORBIS is committed to a better world for future generations. Using life-cycle assessments to compare reusable and single-use packaging, ORBIS also helps customers reduce their overall environmental impact. With more than 170 years of material handling expertise and 65 years of plastics innovations, ORBIS Corporation helps world-class customers move their product faster, safer and more cost-effectively with reusable totes, pallets, containers, dunnage and racks. Using a proven approach, ORBIS experts analyze customers’ systems, design a solution and execute a reusable packaging program for long-term cost savings and rapid ROI.
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