Rooted and Rising: Practical Tools for Small Nonprofits
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Leaders in New Mexico face unique challenges: balancing limited staff capacity, diverse cultural traditions, and rural realities. This session offers a blend of mindfulness and practical tools to support culturally grounded, resilient leadership. This event is free; registration is required.
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Nonprofit leaders in New Mexico often navigate complex and layered challenges — including limited capacity, diverse cultural contexts, and the realities of working in rural communities. This session creates space for BIPOC nonprofit leaders to explore practical approaches to leadership that are both grounded and sustainable.
Blending mindfulness practices with nonprofit leadership tools, this workshop supports participants in strengthening equity, cultural humility, and resilience in their daily work. Through guided reflection and shared learning, participants will consider how to align leadership practices with community values while navigating real-world constraints.
Participants will leave with tangible tools, shared commitments, and renewed energy to support their work and communities.
This session is presented through the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Learning Hub and is part of the BIPOC Nonprofit Leader Series program. This event is free; registration is required.
About the Learning Hub
The Santa Fe Community Foundation proudly offers our Learning Hub as an educational space for nonprofit board, executive directors, staff members, and donors. Each year, the Hub offers dozens of events, workshops, and learning circles that promote leadership, skill building, and peer-supported growth.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Oriana Lee
Oriana Lee
Oriana Lee is the founder of ESHE Wellness & Art, which helps people both personally and professionally to discover what they want, what's blocking them, and what works to move them forward. For over a decade, Oriana has been using the unique gift as a well-being coach to help clients come up with solutions so that they will be empowered to achieve successful results. As a coach, Oriana largely serves BIPOC and nonprofits, as well as partnering with local and national organizations to create "well work environments'' through mindfulness practices.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Meet the people leading the conversation
Oriana Lee
Oriana Lee
Oriana Lee is the founder of ESHE Wellness & Art, which helps people both personally and professionally to discover what they want, what's blocking them, and what works to move them forward. For over a decade, Oriana has been using the unique gift as a well-being coach to help clients come up with solutions so that they will be empowered to achieve successful results. As a coach, Oriana largely serves BIPOC and nonprofits, as well as partnering with local and national organizations to create "well work environments'' through mindfulness practices.
Wisdom-Centered Strategic Leadership
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