Nurture

B Corporation

Nurture grows social benefit organizations, responsibly.

• We constrain our business relationships to social benefit organizations.
• We discount our fees to nonprofit clients.
• We pro actively seek to be environmentally responsible
  • Specifically:
    • nearly paperless office
    • fair-trade organic coffee
    • tree-free toliet paper
    • conscious reduction of waste water
    • changed light bulbs/use natural lighting Etc.
• We encourage work-life balance and volunteering from our staff and network.

We work as a virtual organization and adapt to client needs. We call on our Allies for projects that fit their talents.

Team:

Jean Russell

Jean Russell, founder of Nurture.biz, is a certified NLP Coach. Jean is dedicated to restructuring institutions so as to bring out the best in humans.  She has worked with grassroots co-ops and traditional corporations alike, helping them understand how communicating, fundraising, and publishing can be redesigned to embrace human values like warmth, clarity, and faith in others' potential and good will.

In 2008, Jean co-founded Guildsmiths, a consultancy that teaches right-brain thinking to corporations and nonprofits. Jean also co-founded Navigators Guild, a local social benefit consultancy addressing social media assessments and adoption. She has facilitated social benefit conferences, cooperating with colleagues in fields ranging from technology (esp social media), to green/sustainable design, philanthropy, currencies, community development, international development, and human rights.

Jean co-founded Inspired Legacies, sits on the board for Catalytic Communities, advises the wagn.org project, and co-organizes Chicago Net Tuesdays.

Practically speaking, what does that mean?

Jean works with clients such as OsoEco, PeopleBrowsr, and others to design social media spaces. She strives to achieve "aliveness" within social spaces. This requires attention to flows of information, sensing into user needs, using incentives to direct participant actions, and framing safe spaces. As a top rated participant on the illustrious Omidyar.net community as well as holding a twitter grade of over 99%, Jean understands community dynamics from a participant perspective.

See Jean's academic background and work. If psychological profiles interest you, Jean is a rare INFJ.

Additional Partners:

If we don't know the answer...we can find it. We leverage our extensive social networks to find the answers or partners that fit. From currency geeks to philanthropic leaders, social media mavens to social entrepreneurs, from youth leadership developers to social network analysts, we connect to experts. Our core domains: philanthropy, leadership, and technology reflect the networks we nurture--and leverage to serve our clients. See our Allies.