Meeting another cross-pollinator -- in Denver!

Rebecca Saltman is inspiring! She carries around thousands of business cards so that when she meets someone who should know someone else, she will pass along the appropriate card(s) -- as direct an introduction as you can get on the fly!

Through her years of cross-pollinating, she has also grown a similar perspective as I have about the inefficiencies within today's current non-profit structure. Recognizing that way too much time tends to be spent on infrastructure and support mechanisms instead of the actual work and the mission of the group, she has devised a creative idea to essentially outsource the non-mission related work and connect groups together for collective resource exchange. It's a very interesting model... one that I am actively overlaying into some of my ideas for Portland.