OrgOrg Volunteers work hard all year, not only at their full-time day jobs, but also behind the scenes at OrgOrg. Whether it's managing the community's online forum, planning meetups & events in their own cities, managing sponsorships or posting to our social media, our year-round volunteers make sure this community is amazing for our members. It's an incredible effort, and we would not exist without our talented and committed team.

This dedication was demonstrated tenfold leading up to Camp OrgOrg last month. On the day following Camp, Britt from Wine and Dine Events was generous enough to spoil us to a full day of luxury in Napa.

If you're interested in learning more about about working with Wine and Dine Events or any of the amazing venues we visited, contact information is below.

Wine and Dine Events 
www.wineanddinetour.com
Britt Van Giesen
Director of Corporate Sales
(707) 738-6645
[email protected]

Tre Posti
www.treposti.com
Kimmie Husted
Tre Posti Events & Catering
(707) 963-7600
[email protected]
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Stag's Leap Wine Cellars  5766 Silverado Trail, Napa, CA 94558
 www.CASK23.com 
Karla Jensen|Senior Hospitality Manager
(707) 261.6403
[email protected] 

Castello di Amorosa 4045 N. Saint Helena Hwy Calistoga, CA 94515
www.castellodiamorosa.com
Antoinette Freeman
Director of Hospitality
(707) 967-7084
[email protected]
 Angie Guevara
Event Manager 
(707) 967-7098
[email protected]

Bottegana Napa Valley 6525 Washington Street, Suite A9 Yountville, CA 94599
www.botteganapavalley.com
Kellie Magna
Director of Special Events & Celebrations
(707) 754-4467
[email protected]

 Interested in joining our most excellent volunteer team? Check out current openings here, or check out our whole team and contact us! We'd love to have you!

PS did you attend Camp OrgOrg? Let us know what you thought!

Please introduce yourself (name, location, family, hobbies)
My name is Adele and I live in San Francisco with my husband, dog, and cat. I'm from Minnesota originally but have lived in the Bay Area for around 4-5 years now. In my spare time you'll find me watching nature shows on Netflix, checking out cool local bars, or exploring the city by cable car (my favorite method of transportation!).


What do you do for OrgOrg?
I manage the OrgOrg Job Board and work on the membership team.





​What Inspired you to volunteer with OrgOrg?
I first learned about OrgOrg through Kim Rohrer (cofounder of OrgOrg). I was looking to leave higher education/student affairs and she suggested I consider Office Management (shout out to Kim for getting me into this field!). With her guidance, I joined OrgOrg to learn from other awesome folks in people-oriented tech roles and to get a better understanding of the landscape. I was immediately drawn to volunteer to get even more exposure in the field and network with more experienced members; all with the hope of eventually supporting other people who were new to the tech/operations space.

What projects have you worked on for OrgOrg?
While I was living in Minneapolis I was the Twin Cities Chapter Head. Currently I am the Job Board Admin and I help on the membership team.

What is your day job?
Office Manager at Y Combinator

How did you get to where you are today?
By being flexible, willing to learn/do anything, and OrgOrg! Those three are office manager must-haves and have really helped me in my startup career. Through OrgOrg I have been able to meet so many awesome people who have inspired me and is also how I found the job I am currently at.

What is your typical day like?
No one day is the same but during parts of the day you can find me putting out fires as they come up (overbooked conference rooms, monitors not working, etc), restocking snacks and drinks in the kitchen, preparing for upcoming events, driving to Mountain View to help out our other office, and everything in between. For those step-trackers out there, I average around 8,000 steps just during the work day so I'm constantly running around doing whatever needs to get done in the office :)

Anything fun or interesting you’ve worked on?
The Job Board is a fun project and was new when I started on it about a year ago. It has been really great owning this part of OrgOrg and being able to see its adoption among members.
At my previous position I did an office move for our staff of 100. That was the most fun I’ve had working on a project. It involved everything from IT to furniture to facilities and was a huge highlight in my career. I can’t wait until my current company wants to move offices!

If a high schooler or new grad walked up to you asking for your advice and you only had a few minutes to give ‘em your best tips, what would it be?
​Have the mentality that no job is beneath you. There will be times when you will be asked to clean up a mess that someone else made and sometimes you just have to take care of it no matter who you are. Having that mentality will also present opportunities to learn new things which will make you invaluable.

One more: don't let people get ya down! There's always going to be someone you work with who is difficult. Try not to let those people affect you and you will be so much happier in life :)

Hello world!

I have some very exciting news to share -- OrgOrg was acquired by Eden Technologies, Inc! Our members are familiar with Eden; they’re a long time OrgOrg sponsor and partner, and are incredibly dedicated to supporting this community. Eden’s mission is quite literally, “to create a better place to work, for everyone.” Those words ring exceptionally true to me, and to our community: the people making it all work at work. Though we’ve taken different approaches (Eden with technology and OrgOrg with discussions), we’ve both been committed to building tools and resources to support people working in Business and People Operations. I believe that together, we can create something really special.

Backing up a bit: I’ve always wanted to find the right partner to help me grow OrgOrg beyond a part-time-volunteer-led-side-project-Google Group. This group has grown into a beautiful thing over the last 7 years, and I don’t want to mess with what’s working so well -- but even with a baller volunteer team (and, trust me, they are ballers), it’s hard to scale and build new things when we only have part-time eyes on operating and growing. I’m incredibly proud of the organization our amazing team has built in our side-hustle time. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want more for our community.

Enter: Eden. Joe Du Bey (Eden’s CEO and co-founder) approached me in mid-2017 about the potential for a deeper partnership -- something to go beyond Learning & Development events, affiliate sponsorships, and contests to find the best in the biz. After many months of discussing, we realized that it made the most sense for us to officially join forces to build OrgOrg into the best damn community platform it could be.

So. What does this mean? And what does it not mean? First and foremost, I want to make sure to communicate something that’s essential to both Joe and I: that OrgOrg remains a separate, private, sacred space for members. Eden will not have access to our archives, our member lists, or anything else that would cause the vendor/community lines to blur. It’s quite important to Eden (and me) that OrgOrg remain a vendor-agnostic, safe community platform where members can continue to support each other as they have for years. That won’t be changing.

What this *does* mean is that we now have the support of a larger organization to help us grow. The biggest, most exciting change is that we’re committing to hosting our first ever OrgOrg Conference and Gala in 2018. HOLYSHIT I’ll say it again: OrgConf (name TBD) is coming. This year. Stay tuned for more information about content, scheduling, and the sweet sweet sweetness that this event will surely be.

We’re also working on ideas for how to amp up our Learning & Development programs/events, Resources Library, and Chapter growth. We’ve already started discussing some very exciting possibilities with Eden's tech team that will help scale OrgOrg's technology beyond the limitations of Google Groups, focusing on improving search and making it easier for members to connect with one another. Whoa baby.

I still have a full-time day job, and OrgOrg is still staffed entirely by people with full-time day jobs, but we’re growing in new and exciting ways - from chapters to content, we’re excited to keep supporting our community. If you want to get involved either as a member or a sponsor/partner, please let me know.

I want to say a massive THANK YOU to the members of OrgOrg for their trust, support, participation, and encouragement over the last 7 years. What started out as an email amongst friends has turned into a global organization full of advice, resources, and real-life support systems (and friendships, too. nothing’s better than friends).

This is one special community, and it’s an honor to be a part of it. Can’t wait to see what we do next.

<3
Kim​

Whether you're just beginning in your role or you consider yourself a seasoned operations veteran, there are a plethora of reasons to start up a local OrgOrg chapter.

As the Phoenix Chapter Head, here's what I love about having a local group:
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1. Meet new people
Making friends after college or when moving to a new city can be hard. What’s a better unifier than your career? OrgOrg brings people together who, under normal circumstances, may never connect. While the online community helps us connect globally, local OrgOrg Happy Hours, brunches, and other in-person events help us stay in communication and grow new friendships through our shared connection. 

Hello, blog reader!

If you're here on our blog, you probably have an idea of what OrgOrg is all about (if not, click here). But what you may not know yet is that OrgOrg is run by volunteers. By day, we organize organizations - managing offices, human resources, events, and more for startups and small businesses. By night (or by whatever free time is available), a select group works to make this community stronger. There’s a reason OrgOrg’ers are sometimes referred to as superheroes :) 

I'd like to introduce to you the fine folks behind the scenes - click here to see their faces and learn about the wonderful human beings they are! 

We simply would not be here without the commitment and dedication of these community leaders who've chosen to step up and help us keep things moving. OrgOrg Volunteers are divided into five teams: Membership, Events, Resources, Website, and Sponsorships. 

• Membership is responsible for reviewing new member applications (we get 25/week!), as well as updating email addresses and maintaining our member database. Eventually, they'll be focusing on growing our membership and identifying demographics (for example, so we know how many members are in different cities and can provide better support there). 
• Events is responsible for organizing meetups and learning & development events. They're building a 2015 Events calendar and working with different sponsors right now to bring you the most useful, fun, awesome events. Currently, most events are in SF, but we hope to scale out to other cities by the end of the year (see above)  :)
• Resources is responsible for building a treasure trove of documents, blog posts and other useful items for the community. They're searching the archive for frequently-discussed topics, building glossaries and Q&As, and curating content from other sources as well to help you be your best self at work.
• Website is responsible for our crazy new project - migrating OrgOrg from a Google Group to something better-suited to our growing community. What are we migrating to? We're not sure yet. But the plan is to figure it out and have something to show you in the first half of the year.
• Sponsorships is responsible for finding us some funds - typically from vendors or other corporate partners that we trust and love, who want to give back to their beloved OrgOrg clients. Simply put, we need a base level of funds to cover operating costs (web hosting, events, hiring freelancers for projects, etc), and rather than asking volunteers to chip in their own money, we're able to selectively raise funds from sponsors to support our operations.

Want to join the ranks? Did something up there inspire you? There’s always work to be done, so if you’re interested in volunteering, whether for a one-time project, or on a more ongoing basis, check out our volunteer teams page to reach out to the team you’re interested in and we’ll see how we can get you involved!

Hey there!
I'm Kim, one of the co-founders of the Organization Organizers. Welcome to our new home. 

When Melissa, Sharon and I founded this group, we were just looking for a little camaraderie - being the only Business Operations type at a growing tech company can be a bit lonely! We leaned on each other for advice on growing company policy or how to get a landlord to make repairs, and invited a few friends to join the conversation.

More than three years later, our little group includes over 600 members, representing over 200 companies from across the globe. We openly share with each other in our ever-growing archive of tips, tricks, horror stories, and advice. OrgOrg partners with some truly great industry allies to put on regular events for members to learn from each other and from experts in our fields. We are influencing the way our companies grow, and finding a voice in our industry. 

It's an incredible place to be.

In order to serve this amazing group of men and women, we decided it was time to start taking this thing seriously. This shiny new website is only the beginning.

Over the coming months, we'll be working to build a "members only" section, with a fully searchable member directory, a jobs board, more streamlined vendor reviews, resources to help you grow, and more. We're also investigating ways to make the email group better and more efficient as our members' interests diversify.

There's a lot of work to do, and a big opportunity to make a difference. And we are pumped to get moving.

Inspired to get in on the action? Please check out our volunteer groups on the Contact Us page for information on how you can get involved. Or just say hello!

Cheesily (but truly) grateful,
Kim