by adrienne marie brown

Guest facilitator: Michael G. Guerra
Chief Sustainability Officer,
San Antonio Food Bank

Michael Guerra was hired in 2011 as the Chief Development Officer and was recently designated a new role as the Chief Sustainability Officer at the San Antonio Food Bank. In this executive leadership role, Guerra oversees an annual effort to secure $200 million in fundraising and food sourcing to sustain for the Food Bank’s mission. Since beginning his leadership role at the Food Bank, he has helped secure more than $2 billion in funds and food to help set the table for those in southwest Texas at risk for hunger.

Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen.

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live.

Join us at this month’s (free, virtual) book club for a lively conversation with nonprofit leaders and fundraisers. We'll discuss what we've learned from the book and how we're applying it to our day-to-day lives.

[Learn more about the book and order your copy at Goodreads]

Note: This will be an interactive small-group event. Don't have time to read the book? No worries! Join us anyway to share your experiences and learn from others.