Strikingly, they had not met as a group before because taking time away from the frontline work, even for a couple of hours, seemed like a luxury, but there seemed to be great power in bringing the group together.
They do the frontlines work every day".
We support the frontline conservation work of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the Last Great Ape organisation (LAGA) based in Cameroon.
Community based child protection groups and committees remain at the frontline of work to identify and respond to children's needs in communities.
Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, says: "Frontline work in the NHS is rewarding but it can be emotionally and physically challenging, so it's vital those staff have the right support.
Our black studies course will not only teach a broader range of knowledge, it will equip students to be engaged in organisations off campus that are at the frontline of working to deliver services and transform communities.
But even teachers, police officers and social workers could be replaced, at least in part, allowing the government to either free up more staff for frontline work or reduce the number of workers on the payroll.
Just as we got the best graduates teaching at our most difficult schools, let's get our brightest and best to the frontline of social work.
The field does not necessarily mean the frontline of aid work any more, but instead has come to mean any location in a (already problematically labelled) developing country.
And even if they did, companies lack the capacity to provide everyone with secondment-style opportunities on the frontline of charity work.
In July, a report by PBS's Frontline examined the work of Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. Robert Balfanz, who suggests there is a key period in middle school that determines whether a student will eventually drop out.
