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Ready For Impact Workbook

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Through the Mastermind Program we help educational nonprofit leaders explore and embrace the knowledge, skills and mindsets needed to manage sustainable businesses, deliver meaningful programs, and prepare for valuable partnership opportunities. This easy to use workbook is designed to help you organize and prepare for funding to achieve your mission.

Here you’ll find a series of prompts and exercises to help identify and articulate personal values, organizational goals, desirable leadership qualities, brand message, program impact, and partnership opportunities.

The guiding questions are perfect for individual reflection and journaling, and can be used for board planning and team visioning workshops. Once completed, you’ll have the rationale and language to begin conversations with funders and other stakeholders.

Each section of the workbook includes:

  • Big Idea: Explains what each essential is, why it’s important and how it helps build better nonprofits

  • Key Concepts: Includes important words and phrases

  • Prompts: Open-ended and provocative questions that inspire discovery of the big idea

  • Task: An activity that reinforces the big idea and supports development of an executive summary

  • Resources: Examples, templates, videos and other media that support the big idea

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Self Reflection

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Self-Reflection is the ability to observe and evaluate our thinking, emotions, and behaviors. Articulating our personal values, mindsets, habits and desirable outcomes, helps us make better decisions and live more fulfilling lives. When we are operating in alignment with the vision we hold for our highest self, we are happier and can accomplish our goals with ease.

Self-reflection helps us manage our emotions and improve relationships with family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, partners and all of nature. Here we will focus on self-reflection as it relates to our work and community service.

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Meaningful Service

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Meaningful Service is action that is both personally relevant and important to the community. When our programs reflect the vision we have for neighborhood improvement they tend to be more exciting, more rewarding and have a greater impact.

Participating in intentional service is a powerful experience that helps to maintain motivation, improve confidence and deliver effective community service programs. When the work is meaningful we become passionate and informed advocates for our causes and we’re able to describe a world made better because of our efforts.

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Servant Leadership

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Service Leadership is a management style and a process that prioritizes the greater good over individual interests. Nonprofit Service Leaders serve employees, program participants and the community with humility, intention and care. When considering service leadership the goal is to understand service as a leadership model and discuss its significance, characteristics and role in nonprofit management.

What distinguishes service leadership from other leadership models is the connection to community and the commitment to developing others holistically. It’s a compassionate approach to management that results in high morale, increased engagement, strong ethical standards for the organization, and the development of future leaders.

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Inquiry and Research

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Inquiry and Research are both about gathering information. Inquiry involves asking and answering questions, while research is an investigation and review of content and data to reach a conclusion.

Information gathering is an essential part of the nonprofit development process. As we are positioning ourselves to solve problems in our communities, we want to be able to demonstrate knowledge of our cause and readiness to take on the challenge.

We have to be able to answer the ‘Who, What, Where, When, Why and How’ questions easily and consistently when writing proposals and sharing our story with stakeholders.

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Professional Service-Learning

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Professional Service-Learning
Professional Service-Learning is an approach to education that links service-leadership and project management to deep inquiry and reflection.

It's a process for nonprofit and community leaders who want to learn, participate and lead to improve conditions in their neighborhoods.

The DevoCenter Professional Service-Learning Process helps leaders make personal connections to service, execute meaningful projects that measure results, and multiply their impact by sharing what they learn with youth and community partners.

Benefits for Nonprofit and Community Leaders

  • Leaders who participate in professional service-learning get to explore and articulate their values and habits... and they set goals that are aligned to the things that they care about.

  • They become passionate and informed advocates for their causes and they're able to describe a world made better because of their efforts.

  • Learners understand service as a leadership model and develop key management skills.

  • They also broaden their perspectives about what’s possible.

  • With service-learning, leaders develop action plans and execute projects that are designed to measure success.

  • Leaders partner with others to meet needs in their neighborhoods ...and to celebrate!

  • Service leaders encourage civic engagement and participation in others by sharing what they learn.

At DevoCenter we're bringing women together to learn, participate and lead.

If this is exciting to you we hope you'll join us.

Coates Inc. College and Career Strategies

The Coates Inc. vision is educational equity for under-served communities so that all students can attain college and career success. They organize community service opportunities and college and career events for teens and young adults, work with administrative leaders to develop and customize college and career readiness curriculum, and walk students and their caregivers through the college admissions and applications processes.

No Stones Movement

No Stones Movement (NSM) is a non-profit dedicated to nurturing the mental, physical, spiritual and creative journey of Atlanta's inner city youth. NSM empowers teens and young adults by helping them expand their mind, enhance their spirits, strengthen their bodies and embrace their culture so that they can demonstrate the best versions of themselves and be an asset to their communities. Their vision is the holistic development of inner-city youth, ready to lead in Georgia.

Youth Talk United

Youth Talk United is a volunteer-driven youth and family support organization dedicated to empowering youth and young adults to deal with their emotions and express themselves in positive ways. Youth Talk United aims to improve quality of life outcomes for youth and young adults ages 10-24 who live in the Greater Birmingham area by offering a variety of supportive services designed to provide them with the life skills they need to successfully deal with issues they may encounter in their daily lives, while preparing them for a smooth transition into the real world.