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for Charles E. Betterton
Charles
Betterton has over forty (40) years of
managerial experience in community development, disaster
relief and community economic development including
twelve (12) years with the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD), three (3) years as
Executive Director of Community and Economic Development
for the City of Kankakee, Illinois, and over fifteen
(15) years as the founder or co-founder and Executive
Director of non-profit organizations and businesses
involved in personal, organizational and community
development. Charles has recruited, trained and
supervised staffs of up to 250 employees, he has
developed and managed annual budgets of over five
million dollars and received numerous awards for his
accomplishments including receiving the highest cash
award ever paid a HUD employee for a project he
initiated that saved over 300 million dollars.
Charles has been designing and developing award
winning Community Empowerment Resource Centers for over
30 years.
He was a co-founder of Kankakee County Community
Services and he established the Kankakee Community
Development Corporation, which transformed an abandoned
National Guard Armory into an award-winning Community
Resource Center that provides Micro-Enterprise
Development training, a Revolving Loan Fund and an After
School Youth Empowerment Program. Most recently he and
Les Brown, “The Motivator” helped the Muncie, Indiana
Public Housing Authority create an award-winning Success
Center Partnership that provides youth residents with
expanded access to educational resources and economic
opportunities.
Charles co-founded the
Ultimate
Destiny University for Successful Living and the
Center for Spiritual, Personal, And Community
Empowerment (CENTER SPACE), two nonprofit organizations
that provide educational programs and services that
foster spiritual, personal professional, organizational
and community empowerment. He also serves as Chairman
and CEO of Universal Stewardheirship, Inc., a
cause-oriented company
based on the Benefit Corporation model that produces and provides seminars, workshops,
publications, Internet web sites and consulting services
that foster personal, business, organizational,
spiritual and community empowerment.
Charles has a Master's in
Community Economic
Development from the Graduate School of Business
Administration at Southern New Hampshire University. He
has developed and conducted training programs and
provided consulting services for individuals,
businesses, organizations, churches, chambers of
commerce, and communities on: strategic planning;
developing mission statements; setting and achieving
goals; creative thinking and problem solving; and
conflict resolution.
Charles has designed, developed and marketed
various educational programs, publications and products
primarily for non-profit community development
organizations. He has also designed and conducted
successful direct mail campaigns, membership drives,
public relations programs, and fundraising campaigns
including sponsorship programs. He has developed
successful applications for grants of up to $750,000
from government and private foundations, has generated
over seven million dollars in grants and he has raised
several million dollars in investment capital for
start-up businesses.
Charles has developed and promoted large-scale community
betterment events for up to 2,000 people with nationally
known speakers such as Les Brown, Norman Vincent Peale,
Brian Tracy, Jim Rohn, Mark Victor Hansen, Chin Ning-Chu,
William Bailey and Bonnie St. John Deane.
For
an overview of Charles' interest in community, see
A
Lifetime In Pursuit of Community
Professional Certifications, Affiliations and
Training:
Economic Development Finance Professional,
National Development Council
Certified Trainer of Independent Success Coaches for
Success Motivation International (SMI)
Certified Trainer for the Effective Personal Management
Workshop from SMI
Facilitator/Trainer for Brian Tracy’s Phoenix Seminar on
the Psychology of Achievement
Board of Directors:
Ultimate Destiny University, Inc., Universal
Stewardheirship, Inc and Community Economic Development
Resource Center, Inc.
Member:
World
Business Academy,
Social Venture Network,
Institute of
HeartMath,
IONS
Email
Contact:
ceo@universalstewardheirship.com
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