Helping
Individuals, Organizations and Communities Realize Greater Capacity for
Solving
Personal,
Community and Global
"Ultimate Destiny Success Puzzles" to
Effectively Address Social, Economic and Environmental
Challenges
“Inherently, each one
of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and
dreams define. What is missing from each of us is the training,
education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have.”
-- Mark Twain
In his award-winning documentary I AM, producer Tom
Shadyac asks some of today’s most profound thinkers, two
questions – What’s wrong with our world, and what can we do
about it?
Tom's insightful documentary
provides background on why we incorporated
Universal
Stewardheirship, Inc. based on the new
Benefit Corporation model.
It also validates the reasons we are launching this Expanding the Circle of
Success
campaign to help answer the two questions his documentary ends
with: What's right with our world? and How can we help
manifest what we refer to as Earth Stewardheirship?
Please visit
www.iamthedoc.com, watch the trailer,
the movie on TV and cable and buy the DVD. Thank you!
Click Here for an
Introductory Power Point Presentation on Expanding the Circle of
Success
"When a community and its people are
empowered, they have the capacity to articulate their
needs; to identify actions to solve those needs; and to
mobilize and organize resources in pursuit of commonly
defined goals. When the people of a community come
together to visualize and work together to achieve a
common future, they recognize that everyone--regardless
of education, job, race, age, or background--has
something important to contribute to personal and
community empowerment. Indeed, the greater the diversity
of the participants, the richer the vision and the more
effective its accomplishment" -- Lorraine Garkovich,
University of Kentucky
Loraine's visionary statement and the
inspiring words from the song
Earth by David Roth encompass our ultimate vision and mission of
fostering personal, community, national and global
transformation. We seek to accomplish that by providing expanded
access to state-of-the-art resources for development training
while incorporating the
Community Economic
Development principles of Self-Help, Empowerment and
Capacity Building.
Through our
Expanding the Circle of
Success Campaign we will facilitate the donation over 10 years
of 100 million dollars worth of development training programs to and
through an international network of non-profit agency partners
including our Empowerment Resource Centers™ and ETMS
Empowerment Training Mentoring Systems™.
We have a
Strategic Implementation Matrix™
in place for accomplishing our
vision of Empowering Millions of
People and Helping Save and Create Millions of Jobs.
Through our programs such as
CAN DO!, the
Ultimate Destiny Hall of Fame Awards, and our
Ultimate Fundraising Programs that enable participating NPOs to
receive donations of up to 100% of any sales they generate of our
products, thousands of individuals and organizations will be highly
motivated to participate in mutually beneficial ways. Click Here
for a PDF of the Ultimate Success Puzzle for Expanding the Circle
of Success.
Our
forthcoming introductory publications will help attract additional
collaborative partners:
We will be able to reach and serve millions of people who may have
never
previously been introduced to self-development and successful
living skills by:
(1) Operating through what we refer to as a Strategic Marketecture™
of cause-oriented companies and our
affiliated non-profit organizations;
(2) Continuing to develop strategic
alliances with many of the best known authors, trainers and resource
providers on the planet to distribute the programs,
products and systems that we have created;
(3) Demonstrating
success in producing
award winning programs and events with world-class authors and
trainers such as Norman Vincent Peale, Les Brown, Brian Tracy, Jim
Rohn, Mark Victor Hansen, William E. Bailey, Bonnie St. John, Chin
Ning Chu etc. for up to 1,800 participants in a county of only
100,000 residents;
(4) Expansion and replication of the award-winning models for
Community Empowerment Resource Centers we have established for
Public Housing Agencies, Community Development Corporations and
communities.
Click Here
for our invitation for you to participate and as a cocreator
and collaborator.
For a customized
introduction and overview of our programs, products and resources,
please click on one of the following links that best describes you
and your interests:
Resources for personal
growth and development, realization of potential,
leadership, success in life and business, financial
success, successful
living skills, etc.
Resources for increasing effectiveness and efficiency,
empowering
motivating, rewarding and managing employees
and fulfilling
your mission and purpose.
Community
Representative
Community Economic Development resources for
developing shared vision, community unity, partnerships,
approaches that help create and sustain economic
opportunities
Resources for
congregational growth, cocreative visioning, strategic
planning, development, fundraising, community outreach,
event promotion, etc.
Government
Representative
Government
entities interested in
community economic development (including self-help,
empowerment, and capacity-building) transformation
and sustainability.
Potential
Trainer or
Resource Provider
Authors,
trainers, speakers, publishers, producers who would like to deliver our
programs and or have products or services
that would benefit from
global marketing and distribution.
Potential
Strategic Alliance Partner
Any individual, business or organization that has
products or services that would benefit from global
marketing and distribution and or would like to profit
by helping marketing our programs and products.
Private
Foundation
or Other Funder
Private foundations and philanthropists interested
in community economic development (including self-help,
empowerment, and capacity-building) transformation and sustainability.
Interested in
Income Opportunities
Individuals,
businesses and non-profits that would like to earn income through affiliate
programs, joint ventures, revenue participation
agreements, distributorships, licensing, franchising,
etc.
Accredited investors interested in "doing well while
doing good", by investing in businesses that include the
4Ps of Purpose, People, Planet and Profitability and
that publish, produce and distribute resources for
personal, community and social transformation &
sustainability
Click Here
to discover how participation in our programs might be useful to
you.
Request for Proposals and
Invitation to Participate
The Expanding the Circle of Success Campaign was launched to help establish a
national (and then international) network of locally initiated,
non-profit Community Economic Development Empowerment Resource
Centers.
Click Here if
you would like to review a PDF document that further introduces how
the Campaign seeks to apply the principles and practices of
Community Economic
Development that include Self-Help, Empowerment and Capacity
Building to help create and save millions of jobs and help millions
of people learn how benefit from
Successful Living Skills for the 21st Century.
We
are planning to issue a Request
for Proposals (RFP) to invite potential community and
organizational sponsors of an Empowerment Resource Center and or
Empowerment Training Mentoring System to apply for a free donation
of either program. The only investment the sponsors will need to
cover is the cost of travel and training of the local CAN DO!
Empowerment facilitator. This week long training-of-trainers will be
provided at various locations across North America initially.
The RFP process includes a form that
applicants complete and submit along with their request
for the donation of an ERC or ETMS. In some instances,
CAN DO! and our sponsors will invite a municipality,
Public Housing Authority, United Way, etc. to
participate as a prototype.
An example of the letter of invitation is provided along
with an overview of how the projects are designed to
become totally self-funding.
Our rather ambitious goal of helping
establish thousands of locally initiated community based empowerment
centers
is based on about 40 years of "proof of concept" with
previous award-winning models and prototypes that are documented on this web site.
Example of an Empowerment Resource Center in a
New Thought Center
Sponsorship of Expanding the Circle of Success and or a
Community Resource Center
The Sponsorship page will be developed to provide
details of the proposed levels of sponsorship that will be
established to help generate additional revenues that will help
the Community Resource Centers become self-sustaining as soon as
possible. For an advance copy of the Sponsorship Opportunity
Packet, please contact Charles Betterton at 928-554-4715 or by
email at
expandingthecircleofsuccess@gmail.com.
Thank you for visiting this web site and
for taking time to explore what we are about.
If you
or someone you know is interested in any
aspect of personal, organizational and community development and
empowerment, we invite you to join us in this exciting co-creative
process.
We seek to help manifest
Bucky Fuller's vision of
"Betterment for 100% of Humanity" by discovering new and more innovative ways to produce and
distribute resources that can help millions of people all over the
world enjoy happier, healthier, wealthier and more meaningful lives. We
also seek to help people learn how to nurture their
heart's desires, manage stress and enjoy "heart mind
coherence" with featured resources from
HeartMath®.
“Mr.
Betterton’s project for the 1990-1992 Community Economic
Development Masters program at Southern New Hampshire
University was to promulgate CED principles and
practices. The fact that he turned down a HUD Community
Builder Fellowship worth $250,000 in 1998 (when he was
earning less than $25,000 a year) to continue the
non-profit community empowerment work he and his team
had underway at the time demonstrates his commitment to
what he and his classmates defined as the foundation of
CED: self-help, empowerment and capacity building.” —
Michael Swack, Professor, the Carsey Institute,
University of New Hampshire and founding Dean,
School of Community Economic
Development, Southern New Hampshire
University
PS. If you would like to learn more about how
you, your business, non-profit organization and or community
could establish a CAN DO! Community Economic Development
Empowerment Resource Center in your community, please contact
Charles Betterton at 928-554-4715 or by email at
expandingthecircleofsuccess@gmail.com to review ourInvitation to Participate. Thank you!
Invitation to Help Us Manifest
StewardHeirShip™ of a 134 acre property south of
Sedona, AZ as a center for conscious sustainable
living, a retreat center, community land trust and
or intentional community.
http://www.stewardheirship.info
