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 initiators of this CAN DO! Community Economic Development Resource Centers project are now prepared to share the results of several years worth of research and development in the You CAN DO! Too Resource Manual. It includes templates for producing major events, community newsletter, a 10 Step Co-Creative Visioning and Strategic Planning Process, organizational development documents, business plans, marketing plans, project work plans, sponsorship campaigns, etc,
Request for
Proposals and Letters of Invitation to Establish We are about ready to publish details of the Request for Proposals that will award several of the $10,000 ETMS to organizations and communities selected for the award. Following is a conceptual letter of invitation to an elected official of a municipality we have identified as meeting the Selection Criteria provided as an attachment to the letter.
CAN DO!
Empowerment Resource Center Project July 22, 2011
Honorable Susan Baldwin Dear Mayor Baldwin: We are writing on behalf of a strategic alliance of individuals, companies and nonprofit organizations with a shared vision of Expanding the Circle of Success. We are seeking the best location in Southwest Michigan to establish a model Empowerment Resource Center demonstration project. We are considering Battle Creek or the surrounding area and would like to meet with you to explore the best way this might be presented to communities in the area and whether Battle Creek may be interested in hosting a Center. The nonprofit Center would provide books, training CDs, DVDs and other training materials worth well over $10,000 in every major development field including personal, professional, organizational, community and economic. Because we are seeking preliminary demonstration sites, we would help obtain any required funding. The Empowerment Resource Center will need a space that is large enough to house the collection, and staff time to manage the collection. We estimate this could be done with 25% of an existing staff person’s time. We plan to establish Centers throughout the country. Some will be larger training centers while others, such as the center we propose for Battle Creek, will be resource centers for the community at large. Training will be available for those who staff the Center. Members of our team have over thirty years of experience developing award-winning programs and products that have helped individuals, organizations, and communities achieve more of their potential. For over ten years, we have been producing community oriented programs with well-known experts such as Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Paul J. Meyer, Les Brown, Brian Tracy, Jim Rohn, Mark Victor Hansen, Bonnie St. John Dean, Chin-Ning Chu, Jim Britt and many others. Enclosed is a flyer on the award-winning Success Center Partnership we developed for the Muncie, Indiana Public Housing Authority with help from Les Brown. We have reference letters from Chambers of Commerce, elected officials, United Way Executives, and business owners. Based on our preliminary review of communities in Southwest Michigan, it appears to us that Battle Creek meets most of the criteria we have identified for determining where to offer to develop our demonstration Empowerment Resource Center. Please review the enclosures and consider how an Empowerment Resource Center will assist you and your administration in accomplishing your goals for the City of Battle Creek. If you believe it would be mutually beneficial for us to explore the possibility of working together, we would appreciate an opportunity to meet with you in person at your earliest convenience. During our meeting, we will present more specific information on the hundreds of tested and proven resources that we will provide through the Center. We will also introduce you to a member of our management team that has developed award-winning community resource centers for over 30 years, generated million of dollars in grants, produced successful training programs for up to 2,000 participants and developed successful micro-enterprise development programs. If, after our meeting, you share our view that locating an Empowerment Resource Center in Battle Creek would be mutually beneficial, we would ask you to help identify community leaders from the private, public and nonprofit sectors to invite to an introductory orientation session. We would also invite you to help identify those who could serve in leadership roles on the committee that will be established to ensure the ultimate success of the Center. We would also like your assistance to help us identify a site for this Center. The ideal facility for our demonstration project would have several hundred square feet with a meeting room with a capacity for 20 to 30 people and a larger room capable of seating at least 100 people. This could be a partnership with an existing nonprofit organization or company that has available space that could be used by creating a mutually beneficial relationship. Enclosed is a sample flyer of how we might introduce the Empowerment Resource Center and ETMS (Empowerment Training Mentoring System) if it were based in Battle Creek. When we meet, we will provide samples of our Empowerment Resource Showcases. Also enclosed is a one-page document we invite you to complete that will help us determine how likely a Community Economic Development Resource Center would be successful in your community. Thank you for your consideration. We look forward to meeting with you to explore our vision of fostering organizational and community development and empowerment.
Sincerely, EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE CENTER SITE SELECTION FACTORS
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Does the community have an
expressed vision of being something better, larger, and more
successful in terms of the quality of life enjoyed by all its
residents? q Is there a suitable facility in or near the community that will seat at least 1,000 to 2,000 people for the major development training programs the Center will produce in conjunction with other local nonprofits and corporate sponsors? Copyright 2007 -2011 by CENTER SPACE, the Center for Spiritual, Personal and Community EnlightenmentThank you for visiting this web site and for taking time to explore what we have to offer. 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 of discovering new and more innovative ways to produce and distribute resources that can help millions of people all over the world enjoy happier, healthier, richer and more meaningful lives.
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