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Introduction to
Charles Betterton's Interest in Lifelong Learning of Successful
Living Skills
Charles
Betterton has a Master's in Community Economic Development (CED) from
Southern New Hampshire University and he is certified as an Economic
Development Finance Professional by the National Development
Council.
The field of Community
Economic Development focuses on the three areas of self-help,
empowerment and capacity building. Charles has been developing award
winning projects in these three areas for almost four decades. He
has helped individuals, organizations and communities discover and
manifest more of their ultimate destiny by fostering personal,
organizational and community development, empowerment, successful
living, transformation and capacity building.
Charles has over
thirty (40) years of administrative and turn-around management
experience in government, community development, community economic
development, business and nonprofit organizations including twelve
(12) years with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD). He also served for three (3) years as Executive Director of
Community and Economic Development for the City of Kankakee,
Illinois, ten (10) years as Executive Director of nonprofit
organizations involved in personal, spiritual, organizational and
community development and over five (5) years creating, leading and
managing cause-oriented companies.
Charles has developed
and delivered dozens of seminars and workshops including: Personal
And Professional Success Techniques; Motivision; 21 Steps to
Successful Living; TULIPS, The Ultimate Life Inpowerment Planning
System; 10 Steps in Co-creative Visioning and Strategic Planning,
Seven Ascension Attitudes; Empowerment 101, Enlightenment 101, etc.
Charles
has provided training and consulting services to companies, chambers
of commerce, non-profit organizations, churches and communities. He
has produced major events for personal, professional and community
development for up to 1,800 people featuring world class trainers
such as Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Jim Rohn, Les Brown, Mark Victor
Hansen, Bonnie St. John, Brian Tracy and others. He has been written
up in hundreds of newspaper articles, made numerous radio and
television appearances and has had many articles published in
magazines. (www.candoresourcecenter.com)
Charles has founded or
co-founded dozens of non-profit organizations and companies involved
in personal, organizational and community development and
empowerment including CENTER
SPACE (Center for Spiritual, Personal And Community
Empowerment/Enlightenment) and
Ultimate Destiny
University. These organizations have over 200 web sites that
provide products and services that help individuals, organizations
and communities realize more of their potential, discover their
purpose in life and know how to manifest their ultimate destiny.
Charles
is a member of the World Business Academy, Social Venture Network,
Heart Math, Institute Of Noetic Sciences, The Love Center, Spirit In
Business, International New Thought Alliance, and Association for
Global New Thought. Charles can be reached at 760-212-9931 *
www.CharlesBetterton.com
Recent Message to Michael Whiting, Executive Director, United Way of
Yavapai County, AZ
Dear Michael:
Congratulations on the success of the planning and input session
yesterday! I was very impressed with how much substantive work was
accomplished in such a short time. You, Deborah, Lori and the panel
all did a great job and I was grateful to be able to participate.
During our small group session on "Dynamic Community Involvement", I
shared my interest and work in community economic development,
including my present focus on helping establish a national network
of
Community Economic Development Resource Centers through our
non-profit
Ultimate Destiny University for Successful Living based here in
Sedona and San Diego. As I shared with the others in our small
group, I would be happy to contribute in any possible way to help
the United Way with your mission of promoting life long learning.
As I mentioned when I spoke briefly with you, I have worked with
United Way agencies in several states. When I asked the United Way
of Kankakee County in 1990 if they would be willing to provide a
grant of $5,000 to help sponsor the
Community
Unity Celebration I produced with Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and
Les Brown (the motivational trainer), the Executive Director called
me the next day and asked if they could be featured as a Cosponsor
if they provided $15,000. Of course I said YES!
To further introduce my background experience, particularly related
to working with United Way's and facilitating "lifelong learning of
successful living skills", I invite you to read this letter of
introduction from Susie Brown.
http://www.candoresourcecenter.com/united_way_ny.htm .
She served then as President of the United Way of Oneida County, NY
when she asked me to facilitate county-wide visioning and strategic
planning for the Partnership for Human Development.
Susie and I had worked together previously when she accepted my
invitation to serve on the board of the Kankakee County Community
Development Corporation I had initiated. With Susie's leadership and
the support of the United Way, our project to transform an abandoned
22,000 square foot National Guard Armory building into a Community
Economic Development Resource Center received a Governor's Home Town
Award, received over a million dollars in grants and donations and
has served tens of thousands of community residents with
educational, recreational, civic and cultural enrichment programs.
http://www.candoresourcecenter.com/despite_naysayers.htm
My credentials that may be most relevant to the United Way focus on
lifelong learning include: about 40 years of (mostly) award-winning
turn-around management and leadership positions in disaster relief,
community development, and economic development with the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development in several states and
Washington, D.C.; a Master's in Community Economic Development from
Southern New Hampshire University; certification as an Economic
Development Finance Specialist (by the National Development
Council); and over 20 years of experience developing and producing
community empowerment and development training programs featuring
world-class trainers, authors and other experts for up to 1,800
participants (www.candoresourcecenter.com)
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"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." ---
Dr.
Michael Swack, Professor, the Carsey Institute,
University of New Hampshire and
founding Dean, School of Community Economic
Development, Southern New Hampshire University
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I look forward to continuing to participate in your strategic
planning process including attending the session in the Verde Valley
later this month. If I may ever be of any possible assistance to
you, the United Way or any of your funded agencies, it would be an
honor to do so.
Thank you again for your leadership of the United Way of Yavapai
County.
Sincerely,
Charles Betterton..
Phone: 928-284-2671
www.charlesbetterton.com
www.UltimateDestinyland.com
www.UltimateDestinyUniversity.org
www.UltimateSuccessPuzzle.com
www.UltimateDestinySuccessSystem.com
www.CanDoResourceCenter.com
www.UltimateWaterForHumanity.org
www.SuccessfulLivingSkillsForThe21Century.com
Co-creating programs, products and organizations that help
individuals, organizations and communities realize more of their
potential and manifest more of their ultimate destiny for 40 years.
www.ultimatedestinyuniversity.org
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