Post on 31-Mar-2015
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY:
A Gift that Keeps on Giving
SEED is sponsored by W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The New York Women’s Foundation and many visionary individuals who appreciate realizing meaningful social impact returns on their investments.
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High social capital but limited reach
Too few leaders carrying the weight
Scaling up social innovation
Solid product, capacity-constrained
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Where do you see your grantee partners?
During the past five years, SEED has increased the shared leadership, reach and impacts of more than 200 non-profit initiatives.
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MORE THAN 200 INITIATIVES
http://www.seedimpact.org/seed-clients.shtml
Your investment will exponentially expand SEED’s capacity and allow us to reach thousands every month.
“SEED helped us to think about old problems in new ways - we were really able to push ourselves to come up with innovative approaches and solutions.”
—Hour Children
“In contrast to other strategic planning experiences, SEED incorporates coaching and capacity building for each member to reach their full potential as a facilitator and participant. SEED’s streamlined approach helps you quickly get to action.”
—Why Hunger
“The structure has given us intentionalityin how we approach what we do, and it has increased our accountability to each other. This has really helped us move things.”
—Summer Search
“I could personally say that SEED’s tailored, human touch is a rare quality.”
—Voces Latinas
Voices From the Field “The SEED process helps us connect our beliefs and our work to our vision. It’s creative, and it is clarifying our power.”
—Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
“SEED has provided tools for a new way of strategic planning. It has allowed us to approach our work not as departments working against deadlines with proposal targets, but rather as a cohesive team working towards a unified vision.”
—Business Opportunity Center Network
“SEED meets us where we are, hears our concerns and guides us to shift our conversations dramatically to focus on creating possibilities for our future.”
—Violence Intervention Program
“SEED works at our pace in ways that allow our various leadership bodies to fully participate and ensure completion of our work.” —FIERCE
Many success stories: http://www.seedimpact.org/seed-voices.shtml
Diagnostics
Coaching
SEEDing Sustainability
SEEDing Impact Stories
Learning Pods
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Your investment will make SEED’s proven capacity-building practices widely accessible.
The SEED Greenhouse will use lead-edge software to power up sustainable leadership teams.
SEED Meetings
SEED Visioning
SEED Planning
YOUR grantee partners can befirst to benefit.
They will gain free access to SEED’s first three online products.
GROW SOCIAL IMPACT:
Using SEED leadership practices, teams learn to draw on the strengths of more leaders, streamline collaboration, and recognize possibilities that previously eluded them.
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EXTEND VALUE:
Adopting SEED assessment and planning practices, teams align their daily work with big dreams and achieve greater results with less effort.
Investing in Results
The SEED Greenhouse guarantees a 25 to 1 ROI:
For every dollar invested, a minimum of $25 dollars of new social impact will be realized.
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DRAMATIC SOCIAL
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INCREMENTAL CHANGE
STRATEGIC PLANNING
SEED PLANNING
GETTING BY, going this way and that
The focus is on short term PROBLEM-SOLVING
Aiming for an OPTIMAL SOLUTION
The focus is on pre-established FUTURE TARGETS
Modeling the vision in MULTIPLE INTENTIONS
The focus is on PRESENT OPPORTUNITIES
“The future is something we build in the present.“ - Paulo Freire
Accountability is tied to a PLAN ON PAPER that is
quickly outdated
Accountability is about STAYING ON TASK
Accountability is rooted in REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
The motivation is to SURVIVE
The motivation is to BE GRAND
The motivation is to TRANSFORM
Change agents remain stuck in RESTRICTING
SILOS
Change agents ATTEMPT TO MAXIMIZE within their
restricting silos
Change agents BUST OUT OF SILOS to realize a
shared vision
SEED builds cross-organizational capacity for leadership teams to close the gaps between vision and results.
SEED will also provide downstream, aggregate data for investors to track results attained in the SEED Greenhouse.
THREE RETURNS ON INVESTMENT:
Deepsatisfactionas a
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Stretch its vision and step into a more powerful presence
You are invited:
Invest to Grow Impact through SEED Online. www.seedimpact.org
Imagine our world when every dedicated, community-serving team can, at any
time, draw on the very best technical assistance to:
Enliven its work with more of what it does best
Ennoble more diverse talents and contributions
Discover performance capacity and maximum impact!
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