Publications & Products
Some of the publications and products created by the Campaign Consultation team include:
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| Stage 1: | As
a tool to clarify your legacy focus, click here, print-out
and complete the Living Legacy GPS Guidebook |
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Your LLIFE guide will... |
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| Stage 2: | Review and discuss
your Living Legacy GPS Guidebook responses. Explore
your top 3 causes for research purposes. |
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| Stage 3: | Research, compile
findings, provide analysis and discuss organizations,
entities and other interventions to address your top
cause interests. |
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| Stage 4: | Prepare tailored
information survey questions. Interview (distance
and/or on-site) prospects and assess their responses.
Compile and review report with recommendations. Provide
support in grantee selection. |
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| Stage 5: | Determine preferred method of offering support and then implement. | |
For more information on
how LLIFE™ can help you establish your living legacy
through entrepreneurial philanthropy, contact Linda Brown
Rivelis at 410.243.7979 x10 or
LBRivelis@CampaignConsultation.com
Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
Each year, approximately 20,000 youth reach the age of majority and are aged-out of the foster care system in the United States. These youth are often unprepared to continue their education, find housing, or become productive and contributing members of their communities.
In an effort to help address the special complex challenges faced by youth who are aging out of foster care [YAO], AmeriCorps*VISTA tasked Campaign Consultation, Inc. to examine and identify which strategies, programs and interventions work best for this population, as seem through a national and community service lens, and how best to promote and advance these lessons for application and/or replication in current and new VISTA projects. Toward this end, Campaign Consultation:
- Conducted a research-based environmental scan to determine what strategies, programs and/or interventions work best for the YAO population
- Assessed these strategies, from a field-based perspective, with a focus on programs supported by VISTA
- Interviewed issue area experts, funders, and stakeholders to determine key principles for best/promising practices
- Identified what is needed to effectively support these promising practices using national and community service resources, and
- Developed a detailed report outlining the findings of these investigations and related recommendations.
The investigation found that there is consensus around needs and service gaps for the Youth Aging-Out of Foster Care population. The needs include housing, education, employment, life skills, health care, transportation, and a caring and consistent adult.
The service providers, interviewed as part of this investigation, most commonly used several of these strategies, in combination, rather than a single strategy. In general, they utilized three main strategies: self sufficiency programming; mentoring (to varying degrees), and systemic interventions.
Based on these findings, the report offers a number of recommendations for safeguarding this vulnerable population from poverty.
Sustainability
- Americorps*VISTA Early Service Training
- ASK (Awareness, Skills & Knowledge) to Sustain Institute
- Board Dialogue on SustainAbility
- Future Trends in SustainAbility
- Rural Route to SustainAbility
- Strategies for Sustaining the Initiative Institute
- SustainAbility
from the Grassroots Up
(www.SustainAbilityOnline.com, no longer live)
Citizen Mobilization
- VISTA O-Linc www.VISTAOLINC.net
- Telling Your Story
- Education Advocacy: a.k.a. Lobbying for Effective Education
- Business Volunteers Unlimited – Maryland/Do Something Series
- Community Organizing: Community Development
- Business Volunteers Unlimited – Maryland/Do Something Series
- Breadth, Depth & Scope: Strategies for Increasing Involvement
- Building Effective Citizen Action Campaigns
- Community Organizing: Community Change
- Lobbying: Tools, Tips and Techniques
- Mapping Community Capacity
- Recipes for Building Community
- TOM: Targeting, Organizing and Mobilizing
Resource Development
- Resource Now! National Institute
- People First! Individual Giving
- To Raise $$$... Raise People
- Developing Major Donors
- Wealth Transfer and Impact on Community Service
- Corporate Donor Giving / Partnership
- Inside the Corner Office
- The Value of Your Program’s Brand
- Cause Related Marketing and Corporate Partnerships
- Uncovering the Resources in Your Community
- Resources for Special Programs
- Finding $$$ in Your Community
- Revenue Generation
- Asking Clinics
- Writing for $$$-Individual
- Writing for $$$-Foundation/Corporate
- Articulating for $$$
- On-The-Go e-TA
(a technical assistance bulletin for building resources)
To receive your free subscription, email: Success@CampaignConsultation.com
and/or to view past issues go to:http://onthegoeta.net/mail/index2008.php
- Power of Direct Mail (Interactive CD-ROM & Detailed
Companion Booklet on Developing Your Direct Mail Program)
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[download PowerPoint] - Power of Individual Giving (CD-ROM)
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[download PowerPoint] - Sustainability Crossword Puzzle
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[download PowerPoint] - The 4 Keys to Holding Successful Special Events
Fundraising (HowTo Booklet, Instructional CD-ROM and Set of Countdown
Cards)
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[download PowerPoint] - 101 Tools for Sustainability (101 Tools Organized
by SustainAbility Track in a sturdy carrying case)
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[download PowerPoint] - Successful Volunteer-Led Phonathons (Comprehensive
Handbook with Copy-Ready Tools Detailing 11 Easy Steps)
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[download PowerPoint] - Sustainability Pocket Brochures (1 Set of 16 Printed
Brochures Divided into Four SustainAbility Tracks)
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[download PowerPoint] - Sources of Giving (Large Reusable Group Activity
Designed to Help You Match Your Organization with Various Giving Sources)
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[download PowerPoint] - LEAD Line (question/rapid response system)
- On-The-Ground Support (local, in-person capacity building)
- Online Courses:
- Building Fundraising Volunteer Champions
- Cause Related Marketing and Corporate Partnerships
- Resource Development: Opportunity, Imagination and Activists… Key to Program Success
- Branding and Visibility
- Mobilizing the Resources in Your Community
- Boards and Advisory Councils
- Fundraising: Securing Resources for Environmental Programs
- Business Volunteers Unlimited – Maryland/Do Something Series
- AIM (Assess, Involve, and Mobilize) to Sustain: Defining and Developing the State Commission Resource Development Plan
- Diversified Funding Primer
- Diversifying and Enlarging Your Giving Base
- Fundraising Software Shouldn’t be Hard
- Grantwriting and Development Strategies that Work
- Making the Smart Ask
- Online Philanthropy
- Preserving the Past ... Creating Our Future: Resources for Strengthening Our Communities
- Resource Development Strategies for Tough Times
- Solicitation for Sissies
- Working with Foundations
Media & Marketing
- Crafting and Delivering Your SOCO (Single Over-Riding Communication Objective)
- Educating the Public About Your Program
- Getting the Word Out: Marketing Your Project in Real Time
- Make News Happen: Make Front Page News!
- Marketing and Promotion: Being Seen in the Crowd
- Marketing Your Vision
- Telling Your Story
Volunteer Leveraging/Power Building
- Champion Building
- SustainAbility from the Grassroots Up
- The Future of Senior Service
- Volunteer Link: On-Line Resources & Technical Assistance
- Volunteers: The Backbone of Community Initiatives
- Volunteers: The Heart of Community
- Volunteers for the Future - Building Program Champions
- www.USAFreedomCorps.gov (no longer live) – The White House’s One-Click Resources for Non-Profit Organizations and Corporations
Leadership
- Advisory Councils that Work
- AmeriCorps Promise Fellow Leader Institute
- AmeriCorps Service Leaders Training
- Effective Boards/Effective Governance
- Leadership Skills to Enhance Community and Program Performance
- Leadership Skills to Enhance Team Performance
- Leadership Skills for the Individual
- Leadership Skills for Managers
- Transition from Member to Leader
Diversity
- Addressing Bias in the Court System
- Building Cross-Cultural Teams
- Creating New Paradigms
- Enhancing Cultural Awareness
- Multi-Cultural Leadership Learning Program
- Overcoming Cross-Cultural Stumbling Blocks
Collaboration
- Institute for Partnership Development
- Principles of Prevention Partnerships
- Seven Principles of Multi-Sector Collaboration
- Tool Box for Collaborative Campaigns
- Two Sides of the Coin: Program Directors and Executive
- Directors Working Together
- Using Open Space Technology to Create Collaboration Opportunities
Strategic Action
- Americorps*VISTA University
- Creating Shared Vision
- Strategic Thinking Not Strategic Planning
- The First National Conference on Service in Indian Country
- Think, Shoot, Aim v. Aim and Shoot
- Totally Out of the Box: Creating Change and Managing Change
- Winning Movements
Anti-Poverty & Youth Development
- From Challenge to Opportunity – Gulf States Continuing Development Training
- Building Rural Strategic Partnerships
- AmeriCorps Promise Fellows Resource Kit
- Entrepreneur Briefcase: Financial Asset Development Tools
- Faith-Based and Small Community-Based Initiatives: Promising Practices
- Financial Asset Development: Promising Practices
- Learn and Serve: Promising Practices
- Seniors in Poverty: Promising Practices
- Welfare to Work: Promising Practices
