The NpA Incubator - Introduction (full slides)

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Biblical Authority
Proverbs 11:14 (NIV)
Proverbs 15:22
Proverbs 16:9
Acts 20:35
Galatians 6:9
1 Corinthians 15:58
Luke 14:28
Mark 10:42-45
Habakkuk 2:2
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Introduction
The NpA Incubator was established to help new, startups, and
existing organizations to form and grow by providing services
such as organizational development training, capacitybuilding,
community engagement expertise and much
more.
The National Business Incubation Association (NBIA)
defines [such] incubators as a catalyst tool for either
regional or national economic development.
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Introduction
Our services will include, but by no means be limited to, the following:
• 501(c)(3) Acquisition/ Reinstatement
• Transformative Community Engagement and Multidisciplinary Collaboration
• Organizational Development and Sustainability
• Strategic Planning
• Evidence-Based Programming
• Data-Driven Resource Allocation
• Economic Emancipation and Fundraising (UBIT Initiatives)
• Best Practices and Accountability
• Compliance
• Paradigm Shifting and Change Management
• Inner-City Strategic Revitalization Planning
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Introduction
The Incubation Process
Unlike many business incubator programs, The NpA Incubator does not
serve any and all organizations:
• Social Service entrepreneurs who wish to enter The NpA Incubator program
must apply for admission;
• Acceptance criteria vary from program to program, but in general only those
with well thought-out and workable Goals and Objectives are admitted.
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Organizing
The 501(c)(3) Acquisition Process
Transformative Community Engagement
and Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Organizational Development & Sustainability
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The 501(c)(3) Acquisition Process
To [qualify for] tax-exempt [status] under section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code, an organization must be organized and
operated exclusively for exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3),
and none of its earnings may inure to any private shareholder or
individual.
• In addition, it may not be an action organization, i.e., it may not attempt to influence
legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any
campaign activity for or against political candidates.
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Transformative Community Engagement
and Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Transformative Community Engagement refers to the process by which
community benefit organizations and individuals build ongoing,
permanent relationships for the purpose of applying a collective vision
for the benefit of a community.
• While community organizing involves the process of building a grassroots movement
involving communities, community engagement primarily deals with the practice of
moving said communities towards change, usually from a stalled or otherwise similarly
suspended position.
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Organizational Development & Sustainability
The nonprofit landscape is changing and you’re faced with a real
challenge. You want to create impact and build a sustainable future for
your nonprofit. But is it really possible? Experts say, yes!
• In fact, Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka and Steve Zimmerman, authors of Nonprofit
Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability, say that when
nonprofits begin to understand how to bring programmatic goals together with
financial goals, they’ll start to make decisions that lead to organizational
sustainability.
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Planning
Strategic Planning
Evidence-Based Programming
Data-Driven Resource Allocation
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Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy,
or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue
this strategy, including its capital and people. Various business analysis
techniques can be used in strategic planning, including:
• SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats);
• PEST analysis (Political, Economic, Social, and Technological);
• STEER analysis (Socio-cultural, Technological, Economic, Ecological, and Regulatory factors); and
• EPISTEL (Environment, Political, Informatic, Social, Technological, Economic and Legal).
All strategic planning deals with at least one of three key questions:
"What do we do?"
"For whom do we do it?"
"How do we excel?"
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Evidence-Based Programming
Non-governmental and governmental organizations worldwide
implement programs to combat social problems, including poverty and
lack of adequate health care. However, the programs are often
designed and executed based on assumptions rather than based on
data and facts.
• In her TED talk entitled “Social Experiments to Fight Poverty,” MIT economist Esther Duflo
compares the implementation of social programs that are not evidence based to the use of
leeches by doctors in the medieval period.
• When developing new interventions or programs, it is important for program implementers to
utilize existing research to determine “how people make financial decisions, adopt new
technology, use social networks to help survive crises, respond to incentives, decide how much
education to acquire, etc.”…Only then can we know if we are doing more good than harm and
spending limited resources wisely.”
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Data-Driven Resource Allocation
Data-Informed Decision-Making (DIDM)
DDDM refers to the collection and analysis of data to guide decisions that improve
success. DIDM is used in education communities (where data is used with the goal
of helping students) but is also applicable to (and thus also used in) other fields in
which data is used to inform decisions.
While data-driven decision-making is a more common term, data-informed
decision-making is a preferable term since decisions should not be based solely on
quantitative data.
• Decision making has long been a subject of study and given the explosive growth of
Big Data over the past decade, it’s not surprising that data-driven decision making is
one of the most promising applications in the emerging discipline of data science.
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Sustainability & Compliance
Economic Emancipation & Fundraising
- UBIT Initiatives
Best Practices and Accountability
Compliance
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Economic Emancipation & Fundraising
UBIT Initiatives
Just as Reverend Leon H. Sullivan once embraced the idea of Economic
Emancipation for people of color, we must now embrace its logical
extension, Economic Emancipation for our Community and Faith-Based
organizations, many of which arose out of the very movement
embraced by our predecessors, in order to help them more fully fulfill
their manifest destinies.
• During the most recent recession, many of our charitable organizations suffered nearfatal
setbacks. Most have yet to fully recover, and, unfortunately, some will not ever
recover. But there are important lessons-learned in order to prevent the same thing
from happening all over again one day.
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Best Practices and Accountability
A Best Practice is a method or technique that has been generally
accepted as superior to any alternatives because it produces results
that are superior to those achieved by other means or because it has
become a standard way of doing things, e.g., a standard way of
complying with legal or ethical requirements.
• Best practices are used to maintain quality as an alternative to mandatory legislated
standards and can be based on self-assessment or benchmarking.
• The nonprofit/voluntary sector is generally lacking tools for sharing and accessing best
practices. Steps are being taken in some parts of the world, for example in the
European Union, where the Europe 2020 Strategy has as a top priority the exchange of
good practices and networking (including the nonprofit sector).
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Compliance
In general, compliance means conforming to a rule, such as a
specification, policy, standard or law. Regulatory compliance describes
the goal that organizations aspire to achieve in their efforts to ensure
that they are aware of and take steps to comply with relevant laws and
regulations.
• Due to the increasing number of regulations and need for operational transparency,
organizations are increasingly adopting the use of consolidated and harmonized sets of
compliance controls. This approach is used to ensure that all necessary governance
requirements can be met without the unnecessary duplication of effort and activity
from resources.
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Critical Thinking
for Transformative Social Impact
Paradigm Shifting & Change Management
Inner-City Strategic Revitalization Planning
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Paradigm Shifting & Change Management
The National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking defines it as
the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully
conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating
information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience,
reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
• In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend
subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound
evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness.
Critical thinking can be seen as having two components:
1. A set of information and belief generating and processing skills, and
2. The habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior.
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Inner-City Strategic Revitalization Planning
“Neighborhood Revitalization is the way of the future and is an
essential element of [our] work. By focusing on entire neighborhoods,
we can greatly increase our impact.”
— Jonathan Reckford, CEO,
Habitat for Humanity International
• It is important to elevate the standard of living for the existing community, not just
shove it aside in the pursuit of a gentrified city. Giving the existing people a chance at
independence raises the standard of living for all residents in the city and preserves
the rich heritage and character of the city.
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Questions & Answers
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Thank You!
The NpA Incubator
for Transformative Social Impact ®
The Advocacy Foundation, Inc.
Helping Individuals, Organizations & Communities
Achieve Their Full Potential
“Turning the Improbable Into the Exceptional”
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Philadelphia
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Founder & CEO
Mark L. Merrill
Northeast Regional Director
(878) 222-0450
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