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Magazine and Newspaper Articles About CAN DO!, Ultimate Destiny,
and CENTER SPACE
There
are several
hundred
newspaper and
magazine
articles about
the
co-founders'
projects,
contributions
and
accomplishments
in community
development,
empowerment and
disaster relief
in 9 states
(Mississippi;
Illinois,
Indiana; Ohio,
Michigan,
Missouri; New
York, Virginia,
California and
Washington, DC)
plus the
Bahamas, Canada
and Switzerland.
A few of those
will be provided
as links from
this page.
Letters of
Support are
provided on that
page.
These first few
links are some
of the first
newspaper
articles about
CAN DO!
Les Brown Proves
Motivation Works
Motivational
Group Plans More Events
Kankakee
CAN DO! Seeks to Become Mecca of Motivation
Kankakee
County Agency Creates Positive Image
Betterton Seeks
To Motivate
Betterton Seeks to Motivate is a
great article by Kimberly Chievrue presents the overview of the
Ultimate Destiny Community Empowerment Resource Center model.
Kim was so moved by the results and accomplishments of the
organizations and programs Betterton and his team produced that
she now serves as one of the major coauthors and editors of the
fourteen part Ultimate Destiny Success System. Kim has also
authored about a dozen articles that Ultimate Destiny will use
to introduce the world to Ultimate Destiny University and the
Ultimate Destiny Success System.
Despite
Naysayers, Armory Lives
This article includes a photo of
Charles Betterton (co-founder of Ultimate Destiny), Susie Brown,
(former Executive Director of the United Way of Kankakee County
and the Oneida County NY United Way) who is
now on the Ultimate Destiny advisory board), William Lucek,
(President of Kankakee Community Development Corporation KCDC
established by Betterton) and Tim Schmidt, (Director of the
Kankakee Development Corporation) receiving a Governor’s Home
Town Award from Illinois Governor Jim Edgar for the success of
the Community Empowerment Resource Center Betterton had created
and managed.
Program
Motivates Business Spirit
HUD, the US Department of Housing
and Urban Development, subsequently asked Betterton and the KCDC
accept grant funding to design and deliver what evolved into an
award winning microenterprise development, self-employment and
entrepreneurship training program. The Community Resource Center
is the largest prototype so far with 22,000 square feet and it
is the most successful model Community Resource Center. The CRC
has continued to operate for over fifteen years and has served
tens of thousands of participants with programs on everything
from personal and professional development, to community
mobilization activities, and recreational programs in the
gymnasium.
Betterton
Selected for HUD Schorlarship and
Betterton
Declines
$250,000 HUD
Fellowship
The attached articles present the
decision Betterton made to turn down a $250,000. Fellowship from
HUD, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, in
order to continue to develop and refine the organizations,
programs and products that are now the “foundations” under the
“castles in the air” presently known as Ultimate Destiny and
Ultimate Destiny University.
While it was an honor to be
selected as one of only 230 Community Builders out of 8,500
applicants, the program would have required Betterton to
disassociate from any other program activities and he had too
many commitments and too many pending major projects to be able
to accept the offer.
Certification of Success Coach
Trainers
This article includes a photo of Charles Betterton receiving an
award from Paul J. Meyer and the Presidents of two of his
companies. Betterton served for several years with Success
Motivation International and was a certified trainer of Success
Coaches and was one of the twelve regional leaders for the
expansion of the company’s Success University program.
Betterton’s relationships with SMI and LMI began when he offered
to give the University for Successful Living to Paul J. Meyer in
1997. That communication led to Mr. Meyer connecting Betterton
with David Hicks who was then President of SMI and he
participated in helping Betterton produce model Empowerment
Resource Showcases.
Resource Showcases
and
Seminar
Reveals Success Secrets
These all day events provide participants with the opportunity
to try out up to
!2 mini workshops in a day. The process enables them to
determine what programs would be most valuable to them
personally and it represents one of the main components of the
Ultimate Destiny marketing and public relations programs.
Through Betterton’s continuing affiliation with three of the
Paul J. Meyer companies, Ultimate Destiny has access to hundreds
of self-assessment exercises, seminars, workshops and training
of training programs.
Les
Brown Teaches Leadership Skills to Muncie Youth
The developments reported in the attached
article reprinted from the Muncie, Indiana Times the day after
the Success Center Partnership event with Les Brown for youth
went on to win recognition by the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) and the National Association of Housing
and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO).
Betterton conceived, developed and
implemented the Success Center Partnership as another model of
the Empowerment Resource Center concepts using $24,000. out of
the $250,000. obtained through a Drug Elimination Grant he
obtained for the Muncie Housing Authority. The project was
honored by HUD as one of 3000 “Best Practices” throughout the
nation and the Executive Director of the Housing Authority and
Betterton gave a presentation at the NAHRO national convention
to demonstrate how other PHA’s could apply the Success Center
Partnership community building model.
CAN
DO! Motivational Workshop with Les Brown and Gladys Knight
CAN
DO! Youth Essay Contests
The Real Reason . . . . Youth Empowerment
Jim
Rohn Message Rings Through Olivet Nazarene University
Inspirational Speaker's Visit to
Gary Draws Distant Followers
Resources
for Personal and Community Empowerment
The Nassau Guardian
Corn
Hill Speaks About Oneida CAN DO!
Better
Is At the Root of His Development Concepts
Center for Successful Living Plans Resource Showcase
Betterton's Graduation from
City Government and
Editorial Cartoon with Three Stooges
Taking
New Thought Principles to the World
The attached article from Creative Mind magazine
reports on the developments of Wisdom, Wealth, Wellness and Ultimate Destiny
and our plans to help establish a network of 10,000 locally initiated
Empowerment Training Mentoring Systems and Empowerment Resource Center by
2012.
The connections that Ultimate Destiny has developed
over the years with the
“New Thought Movement” include memberships in the Association for Global
New Thought, lifetime membership in the International New Thought
Association Centers. This is part of the marketing plan to promote the
establishment of Empowerment Resource Centers within the international
network of 3000 New Thought Centers world-wide including Religious Science
and Unity Centers. A more recent initiative is described at
www.ultimatedestinyuniversity.com/new_thought.htm
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