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Loraine's visionary statement and the inspiring words from the song Earth by David Roth encompass our ultimate vision and mission of fostering personal, community, national and global transformation. We seek to accomplish that by providing expanded access to state-of-the-art resources for Community Economic Development training while incorporating CED principles of Self-Help, Empowerment and Capacity Building.
Click Here for a great introduction to Crowd Funding and the JOBS Act with Candace Klein
I am
especially excited about attending the expanded 5th Annual I was so grateful to join the new Crowdfunding Professional Association and participate in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 Crowdfunding Bootcamps produced by Ruth Hedges ( with the help of Laughlin Associates and many other wonderful sponsors. One of the many connections I made at the conference was Jonathan Sandlund who recently published the most comprehensive overview I have seen yet on Crowdfunding. His article Enough with the Rhetoric: Investment Crowdfunding Works. Here’s the Proof is at http://www.thecrowdcafe.com/investment-crowdfunding-works/ Among the 3 days of presentations and training from many leaders in this new field was the opportunity to download a 74 page PDF on Getting Started with Crowdfund Investing for Dummies. Two of the thee coauthors of the forthcoming book Crowdfund Investing for Dummies, Sherwood Neiss and Zak Cassady-Dorion were presenters. They and their coauthor Jason W. Best were honored with the Crowd Funding Visionary Award they so richly deserve.
This forthcoming publication from Universal Stewardheirship, Inc. will introduce the new Benefit Corporation model and the Crowd Funding Provisions of the JOBS Act. Chapters will be included on various ways that these unprecedented resources can help individuals, non-profit organizations, cause-oriented companies and communities collaborate, cocreate and help foster innovation, job creation and sustainable communities.
Click Here for a brief overview of this
project provided in a S.O.P.A.D.A. format. Click Here for a one-page overview of this project within an icosahedron template.
Click Here
for a Power Point Presentation (If you don't have
Power Point, Background History: Twenty years ago, a student in the Community Economic Development Master's program at Southern New Hampshire University shared a vision of establishing a National CED Resource Center and a network of CED projects and practitioners. However, his project advisors felt that vision was too ambitious and they encouraged the student to scale back his project to a more realistic and manageable scope. As a result, he established a Community Development Corporation serving Kankakee County, Illinois. The CDC transformed an abandoned 30,000 square foot National Guard Armory building into an award-winning Community Economic Development Resource Center. The Community Resource Center has served tens of thousands of area residents and has received about two million dollars in grants, contracts and donations for programs including youth leadership development, community empowerment and microenterprise development. (www.candoresourcecenter.com) Click Here for a few of the hundreds of positive newspaper articles, support letters and examples of how our innovative model helps empower communities and generate maximum cocreative participation and sponsorships.
That is why I have been inspired to share this refined vision for Expanding the Circle of Success by establishing a network, initially in the USA a "strategic marketecture™" of Community Economic Development Benefit Corporations incorporated in each state where legislation has been passed (and in a couple where legislation is pending). Click Here for a brief overview of this project provided in a S.O.P.A.D.A. format. The intention is to attract individuals, not-for-profit organizations and businesses in each state to participate as cofounders, as resource providers, as beneficiaries of the training, technical assistance and access to capital the State CED B Corps will deliver and to get positioned to utilize the crowd funding provisions of the JOBS Act. US, Inc. and CEDRC will utilize the evolutionary business planning platform and resources provided by FundingRoadMap ™ to develop Business Plans to help each State based CED Benefit Corporation ensure their success in attracting interest, additional cofounders, sponsors, board members, and investors. Perhaps it will be useful for me to share some of the experiences I have had since graduating from the CED Master's program that have also contributed to this "new" vision of facilitating a National Community Economic Development Resource Center as a network of CED B Corps. Through my memberships in Social Venture Network and the World Business Academy, I learned about B Corps a few years ago.
In our work as community organizers and community economic development specialists, the cofounders of Universal Stewardheirship, Inc. have conducted visioning, planning and strategic planning exercises for companies, non-profit organizations and communities. Two of the main questions we usually include and the top three answers to each one revealed through The Three Round Method of Brainstorming (developed by the National Center for Community Education and the CS Mott Foundation) are provided below:
In response to those results, several successful Community Resource Centers have been established and now Universal Stewardheirship, Inc and Ultimate Destiny University are launching the Expanding the Circle of Success campaign to help establish a network of locally initiated non-profit CAN DO! Community Economic Development Empowerment Resource Centers. Click Here for a few excerpts from newspaper articles about training programs produced by CAN DO! and the Community Development Resource Center and visit www.candoresourcecenter.com.
Excerpt from Graduation Remarks for the CED Master’s Program by Charles Betterton During one of the classes in the 1990-1992 Community Economic Development Master’s program at Southern New Hampshire University, we spent time discussing the root causes of the problems that threaten our society. We developed the following list:
The following month we considered potential solutions to these problems by reflecting on the values of community economic development which we described as including:
We defined the role of CED as an educational process to help people become empowered and connected with others, thereby becoming the curative process. Through the information, exercises and experiences we shared during the Master’s program, participants all completed another upward spiral in our lives and careers. We acquired skills and techniques and access to resources that can transform our lives, our organizations, our communities and our world. In a recent workshop in Sedona, we asked participants to answer the following question:
“Given the
global economic and environmental crises, what attitudes and
skills can help us apply more positive, creative, conscious
and sustainable approaches?” Here
are some of the answers we received
Our ultimate vision for America is seeing (and helping) it fulfill its ultimate destiny as envisioned by Ben Franklin and as inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. We understand that is something like “Liberty, enlightening the world”.
In his award-winning documentary
I AM, producer Tom
Shadyac asks some of today’s most
Tom's insightful documentary provides background on why we incorporated Universal Stewardheirship, Inc. and the Community Economic Development Resource Center, Inc. based on the new Benefit Corporation model.
It also validates the reasons we are launching the
Expanding
the Circle of Success
campaign to help answer the two questions his documentary ends
with: What's right with our world? and
Examples of Presentation Tools Click Here for a brief overview of this project provided in a S.O.P.A.D.A. format. Icosahedron Template; Ultimate Success Puzzle Template; Strategic Implementation Matrix
Click Here for potential “communities” that could also benefit from the Benefit Corporation model
Please contact us
with your comments, questions and suggestions by phone
at 928-284-2671 or by email at
ceo@universalstewardheirship.com.
Accredited investors are invited to request a copy of
the Investment Marketing Memorandum. For an overview of available revenue participation
opportunities, visit
www.universalstewardheirship.com/opportunities.htm and
www.universalstewardheirship.com/revenue_participation.htm.
Thank you!
PS. Earl Nightingale, the “Dean of Motivation” and co-founder of Nightingale-Conant (the World Leader in Personal Development since 1960) told a story about a father who was trying to work who had a young son who wanted to play. The father cut a picture of the world out of a magazine and made it into a jigsaw puzzle. He gave it to his son and told him that they could play when he had put the puzzle back together. The father, who had imagined that it would take his son at least several minutes to complete the task, was surprised when his son returned almost instantly with the puzzle completed. When he asked his son how he had managed to put it together so quickly, his son answered: “It was easy Dad. There was a picture of a man on the other side and when I put the picture of the man together, the world was together too.” Universal Stewardheirship, Inc. and Ultimate Destiny University are fostering the realization of human potential and “expanding the circle of success” to help people learn how to learn, especially those who may have had limited experience with development training materials. We are helping these individuals learn how to put their own “success puzzles” together. And just like the story about the father and his son, as the individual pieces come together for each person, the puzzle for the whole world begins to come into focus. That is why we now ask you this question:
Which Pieces of Solving Your Universal StewardHeirShip
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