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

DRAMATIC SOCIAL

IMPACTS

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

IMPACTS

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:

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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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