Here is some "food for thought" for the future of the DMT certificate:
Your Turn Worksheet #1:
Mapping Your Current Sustainability Strengths
In each pie section of the circle
below, rate your organization’s level of effectiveness by drawing a line in
each of the four quadrants – the circle center is 0% and the outside ring is
100%. Connect the lines and see how well shaped your inner circle is. If your
circle is not round, clearly there are further opportunities for you to
strengthen your efforts at sustainability.
 Resource Development |
Internal Support
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Marketing and Outreach
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Partnership Development
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Your Turn Worksheet #2: Building Your Case for Support
Answer
each of the following questions to begin building your case for support. A strong case for support helps as you plan
for the sustainability of your impacts.
Be as specific as you can be. This
is important to discuss with your staff and board team.
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What need/problem do we address?
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What is a key or little known statistic(s) that
illustrates the need? (attention grabber)
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How are we responding to meet the need?
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What is our desired outcome(s)? What results have been achieved? (Think about student and system changes.)
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What’s the win-win? Why should others want to
actively support our efforts?
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How do our offerings align with other community
programs? What’s unique?
What’s not?
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Your Turn Worksheet #3: Internal
Support Mapping
How does DMT benefit our organization?
How do the other organizations in the collaborative benefit?
What are the interests of people in
various roles that we can leverage to increase their support? How can we tailor our message so it resonates
with them?
What types of support do we currently have?
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Awareness: they know about
us
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Advocate: they advocate for
us in other arenas
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Collaborate: they collaborate
with us on the program
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Resources: they provide
resources: cash or in kind
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DEPARTMENT/ PERSON
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What specific needs/interests?
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Current type of support
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Ways they have supported YCC
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Where do we need to strengthen our internal
support?
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DEPARTMENT/ PERSON
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What specific needs/interests?
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Desired type of support
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What they could offer
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Your Turn Worksheet #4: Partnership Development Strategies
Partnership
Types:
Local Education Agency Workforce
Employers
Higher Education
Nonprofits Other Businesses
Other? Other? Other?
For
each of our current YCC partners, how strong is the partnership and what do
they contribute?
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Awareness: they know about
us
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Advocate: they advocate for
us in other arenas
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Collaborate: they collaborate
with us on the program
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Resources: they provide
resources: cash or in kind
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Partner Organization
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What specific needs/interests?
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Current type of support
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Partnership strength
(A, B, C, D, F)
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Which
existing partnerships need strengthening?
How will we achieve that?
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Potential Partners
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What specific needs/interests?
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Desired type of support
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What we offer them
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Your Turn Worksheet #5:
Outreach
How
do we currently do outreach? What
channels do we use?
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Channels
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Print
Materials
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Mass
Media
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Website/Web
page
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Public
Relations
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Speaking
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‘Elevator’
Pitch
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Social
Media
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Other?
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What materials do we have
and what is their purpose? How effective
has each been?
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Channel/Material
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Target
Audience
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Key
Message(s)
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Desired
Result/Action
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What
else do we need?
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Channel/Material
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Target
Audience
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Key
Message(s)
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Result/Action
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How can we strengthen our outreach to
make it more effective for various audiences/stakeholders?
Your Turn Worksheet #6:
Part 1: Sustainability Self-Assessment
In
the boxes below, make notes in response to the following questions.
- How does each of these four components contribute to the sustainability of our YCC activities? What potential role can each play?
- How are we doing in each area? How have our efforts to date contributed to the overall sustainability of the YCC project?
- What are some new ways to think about our efforts in each area to strengthen its impact on sustainability? What might we do differently?
- Where is the best potential return on our investment of time and focus?
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Resource Development
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Internal Support
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Marketing and Outreach
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Partnership Development
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Your Turn Worksheet #6: Part
2: Sustainability Blocks and Solutions
For each of the four components of
sustainability, consider what gets in the way of taking action. What can we do moving forward to improve our
effectiveness in each of these areas?
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What keeps us from doing this?
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What plans do we need to put in place
to make this happen?
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Resource Development
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Resource Development
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Internal Support
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Internal Support
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Marketing and Outreach
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Marketing and Outreach
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Partnership Development
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Partnership Development
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