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How can you better cope with stress and burnout? What challenges in the workplace are keeping you up at night? Our exclusive Executive Coaching service, specifically tailored for leaders at human service agencies, can help you address these challenges, or simply provide you with an objective sounding board. Led by two distinguished leaders at The Prosperity Agenda. For a limited time only our very own Executive Director Jomaris DeJesús will be offering 1:1 coaching sessions: Jomaris is a Certified Holistic Life Coach and Certified Entrepreneur Coach, with extensive experience in nonprofit leadership and a profound …
Executive Coaching for Nonprofit Leaders: For a Limited Time Only! Read More »
Self-awareness is the compass that guides human services practitioners and coaches toward authentic connection, compassionate support, and transformative change. Cultivating self-awareness isn’t just beneficial in the dynamic field of human services—it’s foundational. It serves as a crucial element of coaching practices, providing practitioners with a vital lens through which to navigate the complexities of their work. As practitioners engage with diverse individuals and communities to address multifaceted social issues, the practice of self-awareness emerges as an essential tool for fostering meaningful relationships and improves the coaches ability to help participants gain self-awareness. Understanding Self-Awareness as …
Feedback built on a Coaching Approach: At the foundation of a coaching approach is a coaching mindset, rooted in curiosity, non judgment, and a genuine desire to support others, acknowledging the resourcefulness and capabilities from every person over our own perceptions or opinions. By cultivating a coaching approach and culture of coaching within organizations, individuals are empowered to self reflect, own decisions and grow. Creating a safe space of effective feedback is a key element in establishing a culture of coaching, because it encourages individual and organizational growth. The Power of Feedback through the Coaching …
Families can find navigating support for poverty as frustrating as poverty itself. It adds pressure, stress and challenges that can deter people from seeking services all together. Practitioners working with these families can have tight constraints to the support they can offer which can feel draining and demoralizing. Family-Centered Coaching (FCC) was designed a as holistic approach to address these collective problems. It is a set of strategies, tools, and resources designed to strengthen the way human service providers engage with families and community partners. Organizations that have received training in FCC report a greater, more …
Coaching is Transformational for People Experiencing Poverty Read More »
The Prosperity Agenda is excited to announce the launch of our Family-Centered Coaching (FCC) Intensive Training Cohort and scholarship opportunities. This is a unique offering for human service organizations based in Mississippi who are committed to empowering families. Through a grant from W.K. Kellogg Foundation, our Leaders in Family-Centered Coaching program will provide scholarships for staff at five eligible organizations in Mississippi to attend this intensive training. About Family-Centered Coaching FCC is a set of strategies, tools, and resources that help human service organizations reinvent how they engage with, and help, families that are experiencing …
Leaders in Family-Centered Coaching: MS Cohort Training Scholarships Read More »
John McKenney is the Financial Education Coordinator for a government agency in Washington State. He provides a range of financial education workshops free of charge to organizations, schools, and groups in Washington State. He’s a partner and/or board member to governmental organizations, non-profit organizations, private organizations, educational service districts and school districts across the state, all with the underlying goal of providing financial education services to everyone, but with a focus on families, communities, and specific groups of people who have experienced generations of poverty or who have been historically marginalized and discriminated against. I …
Coaching Spotlight: Using Money Mindset Cards in Monthly Workshop Read More »
Family-Centered Coaching is not a one-size-fits-approach. As we’ve worked with organizations around the country we’ve been honored to see each live into the approach in their own way. Through a culture of learning, coaches and their leadership have built the relationships and continuous improvement to center programs on the services that families need and deserve. Through the leadership and learning we facilitate, we often hear from our partners how they are innovating. We interviewed staff at six organizations to capture how each are continuing to develop their practice of coaching and build coaching teams and culture. As you …
Innovative Approaches to Family-Centered Coaching: Six Partner Experiences Read More »
In February 2020, at a momentous time globally, we launched the long-planned Family-Centered Coaching for Racial Equity Project in partnership with W.K. Kellogg Foundation and eight organizations committed to advancing racial equity. We are guided by community members and stakeholders in each step of our process. Read more about how we first launched our working group, mapped local stakeholders, and created the New Orleans Community Insight Report. Our next step was to facilitate a design process with a team of community members and stakeholders. Facilitating a Community-Centered Design Process Design sessions were held online over four meetings in April and …
Community-Centered Design for Racial Equity in New Orleans Read More »
Last February we launched the Family-Centered Coaching for Racial Equity Project in partnership with W.K. Kellogg Foundation and eight organizations committed to advancing racial equity. We are guided by community members and stakeholders in each step of our process. This details how we created the New Orleans Community Insight Report and what we plan to do next. To center our engagement in local experience and expertise, we began by launching Family-Centered Coaching for Racial Equity Working Groups in both Mississippi and New Orleans. In New Orleans, this includes eight stakeholders from four local organizations–The City …
Community Insights on Racial Equity in New Orleans Read More »
At The Prosperity Agenda, we approach quality jobs by working on both sides of the labor market; especially with employers to increase access to quality jobs, create pathways to wage growth, and invite employees to use their full set of talents at work. Our latest partnership, The Inclusive Recovery Project, seeks to broadly build employment opportunities for the 70 million Americans who have a conviction history. The unemployment rate for formerly incarcerated talent (FIT) was 60 percent in the nation’s last recession. Our goal is to ensure that post-pandemic economic recovery plans are equitable. “We …