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CRR PRESIDENTS’ LEADERSHIP SUMMIT | 2017

WORKING AS ONE


WorkingAs One

Setting the Stage for Our Region

Leadership Team

Governor Ginger Cole

SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL CAMINO REAL REGION

2017 PRESIDENTS’ LEADERSHIP SUMMIT


Good Morning!

Thank you

for being a part of

2017 Presidents’ Leadership

Summit

CRR PRESIDENTS’ LEADERSHIP SUMMIT| 2017

Dan Milman wrote…

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”


Shaping Our Future

for Increased

Collective Impact -

the direction our

organization is

headed

Building the New


Our success is defined as:

Soroptimist being better known for greater societal impact made by economically empowering more disadvantaged women and girls through our brand unifying Dream Programs

Preparing for Our Next Century


“The definition of insanity is

doing the same thing, the

same way, and expecting a

different result.”

We must work as one……

to Shape Our Future for

Increased Collective Impact

Adapting


We change not

for the sake of

change -

but to be

• more relevant

• more impactful

Understanding When We Need to Change


The Concept of Change

To be successful in helping

focus

our regions’ and clubs’

energy on

working as one

to Shape our Future for

Increased

Collective Impact


Are you ready

to begin?

Governors and Governor-elects:


• Consistent visual identity

• Support the mission

• Provide fun, meaningful

experience

• Embrace focus and

change

For SIA to be successful:


Logos: Brand Identity


For Almost 100 Years …

SIA has been

steadfast in helping

countless women and

girls on their journeys

toward self-

determination and

success.


Thomas Jefferson Once Said …

“I like the dreams of the

future better than the history

of the past.”


But we are obligated

to look toward the

future!

SIA has a Wonderful, Rich Past


We must understand

when we need to

change—not for the

sake of change, but

when change will make

us stronger and more

successful.

The World Has Changed


To prepare for our future, the Big Goal concept of Shaping the Future of Soroptimist for Increased Collective Impact was introduced at the 2012 Hawaii convention. This Big Goal will take us through the end of our first century in 2021 and into our second century.

Shaping the Future for Increased Collective Impact


• We meet the needs of more disadvantaged women and girls through our Dream Programs

• We are well known or our brand is, for the impact we have on disadvantaged women and girls

• We attract financial support for our programs, and

• We engage more people in our mission through our clubs and our online community—LiveYourDream.org

Our Big Goal of Increased Collective Impact Means a Future Where:


A big goal focuses an organization on a single, medium- to long- term goal that is bold, perhaps overconfident, inspirational, and likely regarded by the members as a stretch to accomplish.

Why a Big Goal?


It’s that stretch that

drives us beyond our

local mindset to the

idea of cohesive,

“glocal” mindset to

accomplish greater

impact together.

A “Glocal” Mindset


The word glocal—

which combines the

words local and

global—means to

embody both local and

global action.

Glocal


We must work as one—come together glocally—to focus on a common agenda with our programs designed to serve our 20 countries and territories and their myriad cultures and needs.

A Global Organization


How Our Organization is Perceived

Locally and globally will only be as strong as our unity and focus


Together We Can Do So Much

For too many years we have worked in isolation, locally or

regionally. We have lost appreciation for what SIA—our system of

clubs, assisted by our region leadership, led by our SIA Board of

Directors and supported by our dedicated headquarters team —

can accomplish when we work as one.

Or as Helen Keller

put it, "Alone we

can do so little,

together we can do

so much."


Membership: The Number One Barrier

This is what you told us -

Membership ranked highest,

as the number one barrier to

increasing our collective

impact. Concerns were

declining and aging

membership; lack of

commitment and involvement

by members; and meeting

times and locations.


Stabilizing Membership Loss

Your Board was proactive.

They approved a Senior

Director of Membership be

added to staff to direct

our membership efforts to

create new clubs and

stabilize our membership

loss. We are already

seeing progress, having

reduced our loss rate last

year by 30%.


Public Awareness and Financial Support

Today we are experiencing

more and diverse funders and

growth in public awareness

through digital marketing

efforts.

This will translate into more

awareness of what our brand

and club activities.


Our Next Big Goal

With our barriers being addressed, we have begun to engage clubs in the development of our NEXT Big Goal to start in October 2021 and carry us through 2031.

The first exercise and survey in 2015 asked clubs to dream about our next century of helping women and girls and to think about concepts that hold them back from realizing their dreams.


Big Goal

We had a good result, with 48 percent of clubs responding to the survey. One Big Goal concept rose to the top: Invest in the dreams of disadvantaged women and girls through access to education. This was also the first choice of our Board of Directors, the Fundraising Council and the SIA staff.


Clubs Said This Goal:

Reflects the service clubs deliver today, and it

Reflects the service clubs want to do in the future


How Big Is Our Dream?

Now that we have defined

where we want to go, we

must determine how many

women and girls we can

realistically reach … just

how big is our dream?


Invest in the Dreams of 1 Million Women and Girls

The Big Goal statement

we tested was “Invest in

the dreams of 1 million

women and girls.” This is

definitely inspirational …

but can our organization

achieve this over a ten-

year period?



Annually, our organization

reaches about 1,300 women

through the Live Your Dream

Awards and 8,000 girls

through Dream It, Be It.

If our reach stayed the same,

this would mean almost

100,000 women and girls

would receive our help over 10

years. Not a million but

headed in the right direction.



We don’t want our reach to be unrealistic, nor do we don’t want it to be static because we know many of you are frustrated by our current pace. One member told us, “We can’t build capacity the way it is currently being invested. I want more and am tired of doing it incrementally just 1,200 women at a time.”


20 Million Women and Girls need our help!

There are about 20 million disadvantaged women and girls in SIA’s 20 countries and territories who need our programs. 20 million!


Imagine if we worked together

and made our Dream programs the center of our club work?


Women and Girls Continue to Face Obstacles

While women have made strides in their quest for gender equality, the sad fact is women and girls—simply because they are born female—continue to face myriad obstacles to their success.


Women and Girls Continue to Face Obstacles

For far too many women

and girls, the path to

success is derailed by

obstacles including

poverty, gender-based

violence, sex trafficking,

homelessness, and teen

pregnancy.


Our Focus

We focus on disadvantaged women with dependents because they face significant obstacles to pursuing an education and because their success has a positive ripple effect on their families and communities.


Our Focus

And we focus on disadvantaged girls who face obstacles including poverty, unstable home lives, foster care, or teen pregnancy. We reach out to these girls so they will have access to the resources and information to overcome the barriers to their future success.


Help More Women and Girls

So while we don’t yet know the number of women and girls we think our cohesive efforts will yield for our next big goal, we know that our collective desire is to help more women and girls overcome these obstacles.


Working As One

To realize the Big Goal

of increasing our Dream

Programs’ capacity in our

second century, we will

have to work as one.

Specifically, we all have

to recommit to and focus

on our Dream Programs

as our local club projects.


Working As One

Recommitting to our Dream Programs does not mean giving up support of programs that end the obstacles that can derail a woman or girl’s life. We’re just asking you to have your clubs think about how our Dream Programs address these obstacles in a different way.


Working As One

The reality is, very few resources exist to help women and girls after their crisis move on to realize their potential. Our

programs, which are measured and tracked for impact, fill that gap.


Dream Programs

If poverty, violence,

trafficking, teen

pregnancy or women’s

health is important to you

and the clubs in your

region, you can rest

assured that increased

participation in our Dream

Programs will address all

these obstacles in a very

tangible way….


Different Training Tools

“Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals, and to imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.”


Keep An Open Mind

To ensure our next 100 years!


Term may be used for

fundraising events by

Soroptimist clubs in the

following states where there

was prior use by Soroptimist:

California, Colorado,

Florida, Oregon,

Pennsylvania, Washington,

Wyoming

Bras for a Cause/Bras for the Cause


Term may NOT be used for

any events by Soroptimist

clubs in the following states

that are contiguous with the

state of Iowa, including:

Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin,

Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska,

South Dakota



• Clubs in any other U.S. state will need to go through headquarters and the Iowa group for approval.

• Headquarters cannot guarantee that Iowa group will approve expanded use.

• SIAHQ discourages any other clubs to use the registered mark for any event title.



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