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Strategies for Sustaining Your Project
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Strategies for Sustaining Your Project
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Today’s Agenda
• Reflect on your achievements
• Identify realistic sustainability activities
• Prepare to transfer knowledge
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Today’s Speakers
Ericc PowellVISTA Training Coordinator
Sam HartzellVISTA LeaderMinnesota Youth Alliance
Mao ThaoVISTAAnoka County Minnesota
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Defining Sustainability
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Program Sustainability
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Program Sustainability
Developing or improving programs
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Program Sustainability
Developing or improving programs
Marketing and outreach
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Program Sustainability
Developing or improving programs
Marketing and outreach
Training or recruiting staff or volunteers
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Program Sustainability
Developing or improving programs
Marketing and outreach
Resource development
Training or recruiting staff or volunteers
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Program Sustainability
Developing or improving programs
Marketing and outreach
Resource development
Training or recruiting staff or volunteers
Poll: Which leg(s) are you building up?
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294VISTA Project Sustainability
84% of VISTA projects operating 3 years later
More than 90% of those achieved their goals
More than 90% reported VISTA members were critical or very helpful in achieving goals
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Chat Question
• What variables make a difference in VISTA project sustainability?
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Sustainable VISTA Project Variables
• Trained and dedicated VISTAs
• Support from the community
• Alignment of project goals with the mission
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Sustainability Roles
Supervisor/Organization & Community• Envision future of project• Create & engage community
advisory board• Create & implement
sustainability plan• Orient sub-sites & members to
plan
VISTA Members• Build capacity of organization &
community• Support sustainability through
VAD activities• Engage staff and community in
VAD activities• Transfer knowledge, products,
& relationships
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During Service: Identify What You Can Do Now
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294The Sustainability Lens
• Will I have to do this again?
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294The Sustainability Lens
• Will I have to do this again?
• What circumstances could change?
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294The Sustainability Lens
• Will I have to do this again?
• What circumstances could change?
• Could others get involved?
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294The Sustainability Lens
• Will I have to do this again?
• What circumstances could change?
• Could others get involved?
• What happens when I’m not here anymore?
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294VAD Activity Assessment
VAD Activity
Will I have to do this again?
What circumstances could change?
Could others get involved?
What happens when I’m not here anymore?
Gather in-kind donations from local businesses for silent auction.
Yes- winter fundraising event
Action: Invite businesses to consider donating to one or the other
Availability of long-time in-kind donors
Action: Don’t rely on just existing relationships- reach out to new businesses
Yes- marketing and outreach team, Board of Directors.
Action: Set up weekly meetings with marketing staff
Other staff/VISTA will have to carry on relationships.
Action: Set up electronic documentation from the beginning.
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• What sustainability activities have you started at your site?
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Project Wrap Up: Transferring What You’ve Built
Knowledge
Products
Relationships
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294VISTA Experience
Sam Hartzell VISTA LeaderMinnesota Youth Alliance, Minnesota
Mao ThaoVISTAAnoka County Library, Minnesota
• Served two years as a VISTA• One year as a Promise Fellow• Currently a VISTA Leader
• Second year VISTA• Working to expand library
services to underserved communities
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Transferring Knowledge
• Document the knowledge you’ve gained about the community
• Make it accessible • Create asset maps• Conduct a stakeholder analysis• Make presentations to organizational
leaders and staff
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Transferring Knowledge-Examples
• Community needs assessment report
• Logic models• Grant schedules• Lessons learned 2-pager
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Transferring Products
• Design with the end in mind
• Train and coach users
• Make user guides
• Electronic ‘binders’ on shared drive, Google drive, Dropbox
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Transferring Products- Examples
• Database how-to manual
• Email communication templates
• Project plans
• Transitional VISTA Project staff training
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Transferring Relationships
• Contact database
• Use “we” vs “I”
• Connecting community partners and leaders to staff
• Community advisory boards
• Partnership agreements, memoranda
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Transferring Relationship-Examples
• Staff involvement during meetings
• Clear point of contact for future
• Contacts directory annotated with tips
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Dial: 888.455.4948Passcode: 6284294Sustainability Resources
VISTA Campus• Project Sustainability
Assessment Checklist To Promote Sustainable VISTA Projects
• Building Sustainability Into A Volunteer Program
• Creating A Binder for the Next VISTA
• Template: VAD Assessment Activity
External Resources
• Center for Public Health Systems Science• Program Sustainability
Assessment Tool
• Community Foundation of Jackson Hole• Building Sustainability for
Nonprofit Organizations
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August 2nd, 20182:00pm Eastern
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