Readiness Assessment - Elevate Branson

ELEVATE BRANSON BRANDING LICENSURE

Readiness Assessment: Setting a Foundation for Partnership

As we begin to explore a potential partnership, we’ve developed a set of in-depth questions to help assess if the Elevate Branson Branding Licensure is the right fit for both parties. The goal of the Readiness Assessment is to deepen our shared understanding of your locale and organization while building a strategy for how this vision could come to life and best serve your community.

The assessment will serve as the foundation for our continuing conversation as we discuss the potential for partnership. Please think of this document dynamically — we can add to it and delete from it as our discussions develop to best support our work together.

Organization *

Contact Name *

Email *

Phone Number *

What does a basic demographic scan (age, race, income, education, etc.) reveal about your area? *

What trends do you see in your community? *

What areas of need are most prevalent? *

Does that change or focus the work that you hope to do? Why or why not? *

What environmental obstacles could inhibit the success of this initiative? Why? *

What needs do you see being unmet in your community? *

Who else in your community is serving the same demographic population? *

Who are the significant people affecting the mission space in your community? *

When you look at your community, what are the significant links between entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and nonprofit services to the LMI community? *

Is there a local interest in funding this kind of support for the LMI population? Who comes to mind? *

Who are the key foundations/philanthropists in your area and what do they prefer to fund? *

What could be the funding/leadership role of the city government? *

What opportunities exist with local community foundations, family foundations or venture philanthropy? *

Who are your most important community partners and stakeholders at present? *

What organizations currently operate in an adjacent mission space who are or could be allies in this effort? *

What community groups are most active and supportive adjacent to this mission space? *

Who could be partners that help this work take off? Who could support you with marketing and recruiting, hosting events and classes, or funding introductions? *

Are there any recent economic development, employment, or entrepreneurship studies/reports/press about your area that are driving conversations and activity? *

How do people describe the values your organization lives out? *

How do people describe the value you bring to the community? *

How does your organization cast a big vision for your community? *

How would this initiative fit with your existing organization and its current programming? What might need to change as a result of doing this work? Organizational structure? Theory of change? *

What strengths and weaknesses does your organization bring to the mission and model? *

What language could you use to frame this opportunity with staff, key constituents, and stakeholders? *

Do you have capacity/budget/funding for this? If not, what are your steps for finding it? *

Do you have a timeline you are working on to add the Elevate branding to your organization? *

Who will be primarily responsible for leading this initiative and in what ways? Who might be invited in to be part of this emerging idea? *

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