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Tools for Transformation
 | | Albany, Georgia, has seen some of the worst nature has to offer. For the past several years the city has been recovering from devastating floods that twice wiped out thousands of homes and caused tens of millions of dollars in damage. In the aftermath of that destruction, good things are rising—not just new homes, but the promise of revitalizing neighborhoods and spirits that were suffering even before the waters rose. The city of Albany offered Mount Olive Outreach Center a $5 million grant to develop low-income housing for people displaced by that year’s flooding. |
| Tools for Transformation training provided Greg Hands the training he needed to spearhead a construction project that built 60 units of affordable housing. | | |
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World Vision’s Tools for Transformation training program provided the organizational, planning, and leadership tools Greg needed to help the church build Woodland Heights—44 new townhouses and 16 apartments. World Vision staff in Albany also provided additional consultation on contracting, negotiations, and helped Greg and the Mount Olive staff members apply what they had learned to their own vision.
Solid Training in Community Development
To best serve young people and families, World Vision’s partner churches and organizations must know what programs and services are available and how to connect them to those in need. That’s where Tools for Transformation comes in. Its training in leadership and network-building equip local leaders with the skills to develop ministries and pull together resources that can make a real, lasting difference in people’s lives.
The newly formed Korean Churches for Community Development (KCCD) in Los Angeles had a vision of a unified and active coalition, but limited experience in how to develop leadership and programming. World Vision in Los Angeles provided training on how to form a board of directors, followed by seminars on how to work effectively and build community development and ministry.
“Vision L.A./World Vision’s partnership with KCCD has enabled us to start our comprehensive training programs for the Korean churches much sooner than expected,” says Hyepin Im, president of KCCD. “Consistent with the way Vision L.A. and World Vision works with organizations, you came in early on in the development of our organization and made the investment to help our organization grow.”
Transforming Communities
Tools For Transformation helps neighborhood churches, ministries and networks build and sustain the infrastructure, strategies and competencies needed to transform the communities they serve through training, technical assistance, and leadership development support. Tools for Transformation training provides instruction on a range of community, economic, and ministry development topics including, but not limited to:
· Building strategies to improve local neighborhoods and communities
· Identifying and encouraging local leadership
· Building an effective organization
· Gaining tax-exempt status for donations and gifts
· Designing and managing effective programs
· Mobilizing and engaging volunteers
· Raising funds and other resources
· Integrating programs within the church or ministry
· Discovering how to leverage strengths, assets, and talents in the community
· Strategically and accurately planning for the future
One important component of Tools for Transformation is directed at creating and strengthening effective networks and collaborations between churches, ministries, groups, and local leaders through training in capacity-building, technical and management assistance, and collaboration processes and techniques.
Tools for Transformation training is part of World Vision’s commitment to and investment in the local church, and church and community leaders who are living out their faith by attacking the root causes of poverty, neglect, and hopelessness. World Vision typically stands by its ministry partners over a period of years, providing ongoing training, technical assistance, and specialized consultation around organizational and program challenges and issues.
How You Can Help
You can help strengthen a local church or ministry as it stands on its faith to transform its neighborhood.
· A gift of $6,000 will provide 12 months of training, support, and technical assistance to a World Vision partner church or ministry.
· A gift of $2,000 will enable one community church, ministry member, or local leader to articipate in the Tools for Transformation training series for 12 months.
· A gift of $500 will send two neighborhood residents or church members to a Tools for Transformation capacity-building workshop or seminar.
For more information on Tools for Transformation and how you help a local church or ministry transform its community from despair to promise, contact Tom Jones at 410- 280 0823 or tjones@worldvision.org.
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| Vision Youth Help provide tutoring, life skills training, and a caring relationship to high-risk youth. | | ||
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| The Storehouse Provide school supplies, clothes, toys, household goods and building supplies for strengthening families,schools and neighborhoods. | | ||
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