The first Redemptive Impact Accelerator cohort celebrated it’s completion in June! Thank you to all our participants, speakers, advisors, and partners (Every Neighborhood Partnership, Ten Talents Foundation, and Randy White & Associates) for making this a successful launch.
Nonprofit leaders from ten different organizations came together every week for fourteen weeks. They learned how to set clear goals, build healthy teams, and find support from one another to make an even greater impact. The curriculum is powered by Praxis and taught by seasoned, local practitioners. While this is the first training of it’s kind in the Central Valley, we can’t wait to launch the next Redemptive Impact Accelerator cohort in August!
Participant Testimonials
“Being part of the Redemptive Impact Accelerator has been instrumental in rethinking how we do everything.”
~ Hector Chavez, Executive Director of Hidalgo Community Development Corporation.
“We are all working together to understand what we need to do our mission well and how we can make a great impact on this city as a whole.”
~ Jennifer Smith, PsyD, CEO/President of Link Care Foundation
“Hands down, if you have not attended this type of training, you need to get involved in this. This has been the best experience I’ve had as a new nonprofit leader.”
~ Joe Castaneda, Co-Founder of Grace Family Love
What is redemptive leadership?
Randy White, a facilitator of the Redemptive Impact Accelerator, describes redemptive leadership as follows:
As leaders, we’re learning to distinguish between three kinds of leadership. Exploitative leadership, simply uses the world, uses our staff, and even uses the people we’re trying to help. Ethical leadership is good, but it’s merely trying to help the world. Then we have what we call Redemptive leadership. This goes much further to bless the world through strategies, operations, and leadership designed to restore things to the way God intended them to be.
Redemptive organizational leadership is a way of shaping our nonprofit ministries in a way that uses strategies that actually renew culture and then operations in order to bless people instead of using them.
The redemptive framework this has very practical implications for an organization’s mission and vision, the way we tell our organizations stories, invest in our staff, evaluate our programs, how our boards govern, how we develop funding and new revenue streams, and even how we take care of ourselves… and this leads to redemptive impact in our communities.
How can I join the next Redemptive Leadership Accelerator cohort?
Our next cohort begins in August! The program starts with a three day training on August 15, followed by weekly trainings every Friday, August 23 – November 22, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm. If you are a faith-based nonprofit leader interested in participating, fill out the application through the button below. (Note: only ten organizations can participate each round to protect the meaningful cohort experience.)
