Dear Carolyn,
Your personal vision is to start up a nonprofit organization that
exists to help both animals and people alike. Through your nonprofit you will have the
adequate support and resources to rescue abandoned and abused animals and give
them either a temporary home or a permanent home. You will also use the resources of your
organization to help people in the form of therapy by using the animals to help
heal people of different emotional diseases such as autism, depression,
personal grief, addiction and many other mental and emotional illnesses.
You have three learning goals that you need to achieve in order to
reach your personal vision. The first
learning goal is to complete your Leadership degree. This degree will give you the tools to lead
the kind of people you need to make your nonprofit a success. It will also help you to make the necessary
contacts and relationships with top leaders in the nonprofit sector who have
similar missions as the one you are striving for. My milestones for this goal is to take one
class per term. Therefore in this
situation I actually have five milestones since that is how many classes I have
left.
The next learning goal is to become educated in fundraising and grant-writing.
After my Master’s I would like to enroll
in a few online grant writing courses. Embry-Riddle
actually offers a certificate through their professional education department
called Introduction
to Grant Research and Writing Certificate. My milestones for the second goal is first to
finish the Masters. The second milestone
would be to take the certificate course. The third milestone would be to gain
experience through grant-writing by maybe volunteering to write some grants for
other organizations.
A third goal is to begin networking and creating my support system
or what Annie McKee, Boyatzis and Johnston (2008) term as my board of directors.
I also am in the process of networking
with different animal protection agencies in the area. I would like to volunteer at our local animal
shelter which is a nonprofit, and this way gain some experience and insight on
how they run their organization. Also,
through this experience I have a greater chance of meeting and connecting with
individuals and organizations or entities that can help support me. My milestones for this goal are first to
volunteer for the local shelter in the summer. My second milestone would be to become an
active member of a few animal rights organizations and possibly offer
assistance. My third milestone would be
to create a local support group who share my same idealisms. We could get together for brain storming
sessions and ways to help the animals in our communities. We could also work closely with our local
shelters and maybe set up volunteer work forces for certain events.
The key people who will support me in my personal vision would be
my family and colleagues from my office as well as a few friends. These people all share the same passion for
animals as I do and in fact many have participated with me in personal animal
rescues in the past. I feel that my “board
of directors” or support team are the ideal kind of like-minded people that I
need to move forward with this dream. Mostly
because they all know me very well and we have very resonant relationships.
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