March: Develop scope of work for intensive 3-month engagement with 100-180 youth programs across state of Illinois; Conduct 15 Intention Tracking sessions over the month. Begin training new volunteer, Glenda Smart.  Ongoing work to build online dashboard scorecards for all SEED clients.

March 31:  Meet with TEEP ED to review progress and produce report on first Six-Month Stretch, Trinity Boston Foundation

March 27:  Train Trinity Boston Counseling Center leadership to self-conduct “Creative Stretch” Workshop, for their second round Six-Month Stretch

March 26:  Meet with Starfish Foundation to report progress with three grantee organizations and discuss business strategy.

March 20: Conduct midpoint review for reps of ten Summer Search teams with national exec staff.

March 13:  Conduct “Seeding the Vision” workshop for Board of Directors at Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan

March 12:  Participate in quarterly meeting of Georgia PIRC (ParentInformation Resource Center), as part of 5-year federal grant to evaluate the statewide initiative.  Also assist with web-site development.

February:  Conduct one-hour Intention Tracking sessions for 15 teams throughout the month.  Provide ongoing coaching and supports for Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP).  Design updates to launch new licenses with several Journey-Mapping clients.  Ongoing work to build online dashboard scorecards for all SEED clients.

February 26:  Assist Trinity Boston Foundation with agenda design and facilitation of convening of major stakeholders to consider best practices and advocacy strategy for court-involved youth. 

February 9:  Conduct Creative Stretch Workshop with staff and board of Leaders in Training, a program of LEAP, in New Haven, CT

February 7:  Senior staff meet with Anat Lechner, from faculty of Stern School of Business, for guidance to determine business model.

February 4:  Lead “Seeding the Vision” workshop for Trinity Boston Counseling Center staff and board.

February 1: Meet with Tom Barry, Zephyr Management, to discuss evaluation tools and get input on business strategy. 

January:  Ongoing coaching and supports for two programs of Trinity Boston Foundation and Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP); 15 one-hour Intention Tracking sessions throughout the month.  Ongoing work to build online dashboard scorecards for all SEED clients.  Develop new evaluation tool:  Results Graphing, designed for “evaluation on the cheap.”

January 28: Conduct Diagnostic for the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, New York City.

January 24:  SEED Board of Directors dinner

January 3 and 14:  Conduct Diagnostic then Post Diagnostic for LEAP, an AmeriCorps program in New Haven, CT. 

December: Begin re-design of website; Develop grassroots fundraising plan; Collaborate with N-Power-NY on grant proposal for United Way NYC.

December 13:  Assist CEC collaborative to design “Super Saturdays” and meet with leaders of St. Bernard Project while in New Orleans.

December 10-21: Facilitate 10 one-hour Intention-Tracking sessions with Summer Search, using “Live Meeting” technology.

December 3-4:  Participate in federal site visit for PIRC in GA.

November:  With assistance from Cause Effective, develop fundraising plan, and engage with N-Power-NYC as they conduct a needs assessment of SEED’s technology challenges. Introduce SEED to LEAP, Chicago Community Trust, Women’s Commission, Career Gear and prospective sponsors.  Support TEEP to begin Intention Tracking on Opportunity Area 1. 

November 29:  Conduct simulation workshop for Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, Ford Foundation.

November 16:  Conduct Creative Stretch Workshop with six staff and board of Artists Striving to End Poverty(ASTEP), held at SEED.

November 13:  Conduct Creative Stretch Workshop with 20 exec staff of Summer Search, West Marin, CA.

November 7-8:  Continue support of CEC Alliance (charter schools collaborative) in New Orleans.

October, 2007: Intensive cultivation commences to build “Adventure” Philanthropy Fund, including donor and third party sponsor cultivation.  Write grant proposal to Heckscher Foundation. 

October 31:  Conduct Diagnostic for Summer Search national executive staff

October 29:  Seeding the Vision workshop for Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, Rockefeller Foundation, NYC.

October 23-24:  Introduce Six-Month Stretch at Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, MI.

October 14:  SEED Board meeting. 

October 5: Breakfast meeting at SEED for Tides budget, governance and HR staff.

October 2:  SEED Creative Stretch on Communications and Info Technologies (applying our tools to our work).

September 2007:  Develop proposal for major initiative in Illinois. 
Introduce SEED tools to Music National Service Initiative, St. Bernard Project, and Public Allies National Board.

September 26:  Conduct Diagnostic for Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, at NYU.

September 17-21: Conduct Diagnostic with CEC (charter schools) collaborative, New Orleans.

September 5:  Conduct TEEP Creative Stretch Workshop, Trinity Boston Foundation, Boston.

August 2007: Refine Impact Quotient and Intention-Tracking system.

August 17 and 23: Two Spirit Game test sessions. 

August 20-22: Meet with PIRC team in Macon, GA and present Six-Month Stretch with Step-Up anti-poverty program in Savannah.

August 17: Presentation of Six-Month Stretch at Department of Human Services, Chicago, IL.  

August 13:  Stephanie Basile and Sarah Wilson join staff as “Special Assistants.”  

August 10:  Conduct TEEP Diagnostic (Trinity Boston Foundation project).

August 8: Test Spirit Game.

July 2007: Introduce SEED tools to Starfish Foundation, Tucson United Way, Step Up Savannah, Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA), 360 Disability Solutions. Develop presentation slides for different audiences.  Devise Impact Quotient score. 

July 30-31:  Attend National PIRC conference in DC.

July 17:  Conduct Diagnostic with Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP).

July 10: Set up Journey Mapping for Andover-Newton Theological School.

July 5: Conduct Creative Stretch Workshop for Trinity Boston Counseling Center, Boston (providing ongoing Journey-Mapping support).

June: Begin developing Dashboard Scorecard.  Introduce SEED tools to Tides Center staff, VOALA, Kellogg Foundation, United Way of Tucson.  Draft Six-Month Stretch workbook.  Initiate contact with Fetzer Institute.  Launch job search for new Special Assistant(s).

June 27:  Conduct Diagnostic for Trinity Boston Counseling Center (TBCC).

June 25-29:  Attend national gathering of Kellogg fellows (introductory conversation with new President of W.K. Kellogg Foundation).

June 26: Conduct Diagnostic for GA PIRC.

May 2007: Devised PowerPoint presentations for introducing SEED tools; Set up new Journey Mapping applications for Trinity Boston Foundation and Artists Striving to End Poverty.  Set up multi-university application for Hispanic Scholarship Fund.  Introduce SEED to Surdna Foundation, Daphne Foundation.

May 28-31:  Meet with hub sites of GA Parent Information Resource Center.

May 18: Facilitate forum for Education Task Force.

May 17:  Conduct Diagnostic for leadership of Public Allies Alumni Network.

April, 2007: Introductions of SEED to Artists Striving to End Poverty, Barr Foundation, Trinity Boston Foundation, Public Allies, Illinois Department of Human Services staff, Martin Roper.  Refined and launched the 7-tool diagnostic process.  Applied the diagnostic process retroactively to past 18 months of SEED operations.  Coined and laid out framework for the Six-Month Stretch. 

April 18:  Meeting design and coaching for NYC Education Task Force public forum.

April 28: Day workshop in Boston launching TEEP in use of Journey-Mapping.

April 25-28: Participate in national meetings of Parent Information Resource Center—five-year federal grant to raise parent involvement in education of low-achieving children.

March 28-29: Journey Mapping applications customized with Nate Harris of Trinity Boston Foundation’s Counseling Center, and with Young Audiences after school program in New Orleans.

March 19: David Ruffin joins SEED staff part-time as Special Assistant.

March 5-9: Interviews and team meetings of five organizations comprising the New Orleans Children’s Education Collaborative. SEED’s Barry Kibel is the independent evaluator, incorporating SEED tools (testing precursor of Diagnostic process) to unleash the potential in this collaborative formed post Katrina to support the Algiers Charter School Association.

February 28: Mellon Foundation for input to enhance online technologies.

February 27: Introductory meeting with The After School Corporation.

February 24: The SEED office moves to a new location—a wonderful townhouse where client-groups will enjoy coming for half-day workshops and retreats.

February 14: Exploratory meeting with evaluator for Lilly Endowment regarding augmenting the evaluation coaching services offered to grantees of the Endowment; and presentation to a team of drug treatment program administrators regarding outcome measurement of client progress via Journey Mapping.

February 9, 12: Journey Mapping applications designed for Families Together of New York State.

February 5: Exploratory meeting with Infinite Family.

February 2: Journey Mapping presentation for the Clayton Early Childhood Research Institute in Denver, Colorado.  A dozen senior staff members were given a tour of several sites, followed by questions and answers.

January 31: Two day workshops with GA network, designing framework to scale-up from five to 165 counties a program successfully engaging parents in the education of low-achieving students.

January 29: Journey mapping design with Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

January 17-18: Develop “co-leadership framework” in collaboration with leadership providers and evaluators of Leadership Learning Community.

January 14-16: Presentations and meetings with board and program staff at Trinity Boston Foundation to explore work together.

January 10: First meeting of Growth Board—half day retreat.

January 9, 12: Exploratory meetings with NYC Education Task Force and Iris House.

December 27, 2006: Presentation of accountability assessment tools for the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division for Community Health and Prevention.

December 11-15: SEED kicks off a year-long evaluation consultation with five organizations collaborating to support eight newly formed charter schools in New Orleans.

December 8: Presentation of accountability assessment tools for the Trinity Boston Foundation.

November 29-30: Newly formed Fund Development Team holds first two-day meeting. Transition to Growth Board is begun.

November 28: Introduction of the Wonder of We, The Spirit Game, Journey Mapping and SEED consultancy services to the Lilly Endowment.

November 11-12: SEED participates in immersion introduction to Tides Center in San Francisco and meets some interesting prospective clients who are also Tides Projects.

November 8: Journey to Scale is tested in GA, as SEED helps to launch a five year, federally funded project aimed at strengthening the role that parents can play in impacting the academic lives of their children. SEED will have a continuing role in this project throughout the five years, providing both facilitation and evaluation services.

November 2: Wonder of We is unveiled and successfully tested with the Indianapolis Center for Congregations where there is interest in ongoing collaboration. The first 20 boxed sets are hand-printed and delivered.

November 1: Barry Kibel joins SEED staff full-time.

October 28: Revised Spirit Game is tested—the first of several occasions this season.

October 1: SEED selected to become a Project of Tides Center.