Find below information you can use for your Getting Ahead initiative. Whether you’re a program administrator, facilitator, grant writer, funder, investigator, or graduate of Getting Ahead, we hope you’ll many free resources of interest below.
About Getting Ahead
- Doing Less and Being More: This short passage of Chinese philosophy could have been written specifically for Getting Ahead facilitators.
- Infographic: Theory of Change: Use to explain Getting Ahead theory of change to sponsors, funders, and community members.
- From author, Phil DeVol: A two-part paper on:
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- What makes Bridges and Getting Ahead work for individuals, organizations, and community collaboratives.
- How we can improve the way we interact by using the Empowerment Triangle instead of the Drama Triangle.
- Kitchen-Table Learning Experience. This explains the look and feel of the Getting Ahead experience, provides information on recruiting, and describes the unique features of the GA learning experience.
- Investigation into Bonding and Social Capital. Create an image, or mental model, of your own.
- Reflections on Getting Ahead by Bonnie Bazata, executive director, St. Joseph County Bridges Out of Poverty
The resources below will prepare you to organize, coordinate, and/or facilitate a Getting Ahead group in you organization or community. Learn how this unique program can empower individuals and build sustainable communities.
- Investigations – Investigations into Economic Class in America is the college version of Getting Ahead, and the two curricula share a common approach and common ideas. Find tips and resources you may be able to apply to Getting Ahead at this site.
Launching Getting Ahead: Recruiting allies
Facilitating Getting Ahead
Funding Getting Ahead
- Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania gives Pocono Alliance $10k to Bridges initiative in Monroe County, PA, to provide Getting Ahead to 15 families.
- Steamboat Springs CO graduates its first Getting Ahead group. The Routt County Bridges Initiative raised $19,000 from Routt County United Way, LIFT-UP of Routt County and the Department of Human Services. The first class cost about $10,000; a second class is scheduled for the fall.
Sample Recruiting and Informational Brochures:
- Interview questions to use when inviting people to participate in Getting Ahead.
- Marion General Hospital in Ohio – Brochure for offering Getting Ahead to staff members.
- Various examples. The 2020 Club was for recruiting health care industry employees. Youngstown State University was recruiting college students, and Bucks County was recruiting community members.
- Getting Ahead daytime and evening flyers
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