NO BARRIERS USA
What's Within You is Stronger Than What's In Your Way
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We strive to unleash the potential of people who face significant and persistent barriers that hold them back from being their best.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Warriors
Our Veterans’ programs serve as both an opportunity for growth and a catalyst for change as these brave men and women stretch physical and emotional boundaries, foster camaraderie, push through adversity, and step up to serve others. No Barriers Warriors programs are FREE, for Veterans with service connected disabilities.
No Barriers Summit
Part inspiration, part action, this unparalleled 4-day conference empowers people to break through barriers, find their inner purpose and contribute their very best to the world.
At the No Barriers Summit, we envision a world where the power of the human spirit transcends barriers. We bring together scientists, inventors, academics, practitioners, and end-users in a four-day outdoor extravaganza that challenges your conception of what is possible. The Summit is about community, innovation, discovery, and exploration. This family-friendly event is for people of all ages and abilities. The 2015 No Barriers Summit will combine hands-on clinics, product demonstrations, outdoor excursions, films, art, music, keynote addresses, leadership exercises, and symposia.
Caregivers
No Barriers Caregiver Program is designed to improve the lives of family caregivers by building a caregiving community where individuals are given dedicated time and space to be together with other family caregivers through transformative, curriculum based virtual workshops and community events as well as in-person retreats and expeditions.
Youth
Here at No Barriers, it’s our mission to give kids the real-world tools to achieve more than they thought possible by giving teachers the resources to help them.
To do this, we’ve created a unique community platform, providing educators with the resources needed to help students with…
* Harnessing adversity and using it as an opportunity to grow.
* Reframing their mindsets to respond positively to life’s inevitable challenges.
* Realizing their potential and breaking through their barriers.
Within the community, you’ll have exclusive access to a host of interactive content, (updated frequently), that you can use to engage & excite your classroom with ease.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of free registrants to classes
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Veterans, Caregivers, People with disabilities
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
2020 was largely online programming, 2021 is in-person programming
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
CORE PURPOSE
To break through barriers, unleash potential and have a positive impact on the world.
CORE VALUES
● We are visionary. We are courageous and bold, setting and reaching aspirational goals that
stretch the limits of what is possible.
● We are alchemists. We embrace adversity by displaying the grit, innovation and optimism
required to tackle big challenges.
● We are all one rope team. We are a community that radiates trust, respect, commitment, and
integrity in all our relationships.
● We elevate others and the world. We are committed to excellence and to unleashing and
celebrating our collective potential to create positive change in the world.
BHAG
Build a global community united by a belief in our ability to break through barriers, unleash individual
and collective potential and have a positive impact on the world. We will be a top leader in providing
cutting edge, high quality and proven transformational programming … the barometer of our success
will be our ability to change individuals’ lives in an effort to inspire and build global community…
relationships and community will be the human thread that transcend all that we do... our scaleable
model and approach will be sought internationally… we will have an effective, financially sustainable
model allowing for advance planning, creative innovation, and excellence… we will become a role model
for a successful modern workplace that prioritizes diversity and inclusion, and unleashes each team
member’s potential to contribute their absolute best to the organization and the world…
WHY WE MATTER
1. We are tackling one of the world’s greatest challenges: unleashing our collective potential
One of the greatest challenges of the 21st Century is to unleash our individual and communal potential
to have a positive impact on the world. At our core, humans all crave purpose. Yet, every day we face
challenges. Only some of us have a trail map to navigate the barriers between our idealistic aspirations
and our potential. As a result, many give up and lose hope. Others settle at a place far short of their
dreams. Only some of us continue to climb towards those things we know in our hearts to be truly
possible. The end result is that we are failing to activate the full capacity of civilization to create the
brightest future possible. No Barriers serves as a catalyst to activate human potential. We then provide
a roadmap that helps individuals and their communities break through barriers, unleash potential and
contribute our very best to the world.
2. We matter because what we do works.
We have a proven ability to transform people's lives, create community and share powerful stories. 95%
of the participants in our transformative programs agree with the statement, “This program changed my
life.” We measure this change through extensive short-, mid-, and long-term research.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We have four core strategies:
Build Engaged Communities We’ll thoughtfully rebuild our in-person programming by maximizing the use of our newly redeveloped field campus and finding a permanent Colorado home for our Summit. Meanwhile, we’ll continue to build our virtual and hybrid opportunities, with an emphasis on deepening virtual impact, building engaged communities. and improving how we measure impact. We will narrow the populations that we target to the 125 million people in the US in these three categories: Have disabilities, focusing on physical disabilities and mild cognitive impairments including, though not limited to, our longstanding commitment to veterans and middle school students and teachers; Caregivers, including youth and adults, who tend to the needs or concerns of a person with short- or long-term limitations due to illness, injury or disability;People who face significant and persistent challenges beyond the disability and caregiving space, with a special emphasis on adolescents in foster care, who live in impoverished urban communities or who have lost loved ones to tragedy.
Build Our Rope Team: We’ll strategically rebuild our team of staff, contractors and volunteers as we expand the reach of our programming so that we can maintain an exceptional quality of service for our community while also supporting the growth, development and sustainability of our team. We’ll build and engage with the board, who will play a critical role in our success in achieving our Reach Goals, particularly around Financial Sustainability and Becoming a Recognized Leader. We’ll have a strong emphasis on diversity and inclusion, working with more diverse teams who are representative of the populations that we serve. And we'll focus on building a terrific No Barriers culture.
National Player: We’ll focus on building No Barriers into an established national player in the space of unleashing the potential of people with disabilities, caregivers and those with significant and persistent challenges. Our public relations, storytelling, research and brand marketing efforts will build scale and exposure with a goal of positioning us as a thought leader in this space. Partnerships and high-quality programming will play a key role here as we build relationships with key for-profit and nonprofit organizations that help elevate our status in this space and deepen our reach into our targeted audiences.
Financial Sustainability: We’ll rebuild our revenues moving towards our pre-pandemic revenue levels, putting us back on track to becoming a $4.5 million organization by 2024. Our narrowed programmatic focus and our efforts to become a recognized leader will play a key role in positioning the organization to have access to a much larger pool of funds from foundations, companies and individual donors.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have a strong staff, volunteer and board team that is leading the charge to make this mission and vision come to fruition.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We met or exceeded all of our goals for 2020 and are on track to do the same for 2021. This includes goals for programmatic reach and impact and financial sustainabilty described in our 2021 strategy above.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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NO BARRIERS USA
Board of directorsas of 12/30/2022
Dave Shurna
Erik Weihenmayer
Blind Adventurer, Motivational Speaker, Author
Jamie Moldafsky
Nielson
Tom Sullivan
Cabinets2Go
John Rose
Revive Hemp Industries
Keith Sultana
Trane
Steve Rae
Berlitz
Adrian Anantawan
Milton Academy
Mandy Harvey
Gena Harper
Retired, Morgan Stanley
Keith Allman
Masco
Harry Dalessio
Empower Retirement
Gannon Jones
Aetna
Bob Baltimore
Harris Williams & Co.
Craig Mundy
Retired, Ingersoll Rand
Jill Royster
Mehul Patel
Pharmacann
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
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Disability
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