Inspiring You to Greatness Non-profit Corporation
Building Families ~ Creating Legacies
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
• Step One – Client Intake Applications: Meet Clients from Referrals. • Step Two – Shelter Services: Provide Immediate Housing w/ Hotels. Clients Obtain Shelter, A Place to Clean Up, Receive Eat Hot Meals, Take Classes, meet w/ Employers, meet w/ Case Manager, meet w/ Mental Health Licensed Professional Counselor, & Service Providers. • Step Three – Housing Services: Assist Clients w/ Completing Job & Housing Applications. • Step Four - Outreach Services: Provide Lunch & Learns for In-Person Clinics w/ Landlords, Builders & Clients to ensure clients are meeting with those who can provide immediate hiring and application approvals on-site. • Step Five - Social Services: Provide Education in Financial Literacy Budget Management, Credit Restoration Literacy, Mental Health Aids (Mastering Emotions, Immediate Mindfulness Training, Alignment Life Skills Courses), Life Coaching Self-Management Skills, Job-Readiness Training. Assist clients in creating housing stability & self-sufficiency.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
E3 Educate. Empower Employ Self-Sufficiency Program
Inspiring You To Greatness Non-Profit Community Development Corporation is pleased to support seventy families in achieving housing stability and self-sufficiency by improving clients’ quality of life by providing housing education, job training, financial/credit literacy, mental health, and life coaching support through our online academy streaming fulfillment system. Clients will complete an online application through our website portal that will start the intake process which will be processed to provide immediate needs including shelter, social, outreach and housing services with housing payments as well as covering immediate needs. Clients will have the liberty of immediate temporary shelter with partnered Hotels and permanent housing with partnered apartment communities, local partnered home builders. We have partnered with dozens of small businesses throughout North and East Texas who have committed to giving our clients priority interviewing and hiring to start w/in 24-72 hours
B3 Better Business Banking
. Business Building Banking (B3 Program) A unique summer initiative to help disadvantaged businesses in under-served areas participate in positive life enhancing classes, lunch and learns, and networking that focus on the following:
● Business Banking Program Exclusively Tailored to Their Line of Business
● Introducing Business Line of Credit
● Business Accounts with Advantages
● Business Lending Strategies/ Business Relationship Building
● Business Services Introductions
● Sustaining an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Business from a Banker’s Perspective
● Business Fitness (Checking the financing options of each business from bank’s underwriting guidelines)
● Legal & Judicial Services Needed in Business
● Motivational and Empowerment from Community Professionals (Lunch & Learn Guest Speakers)
Youth Entrepreneurship & Financial Literacy Money Management
Our Youth Entrepreneurship Inspired by the life-story of Pulitzer nominee Clifton Taulbert, Ice House Program is designed to empower participants by exposing them to entrepreneurial thinking while immersing them in entrepreneurial experiences developing critical thinking, problem solving, and better decision making choices based on specific mindset changes. Drawing on eight fundamental concepts, Ice House includes online video lectures that feature video “case studies” of successful everyday entrepreneurs with limited resources who succeeded by embracing an entrepreneurial mindset. Youth ages 12-17 had the opportunity to receive this youth entrepreneurship seminar last summer at the Frisco Public Library in three summer sessions. Last year's sessions included: Saturday, March 5th-19th, April 2nd-16th, May 7th-21, or June 4th-18th, 2016. This year the sessions will be held at our Dallas and Plano offices for Dallas and Collin County participation.
Our Youth Literacy Financial Literacy is an important component to the young entrepreneurs of tomorrow. Learning how to budget, save money, and invest are the three points discussed in each youth literacy workshop. In the youth literacy boot camp, students are placed in groups to find solutions to problems using financial decision making. The youth literacy sessions immerse students in real life applications of financial literacy by allowing them to open savings accounts with local banks and credit unions on field trips before, after, or during the session.
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.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of free participants in conferences
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents, Adults, Women and girls, Extremely poor people, Low-income people
Related Program
Youth Entrepreneurship & Financial Literacy Money Management
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
These metrics are the # of people we touched each year through workshops, sessions, and lunch and learns throughout the community across Texas in Dallas, Denton, Tarrant, Travis, Harris, Smith County.
Number of students showing improvement in test scores
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Men and boys
Related Program
Youth Entrepreneurship & Financial Literacy Money Management
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Assisted three males from 9th grade to 11th grade with study habits, social skills, emotional intelligence, and friend selection skills so that their grades would increase and they all graduated!
Number of students showing interest in topics related to STEM
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents, Ethnic and racial groups, Men and boys
Related Program
Youth Entrepreneurship & Financial Literacy Money Management
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Assisted minorities males and females by introducing them to STEM careers specifically by mentor matching them with local Engineers (minority male/females) to show them what they would be doing daily.
Number of job skills training courses/workshops conducted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Men and boys, Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
E3 Educate. Empower Employ Self-Sufficiency Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Taught local high school students how to apply for jobs, maintain said positions, apply social skills learned through workshops, training courses, and education.
Number of clients still working after 12 months
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Incarcerated people
Related Program
E3 Educate. Empower Employ Self-Sufficiency Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Each client in our job readiness training program receiving life coaching, empowerment, mental health assessments, therapy, one-on-one narrative writing, and group sessions along with job training.
Number of industry standards/practices developed by nonprofit
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Academics, Self-employed people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Each year the non-profit President meets with bankers as well as bank regulators to stay abreast of changes such as workforce development being counting toward CRA credits for grants in education.
Number of community businesses in the area reporting a positive image toward the housing complex
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Unemployed people
Related Program
B3 Better Business Banking
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Organization is not working with multi-family due to COVID-19, but 2021 will be much better.
Average age of first-time, full-time, first-year registrants in direct entry programs continuing to the following year
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Ethnic and racial groups, Self-employed people, Unemployed people
Related Program
B3 Better Business Banking
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The average age is based on the overall number of students who enrolled in our programs. Each year we did not market any differently to reach the outcome the results are organic.
Number of administrators and staff who plan and experience professional development activities together
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Caregivers, Unemployed people
Related Program
E3 Educate. Empower Employ Self-Sufficiency Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Our staff are non-paid.
Number of diversity training courses conducted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Women and girls, Men and boys, Self-employed people, Internally displaced people
Related Program
E3 Educate. Empower Employ Self-Sufficiency Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The diversity course was sensitivity training offered by Grace Hill Training.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
• Goal One – Client Intake Applications: Meet Clients from Referrals of Local Shelters, Community Centers, Pawn Shops, Schools, Churches, Grocery Stores, Food Banks, Hotels/ Motels, Extended Stay, Public Housing, & Apartment Managers. Once Applications are received; priority will be given to Domestic Violence Victims, Veterans, and Client’s w/ incomes below 80% of AMI or proof of no income/low income/ loss of income due to COVID-19.
• Goal Two – Shelter Services: Provide Immediate Housing w/ Partnered Hilton Hotels, Clients Obtain Shelter, A Place to Clean Up, Receive Eat Hot Meals, Take Classes, meet w/ Employers, meet w/ Case Manager, meet w/ Mental Health Licensed Professional Counselor, and Service Providers as needed for Program Management in Conference Rooms. For those who prefer, campground/ extended-stay assistance & antibacterial clean up bags.
• Goal Three – Housing Services: Assist Clients w/ Completing Job & Housing Applications as requested and required by the hiring/ apartment manager and/or tiny/ container home builder. Partnered with local employers, apartment managers, and tiny/container home builders who can provide permanent housing to the clients’ w/ priority.
• Goal Four - Outreach Services: Provide Lunch & Learns for In-Person Clinics w/ Landlords, Builders & Clients to ensure clients are meeting with authorized personnel who can provide immediate hiring and application approvals on-site.
• Step Five - Social Services: Provide Education in Financial Literacy Budget Management, Credit Restoration Literacy, Mental Health Aids (Mastering Emotions, Immediate Mindfulness Training, Alignment Life Skills Courses), Life Coaching Self-Management Skills, Job-Readiness Training within the Online Academy so classes are self-paced.
• Goal Six – Housing Services: Partnered w/ Tiny Home/Container Home Builders & Several Apartments w/ immediate vacancies to assist in permanent housing for each household who have agreed to give our clients priority.
• Goal Seven – Social Services: Continuum of Care will be completed by the Case Manager through the online platform. Each student will register through the platform to start Social Services. The Case Manager will monitor classes, assessments, and coaching through the platform, and facilitate updates and changes after weekly client meetings. Case Manager and Client will meet once per week while Client is in hotels for the first three months, once every two weeks for the next three months, once per month for the next six months in order to ensure Clients are coping, connecting, and maintaining proper social skills through the process. Licensed Professional Counselors, Life Coaching, and Other Service Providers will continue throughout the 24-month process.
• Goal Eight – Housing Payments: All payments will be made directly to service providers only after an invoice, rental lease, rental quote, or electronic document.
Ultimate Goals to Create Housing Stability in 18-24 Months or less.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Currently the strategy of Inspiring You To Greatness, Inc. is the same as our slogan:
Individually Inspiring Specific People In Reaching Each Dream, Vision, or Goal.
By applying for grants to aid families, raising funds in the community, sharing the needs:
Most recent grant proposals submitted to local banks, cities, states, and partners:
• Planned Outcome: Each Family will complete this program with soft skills, life skills, life coaching, mental health plan, debt-free vehicle, stabilized employment, social service team (licensed professional counselor, life coach, support team at work, church or community advocate), and stabilized housing through their own tiny/container home or apartment lease if they do not qualify for the home due to size or availability. Clients will continue classes for 24 months or until they complete all the courses assigned in the initial assessment based on their personal needs.
• Measured Milestones: Case Manager will assign classes as follows:
Core Class Requirements:
1. Financial Literacy – Building Wealth Teaching Budgeting & Finance (Book Provided by Federal Reserve)
2. Credit Literacy – (Four Part Class) Teaching Understanding, Correcting, Paying Off, Rebuilding Credit Based on the Federal Trade Commission
3. Life Coaching – 12 Sessions Teaching Life Skills Through Self-Love, Self-Growth, & Self-Sufficiency (One Session Per Month) Self-Paced Workbook
4. Mental Health – Three Classes Teaching Mastering Emotions, Mindfulness Training, Alignment Courses (along w/ meeting w/Counselor)
5. Job Readiness Training – Corporation Policy & Procedures, Corporate Onboarding, Resume Building
6. Housing Education – Effective Renters Education, First Time Home Buyer Education, How to Complete Lease & Job Applications
7. Home Education – Cooking, Personal Hygiene, Furniture Options, Gas Savings Plans, Electric Providers, Utilities, Self-Help Plans to aid in the self-sufficiency recovery plan for the families. This course teaches them how to live on their own again to aid in completing the process.
8. Personal Services Education – ID Recovery, Birth Certificate Orders, Social Security Card Appointments, Department of Human Services (TANF/SNAP), Texas Workforce Commission, program introductions, applications, and additional case management liaison meetings and referrals to services not rendered.
9. Classes will be monitored through the online platform by the Case Manager to ensure all classes are completed. If work and responsibilities require Client to be unable to finish within the 18-month program, they can continue the courses until they are complete not to exceed 24 months.
10. Final Milestone: Exhausting Funds – The final outcome is to ensure all classes are attended, facilitated, and completed while paying all invoices and capturing receipts from the vendors and partners.
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What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
With more than 30 years of experience, education, expertise, and passion the IYTG team is excited about continuing to change lives. Inspiring You To Greatness Non-Profit Community Development Corporation has been in existence since March 2015 of which our service delivery has benefited over 2,246 individuals/businesses in high-poverty inner city neighborhoods and created over 62 jobs across Collin, Denton, Dallas, Gregg, Smith & Tarrant Counties. All one hundred percent (100%) of our clients are low-to-moderate income (LMI), veterans, and survivors. Along with serving, we assisted in housing Clients in short-term hotel stays, Airbnb stays as well as connecting clients with partnered apartment communities including the Housing Program with the City of Dallas to house the homeless. While assisting the City of Dallas, IYTGCDC placed residents in units where owners had less than 70% occupancy, creating a relationship with the Licensed Professional Counseling Supervisors to ensure LPC-Interns would serve the homeless residents. The City of Dallas assigned Case Managers from the Social Workers on staff, and IYTGCDC managed the on-site staff with training in soft and life skills along w/ life coaching. IYTGCDC has had extensive experience serving with other organizations, cities, and businesses; now looking to manage and assist in a direct capacity. This is proof of our capacity to serve the community in an indirect and direct method of service.
Past Performances
IYTGCDC has maintained a continuous relationship in contracting with large known organizations such as Transformance, The Business Assistance Center, Builders of Hope CDC (the largest non-profit builder in Dallas County), and the City of Dallas assisting as well as serving low-to-moderate income families.
IYTGCDC created the E3 Educate. Empower. Employ Program and created 20 jobs in Fair Park in Construction, created 42 jobs-Certified Nurses Aids and 4 jobs in Warehouse/ Logistics positions. Collin/Dallas County service area.
IYTGCDC started the B3 Better. Business. Banking. sessions with NorthStar, Regions, BBVA Compass, and American First National Bank that taught businesses the underwriting guidelines of the bank(s) while assisting with education of bank programs. Assisted more than 20 businesses. Several of these businesses have agreed to participate in the lunch and learns to meet our clients first for available jobs and priority hiring. All four service areas.
IYTGCDC assisted more than 756 neighborhood services recipients with Credit Literacy Education Training to prepare them for the mortgage voucher plan to obtain housing vouchers for section 8 housing assignments while working with the City of Tyler. Smith County service area.
ITYCDC attended the Post-Purchase Education Training in 2019 at the Federal Reserve along with the City of Longview staff & assisted the City of Tyler w/ helping 756 section 8 clients with Credit & Financial Literacy Services.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
The only thing Inspiring You To Greatness, Inc. has not accomplished is building our affordable housing for the low-to-moderate income clients currently served.
Differentiators
IYTGCDC is different from other organizations because of the execution strategy that incorporates proven methodologies, extremely qualified personnel, and a highly responsive approach to managing deliverables by providing line-item lists of immediate services running concurrent bringing services to the Client removing barriors to create greater levels of success.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
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Operations
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Inspiring You to Greatness Non-profit Corporation
Board of directorsas of 10/09/2023
Mr Kacey Simmons
Inspiring You To Greatness CDC
Term: 2023 -
Ms Tierra Carter-Simmons
MasTec Corporation
Term: 2017 -
Tawalla S Simmons
Inspiring You To Greatness CDC
Kacey D Simmons
Inspiring You To Greatness CDC
Tierra N Carter-Simmons
Inspiring You To Greatness CDC
Chadwick G Grant
Inspiring You To Greatness CDC
Kaleb D Simmons
Inspiring You To Greatness CDC
Kaleyah A Simmons
Inspiring You To Greatness CDC
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? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
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? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
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Disability
Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.