Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Increasingly young people are caught up in a world of social media, looking at everyone's highlight reel and comparing it to their own. They don't know what they're good at, care about, or are interested in, so instead, they have feelings of anxiety and hopelessness. House of Shine helps youth kindergarten through twelfth grade discover who they are, what they care about, and how to lead, so they can confidently make decisions about their future. Decisions can be as small as what group of friends they choose to associate with, the community service they choose to participate in or even the college or university they choose to attend.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Rise & Shine
We apply our creativity to everyday topics that women of all ages care about, turning them into uplifting experiences you won’t soon forget. Informative handouts, coupled with lively tabletop discussions, coffee, and door prizes assure that you will leave each session with new friends, new ideas, and new swag. These sessions are perfect for you to attend alone, with a friend, officemate, book club, or mother’s day out group.
Museum of Self-Discovery
Visiting House of Shine is like opening a giant fortune cookie. You’ll discover new things about yourself, revealing intriguing possibilities for the future. Our engaging help you unearth your SHINE, and use it to help others. We are all designed to make a contribution through our Strengths, Hobbies, Interests & Irritants, Needs, and Experiences.
What's Your Shine?
Whether you’re a young person, adult, parent, or educator, our self-discovery workshops and local events will help you discover who you are and how deciding to Shine will impact your corner of the world. Each of our hands-on programs, for people ages 5 – 95, help to unearth your SHINE (Strengths, Hobbies, Interests & Irritants, Needs, and Experiences). The more people discover about their SHINE, the better they can integrate what they learn into their daily lives. No matter which program you choose, it’s bound to be the most creative and memorable experience of your day.
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 participants attending course/session/workshop
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
These numbers do not represent unique individuals served. *In 2020, due to COVID-19, many in-person programs were cancelled or capacity reduced for safety.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Through self-awareness based curriculum and programming, House of Shine helps students discover who they are, what they care about, and how to lead.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Using the word SHINE (Strengths, Hobbies, Interests & Irritants, Needs, Experiences) as our framework, we will continue teaching our curriculum in schools, to students kindergarten through twelfth grade. Additionally, we will offer programs, workshops, and camp experiences to youth in the evenings, on weekends, and during the summer. This year, for the first time, we are also starting a podcast and our Executive Director authored a book that students can read to learn the Shine Method on their own.
In addition to serving students, House of Shine also offers programming to women, parents, and teachers so they can support the shine message at school and home.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Our curriculum and programs for students kindergarten through twelfth grade has been developed by the House of Shine team based on Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Claudia Beeny's twenty-five year career in higher education and doctoral work on student engagement. In addition to the content creation, the House of Shine team facilitates the curriculum and programs in schools and community organizations, and trains teachers, counselors, and community leaders on the shine message.
In partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Management, a program logic model and evaluative tool was created for our each program and piece of curriculum to measure learning and program impact.
In our five years as a non-profit organization, House of Shine has served 33,294 clients through 394 programs and classroom visits. As we open our own physical space for House of Shine in 2020, our capacity to reach additional clients through programs and events will greatly increase.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
In our first five years a non-profit organization, House of Shine has served 33,294 clients through 394 programs and engaged over 1,100 volunteers in 6,500+ hours of community service.
Through our curriculum and programs, 80% of students are able to name at least four meanings of the SHINE acronym (Strengths, Hobbies, Interests & Irritants, Needs, and Experiences) and 83% of tenth graders were able to identify their Point of Intersection (bringing together of a talent, interest and need they are interested in helping solve).
In the next year, House of Shine will open our first physical location where students can come to discover their shine through an interactive museum, participate in discussions with other students and community members, and engage in workshops that unearth what they care about (things that matter to them). In this space, our clients served and programs offered will grow exponentially and the measurement of our impact on students' self-awareness will be measured longitudinally across program offerings and leadership experiences.
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 collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.), Paper surveys, Constituent (client or resident, etc.) advisory committees,
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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,
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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HOUSE OF SHINE INC
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2022
Heather Hankamer
CCC Leadership
Term: 2021 -
John Gasko
Uplift Education
Ana Greenberg
Claudia Beeny
House of Shine
Dean Lackey
Richard Beeny
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