Your Life Matters Empowerment Alliance, Inc.
We Care For You. Because Your Life Matters.
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Your Life Matters Empowerment Alliance is currently working on recruiting CFO, COO, Stakeholders, Board of Directors, a legal team, an Advisor team, part-time staff, and volunteers and finding sources of revenues to fund our mission and organization.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Speaking Tours
Colleen Burns will share her story and experiences of bullying in schools and in the workplace as a way to educate the general public about bullying. As part of her speaking tours, she will inspire others to share their stories and experiences with bullying and cyber-bullying and to interact with them one-on-one to empower their mind and empower their future, for their life matters.
$1000.00
Joint Venture Partnership Programs (Community Partnerships)
We are in the process of developing relationships with service providers, who can address issues of mental health, legal issues, and cases when there has been abuse and neglect, as well as crisis services. We want to provide a safe space where people can report concerns or receive our services. We want our clients to be able to talk and learn different coping skills in order for them to face bullying.
Our Self-Defense Program
Our self-defense program is taught by the local police in your area.
When the funds, building and / or space becomes available, our future plans are to incorporate basic self-defense classes. The primary purpose of these classes provide basic self-defense techniques to deter bullying.
These basic self-defense classes will not only teach self-defense, but they will also provide and improve a sense of self from within. They will improve self-confidence, self-value, and self-respect.
More information to come when the funds, building and / or space becomes available.
$0.00
Workshops & Seminars
The primary purpose of our workshops and seminars is to develop programs for bullying awareness and prevention, so as to educate students, teachers, school administration (grade school to university level), employees, and employers how to handle bullying before it starts, when it starts, and to prevent it from occurring further.
Programs are individualized and tailored to the needs of the audience. Typical topics include: safety and decision-making; being aware of and accessing resources; deescalating conflict; understanding the role of bystanders; the impact of being complicit; campaigning for peace; the role of prejudice, bias, and isms; and sharing of stories.
$500.00
*This service will be available when a Workshop & Seminar Training director will be hired as part of our volunteer staff.
Strategic Alliance Interventions
Our Strategic Interventions are offered both in a group setting and in an individual setting. These strategic interventions include Robbins-Madanes Training methods, such as 6 Human Needs, Elevation Strategy, and Interrupting An Emotional Pattern Strategy just to name a few.
These services will last between 45 60 minutes per session a week. Each session will cost $400.00.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our mission is to help eliminate bullying in the schools, on the Internet, and in the workplace. Our ultimate goal is to offer our bullying prevention services as United Nations Ambassadors.
In order to do so we are working on getting access into the private and public schools and workplaces to implement our workshops, seminars, speaking tours, Strategic Alliance Joint Venture Partnerships, self-defense program, and strategic alliance intervention services.
Our organization also is recruiting CFO, COO, Stakeholders, Board of Directors, a legal team, an advisor team, staff, and volunteers. Once we have a fundraising team, our organization will be able to raise more funds through donors and grants.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Your Life Matters Empowerment Alliance is currently recruiting Stakeholders, Board of Directors, a legal team, an Advisor team, staff, and volunteers, so we can offer our bullying prevention services across the state of Virginia and the Unites States of America.
We will also be establishing Strategic Alliance Joint Venture Partnerships to offer our services to interested parties, who will in return want to become part of our bullying prevention alliance team.
CEO & Founder Colleen Burns will be registering to take the FSOT Exam in 2020, so the organization will be able to work with United Nations as a brand Ambassador and offer our bullying prevention services on an international level.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
CEO & Founder Colleen Burns will share her personal life experiences with bullying, in addition to those Board of Directors members and volunteers who will want to do the same. She will also share her martial art experience.
Your Life Matters Empowerment Alliance has five bullying prevention services we provide to local communities and across the U. S. Our cost is based on the needs of the hosting provider of the event. (https://yourlifemattersempowerment.org/what-we-do/)
Local Roanoke Tree of Life Pastor David Denham has volunteered to help Your Life Matters Empowerment Alliance recruit Board of Directors members and Stakeholders.
Colleen will be taking the FSOT exam in 2020. Colleen will need to wait a year to re-take the exam if she does not pass it the first time.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Established an Advisor, CEO & Founder, a Stakeholder. and a Team Leader dedicated to our mission.
Colleen Burns has had the opportunity to meet with local Roanoke Tree of Life Pastor David Denham and other church members, who have expressed interest in Your Life Matters Empowerment Allliance. Pastor Denham has volunteered to help recruit our Stakeholders and Board of Directors member positions.
Colleen Burns has completed Robbins-Madanes Training, so she can use their teaching methods in Your Life Matters Empowerment Alliance's Strategic Interventions services to help the progress of eliminating bullying in the schools and in the workplace and create a less hostile environment and a more peaceful world.
As of December 31, 2019, Your Life Matters Empowerment Alliance has become a United Nation Global Marketplace bullying prevention nonprofit organization vendor.
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 make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, 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
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently
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Your Life Matters Empowerment Alliance, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 02/13/2024
CEO & Founder Colleen Burns
Your Life Matters Empowerment Alliance, Inc.
Term: 2024 -
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 ? 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? Yes -
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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Equity strategies
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- 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 seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- 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.