2018-2019

The 3 C’s of the Social Change Model

1. Common Purpose
a. Our common purpose was to improve Leading Youth Through Empowerment through completion of
various tasks
i. Mission Statement
ii. Team Values
2. Collaboration
a. We communicated regularly and utilized each other’s strengths to overcome all obstacles and
complete the project
i. Group Chat
ii. Meetings
3. Controversy to Civility
a. Despite a difficult beginning, we were able to finish our project by holding each other accountable
i. Assuming good intent
ii. Deadlines
 2. Fear of Conflict:

5 Dysfunctions of Many issues in the beginning were not

brought up to other teammates.

a Team 3. Lack of Commitment:

There was a loss of momentum over

Trust
winter session.
Fear of Conflict
Lack of Commitment 4: Avoiding Accountability:
Avoiding Accountability
Inattention to Results After many issues from collaborating
with the liaison, a period of time was
spent pushing responsibility onto other
teammates.
Leading Youth Through Empowerment
Mission Statement:
Our mission is to lead low-income,
African-American, and Latino middle
school students to top performing
Delaware high schools and then
colleges, through personal mentoring,
rigorous teaching, and leadership
skills.
Problem Statement:
There is growing evidence of a need for
a program that address the lack of
opportunities for top performing
students coming from low-income
backgrounds. LYTE attempts to fill this
void by increasing high school and
college access. Our project will help
them achieve this goal now and in the
future.
 ● Non-profit one-pager
○ Basic and Detailed

Our Project ● 2018 newsletter

● Schools with great financial aid
● Master list of acceptance
One-Pagers
Newsletter
Schools with Great Financial Aid
● Started with a list of 100 schools who give financial aid around the 90-100% percent
range
● Compiled information and created a document with profiles of each school (Size,
Location, Academic requirements, Avg. GPA, Test required or optional etc.)
● Categorized the list by region, size, selectivity, and test optional.
● Purpose: Different packets, based on the categories, can be created and given to
students based on their wants and needs for their perfect college match
Master List of Acceptances
● LYTE is in the process of updating their master data sheet to keep track of high
school applications and acceptances for all students
● Updated the list of students to include:
○ High schools applied to
○ Acceptance, Waitlist, Rejection
○ Attending
● Purpose: Organization can keep track of data, measure success of program
Impact on Partner Organization
● One-Pager
○ Basic information about the organization
● Newsletter
○ Detailed information about the organization
● Schools with Great Financial Aid
○ Can be given to students now and probably for the next five years
● Master List of Acceptances
○ Allows for the organization to track where their students end up. Also, gives
insight into how successful their program is.
 Izzy: Communications Leader

Alexis: Execution Leader

Team Roles Sherry: Research Leader

Grant: Production Leader

Original Timeline
● October:
○ Meet with LYTE at Thomas Edison Charter School in Wilmington
● November:
○ Finalize Newsletter and one-pager
● December:
○ Complete an annual report
● January:
○ Utilize SalesForce to input and manage donors of the non-profit
● February:
○ Create a marketing plan for the organization to use on a yearly basis
 Adjusted
Timeline ● November/December: Complete
newsletter and one-pager
● January/February: Work on group
LYTE is a new non-profit for Tier 2 that dynamics and liaison relations
experienced difficulty adjusting to the
● March: New project goals
responsibilities of participating in the
program, which created setbacks in the
details and timing of the project.
 1. Originally we were give a list of tasks to
complete that were not a cohesive project
a. Included: Salesforce (CRM) and
posting on social media
2. Not getting enough information about
what exactly we were supposed to be
doing
a. Only given piece of information and
Challenges instruction at a time
3. Unclear deadlines
a. Difficulty completely projects on time

Main Source of Challenges:

Communication
a. Between team members
a. Between our nonprofit
Overcoming Challenges
Communication

A. Created a group chat

a. Regular updates about what we were each working on
b. Made plans to meet regularly
c. Held each other accountable
d. Communicated about what was happening in our lives outside BHLP
B. We picked up the phone and called him
a. Gave us detailed instruction on tasks for a new project
b. Sent over all the information we need at once so we could work quickly and meet the project deadline
Key to our success: Resilience

“To fight for change tomorrow, we need to build resilience

today.”
-Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer of Facebook
American technology executive, activist, author, and billionaire
Thank you! Questions?