Overview

Are you ready for Impact Texas?

The Impact Texas Initiative is a new and highly interactive series of learning opportunities for nonprofit executive leaders. If you are interested in strengthening your abilities to understand and address complex challenges in your community, then Impact Texas is for you! Selected grantees receive over $5,000 in cash and services to support their executive leadership development.

About OneStar

OneStar Foundation: Texas Center for Social Impact (OneStar) focuses on increased results for the people served by the nonprofit sector through promotion of innovation, entrepreneurship, sound business practices, well-managed volunteer programs, research and rigorous evaluation. OneStar also serves as the state's National Service Commission administering the AmeriCorps grant program and serves as the Faith-Based and Community Initiative office. OneStar carries out its mission for state government as a supporting nonprofit of the Office of the Governor.

Learn more about OneStar at http://www.onestarfoundation.org.

About the Impact Texas Initiative

Do you want to be part of a statewide dialogue with other executive leaders from the nonprofit community to create solutions for lasting change in Texas?

Join us as we step outside the box and engage in a highly interactive discussion to create a shift in the way we think about addressing social challenges in our local communities and across Texas. Connect with other nonprofit executive leaders as you hone your leadership skills, learn about systems thinking and develop skills to better influence others in solving community challenges.

The Impact Texas Initiative consists of multiple learning opportunities specifically tailored for the executive leaders of nonprofit organizations. First, the group will examine behaviors that contribute to personal and interpersonal effectiveness by attending the three-day Management Development Program. This is followed by Systems Thinking, a two-day workshop showing executive leaders the benefit of using systems thinking when addressing organizational challenges. These two learning opportunities are brought to you by the Governor's Center for Management Development at The University of Texas at Austin. Finally, the group will learn a new way of analyzing how influence works and how to become the catalyst for positive community change by attending an interactive two-day course facilitated by John Bourke, Principle Associate for VitalSmarts and founder and President of Bourke and Associates. Immediately following is a half-day consensus workshop that answers the question, "Now what?" by encouraging the group to envision new possibilities for social change.

The Impact Texas Initiative's three learning opportunities will take place over a six-month period. One executive leader from each organization can participate in the Impact Texas Initiative. (An executive leader is someone within the organization who has the authority to make managerial decisions.) It is expected that the same individual will attend all three trainings. Each organization may receive up to $1,000 for time the organization's executive leader spent participating in the program.

The total estimated value of the Impact Texas Initiative per grantee is approximately $5,000 in cash and services.

Opportunity Details

Application Questions

Grantees must complete an online application. The questions asked online are also included in Appendix A of the document available for download below.

Requirements of Grantees

For more information on OneStar's commitments to this initiative and what commitments grantees must make, see Appendix B of the document available for download below.

Who Should Apply

Grantees must meet certain minimum criteria to be eligible to participate in the Impact Texas initiative. To review these criteria, see Appendix C of the document available for download below or visit the Current Opportunities Eligibility page.

Timelines

Schedule

This program requires a commitment of resources and the active participation of those in attendance. The same executive leader will attend training every other month for six months. It is imperative that the executive leader attend all trainings in order to maintain program integrity and consistency for the group. Substitutions are not acceptable.

Application Timeline

Program Timeline

Trainings will be held 8 a.m.-5 p.m. each day (except for June 10th, which will be 8 a.m.-noon).

How to Apply

Application Submission Instructions

Complete an online application:

• The application must be submitted by January 4, 2009, by 5 p.m. CST.
• Do not mail in your applications. Applications received by mail will not be reviewed.

Application Assistance: E-mail

Interested applicants may e-mail questions to impact@onestarfoundation.org at any time. E-mails will receive a response within two business days of receipt. E-mails received after 11 a.m. CST on Monday, January 4, 2009, will not receive a response.

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Applications are no longer being accepted. Thank you for your interest.