Sunday, December 16, 2012

The Emerging Status of Nonprofits And the Bystander Effect

On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was returning home from work as a bar manager in New York. She parked her car and walked towards her apartment, just a 100 feet away. Suddenly she heard footsteps racing behind her. Before she could react, the assailant stabbed her twice. Screaming at the top of her lungs, she cried for help; repeatedly. No one came.  She died two hours later.

As investigators and reporters began piecing the story together, they were shocked by the lack of citizen intervention. At least two dozen people heard the screams over a 30-minute time span. Politicians, psychologists and clergymen were outraged, calling it another example of our apathetic social decay.

But two psychologists weren’t so sure. They wanted to know why Kitty was offered no help. Over the course of the next year, they conducted a series of experiments in crowded and private situations to understand what triggers and doesn’t trigger a response from bystanders. Here’s what they discovered:
Crowds behave like schools of fish – they group think. If there are no reactions to a stimulus, no one in the crowd will act. They found that “no one wants to stands out in a crowd.” This was proven time and time again as experiments were conducted on busy New York streets.

But as they tweaked their experiments, they finally discovered the answer and what instigates a reaction.
In today’s version of the “bystander effect,” one of our most precious socially important industries continue to pattern their future in the same methods as the past. As funds continue to dry up, many nonprofit agencies continue to seek financial help by using a single method of revenue generation: writing grants.

In comparison, a growing legion of innovative nonprofits across the globe are building “social enterprises,” and generating income through their own sales and services. One important result of this type of income is that grant-makers are more inclined to approve funds to organizations that are proving their ability to diversify their resources and gain greater self-sufficiency.

So in collaboration between Renaissance Marin and the Marin Community Foundation, we’re launching our best effort to break the bystander effect. Open to the first 20 nonprofits, this is an opportunity for agencies to learn the methods for building their own social enterprises. Think about the alternative: stay steady on your current course and watch your grant dollars diminish. The cost is also exceptionally affordable with some tuitions at $100 - less than seven percent of a popular national training program.

This is the one and only time we’ll be offering this training in 2013. The program is tailored made for nonprofits with little or no experience with business modeling. Not only will you learn all the essentials, you’ll have an opportunity to pitch your concepts to a panel of well accomplished business and social entrepreneurs. For ten groups that finish this two-month program, personal consultation will be provide to help you take your concepts to reality.

In addition, the workshops have been developed to respect your busy schedule. We’ll be meeting once every Thursday morning for three hours during the eight-week program starting January 31.

To get all the information, we urge you to attend the upcoming orientation on Thursday, Dec. 13; 10am at Renaissance Marin, 1115 3rd Street, San Rafael.

This program is specific to nonprofit agencies in Marin County and highly recommended for organizations receiving their funding through MCF.

For reservations to the orientation, please call us at 415.755.1115.

If you find yourself among of sea of bystanders unwilling to help you, what the researchers found was to target a single individual, get in front and make a plea. They found that tactic was the most effective way to gain help because a single individual when alerted stops group-think and becomes personally responsible. 

Sunday, December 9, 2012

RenCenter event: Increasing Revenues for Your Nonprofit


Renaissance Marin will conduct an orientation on Thursday, Dec. 13 at 10 am for nonprofit agencies who need to supplement their existing revenues by creating a social enterprise.

This program comes through the sponsorship of the Marin Community Foundation which saw a need to help many of its own grantees to diversify their revenues streams. 


Renaissance Marin will be launching this workshop on January 31 to the first 20 organizations that sign up and pay the low-cost tuition, based on a sliding scale.

The workshop will provide:  

* Classroom instruction
* Real-world practices
* One-on-one assistance and 
* An opportunity to pitch your concepts to a panel of  experts.  


If you've explored taking a workshop on this very subject, you know the costs are upwards of $1500.

In this workshop, the tuition costs: 


Annual Revenue                                  Tuition

to $100,000                                            $100
$101,000 to $250,000                              $200
$251,000 to $500,000                              $300
$501,000 to $1,000,000                           $400
Over $1,000,000                                      $500


The training will take place at the Renaissance Center Marin in San Rafael. It will run three hours per session, once a week on Thursdays at 10am for eight weeks. Following the class sessions, a number of hours have been reserved to provide one-on-one assistance to individual agencies to help them launch their enterprises. 


So, if your agency has been searching for new ways to generate revenue, we urge you to attend this orientation, meet the staff and the main instructor. We'll give you the full picture about the program because we all know that many nonprofits continue to operate at less-than adequate financial levels.

Please RSVP to reserve your seat by calling 415.755.1115. Please note: this workshop is for Marin County Nonprofit Agencies only.  

Renaissance Marin

1115 Third Street
San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 348-6300





http://rencentermarin.org/

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Joanna Intara Zim is a Licensed Psychotherapist (MFT 38453, Life Coach and Spiritual Teacher and Guide in the Sonoma and San Francisco Bay Area.

Joanna offers psychotherapy and guidance to people from the Bay Area, Marin, and Sonoma County areas, and coaching and consulting in those areas and beyond. She is dedicated to continue her training, education, collaboration, and consultation for further growth and continuously deepen and mature her skills.


Joanna offers individuals and groups assistance with personal growth, teaches the need to come together as community, to listen to one another, and to work together to address the larger picture of integral planetary healing. She also offers consultation services for MFT Trainees and Interns, in addition to practice building consultation services for people in psychology and related professions. She is committed to continued development of these professional endeavors.

Her work speaks in this way as well…
“In the hushed hours of the night, an old, familiar whisper sighs…something isn’t working.  Can you continue to smother the voice that is calling you to all that is real, all that is unlived, unloved, and all that is missing from your waking life?  For many people each day is a struggle, a compromise and a resignation.  They are just waiting to live.  They dream of the other shore where life truly begins. Guiding people to cross over to the other side is my life calling. 

I show people how to break lifelong patterns once and for all, so they can end a lifetime of silent suffering.  They are finally free to fully express the peace and aliveness that is waiting to pour out of them. It really matters to me that you can learn to be truly happy and not fake happy. Together we can walk through the matrix of the unnatural shadow self you have long carried, and release the life force to create the true desires of your soul. 

When you reach that real place inside yourself, your instincts are naturally restored and your life begins to flow. You no longer experience burnout, emptiness, or unnecessary separations that cause humans pain.
When you are living from your genuine self there is a native relaxation.  Life, love, and work spring from a natural internal state of rest. So do joy, creativity and play.

I am here to walk beside you, as your authentic self emerges and you begin to live in the simplicity of your being. I offer you a heart that truly cares and a keenly intuitive perception to witness the gifts awakening inside of you.

Psychotherapy Practices

Adult Therapy - Couples Therapy - Teen Therapy - Group Therapy - Trauma Therapy
Common Issues that often lead people into therapy/counseling
Abuse Recovery (Physical, Emotional, Mental, Sexual, and Neglect) - Multi-Generational Trauma & Recovery – Difficult Childhoods - Family of Origin Issues - Releasing & Resolving Shame and Guilt
Anxiety – Panic – Terror / Depression including Grief & Loss Issues (including pet loss)
Anger, Rage – Power & Domination Issues
Creativity – Artist Challenges
Couples Issues –  Relationship – Interpersonal Conflicts/Challenges  -  Divorce – Separation Codependency Issues
Eating Disorders – Body Image – Body Detox Effects
Money Issues – Wealth & Inheritance Issues – Compulsive Spending Problems
Multi-Cultural – Immigrant Issues
Parenting Your Teenager –  Separation – Individuation Issues - Gifted Adults/Teens Work Issues – Stress management – Professional Job Burnout – Job Loss - Entrepreneurs

SPIRITUAL WORK

Sacred Prayer
Yoga & Meditation
Spiritual Inquiry
Earth Wisdom
Sacred Feminine

MENTORSHIP & COACHING

Coaching

Coaching is different from psychotherapy or spiritual guidance work in that the process focuses on the development of a new vision of your overall mission in work, personal or other area of life, via the development of specific tasks and goals, and a pragmatic, simple and clear approach to accomplishing and manifesting them within a very specific period of time. Whereas therapy focuses on the underlying feelings, motivations, and underpinnings within any situation, coaching does not delve into these areas, but instead goes directly into the work, action, and movement that is required to move from point A to point B and to embody that work effectively and clearly.

I offer the coaching packages below to suit your individual needs. Choose one and begin to embody your authentic life or business spirit, occupational destiny calling and mission now. If you have tried this before and struggled, please come, and begin again today.

Supervision and Consultation for MFT Interns and Licensed Individuals Trainings Offered For MFT Interns and Agencies. In addition to supervision, consultation and practice building services, Joanna is also available to counseling centers and training facilities to provide trainings. Her training style is warm, interactive, and multi-dimensional. Also she is sensitive to the needs and vulnerabilities of new trainees and interns. Training offers:
•         Developing Presence as a New Practitioner
•         Beginning To Work With Countertransference
•         Clinical Issues at The End of Therapy


For Psychotherapy, Spiritual Guidance, or Coaching services, please call Joanna Intara Zim at 415 923 0481. Visit http://www.joannaintarazim.org/