The numbers tell a winning story – but only if you enter your data!

Dear Getting Ahead facilitators and sponsors,

Together we can tell the story of the Bridges and Getting Ahead movement with numbers that speak to supporters, funders, and other community leaders—but we need your help! It’s crucial that you enter follow-up data as soon as possible.

On June 30 CharityTracker will run the national and state biannual reports tracking the growth from baseline to the latest follow-up from Getting Ahead graduates. This is the perfect opportunity for you to see and celebrate the growth in the areas of stability, resources, and the financial return on investment.

Please work with your Getting Ahead graduates to enter the follow-up information into CharityTracker immediately. Without the follow-up data, the preliminary numbers paint only half the picture. It is the differences between the baseline and the follow-up numbers that really tell the story of the Bridges and Getting Ahead movement.

Thanks for all your hard work,

Philip DeVol

Philip DeVol2020-06-26T15:00:44-05:00June 8th, 2017|Community|

About the Author: Philip DeVol

Phil DeVol is an international consultant who has been working with aha! Process since 1997. He used aha! Process concepts to make institutional changes at the addiction treatment center where he was the executive director for 19 years. During this time he also co-wrote Bridges Out of Poverty with Ruby Payne and Terie Dreussi-Smith. His book Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-by-World is being used to engage people in poverty in the work of building communities where everyone can live well. It worked so well that DeVol used it as a basis for a prison reentry model called Getting Ahead while Getting Out. He works with community leaders to help them move quickly from an attraction to application of Bridges concepts. Getting Ahead and Bridges are being used in hundreds of communities in the U.S., as well as a number of sites in Canada, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. His books have been translated into Spanish, Slovak, and Czech.