Bonner Forward: Planning Next Steps

1. Bonner Forward
Planning Next Steps

2. Agenda
• The Context
• The Plans
• The Flow
• Update

3. • The Context
• The Plans
• The Flow
• Update

4. Foundation Mission
Through sustained partnerships with
colleges and congregations, the
Corella and Bertram F. Bonner
Foundation seeks to improve the lives
of individuals and communities by
helping meet the basic needs of
nutrition and educational opportunity.

5. Values & Beliefs
•The Bonner Foundation believes that colleges and congregations have
vital roles to play in society in nurturing and mobilizing thoughtful, caring,
and diverse leadership dedicated to community service.
•The Bonner Foundation recognizes that often the best way to help
someone is to give them the opportunity to help themselves, and that the
people best able to address a problem are the people whom it most
directly affects.
•The Bonner Foundation recognizes that effective community service
programs involve all stakeholders in their leadership.
•The Bonner Foundation recognizes that long-lasting partnerships are
based on mutual respect and common commitments.
•The Bonner Foundation supports innovative programs that have the
potential to serve as models for the field.

6. Our Status
• Premier (and largest) service-based
scholarship program in the country
• $170 million endowment supporting 1,500 students
at 26 schools 1,500 students + 1,500 more
students at 40+ schools
• Largest campus-based AmeriCorps Education
Award Only Program left standing
• Sustained excellence recognized at all levels

7. Our Status
• Crisis Ministry Program a major force in central
Jersey
• Further strengthen with significant influx of full-time
Bonners and students from Bonner campuses
• Current programs & direction make Bonner
Network a national leader
• Critically important to maintain in light of financial
pressures in higher education

8. Our Staff
Board of Trustees
National Bonner
AmeriCorps Director
Kristi Cordier
Bonner Program
Associate
Eliza Blades
National Bonner
AmeriCorps
Enrollment
Janet Ashwood
& Sarah Meadows
NJ Bonner VISTA
Leader
Afnan Rashid
VISTA NJ Coordinator
Erik Snyder
President
Bobby Hackett
Vice President of
Program & Resource
Development
Ariane Hoy
National Bonner
Program Director
Annie Pasqua
Office Manager /
Bookkeeper
Elaine Wheeler

9. Our Projects
10 Staff
Campus Support 67 schools
Special Initiatives 7
Meetings 6 National + 15+ NJ
Resources 4
Communication 2
Networking 5
Assessment 5
Grants 7
49 Projects

10. Our Projects in Stages

12. The Context
Foundation Mission,
Values & Beliefs
Many, Many Projects &
Responsibilities
Day Job
“The Whirlwind”

13. • The Context
• The Plans
• The Flow
• Update

14. Project Plans

15. Project Plan Template
• Goal(s)
• Objectives
• Metrics (x to y by when)
•Workplan

16. Wildly Important Goals

17. Wildly Important Goals
Narrow Focus Here

18. Only a Few Foundation WIGs
WAR

19. Team Level WIG

20. WIG Measures

21. How they connect

22. The Scorecard

23. Example: Capacity Building WIG
LAG MEASURE
100% Schools Complete
Capacity Building Surveys
with Primary Partners by
December 15th.
LEAD MEASURE
Each program support staff
member has quality
consultation with campus
staff at least 3x per week.

24. The Scorecard:
Capacity Building
Weeks
Schools
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
60
40
20
0
WIG Lag Measure
100% schools complete
Capacity Building Surveys
with their primary
partners by December
15th. STAFF /
WK
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112 Av
g
Annie
Ariane
Eliza
Bobby
TOTAL
WIG Lead Measure
Each program support
staff member has quality
consultation with campus
staff at least 3x per week.

25. WIGs Can Change
Fall —> Spring —> Summer

26. Balanced Scorecard

27. • The Context
• The Plans
• The Flow
• Update

28. Daily Huddle @ 9:36 am

29. Weekly Team Meetings
•WIG Review
•Other Project Review

30. Weekly WIG
Review

31. Weekly WIG Commitments

32. Monthly Check-Ins
Quick All Staff to review:
•Progress on WIGs
•Progress on other
project metrics

33. Quarterly Half-Day Retreat
Longer All Staff meeting to:
•Update All Staff on Project Plans
•Present New or Emerging
Projects
•Celebrate Progress on WIGs

34. • The Context
• The Plans
• The Flow
• Update

35. Bonner Transformation Goals
Campus Community
Systems
Leverage Bonner Network !
as a community of best practice,
and resource for higher education
locally and nationally
Partner in capacity-building for
collaboratives working to
achieve measurable community
and systemic change.
Organizations
Build campus center that
leads effort to make !
place-based community
engagement deep, pervasive,
integrated & developmental.
Partner in capacity-building
for organizations to
improve effectiveness,
efficiency, and resources.
Programs
Develop and integrate
community engaged learning
courses & programs.
Train & support leaders who
develop & manage evidence-based
programs and projects.
Individuals
& Places
Develop & engage students’
knowledge, skills, values, and
collective action.
Mobilize students, faculty, staff, &
community members to support
individuals & places.

36. Wildly Important Goals
AmeriCorps
PolicyOptions
Capacity Building
BSP Tracking
Campus Goals
High Impact

37. Discussion
• What are your thoughts about the Bonner
Foundation’s WIGs?
• How are the 4 Disciplines relevant for
your own work on campus?

38. Updates
• Bonner Congress
• High Impact Initiative
• PolicyOptions Local Bureaus
• Campus Support

39. Highlights:
“Connecting with Bonners and Bonner
program coordinators from across the country”
“I really enjoyed the "Big Idea" sessions.”
“One of my favorite parts of the weekend was
getting a historical tour of Guilford. James, the
tour guide and Bonner Director of Guilford,
was extremely knowledgable of the history and
made a meaningful connection to today's call
to stand up for what is right in congruence to
social justice issues of today. ”

40. What did you learn?
“I learned the evolution of leadership and
how the first follower is just as important
as the leader.”
“New structures from the community
garden at Guilford that I can apply to the
one I run!”
“I learned about the difficulties other
universities face on their campuses and
how some of them are actually problems
at my university as well”

41. Bonner Congress Feedback:
Guilford Planning Team’s Survey
How helpful were Guliford College Bonners during your
stay at Bonner Congress? 3.3
Rate your experience with the host(s) who oversaw your
sleeping accommodations. 3.2
Rate how much you feel you learned at the conference. 3.4
Rate how much you feel you shared at the conference. 3.3
Rate how easy/hard it was to navigate the conference. 2.1
First things first, how was the food? 3
The purpose of a conference is to connect people in
ways not possible through phone or online media. Apart
from your travel mates, did you make significant
connections with others while at the conference?
10% = No
90% = Yes
How many significant connections do feel you made?
1-2 connections = 26.6%
2-4 connections = 46.6%
4 or more connections = 26.6%
Rate the workshops you attended in the workshop
blocks. 3.3
Scale
1 - 4
(Poor) (Great)

42. The Bonner Advisory Board
Big Idea
Check-ins
This is the BAB they will be doing check-ins with your
congress reps. about your program’s Big Idea… blah de
blah…managing by calendar.. putting together presentations
for SLI…
BUT in order to really see these projects through, we need
you!
By a show of hands:
1. After Bonner Congress, how many of you met with your
Reps.?
2. How many of you have seen the “managing by calendar
sheet” and given feedback on the timeline?
3. How many of you feel that the Big Idea fits into your
overall program’s goals.

43. HIgh IMPACT INITIATIVE
• 24 institutions
• Teams of 8 or more
(home/away)
• Staff, faculty, partners, & students
• 3 Institutes
• 3 year progression

44. what it’s like

45. projects
• Place, Voice -
community listening
projects, mapping
• Depth, Sequence,
Learning - First Year
Experience, Students
at Colleagues
(Fellows)

46. projects
• Integration,
Inquiry - work
across
departments
• Capacity, Impact -
work with partners

47. cHALLENGES
• Full teams & transitions
• Institutional barriers
• Daily whirlwind
• Faculty engagement
• Measures & metrics

48. what we’ll do
• 2015 Summer Institute
• Flexibility about team numbers
• More attention to mix (include
decision makers)
• More work on projects
beforehand to shift focus

49. what we’ll do
• Expand national partnerships
(AACU, NERCHE, BTtoP, College
Unbound, Citizen Alum, Community)
• Focus on depth & strategy
• 2015 meetings with Provosts,
Deans, Department Chairs
• Engage (tell the stories)

50. BIG GOALS
• Welcome new
• Foundation staff/fellow work with
campus teams
• Support significant progress
• Dive deeper into curricular change
• Strategy for pilots of student learning
outcomes/assessment

51. Starting a Local Bureau
Webinar on PolicyOptions.org

52. Campus Support
Campus Support is designed to work
collaboratively with campuses to support and
celebrate programs within the Bonner Network
through the use of
Campus Support Laisions and National Fellows
Review of Program Elements and Materials
Support Activities (Calls, Visits, etc...)

53. Campus Support
WIG
80% of Campuses report an improvement on the
areas outlined in the Annual Report or established
during the Fall 2014 academic year by the June
2015
Lead Measure
Intentional follow up through consistent
communication, Campus Support Laision will
schedule 4-5 check-in per week

54. Campus Support
Timeline for Support
Provide you working time today to review goals from
your Annual Report or articulate your goals for 2014-15
Foundation will project Campus Visits by December 15
In Spring 2015, schedule potientially two calls with your campus

55. Campus Support
Timeline for Support
Provide you with Annual Report Guidelines by March 10
Annual Reports Due May 9
Response Letters by SLI, June 10
Support Intergated into SLI
Expect Early and Mid Summer Support for planning for the Fall

56. Goal Worksheet
School
Goal
Progress - What have you done this year in working towards
these goals?
Challenges - What challenges do you see ahead?
Resources - What resources do you need?
Next Steps - What are your next steps in meeting this goal?