The Source Summit Global
“Convening Communities for Economic and Social Change”
Dr. Lester Woods, Jr., Convener
“The intent of the summit is to foster community collaboration and establish resolutions that enhance individual’s quality of life. Community is the new currency!”
The Source Summit Global (SSG) vision is to “Convene communities for economic and social change.”
About the Source Summit Global
The Source Summit Global (SSG) intends to bring together the faith-based community, community based organizations and corporations in order to enhance economic and social equity within disadvantaged communities through education, employment and entrepreneurship.
In order to address economic and social concerns, which are ever evolving, concerned individuals must work together and give undivided attention to obstacles and barriers prohibiting individual and communal progress. The Source Summit Global mission can be accomplished through collaboration amongst community stakeholders in order to enhance the lives of those affected by joblessness, lack of opportunities and poverty.
SSG plans to close economic and social gaps through local summits and other events, which foster dialogue and discussions through presentations, workshops and sessions that inspire partnership and change.
To learn more, check out our recent roundtable discussion.
The Global Platform
Collaboration
“Co-Labor” Together
The overall intent of the summit is to highlight economic and social concerns in order to establish resolutions and deliverables in which the community can partner to close gaps in disparate communities and enhance the quality of life of those in need.
Education
Greater Awareness
The overall intent of the summit is to highlight economic and social concerns in order to establish resolutions and deliverables in which the community can partner to close gaps in disparate communities and enhance the quality of life of those in need.
Preparation
Resource and Retool
The summit will provide information, tools and resources for faith-based organizations to increase readiness to partner with other agencies and the business community in order to better serve the community at-large.
Execution
Implementation
Finally, collaboration, education and preparation leads to execution of critical initiatives that foster partnerships, remove barriers and level the playing field to improve the quality of life for individuals and enhance the total wellbeing of the community.
Local Community Collaboratives
SSG will also establish community collaboratives, which are local partnerships designed to expand upon the dialogue and momentum from local summits, as well as to plan events throughout the year that will foster community collaboration to enhance economic and social equity.
The purpose of the local collaborative is to advise, counsel and provide guidance to the local summit planning team. Additionally, the local community collaboratives will assist in brainstorming, planning and supporting summits, as well as other events and initiatives that may bring hope and wholeness to the local community. The collaborative will also participate in funding initiatives for events and activities.
Collaboration Strategy
- Plot and Plan: Bring leadership together in order to begin the process.
- Organize: Identity assets, skills and abilities that may be utilized to foster and build the community’s capabilities; Collect data and build an easily accessible repository for all identified resources. Establish SOPs and cadence for administrative reviews and governance. Establish an issue, problem and change management system.
- Strategize: Perform capacity inventories and coordinate community resources in order to enable capabilities to be utilized.
- Mobilize: Connect people, associations, businesses, institutions, capital and credit.
- Monitor: Host regular cadence meetings to gain and maintain progress, evaluate success, reiterate where needed and continually improve.
- Execute: Implement plans, solutions, meetings, follow up and follow through.
- Evaluate: Establish methods and means for cultivating and analyzing key success metrics for agility and continual improvement to ensure operations are lean, efficient, effective, and improving.
Major Pillars of Concern
- Childcare
- Eldercare
- Housing
- Transportation
- Jobs/employment
- Homeless
- Hunger/food deserts
- Education
- Gun violence
- Policing
- Expungement
Model
Best Practice
The Source Summit Global is designed to convene communities and mobilize a community’s greatest asset — it’s people — toward collective productivity in local change generation. The Source Summit is a catalyst to consistently assemble and encourage thought-leadership among local stakeholders to collectively unify and activate a wide range of available resources, solution-based initiatives and empower collaborative economic and social movements.
Contact and Connect
Dr. Lester Woods, Jr., Convener
The Source Summit Global
convener@thesourcesummitglobal.com
(573) 823-9679