Ready by 21, developed by the Forum for Youth Investment, helps mobilize communities to improve the odds for children and youth.
Leadership Network
Six Reasons to Become a Registered Ready by 21 Leader
- Connect your piece to the bigger picture.
The Ready by 21 Leadership Network provides you with conceptual frames and concrete opportunities to understand how the work you’re doing fits into the bigger picture of what needs to be done to connect the dots in your community and state. - Bring precision to your passion.
Access the research, data, tools and assistance you need to understand whether your efforts are making a difference. - Connect with other like-minded leaders.
Participate in discussions with peers from other communities and states. Get help engaging key leaders in your own community and state, and work in teams to share, learn, innovate and implement. - Link your efforts to outcomes.
Set goals for improving your leadership capacity, identify how this increased capacity will help change conditions and improve child and youth outcomes, and document your progress using unique strategies and technologies. - Gain broader support and recognition for your work.
Take advantage of opportunities to showcase the good work that you’re doing, receive discounts on valuable services, make the case for receiving matching funds, and be a part of a growing movement. - Inspire others.
Tell your story to new audiences. Inspire other leaders across the country who are committed to using a big picture approach to galvanize change in their communities. Recruit others to join the network.
Join the movement. Anyone trying to align disparate efforts to achieve greater effectiveness, sustainability or scale will want to receive our newsletters, download our reports and participate in webinars and trainings. Becoming a registered Ready by 21 leader, however, requires a commitment.
Registering in the Ready by 21 Leadership Network commits you to a vision of what your efforts could yield if you linked them to others’ efforts, and connects you to a vehicle for making this vision a reality. We’re looking for 20,000 leaders who are willing to embrace new ideas, set bigger goals and chronicle their efforts using new technologies. Are you one of them?
Are you someone who:
- has multiple individual opportunities to influence organizational, neighborhood or community-wide planning and decision making through professional and volunteer connections and wants to be more persuasive and network with others?
- is in an organization that is looking for ways to stretch its goals and link and align its efforts with others through partnerships and collaboratives and data-sharing?
- is in a partnership, coalition or group representing different organizations that are working together to change not just their own practices but also to create broad change?
Ready by 21 Leaders recognize the danger of too many disjointed initiatives and services – and have a passion for connecting the dots.
Learn about the benefits and levels of supports for registered leaders.