Marty, I did not miss your post but i am in the middle of an NLP TT in Japan and i wanted to give it my most consideration as it is a well-defined and well-thought goal which also provides a wonderful direction for the future. I see it as a series of goals which one achieved, will open up the possibility for further goals and growth. You will encounter resistance and opposition from the education boards, as there is a lot of inertia, stuck-ness, and corruption to maintain a certain status-quo. But as you say, what is now going on in the education arena does not work,…well…it kind of works limping along but not at the level you want to take it.
This is good; opposition will always be there no matter what you attempt to do. Obstacles present themselves only in the face of goals that we set. I believe that you have what it takes, the drive and the motivation to overcome any obstacles if you play it smart and wise.
I have just a suggestion to make and for you to think about. Since you want to establish a non-profit organization, your values are good. However, even a non-profit organization has to pay the salaries of the people working for that organization. so making profit, or making money, or income on the Profit and Loss statement must be there somehow. You call it “finance” (although I don’t know exactly what you mean by that) and I am not sure if this means being financed through governmental grants and that’s it. I would have some sort of “money-coming-in” type value in the top 4 values.
You need income to advertise, to market it, to pay yourself and the people you will eventually employ, to speak only of some basic things. You need to account for electricity, internet, phones, web promotions, leads-generation, etc. You will need to pay for trips to meet with government officials, to promote your workshops and trainings, etc, etc. There is a lot of financial investment and expenses that go on in such an organization just as well as in any for profit orgnizations.
So somehow, you need to have a value that reflects money coming in, otherwise you’ll end up with a great heart, wonderful enthusiasm and willingness to help (and all my respect to you for seeing the real problems in education) and no funds to even get it started so that it works well.
Therefore, in my opinion, for example even the value “Results” as a valueis too low in the hierarchy to be meaningful.
As you think of it, “Results” is a very abstract high in VL thinking system type of value, which encompasses a lot more.
That being said we had an old-time graduate from British Columbia in Canada who secured government funds to work with native tribes on the order of about 200k/year for several years. So it is possible, but it’ll be a lot of work, and usually this comes with strings attached. Governments seem to have lots of money for “other” projects but when it comes down to what really counts for the population they seem to always run short. This means nothing. They have money if you work the plan correctly and I have a good feeling that you will succeed big. Exciting!!!