TBKC: The Next Leader in New York City’s Workforce Development Community

December 21, 2011 by Leave a comment

Dear Friends,

The last value in our year-long series is Leadership. How important is the concept of leadership? Competent leadership strengthens a nation. Effective leadership helps businesses be successful. And visionary leadership helps a nonprofit organization achieve its mission.

Without leadership, resources are wasted. An organization’s momentum stalls and the implementation of thoughtful decisions are delayed. As a result, that organization is prevented from being successful.

My role at TBKC is one of leadership. Since coming on board, together with the staff and the board of directors, I have been able to develop our organization’s vision, refine our mission and create a strategy to accomplish our goals.

As you learned in my letter from April, TBKC’s vision is to someday be a key member in the New York City Workforce Development Community. In other words, eventually, we will be a leader in this community.

Our mission is to empower talented individuals to find meaningful employment by providing affordable, specialized financial trainings, job readiness assistance and work experience. When we say ‘meaningful’ employment, we are referring to a career. As opposed to a job, a career is a profession one uses to build one’s life around. With hard work and dedication to that profession, an individual can become a leader in his or her field. Through our work, we hope to guide the individuals in our community onto the right path of pursuing their passion: a career in bookkeeping and/or financial administration.

TBKC’s strategy to accomplish our mission is laid out in our strategic plan and our approach is directly related to our vision statements that I provided in my November letter. We have implemented our plans and are progressing confidently towards our goals.

The business community needs leaders as well. In this perilous economic climate, business owners need financial peace of mind. That peace of mind comes from a competent bookkeeper who will handle the financial recording, reporting, and analyses. A bookkeeper is a leader for a company’s financial accuracy. Enroll in our program to start your career in bookkeeping or volunteer at our organization to help us realize our goals and to build opportunity for tomorrow’s leaders.

If you would to explore available opportunities, please contact our Communications Associate, Lolita Wong at lolita@tbkc.org.

Thanks for your time and interest in TBKC. Best wishes for a safe and happy holiday season.

Sincerely,
Thomas P. Graham IV
Executive Director
The Bookkeeping Center

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Realizing The Bookkeeping Center’s Vision

November 16, 2011 by Leave a comment

Dear Friends,

This month, we will discuss ‘Vision.’ Along with our mission, our vision essentially drives everything we do as a nonprofit organization. To paraphrase the Foundation Center, while our mission describes how we plan to do our work and for whose specific benefit our organization benefits, our vision is the underlying values and beliefs that inform our work. Our vision is what we ultimately hope to accomplish as a result of our efforts.

TBKC believes in the importance of investing in human capital. All adults deserve the opportunity to develop their full professional potential by getting an education, developing job skills, and eventually becoming leaders in their communities. We are a workforce development organization because we know how crucial a role employment plays in the cycle of poverty. Thus, TBKC’s purpose is to provide talented adults an opportunity to complete the life path to success and break out of the cycle of poverty. Through DISCOVERBOOKKEEPING (DB), our main program, our goal is to provide adults who lack access to affordable quality training the pathway to meaningful employment.

In the future, TBKC will be a leader in workforce development that has the following:

  • An organizational orientation towards accountability and results
  • A strong, engaged, forward-thinking Board of Directors
  • Enriching support services complimenting a solid curriculum to lead to successful, long-term placements
  • A mobilized corps of volunteers to support all aspects of the organization
  • Continued to fully embrace and utilize social media
  • Ensured a clear and consistent communications strategy for all audiences
  • The ability to attract new and divers funding sources
  • On-going, two-way partnerships to access opportunities

We are on our way to realizing our vision. Today we remain focused on results. Throughout this past year we’ve benefited from revitalized governance, added comprehensive workshops (13 workshops and growing), and cultivated 7 new volunteers. Furthermore, our Twitter and Facebook accounts are as active as ever, and our friends, family and partners hear from us regularly. TBKC has also solidified existing partnership with Workforce1 and built new relationships with organizations like SAGE and Henry Street Settlement. We will continue to be efficient with the limited space we have as we maintain our pursuit of corporations, foundations and individuals for funding opportunities.

Can you see what we are trying to do? If so, please contact our Communications Associate, lolita@tbkc.org to join us.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter.

Sincerely,
Thomas P. Graham IV
Executive Director
The Bookkeeping Center

P.S. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” — Steve Jobs

RIP Steve Jobs, A True Visionary.

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