136 SUNNYSIDE AVE. SUITE 136 | GRANGER WA 98932

ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE

SUNNYSIDE TRANSFORMATION YAKIMA VALLEY

P.O. BOX 1570 | SUNNYSIDE WA 98944

VERSION 12.30.14

DECEMBER 30, 2014

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SUNNYSIDE TRANSFORMATION YAKIMA VALLEY

Founded: July 2008

Registration: WA State Non-profit

IRS Designation: Tax Exempted – Educational and Community Development

Category: Public Charity - 509 (a) 2 [IRS Regulations for Non-Profits (501 (c)3]

Governance: Board of Directors

Administration: Executive Director

VISION

To prepare and equip our communities to practice servant leadership in the marketplace.

MISSION

Inspire and energize people to seek solutions, collaborate across lines that separate people and shape the path to transformation of communities through service.

CORE VALUES

Build, nurture, guide relationships Utilize holistic approaches to the work

Engage businesses in affairs related to communities

Advance development of service-focused leadership

STRATEGY

Clarity of Mission Contextual social services

Engagement through inclusiveness Inspire collaboration

TRAINING CURRICULUM

Servant Leadership Business as Mission

Asset Based Community Development The Truth Project

MAIN ACTIVITIES

Loving Sunnyside Initiative Youth Ranch

Community & Family Engagement Pilot Farmers Market

Youth Job & Career Fair

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STANDARDS OF AFFILIATION

1. As a faith-based organization the primary mission of Transformation Sunnyside is to be co-workers with God, living life in creative worship and service to others.

2. Transformation Sunnyside is non-denominational in nature and its efforts are aimed at greater Christian unity and collaboration for the common good.

3. Transformation Sunnyside is incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington in which it is located; it operates in accordance with its articles of incorporation and bylaws, as well as all applicable regulatory and legal requirements.

4. The organization’s board of directors reviews its goals and objectives at least once every two years; it also hires and oversees Executive Director, who implements board policy and manages operations.

5. Transformation Sunnyside maintains a system of financial accountability consistent with generally accepted accounting principles.

6. Board members agree to actively participate in all meetings, community events activities and to regularly accept and complete in a timely manner the tasks he/she agrees to take responsibility for.

7. Board members and the Director agree to engage in life-long learning though internal, external development sources to ensure organizational relevance.

8. Director, board members and other consultants conduct consultations and seminars at venues selected by Transformation Sunnyside to train new staff, volunteers, and new board members and to evaluate entire board and director.

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STATEMENT OF FAITH

The image of God in every human being is the primary foundation, driving force, and central focus of Sunnyside Transformation Yakima Valley in all of its efforts.

The basic biblical mandate for developing and expressing the universal human calling to be the image of God is in Genesis 1:26-27, especially verses 27-28. The mandate is repeated and more specifically defined in Genesis 2:15.

This universal, never rescinded mandate, like everything and everyone, has been distorted by sin. Among the results are: perpetual widespread unemployment, lack of opportunity to develop skills to be more productive in satisfying, self-supporting daily work; widespread loss of dignity, hope, and God-honoring quality of life when pervasive lack of productive self-supporting daily work creates dependency and fatalistic lethargy and apathy.

Failure among Christian leaders to affirm highly motivated successful ordinary Monday through Friday daily work, as the single most dominant and primary way most people can respond to God’s mandate to express the God-imitating image He has implanted in every human being makes everyone, including Christians, susceptible to the following inducements:

Accepting an unbiblical hierarchy among different kinds of daily work, often going so far as to calling some sacred and others secular, or speaking of only a few narrowly defined full-time specialized Christian-ministry vocations as being spiritual.

Accepting and doing little or nothing about high levels of unemployment which rob unemployed and underemployed people of the ability to respond obediently and joyfully to God’s holy calling to productive, ordinary, satisfying, self-supporting work.

Selfishly thinking that our God-given skills and opportunities that make our personal daily work successful may be used for mostly narrow personal benefit rather than also generously shared to empower others, especially those with fewer opportunities, to develop and achieve such productive successes through their daily work.

Accepting a lower level of daily work achievement, than the maximum energy and productivity our God-given abilities and opportunities call us to achieve through joyful obedient ordinary daily work as mandated in Genesis 1:27-28 and 2:15.

As members of Transformation Sunnyside, we grieve when people are unable to image God and fulfill their purpose through satisfying work, productive employment, healthier and emotionally balanced lives, and socially connected people able to create better communities in which they and their families can live in safety. As Christians, Transformation Sunnyside seek out ways to prepare and equip other Christians and business leaders in communities we serve to create opportunities, jobs for profitable personal and business growth so that everyone, especially those unemployed, otherwise marginalized, excluded and dependent on hand-outs will be more fully empowered to image God through their daily activities.

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FURTHER READING

Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness – Robert K. Greenleaf

Business as Mission: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice – C. Neal Johnson

A Guide to Mapping Local Business Assets and Mobilizing Local Business Capacities - John P. Kretzmann, John L. McKnight, and Deborah Puntenney

The Truth Project – A Guide and video series on bible-centered Christian Worldview