{"id":758,"date":"2016-08-10T08:50:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T08:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prolove4life.wpengine.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2020-09-17T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T12:54:04","slug":"mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prolove4life.com\/?page_id=758","title":{"rendered":"Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling fusion-equal-height-columns\"  style='background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: left top;background-repeat: no-repeat;'><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row \"><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_1_1 fusion-builder-column-0 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last 1_1\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;'><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"padding: 100px 10% 100px 10%;background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"   data-bg-url=\"\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none fusion-hide-on-mobile\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:50px;\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:31px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:1;\"><strong>MISSION:<\/strong><\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#f05b73;border-top-width:3px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;max-width:200px;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text\"><p>ProLove4Life Foundation is a nonprofit whose mission is to bring intelligent and experienced people from various disciplines together as \u201cpartners of the willing\u201d in\u00a0<b><i><u>civil discourse<\/u><\/i><\/b>\u00a0to formulate plans of action to solve problems facing our communities and increase philanthropic funding for getting our common goals accomplished.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:31px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:1;\"><strong>HOW:<\/strong><\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#f05b73;border-top-width:3px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;max-width:200px;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text\"><p>The Foundation will work with like-minded community service organizations, to bring \u201cgood people\u201d together \u2013 people who are passionate members of the community on all sides of an issue to pool their resources from ProLove4LIFE monies with our Foundation\u2019s members consulting experience for solving problems and getting things done in a timely manner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Foundation members use their \u201clessons learned\u201d from a lifetime of teaching or managing their businesses (many members have managed family businesses in their second or third generation, or community organizations; they are retired businesspeople, professors, teachers and medical professionals still in the trenches, all collaborating under the ProLove4LIFE Tent and employing their collective wisdom for the work of the Foundation with our community partners;\u00a0 Community partners that can often times be serving the same people, but be at odds as to how to do it best \u00a0\u2013 e.g., ProLife Pregnancy Centers as well as the ProChoice Planned Parenthood Centers working together for \u201cpublic health\u201d and the common good of mothers, fathers and their children in their community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By harnessing the power of their strongly held beliefs and using their desire to seek truth, justice and effective action for the common good.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0(In 1776, we called them \u201cStatesmen\u201d or community leaders without their own agenda.)<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-3 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:31px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:1;\"><strong>WHAT:<\/strong><\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#f05b73;border-top-width:3px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;max-width:200px;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text\"><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(The \u201cWHAT\u201d comes from the wisdom I and many old guys like me, have accumulated building and running our family businesses and as a members of other community organizations; e.g., Vistage CEO Groups for over 20+ years.\u00a0\u00a0 These lessons learn are shown in Parentheses or \u201c*\u201d are the Vistage or Life Lessons.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Define the problem we wish to solve with full participation of \u201cthe other\u201d by asking probing, loving and sometimes \u201cloaded\u201d questions \u2013 even when \u201cthe other\u201d does not agree with us we seek to gain an understanding of and for \u201cthe other\u201d \u2013 where are they coming from and walk a mile in their shoes before offering an opinion or formulating possible solutions.<\/li>\n<li>In the process of civil discourse we often will use a respected facilitator, or group of facilitators who are respected by both sides; the facilitators lead the group and keep the discourse civil using \u201cFierce Conversations*\u201d tenants.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All parties in the group pledge to seek the \u201cground truths\u201d on the issue in a frank and open examination of the facts as each person sees them (Red, White and Blue Ball* Point of View).<\/li>\n<li>During the course of the civil discourse the group builds a common bond of understanding of the other and starts down the path to becoming truly loving partners of the willing that can labor together to enable a solution to reach their common goal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The civil discourse is facilitated by the leaders of each of \u201cthe others\u201d with the principles of \u201cFierce Conversations\u201d (see attached) and the \u201cthree-knock\u201d rule.<\/li>\n<li>As the parties openly listen to each other most will quickly discover the ground truths held to be true by all parties and begin to carefully reexamine the problem or problems in the context presented by both sides; and that they really do agree on more than they disagree upon and the leaders can begin to \u201cHarness the Power of Polarization\u201d they can begin to work as a unified and loving team to find a balanced set of \u201cground truths\u201d on the issues that can be agreed upon by all parties to be charged with working toward a solution.<\/li>\n<li>Once the partners of the willing have identified THEE problem to be solved they can begin to fully defined \u201cthe plan steps\u201d: the guiding tactics and small action steps \u2013 \u201cWhat by when\u2019s\u201d that enable the Goals to be attained for the organization.\u00a0\u00a0Only when all the parties see that they are working toward a truly common goal can they begin the unified search for a just, kind and equitable solution with a course of action fully supported by the group \u2013 even when no one is watching.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Lessons on Group Think \u2013 the Abilene Paradox; and Keeping a company in its \u201cPrime\u201d \u2013 \u201cRivers of Cash\u201d from great margins and profits being appropriately reinvested in what\u2019s next. Lean-Driven approach to innovations; use of computer modeling and all the sciences with Staged Gate for focus but also heading off project goal \u201csabotage\u201d from the Dunning-Kruger Effect on focusing plan actions on what you think you know.<\/li>\n<li>Once Goals and a plan of action are formulated it is not set in concrete \u2013 all parties or at least a super-majority will always be listening and addressing any remaining dissention to the majority\u2019s decisions and formerly agreed to by the group to keep the group moving in a common direction with the\u00a0 least amount of friction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-4 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:31px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:1;\"><strong>THE WHO:<\/strong><\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#f05b73;border-top-width:3px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;max-width:200px;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text\"><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attorney Joseph A. 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