BRAND TERMS - CONTINUED

Change Agency & Change Agents: Change Agency is a nine-month idea incubator and accelerator program, open to application for CrossPurpose Alumni. Through our rigorous course, we provide tools, training, and coaching to help these Alumni (called Change Agents) develop ideas, businesses, projects, or non-profit organizations that give back to the community. Change Agents successfully completing the program will gain knowledge, confidence, and effective planning skills. The program will culminate in a presentation to interested donors and investors.

Pitch Night: Pitch Night is the presentation event when Change Agents present their entrepreneurial ideas to a room of interested donors and investors.

Quotes We Love To Use

We find the following language helpful in describing who we are and what we do.

“We can’t just help people in poverty, we must help people get out of poverty.”

“We don’t help people who need help, we help people who want help.”

“You can’t solve a problem you don’t understand; you can’t understand from a distance.”

“There can be no significant change without significant relationship.”

“We are outcomes-oriented, not activity-based.”

“If you don’t help people heal the core wound of their heart, they will get fired and cycle back into poverty.”

- Father Greg Boyle

“We want to build a legacy institution of excellence in our city. One that exists for all, endures a hundred years from now and empowers tens of thousands of families to escape poverty.”

- Jason Janz