For Our Non-Profit Partners We Offer

The Center’s primary strategy is to support non profit organizations that already do a great job helping people and support our mission. These include Associations, Foundations, Hospitals, Clinics, Camps, Councils, Civic organizations, Private Community Centers as well as Federal, State and Local Public Health Organizations, domestically and internationally. In addition to their current education and care programs, we offer these organizations the following at no charge (see note 1 below):

A Simple Message - Balance & Stretch ®

This trademark is offered as a motivational and educational theme in support of our mission and the mission of many other great organizations.

A Powerful Symbol

This trademark offers a symbol for health and life balance with its 2 (customizable) colors as well as both individual stretch with the “stretch marks” and a circle around the star to represent our focus on those “around us” who need our help. It is meant to offer a sense of pride and support to those who try to make good choices every day. The symbol also reinforces the high self esteem that people should feel as they work daily toward the goal of being a real “Star”. We offer further flexibility in the use of the trademark to enable organizations to uniquely connect to your members. The Barton Center for Diabetes Education, Inc. offers just such an example.

A Helpful Framework

This copyrighted design has two elements that will aid in education and retention. The blue “health star” provides an organizational structure for arranging the already rich content provided by many great organizations. The green “life star” provides a similar structure for arranging content in five areas for success in life. The intent is to provide non profit organizations with a tool to offer members to use to assist in health and life balance with the belief that they can be mutually reinforcing.

Additional Web Presence – www.balanceandstretch.org
Links for your members to your site and provide “commercials” about your success.

Consulting Support – The leaders of The Center are ready, willing and able to share ideas and “swap stories” to help people. Just ask.

Best Practice Sharing – Join with other World Class Organizations with similar missions. Our intent is support both formal and informal exchanges of best practices as we learn together how to help people succeed.

The Bottom Line

Educators and staff who have added these tools to their existing, medically approved education programs report that participants demonstrate a higher retention of concepts and are “inspired” to teach others about the Balance & Stretch philosophy. Feedback has been similarly positive about the mutually reinforcing concepts of health and life balance. In short, education and motivation improves.

How do we get started?

The Balance & Stretch Center Inc. is pleased to offer a perpetual, no charge license for the referenced tools to any non-profit organization that shares a similar mission.  Contact Us Today!

Note 1: The Balance & Stretch Center Inc. offers non profit organizations a no charge, perpetual license for the use of all trademarks and copyrighted material to help people. For a copy of the Letter of Understanding to enable this sharing, please contact Rick Miller at rick@balanceandstretch.org .