About This Resource

This toolkit was initially created for our CA:RISE program, and is now available to the field!

Purpose & Introduction

This guidebook was created as a sample for ESE Leaders to develop their Participant Employee Handbook. We generated a hypothetical ESE called “Stacks Ventures,” a youth job training program in the context of a coffeehouse.

We think this will get you about 80% of the way there. Next steps for you would be to make it your own. You will want to customize the content to reflect your ESE’s particular culture, policies, procedures, structure.

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About Flying Whale Strategies

Flying Whale Strategies is supporting a new wave of nonprofit leaders who design definitive solutions to age-old problems. These leaders are working on deeply rooted challenges that have no foreseeable solution: hunger, the education system, criminal justice reform, the climate crisis, the refugee crisis, to name a few. And yet despite the enormity of these challenges, we believe nonprofit leaders could begin with the question, “Why can’t we?” They offer consulting and training in: culture, leadership, development, and operations.