Pivot to Purpose Programs
Bundled Courses to Guide You Through Life's Choices, Challenges, and Changes
What's next for you ?
Life Transition by Design
Navigate life’s crossroads with clarity and confidence through Life Transition by Design, a two-course program featuring Pivot Points and Pathway to Purpose. Gain essential life skills, align your strengths with purpose, and develop a structured plan to move forward successfully.
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Master essential life skills for navigating change
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Follow a proven five-step roadmap
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Gain clarity on your strengths, passions, & purpose
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Develop advanced goal-setting and decision-making
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Choose from self-paced, 1:1 coaching, or cohort coaching
What will your legacy be?
Life Legacy by Design
Coming Soon! Create a meaningful, lasting impact with Life Legacy by Design, a two-course program featuring Compose a Legacy of Love and The Art and Science of Financial Generosity. Learn how to shape your personal and financial legacy with intention, generosity, and purpose.
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Define and shape the legacy you want to leave
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Convey your aspirations and intentions
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Master financial generosity principles for impact
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Gain clarity on aligning your values & wealth with purpose
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Choose from self-paced, 1:1 coaching, or cohort coaching
Our Certificate Programs
At Aspire to Give® Academy, we view life transitions as opportunities to build better lives and a brighter future. Our bundled certificate programs
consist of two courses each, offering a clear pathway to your next chapter. Choose from three learning paths for a best fit to shape your future.
Bundle #1:
Young Adults
Transition by Design
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Focus on education, vocation
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Enhance vital life skills
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Align strengths & passions
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Apply 7 critical thinking tools
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Develop self-leadership
Bundle #2:
Military Veterans Transition by Design
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Discover your new purpose
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Enhance essential life skills
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Align passions & strengths
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Apply 7 critical thinking tools
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Make sound choices
Bundle #3
Life Transition
by Design
Any Transition at Any Age
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Renew your purpose
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Build your best life
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Enhance your vital life skills
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Apply 7 critical thinking skills
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Chart your path forward
Bundle #4:
Life Legacy by Design
(Coming Soon!)
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Align wealth with purpose
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Planned strategic giving
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Maximize financial impact
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Balance giving & security
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Guide your advisors
Our Mission
Aspire to Give® Academy empowers adults at life’s crossroads with essential life skills, a success mindset, and the wisdom to make choices that lead to lasting fulfillment, purpose, and impact.
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The Pivot to Purpose
Learning Series®
The learning series is a registered trademark and proprietary curriculum of Aspire to Give® Academy, offering high-quality, research-based education for adults undergoing significant life changes. With an embedded educational philosophy of Reciprocal Benevolence, each course is enhanced with AI and advanced technologies for tailored and effective learning.
The Pivot to Purpose
Program for Young Adults
Designed to guide and empower Young Adults (ages 18-28), this Transition Program begins with Pivot Points for a strong foundation, then allows them to discover their future with Pathway to Purpose. Young adults are guided through a 5-step proven learning roadmap to build the next chapter of their lives as they develop self-leadership, discover their purpose, learn vital life skills, and apply seven critical thinking tools. This program is available in three alternative learning formats: self-paced, 1:1 guided coaching, or cohort coaching.
Veterans
Transition Program (VTP)
The Veterans Transition Program (VTP) of two sequential courses, Pivot Points and Pathway to Purpose, supports veterans transitioning to civilian life. Forge Your Future, Honor Your Service reflects our dedication to helping veterans overcome unique challenges by utilizing their military skills with a success mindset. The program enhances vital life skills and provides critical thinking tools and resources for building a purposeful future. It is offered in Self-paced, 1:1 Guided Coaching, and Cohort Coaching formats.
Pivot to Purpose
Core Transition Program
This program bundle of two sequential courses, Pivot Points and Pathway to Purpose, is designed for adults of all ages navigating significant life changes. It builds a success mindset, enhances vital life skills, and applies seven critical thinkinng skills in pursuit of a renewed purpose. Tailored versions of this bundle are available for young adults and military veterans, with more specialized options planned for future release. This program is available in the self-paced, 1:1 guided coaching, and cohort coaching formats.
Legacy by Design
This program bundle, consisting of two courses—Compose a Legacy of Love and The Art & Science of Financial Generosity—is for at adults nearing the end of their lives who have financial resources to share, or those looking to organize their personal affairs and convey their wishes to loved ones and important causes. It is available in self-paced, 1:1 guided coaching, and cohort coaching formats upon request.
Cohort Learning
(Group of 5-10 Learners)
Cohort (Group) learning is the favored approach for adults, often provided by employers, foundations, and government organizations for workforce development, team-building, and professional growth. It combines three effective learning methods:
1. Discovering yourself
2. Learning with peers
3. Guidance from a success coach
This structure helps individuals gain personal insights, collaborate with others, and receive coaching in a supportive environment that fosters growth, encourages teamwork, and develops essential life skills for success.
Community Learning Groups
Peer learners, united by a common life transition, learn and support each other through shared experiences, empathetic engagement, and collective problem-solving. Community groups include veterans, young adults, recovering singles, and other common interest groups.
Lesson Exercises
Every course lesson includes a learning activity tailored to spark questions, foster reflection, and stimulate personal growth.
Success Coaches
Each cohort (group) of 8-15 learners is guided by an experienced, highly qualified Success Coach who serves as a mentor and resource. The Success Coach meets virtually with the group multiple times to enhance learning, guide learners, and answer learner questions.
Veterans Transition Empowerment Program
(V-TEP)
The V-TEP program of two bundled courses empowers veterans to chart their own unique path as they transition to civilian life. Join a supportive cohort led by an experienced coach, where veterans learn, share, and navigate the road to successful transition.
Four Pillars of Learning
The Academy's state-of-the-art inquiry-based, transformative curriculum is based on four pillars of learning:
1. Personal - tailored to you.
2. Positive - uplifting & appreciative.
3. Probing - questions spark learning.
4. Practical - applicable to real-life.
Five Beliefs
1. Appreciate individuality
2. Give sincerely
3. Practice intentional generosity
4. Live with purpose
5. Choose wisely at life's junctures
Smart Goal Setting
Establishing specific, realistic, measurable goals in personal, family, career, and financial areas is crucial for navigating life transitions effectively. It creates clear guidelines for success during periods of change to craft your best life.
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Digital Downloads
Each of the four courses of the series includes digital downloads of articles, research, references, and checklists that supplement the course video, workbook exercises, and cohort peer learning.
Crossword Puzzles
In addition to lesson exercises, each course includes 4 crossword puzzles as a fun way to learn the terminology. Being fluent in conversation with peers, coaches, mentors, and professional advisors is essential for successfully navigating life transitions.
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Blog
Previous and new blog posts will enhance course and workbook content, equipping learners with extra references and resources on cutting-edge topics like the philanthropic frontier, effective financial generosity tools and strategies, and mastering life transitions throughout the lifespan.
Bundle #3
Legacy by Design
The Legacy by Design Program helps you give intentionally and generously to loved ones and special causes. Learn over a dozen financial giving strategies and how to avoid unintended consequences of financial generosity, evaluate nonprofit beneficiaries, and compose a legacy of love through letters capturing your aspirations, life-lessons, and values. Organize your personal affairs with this bundle, ideal for those with financial resources to share and in the sunset years of life. Legacy by Design is bundled courses #3 & #4.
Pivot to Purpose
Transition Program
Embark on a transformative journey with the two-course Pivot to Purpose Transition Program. Guided by a seasoned coach, adults navigating life transitions develop self-awareness, leadership, and renewed purpose and gain vital life skills to master life transitions.
7 Thinking Tools
In the Pathway to Purpose course, learners will enhance their decision-making skills with seven easy-to-use critical thinking tools. These tools will empower individuals to make more well-informed choices, allowing them to navigate life's challenges with greater confidence, comfort, and clarity.
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Success Coaching
Our Success Coaches nurture and mentor a cohort of 8-15 learners, providing vital guidance, support, and resources. Through periodic virtual meetings and email support, they cultivate essential life skills, ensuring every learner feels empowered and connected.
Meet Our Coaches
Highly trained and experienced coaches will lead the various life transition cohort groups, including military veterans transitioning to civilian life. Coaching profiles will be available on the Academy's website.
Seek, Ask, Give, & Do
We embrace an educational philosophy anchored in Reciprocal Benevolence, where learning flourishes as a natural outcome of mutual kindness and support:
- Seek with an open heart, and you shall discover knowledge.
- Ask with caring curiosity, and wisdom will be imparted to you.
- Give generously, and in return, gain deeper insights.
- Do share the kindness, empathy, and respect you desire.
We nurture wisdom through caring questions, deliberate generosity, and thoughtful kindness.
Study Groups
Cohorts of 8-15 members from the same group are usually in the same class, promoting sharing and support among learners.
Pivot Points, Lesson 1
Learn the Lingo Answers
Crossroads of Life
During life, we encounter pivotal moments of choices, challenges, and changes that shape an unknown future. Examples include:
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Military veterans in transition -
Young adults (ages 18-28)
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Life rebuilders (bad choices or situation)
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Those recovering from a setback
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Recovering singles (lost relationship) -
Career changers & empty nesters
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Retirees scouting for opportunities
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Those at the sunset of life
Mutual Benevolence
Aligned with a shared purpose and guided by the principles of Reciprocal Benevolence, each contributing organization benefits both individually and collectively. This harmonious philosophy encourages mutual support, understanding, innovation, and growth for the greater good.