This link will take you to the PowerPoint Slideshow that will guide the first seminar that I lead for the San Jose Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force. I look forward to teaching them the leadership principles of the Straight-A Guide. Straight-A Guide Slide Show
Seminar Agenda for Teaching 8-hour course on Straight-A Guide
San Jose Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force Day one of four-day seminar on Straight-A Guide (7:30 to 5:00 pm) Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Session 1: 8:00 until 8:50 (Introduction) Pass out name cards and make introductions Get to know something about participants. (8:10) Acknowledge the challenges of their job as interventionists and working with people […]
Presentation for Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force in Santa Rosa
Newspaper coverage of presentation I made for Santa Rosa Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force.
What Can People Learn from a Man who Served a 45-year Prison Term?
To introduce myself to others, I created a document that shares my history. My Journey http://archives.michaelsantos.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/My-Bio.pdf
Santa Clara Juvenile Hall Update
I wrote an update to publicize the work that we’ve been doing at the Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall. Those who have an interest may read the update by clicking on the PDF link below. Santa Clara Update, March PDF
Stanford Presentation
A few months I made a presentation at Stanford University for students of the NAACP. Emma Hartung, a student who is scheduled to graduate in 2017, wrote an article about the event. Those who’d like to read it may click the following link: Michael Santos on Conquering America’s Commitment to Mass Incarceration.
New Markets
The time has come for us to pivot markets with regard to our sales strategy for the Straight-A Guide Program. The investment we’ve made in developing our program requires us to think about the best possible markets. Initially we wanted to focus on the prison system because we’re passionate about teaching the strategies that empowered […]
TEDx Style Presentation at State of the Valley Conference in Silicon Valley
On Friday, February 7, 2014, I spoke at the Santa Clara Convention Center about mass incarceration. An audience of more than 1,200 people listened as I described why we must embrace the same innovative and disruptive approach to problem solving when we contemplate strategies to resolve the greatest social injustice of our time. We’re taking […]
Stanford NAACP
I’m driving to Stanford University to make a presentation on mass incarceration at the Robles Theater. I’ll help those in the audience understand why I’m taking a three-pronged approach to change this system. Those prongs include: Working to help people in custody understand the challenges ahead and prepare to triumph over them by rejecting criminal […]
Investing to Build More Effective Prisons
Social impact bonds are exciting. They encourage investors to take a role in building better, more effective communities. Indeed, social impact bonds allow investors to profit by making society better in a measurable way. The Wikipedia entry on Social Impact Bonds describes the investment vehicle as a “Pay For Success Bond.” I like it! Pay […]