How OCC Works
A few useful ideas, grounded in your ministry’s context
OCC learns before it recommends, asks you to correct its understanding, and focuses on practical next steps rather than a long list of deficiencies.
The process
Eight steps from context to conversation
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Tell us where to start
Give OCC your ministry website and an approximate annual operating budget for the ministry or program being reviewed. If OCC can reliably find public financial information, it may suggest a range for you to confirm.
This helps OCC avoid giving a small ministry advice designed for a much larger organization.
02
OCC learns about your ministry
OCC reviews relevant public information to understand who you serve, where you work, your mission, programs, care and service models, audiences, evidence of stewardship and impact, and ways people can engage. You do not need to complete a long questionnaire.
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You check what OCC learned
Before using the profile to prepare guidance, OCC shows you how it understands your ministry. You know your ministry better than we do. If OCC gets something wrong or misses something important, correct it.
04
OCC looks for meaningful opportunities
OCC considers your service model, capacity and public evidence alongside practical knowledge from the orphan-care community. The goal is not twenty things you are doing wrong. The goal is a few ideas that may genuinely help.
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Start with the most useful recommendations
OCC identifies a small number of high-value starting priorities focused on outcomes for children and families, tailored to your service model and capacity, and practical enough to discuss with the people who would actually make the decision.
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Choose Show Me How when you want to go deeper
For a recommendation you want to explore, OCC can provide practical steps and examples. You do not have to act on everything. Some ideas may simply deserve a conversation with a program leader, pastor, board member, country director, social worker, development leader or local partner.
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Tell us what helped
OCC will improve by learning from ministries using it: whether it understood your ministry, whether the recommendation was useful, whether Show Me How was practical, and what happened afterward.
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Stay in conversation
This is the beginning of the conversation—not the end.
If you want help thinking through a recommendation, visit Start a Conversation to find the most relevant next step.
Ready to begin with your ministry?
Start with your ministry website and approximate annual operating budget.