America on Track
600 West Santa Ana Boulevard
Suite 710
Santa Ana, CA 92701
714-531-7144
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
America on Track and its partner organizations have a wealth
of experience addressing gang activity, youth violence, and
child abuse and neglect. America on Track its three partner
organizations, two community-based and one faith-based, are
all located in Santa Ana, California. Organizations in the collaborative
have nine to one hundred years of experience working in the
community, and have worked together since 1999 on numerous projects
through the local Weed & Seed coalition. All partners will
meet monthly to brainstorm, collaborate, and review progress
on goals and objectives.
Partners:
The Cambodian Family, Santa Ana Education Foundation, and Trinity
Cristo Rey Lutheran Church.
Lead Organization Description:
Founded in 1995, America on Track works to provide a support
system for disadvantaged families and protect their children
from drug abuse, gang involvement, and educational failure.
In addition, the organization provides training and technical
assistance to other local faith-based and community organizations.
Project Description:
The On Track Communities Empowering Youth project will use the
McKinsey Capacity Assessment tool to identify organizational
strengths and deficiencies as the foundation for training and
technical assistance. America on Track will offer individualized
quarterly training sessions to partner organizations in each
identified area of need. In addition, it will offer numerous
workshops, to be attended by two representatives from each organization
Training and technical assistance for the three partners will
be led by staff and directors of America on Track. America on
Track will also provide $108,200 per year as financial assistance
to its three partners.
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Asociación de Organizaciones Comunitarias
para el Desarrollo de Viviendas de Puerto Rico
Plaza de Mercado de Caguas
P.O. Box 31238
2nd Floor, Suite 16
San Juan, PR 00929
787-744-1325
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Asociación de Organizaciones Comunitarias para el Desarollo
de Viviendas de Puerto Rico (the Association) has been in operation
for five years, and its two partner organizations have nearly
fifteen years of experience working with the local community.
Together, they will collaborate on coordination and implementation
of the Positive Youth Program, which will focus on decreasing
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect in
the Cantera Peninsula community. The three partners, all involved
in the local Weed & Seed program, hope to strengthen their
ability to address the many social issues in their community
both as a collaborative and as individual organizations.
Partners:
Apoyo Empresarial and Consejo Vecinal.
Lead Organization Description:
The Association was created in 2002 by area leaders as a result
of funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD). Since its inception, the Association has provided technical
assistance to local nonprofits addressing youth development,
and has recruited twenty-eight member organizations.
Project Description:
Two three-day retreats will serve as bookends to the project.
The first retreat will assess partner organizations and establish
goals and objectives for capacity building activities; these
goals will be formalized in individualized technical assistance
plans. The Association and its partners will meet monthly to
evaluate progress toward those goals. The second three-day retreat
will include a post-assessment for all partners. Each partner
will receive 304 hours of custom-designed, direct technical
assistance per budget year. Partners will also take part in
four trainings that focus on the four critical areas of capacity
building. The Association will participate in outside training
to increase its own capacity. Finally, the Association will
make 25 percent of total CEY funding available to its partners
as financial assistance for organizational improvements.
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Center for Success and Independence
3722 Pinemont Drive
Houston, TX 77018
713-426-4545
Award Amount, Year 1:
$249,978
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Building on a shared history of working together in their community,
the Gate of Light partners' goal is to strengthen the community's
capacity to sustain large, complex collaborations. The project
will develop database infrastructure to serve the needs of each
organization and the collaborative as a whole, create a community-wide
advisory board that provides feedback, and establish links with
government and business.
Partners:
Bering Memorial United Methodist Church and Light House Village.
Lead Organization Description:
Founded in 2000, the Center for Success and Independence (TCSI)
offers prevention, screening and assessment, treatment, case
management, evaluation, and training to adolescents in Houston,
Texas. It also serves as a lead organization in multiple interagency
collaborations.
Project Description:
Through the Gate of Light Capacity
Building Project, TCSI will offer training in advanced nonprofit leadership
and financial systems management; TCSI will also and upgrade its internal
information systems to build its own capacity. To launch the project,
collaborative members will complete community and organizational assessments
and use TCSI's Prevention Toolbox software to develop strategic plans
for capacity building. Partners will receive training from TCSI, a management
consultant, and an IT consultant in multiple critical capacity areas.
TCSI and project consultants will also provide partners with technical
assistance suited to their individual needs. Finally, TCSI will provide
approximately $65,000 in financial assistance to its partners during
the first year of the project.
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Cincinnati
Beulah Missionary Baptist Church
1834 Section Road
Cincinnati, OH 45237
513-531-7283
Award Amount, Year 1:
$249,012
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Beulah Missionary Baptist Church and its two partnering faith-based
organizations will increase collaboration, coordination, community
participation, and leveraging of resources to more effectively
address the issues of youth violence and neglect.
Partners:
Council of Christian Communions and World Outreach Christian
Center.
Lead Organization Description:
Beulah Missionary Baptist Church (BMBC) has been a presence
in its community for nearly 100 years. BMBC has become a provider
of numerous social service programs for youth, couples, families,
and ex-offenders. Additionally, BMBC provides training and technical
assistance (TA) to FBCOs throughout Cincinnati, Ohio.
Project Description:
Lead organization BMBC will train staff
and volunteers in best practices for working with youth violence, detecting
and reporting abuse, teamwork, and resource management. All members
of the collaborative will develop written policies and procedures; they
will also create a Web site to facilitate the exchange of information
between partner organizations, potential future partners, law enforcement,
businesses, potential clients, and other stakeholders. BMBC will also
create meeting spaces and community resource rooms for workshops, community
meetings, and training. Partner organizations will use assessments to
determine goals and objectives for capacity building. BMBC will also
provide more than $62,500 in financial assistance to its partners.
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Clemson University
Office of Sponsored Programs
Box 345702, 300 Brackett Hall
Clemson, SC 29634
864-656-2424
Award Amount, Year 1:
$249,918
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Faith in Youth Collaboration is made up of Clemson University's
Youth Learning Institute and five well-established youth-serving
organizations in two South Carolina counties. The oldest partner
organization was founded in 1886, and the newest in 1999. All
five organizations have previous involvement with the Youth
Learning Institute.
Partners:
Carey Hill Development Corporation, Christ Central Ministries,
Redd's Branch Baptist Church, Second Baptist Church, and
The Imani Group.
Lead Organization Description:
Located in Clemson University's Institute on Family and
Neighborhood Life, the South Carolina Center for Grassroots
and Non-profit Leadership is dedicated to building the capacity
of the state's most-in-need nonprofits. The Center was formed
in 1998 by a collaborative of major foundations, universities,
nonprofits, faith-based networks, and state agencies, and has
served as a CCF intermediary since 2002.
Project Description:
The Youth Learning Institute (YLI) will build its capacity as
a training center for organizations that work with at-risk youth
by strengthening its leadership and staff development, community
engagement, volunteer management, and evaluation procedures.
YLI will build partner capacity by providing a series of three-day
residential training retreats. Partners will also receive technical
assistance through residential retreats individually tailored
to meet predetermined capacity building needs; YLI will also
make its fifty-person staff available to partners for consultation
on specific needs. YLI plans to give each of the five partner
organizations $20,000 per year as direct financial assistance.
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Community Action Agency
1214 Greenwood Avenue
Jackson, MI 49203
517-784-4800
Award Amount, Year 1:
$249,635
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
This collaborative is composed of organizations that have worked
together in the Partnership Park neighborhood of Jackson, Michigan,
since 2001. Together, they formed the Partnership Park Downtown
Neighborhood Association (PPDNA). PPDNA will conduct a community
assessment, create an action plan that follows the assessment's
findings, build a communications task force, and replicate the
assessment process in other neighborhoods. The group will also
continue to be involved in the local Weed & Seed initiative.
Partners:
Catholic Charities of Jackson, Partnership Park Downtown Neighborhood
Association (PPDNA), and St. John's United Church of Christ.
Lead Organization Description:
The Community Action Agency (CAA) has worked to address the
needs of low-income residents of three Michigan counties for
more than forty years. Currently, CAA operates approximately
sixty direct service programs and provides training and technical
assistance to faith-based and community organizations throughout
Michigan.
Project Description:
CAA will first focus on building its
capacity to provide services to its partner organizations by adding
staff, developing new communication strategies, creating a program implementation
team, and evaluating existing program curricula and outcome tracking.
It will then put its efforts into strengthening its partner organizations,
with particular emphasis on PPDNA. CAA will work to establish PPDNA
as a viable organization by hiring its first paid staff, providing a
range of training and TA, and enlisting help from the two partner organizations.
In addition, PPDNA will receive $62,500 in financial assistance from
CAA.
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Community Council of Greater
Dallas
1349 Empire Central
Suite 400
Dallas, TX 75247
214-871-5065
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Community Council of Greater Dallas will work with three
established partner organizations--two community-based and one
faith-based--in CCGD's Dallas Community Youth Development
Program, which has operated since 1996.
Partners:
Good Street Baptist Church, Teens at Work, and Vision Regeneration.
Lead Organization Description:
The Community Council of Greater Dallas (CCGD), founded in 1940,
is dedicated to bringing people together to address issues that
affect the well-being of children and young people in its community.
CCGD researches and disseminates information on the needs of
children and youth and coordinates the efforts of community
leaders and professionals to develop community-based action
plans to address those needs.
Project Description:
CCGD will launch its project by joining
the efforts of the local Weed & Seed office, hiring a full-time
staff member to facilitate CEY activities, and obtaining software to
track community assets. Throughout the project, CCGD will build its
capacity and that of its partners. Partner agencies will receive training
from CCGD through quarterly seminars and individualized technical assistance
(TA) sessions. CCGD will divide $62,500 in financial assistance among
its partners, based on level of need.
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Corporación
de Apoyo a Programas Educativos y Comunitarios
PMB 106 P.O. Box 4956
Caguas, PR 00726
787-745-3710
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Community Alliance for Empowering Youth is a long-standing
collaborative of five community organizations and one faith-based
organization. To strengthen participatory decision making, Corporacion
de Apoyo a Programas Educativos y Comunitarios (CAPEDCOM) will
establish an advisory board whose members represent each partner
organization. The board will play a major role in the project's
implementation, its periodic evaluation, and planning for the
future.
Partners:
EcoRecursos Comunitarios (Community EcoResources), Asociacion
Nuevo Milenio (New Millennium Association), Asociacion de Residentes
de Brisas del Mar (Brisas del Mar Residents' Council), Comunidad
Organizada de San Salvador (Organized Community of San Salvador),
and Casa Laura Vicuna.
Lead Organization Description:
CAPEDCOM was founded in Puerto Rico in 1994 with the goal of
using education as a tool to help disadvantaged people improve
their lives. It has a long history of providing capacity building
services and creating sustained relationships among faith-based
and community organizations.
Project Description:
CAPEDCOM will provide $62,500 in financial
assistance to partners based on each organization's initial needs assessment
and operating budget. CAPEDCOM will offer partners four training sessions
each month--one for each critical capacity building area--and provide
direct, individualized technical assistance to each organization the
following week. A consultant will assist organizations using a learn-by-doing
approach in which organizations receive training and technical assistance
simultaneously to achieve optimal results.
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Dallas
Leadership Foundation
717 North Harwood Avenue
Suite 840
Dallas, TX 75201
214-777-5520
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Each of the faith-based and community groups involved in the
Dallas Leadership Foundation's (DLF) collaborative has worked
with DLF on past projects, some for as many as twelve years.
Through this collaborative, partners will address the issues
of gang activity and youth violence through a coordinated, city-wide
effort--a method that has proved effective in other DLF initiatives.
The DLF partnership will also participate in the West Dallas
Weed & Seed group.
Partners:
The Bridge Enterprises, Cornerstone Ministries, Dallas Urban
Young Life, East Dallas Community Organization, Hamilton Park
United Methodist Church Youth Ministry, Light Economic &
Development, Mothers Against Teen Violence, Project Still I
Rise, RMC Ministries, Tamar Circle Program, Rehoboth Missionary
Baptist Church, Simple Faith International, St. Mark AME Zion
Church, and Voice of Hope.
Lead Organization Description:
DLF brings people together to rebuild underserved communities
and works with disadvantaged youth to address issues of youth
violence and gang activity. DLF provides affordable housing
and mobilizes churches, the business community, and other stakeholders
to participate in community-strengthening projects. DLF also
provides capacity building services to grassroots organizations
in the surrounding area.
Project Description:
DLF will conduct baseline and follow-up
assessments to collect information on each partner's needs and track
progress and outcomes. In addition to quarterly training offered by
DLF and the Faith & Philanthropy Institute, DLF-facilitated peer-learning
sessions will allow interaction among partners on capacity building
topics. DLF will provide each partner two hours a month of one-on-one
technical assistance to develop and implement a customized capacity
building plan. Finally, DLF will provide $62,500 in financial assistance
to partners.
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Duluth Area Family YMCA
302 West 1st Street
Duluth, MN 55802
218-722-4745
Award Amount, Year 1:
$249,982
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Duluth Area Family YMCA will lead a collaborative of youth-serving
organizations with established programs and community connections
in four high-risk neighborhoods of Duluth, Minnesota. The Prevention
Partners collaborative is a network of faith-based and community
organizations of various sizes and provides an array of prevention
services.
Partners:
Boys and Girls Club of Duluth, Copeland Community Center, East
Hillside Patch, Grant Community School Collaborative, Life House,
Men as Peacemakers, Neighborhood Youth Services, Valley Youth
Center, and YWCA of Duluth.
Lead Organization Description:
Duluth Area Family YMCA has provided youth programming for 125
years and volunteer services to 120 agencies in the Duluth/Superior
area for sixty-nine years. It facilitates Mentor Duluth and
the Duluth Youth Agency Coalition-a six-agency mentoring collaboration.
In 2004, the YMCA developed an AmeriCorps Program that supports
fifty-four organizations in northeast Minnesota through the
collaboration of regional agencies, including Fond du Lac Tribal
and Community College, Bois Forte Indian Reservation, and the
Arrowhead Interfaith Council of Churches.
Project Description:
Following its community needs assessment,
the YMCA and contracted service providers will administer on-going individualized
technical assistance to members of the collaborative. YMCA program staff,
consultants, and mentors will work one-on-one with each organization;
they will also offer a minimum of two workshops in each critical capacity
area for organization leaders, staff, and board members. Over thirty
months, all collaborative members will each receive at least forty hours
of training and twenty-five hours of individualized technical assistance.
Financial resources will provide time for organization staff to attend
trainings and make possible the purchase of new equipment. The YMCA's
annual financial assistance to partners will total at least $62,500.
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FreshMinistries, Inc.
1131 North Laura Street
Jacksonville, FL 32206
904-355-0000
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
In addition to its own staff and resources, FreshMinistries
will make use of Beaver Street Enterprise Center, the Nonprofit
Center of Northeast Florida, and Volunteer Jacksonville to provide
comprehensive capacity building services to its partners and
the Urban Core collaborative.
Partners:
Beaver Street Enterprise Center, East Jacksonville Resource
Center, Family Nurturing Center, Household of Faith, Jacksonville
Hospitality Institute, Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida,
Police Athletic League, Providence Christian Fellowship, Sanctuary
on 8th Street, and Volunteer Jacksonville.
Lead Organization Description:
Founded in 1994, FreshMinistries is an interfaith, community-based
nonprofit association working to address poverty and its impact
on families and communities in urban Jacksonville, Florida,
through equal access to education, economic opportunities, and
necessary support systems. FreshMinistries also has extensive
experience in providing training, technical assistance, and
funding to faith-based and community organizations.
Project Description:
The Urban Core project will provide
four quarterly, three-hour workshops to area nonprofits. In addition,
FreshMinistries will assign a staff project advisor to each partner
to assist in completion of a baseline organizational assessment and
capacity building plan. The advisor will help identify appropriate service
providers to work with the partner on identified needs. FreshMinistries
will provide funds totaling at least $62,500 per year to partner organizations.
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Future Foundation
1892 Washington Avenue
East Point, GA 30344
404-766-0510
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Future Foundation and its project partners are among the most
stable and well-established organizations serving East Point,
Georgia, with nearly eighty years of collective experience in
youth services. The three partners have worked together for
the past three years within a larger established coalition of
faith-based and community organizations in the Atlanta area.
Future Foundation and its partners completed intensive needs assessments to
identify capacity needs. The results of these assessments will
guide their capacity building plans.
Partners:
Andrew and Walter Young Family YMCA and East Point Community
Action Team.
Lead Organization Description:
Established in 2001, Future Foundation runs six youth development
programs that support the academic, social, and physical development
of young people in metropolitan Atlanta. Future Foundation operates
a state-licensed comprehensive youth development and learning
center that works to fulfill the organization's mission
to improve the lives of youth by empowering them to achieve
success.
Project Description:
Following a community needs assessment, project partners will
attend group training workshops, presentations, professional
development seminars, and staff retreats with support provided
by training and technical assistance experts identified through
the Georgia Center for Nonprofits. Future Foundation will provide
at least $62,500 in direct financial assistance to its partners.
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Heritage Community Services, Inc.
2810 Ashley Phosphate Road, B-7
North Charleston, SC 29418
843-863-0508
Award Amount, Year 1:
$199,937
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The three organizations in this collaborative, all experienced
service providers in metropolitan Charleston, South Carolina,
have worked together for five years. This project will allow
them to better understand the issues facing their community's
youth and develop strategies to adapt programs that accommodate
the needs of its growing Hispanic population.
Partners:
Charleston Area Community Development Corporation and Midland
Park Community Ministries. Lead Organization Description:
Heritage Community Services, Inc. (HCS) provides training and
counseling in healthy relationships, marriages, and families.
Established in 1995, HCS also offers training and technical
assistance to South Carolina's faith-based and community
organizations.
Project Description:
HCS will complete a community assessment and provide ongoing
organizational assessment tools to its partners throughout the
grant period. Training and technical assistance will be provided
by Heritage staff with input from local and state experts in
various social service areas. In addition to training workshops,
direct and individualized technical assistance, and monthly
partner coordination meetings, Heritage will provide each partner
with $25,000 in financial assistance each year of the grant.
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Human Services Associates, Inc.
1703 West Colonial Drive
Orlando, FL 32804
407-422-0880
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Human Services Associates, Inc. (HSA) and its four faith-based
and community partners have an average six-year history of working
together. HSA currently maintains a contractual agreement with
each of its partners. The collaborative will establish a network
of organizations including Weed & Seed representatives,
law enforcement entities, school districts, and other community
stakeholders serving youth in the Orlando, Florida, area.
Partners:
Center for Non-violence Learning, Community Counseling Center
of Central Florida, Firm Foundation, and Life and Work Soulutions.
Lead Organization Description:
Founded in 1993, HSA offers assessment, intervention, prevention,
education, and treatment services to at-risk youth and families
in sixteen central Florida counties.
Project Description:
HSA will build its capacity in information
technology infrastructure, fund development, community asset mapping
and needs assessment. HSA will conduct assessments with each partner
and work with them to create individual capacity building plans. HSA
will designate a coordinator to direct partner efforts to fulfill their
capacity building plans. A team of four high-level HSA staff--experts
in fiscal management, human resources, quality management, and community
outreach--will spend an average of thirty hours per month providing
partners with training and technical assistance. Based on initial needs
assessments, each partner will receive a portion of $62,500 in financial
assistance for further capacity building efforts.
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International
Rescue Committee
122 East 42nd Street
14th Floor
New York, NY 10168
212-551-3000
Award Amount, Year 1:
$249,999
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Park Hill Network collaborative is comprised of three community-based
organizations: International Rescue Committee, African Refuge,
and the Century Dance Complex. All three groups are dedicated
to serving refugee and immigrant youth in New York City. In
the second and third year of the project, the three organizations
in the original Network will welcome a fourth partner.
Partners:
African Refuge and the Century Dance Complex.
Lead Organization Description:
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a nonsectarian voluntary
organization that has provided relief, protection, and resettlement
services to refugees, victims of oppression, and victims of
conflict since 1933. IRC offers a variety of services to foster
the academic and social development of refugee and immigrant
youth in Staten Island.
Project Description:
IRC will build its capacity to serve
the Park Hill neighborhood through technical assistance and direct services.
IRC will design an assessment tool that captures specific capacity building
needs and guides a strategic action plan for each organization. Within
the first month of the project, IRC will work with partners to identify
training and technical assistance priorities and to establish implementation
plans. Throughout the three-year project, IRC will coordinate quarterly
two-day training workshops focused on capacity building topics, advancing
from the foundational level to more sophisticated areas of development.
IRC will also offer customized technical assistance to partners through
two site visits each year, written recommendations, and one-on-one meetings
with staff members. In the first year of the grant, IRC will provide
$62,500 to its two partners; in years two and three, it will offer its
expanded group of partners a total of $70,000 annually.
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Kansas
City Kansas School Linked Services, Inc.
4601 State Avenue
Suite 38
Kansas City, KS 66102
913-627-4381
Award Amount, Year 1:
$249,062
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
School Linked Services (SLS) and its collaborative partners
provide programming in several Kansas City public schools through
SLS's Adopt-a-School program, which engages local churches
to adopt neighborhood public schools and provide them with a
variety of services and resources. Through the CEY grant, these
relationships will be solidified as the six partner churches
undergo extensive training to build and strengthen their capacity
to offer programming.
Partners:
Evangelistic Center, Grace Lutheran Church, Living Stone Family
Worship Center, Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church, Salem Missionary
Baptist Church, and Victory Hills Church of the Nazarene.
Lead Organization Description:
SLS is a community-based organization that removes barriers
to education through the integration of community resources.
Since its founding in 1998, SLS has partnered with area agencies,
schools, and faith-based and community organizations to distribute
resources to youth and families who need them most.
Project Description:
To build its capacity, SLS will earn
certification as capacity-based trainers through the University of Kansas.
SLS and its partners will receive training through the University's
Community Capacity Building Training Institute, a series of workshops
and classes which begins with a study of community engagement and ends
with completion of the collaborative's community needs assessment. Following
completion of the Training Institute, partners and the lead organization
will each develop a capacity building action plan. Staff of the Training
Institute will lead training and technical assistance efforts in years
one and two. By year three, SLS will have sufficient capacity to facilitate
the majority of capacity building assistance to its partners. SLS will
provide its partners with $72,000 in financial assistance in the first
year of the grant.
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Kingdom Oil Christian Foundation
701 Fourth Avenue South
Suite 750
Minneapolis, MN 55415
612-288-2299
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
In addition to Kingdon Oil's (KO) formal and informal instruction,
training opportunities, and resource development, partners in
the CEY-Minneapolis project will benefit from collaboration
with Weed & Seed Central Minneapolis, which will share information
and work with the collaborative to reach and serve Minneapolis
area high-risk youth.
Partners:
African American Adoption Agency, Church of New Life, Girls
in Action, MAD DADS, Mothers of Crime Victims, New Salem Missionary
Baptist Church, Oasis of Love, Parenting with Purpose, The Street
Coalition, Track Minnesota Elite, Urban Hope's Star Club,
Urban Youth Conservation, and Youth Enterprise.
Lead Organization Description:
KO was established in 1997 to address the needs of disadvantaged
youth in Minneapolis. Its mission is to encourage and facilitate
the release of resources and administer community partnerships,
with the goal of bringing divergent sectors of the community
together to assist people in need.
Project Description:
The CEY-Minneapolis project will begin
with a community assessment, in-depth organizational assessments, and
creation of capacity building plans for KO and its fourteen partners.
KO staff and contractors will provide extensive training, as well as
an additional twenty-five hours of technical assistance annually to
each member of the collaborative. Each year, KO will distribute 33 percent
or more of its total award to its partners based on their capacity building
plans and the level of need identified in their organizational assessments.
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Murtis H. Taylor Multi-Service Center
13422 Kinsman Road
Cleveland, OH 44120
216-283-4400
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Murtis H. Taylor Multi-Service Center and its four partner organizations
have a six-year history of collaborating to address issues facing
youth in Cleveland's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. For the
past two years, partner organizations have particitated in the
Mt. Pleasant Weed & Seed coalition.
Partners:
Discovery Center, Peace in the Hood, Teen Point of View, and
Thea Bowman Center.
Lead Organization Description:
Murtis H. Taylor Multi-service Center (Center) has nearly sixty
years of experience providing social support services and behavioral
healthcare. Center programs address parenting, conflict resolution,
anger management, violence prevention, and substance abuse prevention
and intervention. Since 1997, the Center has run the BUCS (Building
and Unifying Community Services) Collaborative, an initiative
that focuses on strengthening the internal capacity of small
and medium nonprofits in Cleveland.
Project Description:
The Murtis H. Taylor Multi-service Center will coordinate training
and technical assistance provided by Center staff and consultants
for all partners. It will hire a capacity building director
to spearhead these efforts; this individual will work to provide
group and one-on-one training and technical assistance through
the Center's staff and through four outside consultants.
The Center will also make 25 percent of its total grant funds
available to its four project partners for use in further capacity
building activities.
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National Indian Justice Center
5250 Aero Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
707-579-5507
Award Amount, Year 1:
$249,788
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Activating Native Youth Assets Project is a collaborative
comprised of twenty-two Pomo tribes. Partners provide community
services to at-risk Native American youth in Sonoma, Lake and
Mendocino counties in California. The project will use group
and individual learning approaches and strategic use of financial
assistance to build capacity to ensure sustainable, high-quality
social services.
Partners: California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, and Sonoma
County Indian Health Project.
Lead Organization Description:
The National Indian Justice Center (NIJC) is a nonprofit organization
with twenty-four years of experience providing capacity building
training and technical assistance to tribal communities nationwide.
Project Description:
NIJC will assess the needs of its target service populations.
Organizational assessments will allow for creation of action
plans for the project. Three-day conferences with capacity building
workshops in all four capacity building areas and quarterly
networking lunches will create and foster strategic community
alliances. NIJC will develop a project Web page to share resources
and promote continuing education. Financial assistance equal
to 25 percent of the total grant award will be distributed among
partners to support individual capacity building efforts.
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Nebraska Children and Families Foundation
215 Centennial Mall South
Suite 200
Lincoln, NE 68508
402-476-8251
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Having worked with all partners in south Omaha projects addressing
numerous issues facing children and families, Nebraska Children
and Families Foundation will lead its five partners in its capacity
building initiative entitled "South Omaha Community Learning
Collaborative" (SOCLC). Using collaborative training, workshops,
and financial awards, SOCLC members hope to establish and sustain
an interdependent system of care for children in south Omaha,
Nebraska.
Partners:
Camp Fire USA Midlands Council, Lutheran Family Services, Neighborhood
Center for Greater Omaha, Nothing but Net Foundation, and South
Omaha Weed & Seed.
Lead Organization Description:
Nebraska Children and Families Foundation (NCFF) was established
in 1997 to leverage public and private resources and promote
positive outcomes for vulnerable children and families statewide.
Partner organizations provide services in a distressed community
defined by three neighborhood association borders and the South
Omaha Weed & Seed target area.
Project Description:
After using the McKinsey Organizational
Assessment tool to establish baseline measures, NCFF staff and consultants
will provide partners 250 hours of technical assistance and fifty-two
hours of collaboration training and peer exchange through quarterly
group learning circles and workshops. NCFF will distribute financial
awards totaling 25 percent of the Federal award, or $62,500, each year
to augment capacity building services.
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New
England Network for Child, Youth & Family Services, Inc.
156 College Street
Suite 301
Burlington, VT 05401
802-658-9182
Award Amount, Year 1:
$249,949
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Windham Capacity Project for Youth brings together established
youth service providers, newer faith-based youth programs, and
training organizations to share challenges and knowledge, while
providing expert input to support skill-building. The New England
Network for Child, Youth & Family Services, Inc.(NEN) and
each of its four partners have worked together on shared community
initiatives for periods from to nearly twenty years, and each
partner brings a specialized programming experience in prevention
of youth violence and child abuse and neglect.
Partners:
Youth Services Inc., Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro, and
the Ecumenical Council.
Lead Organization Description:
NEN is a private, nonprofit organization that works to support
and advance child and youth services throughout New England.
For twenty-three years, NEN has organized and implemented local
training and technical assistance programs that focus on building
the capacity of faith-based and community organizations working
with traumatized children and youth; families at risk for child
abuse and neglect; and youth at risk for violence, substance
abuse, and other high-risk behaviors.
Project Description:
The Windham Capacity Project for Youth will begin with the administration
of the Third Sector Organizational Development tool to help
partner organizations determine their capacity building needs.
Staff from NEN and the United Way will provide each partner
with approximately forty hours of professional training and
eighty hours a year of customized, on-site technical assistance.
NEN will distribute $62,000 each year in financial assistance.
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Oasis Counseling International
333 Norfolk Avenue
Suite 201
Norfolk, NE 68701
402-379-2030
Award Amount, Year 1:
$249,168
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Collaboration Capacity Building to Empower Youth project
will serve the area of Norfolk, Nebraska. Oasis Counseling International
has worked with two of its three partners to empower the youth
of Norfolk since the 1980s and has collaborated with the third
partner for three years. Together, the four organizations have
more than 150 years of experience strengthening young people's
health.
Partners:
Norfolk Family YMCA, Norfolk Family Medicine, and Northeast
Nebraska Child Advocacy Center (NENCAC).
Lead Organization Description:
Oasis Counseling International offers holistic bilingual behavioral
health treatment in the Nebraska cities of Norfolk, O'Neil,
and Ainsworth.
Project Description:
Oasis Counseling International (Oasis) will improve both its
own and its partners infrastructure and sustainability beginning
with completing the Marguerite Casey Foundation's organizational
capacity assessment. Results from this assessment will assist
each organizatoin as they create a customized capacity building
strategy. In addition to providing all partners with group training
seminars and individualized technical assistance, Oasis will
distribute $158,000 as financial assistance to partners in the
first grant year.
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Prim n Proper, Inc./Choosing to
Excel
416 Sturgis Road
Conway, AR 72034
501-269-4166
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Choosing to Excel (CTE) leads a collaboration of four youth-serving
organizations that work with and address the needs of at-risk
youth in the city of Conway, located in Faulkner County, Arkansas.
The collaborative brings together the faith-community, the juvenile
justice system, and local community organizations.
Partners:
Conway Alternative School, Faulkner County Juvenile Court, Pleasant
Branch Baptist Church, and Excel Upward.
Lead Organization Description:
CTE, operated by Prim n Proper, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Healthy Choice and Prevention organization. Since 1994, CTE
has provided services that strengthen families and reduce the
number of youth involved in criminal activity by providing a
variety of programs and services for at-risk youth.
Project Description:
Prim n Proper, Inc./Choosing to Excel will enhance both its
own and its partners' ability to empower community youth
and reduce youth violence, gang activity, and child abuse and
neglect by providing quarterly one-and two-day group training
and workshops, monthly customized technical assistance consultations,
and individualized technical assistance as needed to each member
of the collaborative. A steering committee of community members
will assist with a community assessment, which will guide strategic
plans for each member of the collaborative. The steering committee
will also develop and review criteria for distributing financial
assistance. Financial assistance will total $62,500 and amounts
to each partner will be based on their specific needs.
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Reach Out West End
1126 West Foothill Boulevard
Suite 185
Upland, CA 91786
909-982-8641
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Reach Out West End's partner organizations include faith-based
and community organizations with a history of working together
in the Pomona Weed & Seed Partnership and the Safe Schools/Healthy
Students Partnership. The ExecNet CEY (E-CEY) collaborative
led by Reach Out West End will use best practices and peer-based
learning to increase the capacity of partner organizations to
serve at-risk youth.
Partners:
Bilingual Family, Boys and Girls Club of Pomona Valley (BGCPV),
Camp Fire USA San Antonio Council, Samaritan Counseling Center,
Inland Valley Counsel of Churches-Hope Partners, Foothill Family
Shelter, and Pacific Lifeline.
Lead Organization Description:
Founded in 1969, Reach Out West End offers a variety of programs
that provide positive alternatives for at-risk youth. Its services
target western San Bernardino and eastern Los Angeles counties
in California.
Project Description:
Reach Out West End will coordinate two, two-day Learning Community
Trainings for the E-CEY collaborative and key community stakeholders.
After thorough assessment, each partner will be assigned a technical
assistance (TA) coach who will provide monthly on-site skill
building. TA coaches will be in regular contact with their assigned
organizations to ensure that their personalized TA plans are
sensitive to the importance of cultural competency and meet
identified capacity building needs. Each partner organization
will work with its TA coach to finalize a specific budget based
on need prior to receiving financial assistance ranging from
$15,000 to $19,000.
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South Brooklyn Youth Consortium
2811 Mermaid Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11224
718-266-7052
Award Amount, Year 1:
$249,970
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
South Brooklyn Youth Consortium's Compassion Consortium:
Empowering New York City's Youth (CCY) project will bring
together five faith-based and community organizations. South
Brooklyn and its partners have existing relationships working
to address the needs of young people.
Partners:
Amethyst Women's Project (Amethyst), Gone But Not Forgotten,
Children's Choice Family Services (CCFS), United Community
Organization, and Books Before Ball.
Lead Organization Description:
Since its official incorporation in 1996, the South Brooklyn
Youth Consortium (SBYC) has provided training and technical
assistance to more than sixty staff members of youth-serving
organizations throughout the greater New York City area. SBYC
seeks to increase the capacity of youth and community development
programs to provide quality services, set high standards in
youth and community development and service delivery, increase
the visibility of youth and community development work, and
advocate for increased resources.
Project Description:
SBYC will use its Peer Network Model
to coordniate training and technical assitance to build both its own
capacity and that of its partners. The six members (including the lead
organization) of the consortium will receive financial assistance to
improve their capacity in accordance with assessed needs. All members
of the network will participate in twelve workshops, four six-week seminars
led by outside experts, and forty-eight days of technical assistance.
SBYC will also provide financial assistance of approximately $18,000
to each of its partners.
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St.
Vincent Mercy Medical Center
2213 Cherry Street
Ste. ACC #307
Toledo, OH 43608
419-251-2122
Award Amount, Year 1:
$230,505
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
St. Vincent Mary Medical Center and its partner organizations
have worked together for the past three years on multiple community
issues such as healthy marriages, youth development, and academic
support services. The goal of their collaborative is to improve
and expand program services to youth and the community. Additionally,
this project will participate in the community Weed & Seed
network by sharing and providing information, resources, and
data for two of its programs.
Partners:
Mentoring, Education & Leadership, New Beginnings Development
Corporation, and The Mark-etPlace.
Lead Organization Description:
Established in 1855, the St. Vincent Mary Medical Center's
(SVMMC) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the
Toledo, Ohio, community with special attention to the poor and
under-served. Its youth development programs address teen pregnancy
and mental health services. SVMMC also provides training and
technical assistance to smaller faith-based and community organizations
through collaborative groups and partnerships.
Project Description:
SVMMC and its partners will share responsibility
for training based on level of expertise. Staff from the lead agency
will provide training on youth violence prevention curricula; outside
experts and partners will provide training on other topics. Trainers
will also provide direct and individualized technical assistance to
partners. Financial assistance provided will be 38 percent of the total
project budget.
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Temple University
Center for Social Policy and Community
Development
1601 N. Broad Street, Room 100
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-204-8691
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
This collaborative of five nonprofit organizations has a history
of working together to address issues facing at-risk youth in
North Philadelphia. Three of the partner organizations worked
with the Center for Social Policy and Community Development
(CSPCD) on a previous capacity building grant. The collaborative
will work to create a community of practice, develop and implement
best practices in program services, and increase organizational
capacity as well as community awareness of youth violence and
child abuse and neglect.
Partners:
Helping Energize and Rebuild Ourselves, Ludlow Youth Community
Center, The Place of Refuge, Troopers Program, and Women's
Institute for Family Health.
Lead Organization Description:
Temple University's CSPCD has served the northern Philadelphia
community since 1969. CSPCD bridges social concerns of the community
and the academic and service goals of the university to build
the community's capacity to meet social, economic, and educational
challenges.
Project Description:
CSPCD will augment monthly training with fifty hours of individual
technical assistance for each partner organization. During the
first year of the project, training and technical assistance
will focus on developing logic models and financial management
systems. Partners will also have access to outside consultants
for additional training. Financial assistance totaling $62,500
in year one will be used for staff development, organizing community
forums, and assisting partners with implementation of individual
work plans.
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UMOS, Inc.
P.O. Box 04129
Milwaukee, WI 53204
414-389-6600
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Milwaukee Youth Collaborative Partnership is a unique partnership
of six neighborhood social service agencies with a total of
over 100 years of experience serving a changing multi-cultural,
low-income community. An advisory committee will oversee the
implementation of partner activities and objectives.
Partners:
Pathfinders, La Causa Child Welfare Program, Youth Independence
Project, Kosciuszko Community Learning Center, United Community
Center, and Latina Resource Center.
Lead Organization Description:
UMOS, Inc. is a comprehensive, multi-state social service agency
headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. UMOS, Inc. has more than
twenty years of experience providing capacity building training
and technical assistance to faith-based and community organizations.
Project Description:
UMOS will offer four conferences during
the first year of the grant, each focused on one of the four critical
capacity building areas. These conferences will include staff members
of faith-based and community organizations, as well as board members
and volunteers. Following these training sessions, UMOS will provide
opportunities for participants to engage in in-depth technical assistance.
Each partner will also receive financial assistance, which will total
$200,000.
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Voices For Children,
Inc.
2305 Canyon Boulevard #101
Boulder, CO 80302
303-440-7059
Award Amount, Year 1:
$122,700
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The organizations involved in this collaborative range in age
from three to twenty years. The members of the partnership will
bring greater community awareness of the plight of abused teens
and children of high-conflict divorce.
Partners:
Boulder County Partners Mentoring Program, Boulder Institute
for Psychotherapy and Research, and St. Vrain Family Center.
Lead Organization Description:
Since 1985, Voices for Children (VFC) has worked to increase
community awareness of child and teen abuse by training volunteers
as court-appointed special advocates (CASAs), who provide direct
services to abused and neglected children in Boulder County,
Colorado.
Project Description:
Following a needs assessment of each
organization, VFC will hire a contractor to provide capacity building
trainings and workshops for all partners. This contractor will also
provide direct, individualized technical assistance to the partner organizations.
In addition, VFC will hire specialists in the areas of curriculum development
and information technology, based upon partners needs. VFC will distribute
at least 25 percent of its grant award to its partners.
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Winston-Salem
State University
Center for Community Safety
601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27110
336-750-2200
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Winston-Salem State University and its three faith-based partners
will work collaboratively to increase staff skills and
abilities, increase the number of FBCOs working together in
the community, improve program outcomes for youth, increase
resources, and document best practices in youth and community
services.
Partners:
Green Street United Methodist Church, New Birth of Christ Church
Community Development Enterprise, and United Metropolitan Baptist
Church.
Lead Organization Description:
Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) is a historically black
public university whose primary mission is to offer high-quality
educational programs at the baccalaureate and masters levels
for a diverse student population. As a public service and research
center, the Center for Community Safety (CCS) of WSSU works
to build the capacity of the community to address a broad range
of issues affecting the qualifty of life for citizens of Winston-Salem
and Forsyth County, North Carolina.
Project Description:
WSSU will provide training and technical
assistance using a three-level approach. Level one will focus on individual
capacity building needs of each partner. Level two training and technical
assistance will focus on collaborative community mapping and program
evaluation projects. Level three training will focus on engaging other
organizations in the community. WSSU will also provide a total of $62,500
in financial assistance to its partners for implementation of individual
and collaborative work plans.
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World
Vision, Inc.
US Programs
34834 Weyerhauser Way South
Federal Way, WA 98001
202-572-6384
Award Amount, Year 1:
$250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Seattle Tutoring Coalition (STC), a partnership between
World Vision Seattle and five other organizations formed in
1993, helps provide for students' unmet intellectual, social,
and emotional needs. STC's project seeks to address youth
violence and gang involvement in Seattle's Rainier Valley
area.
Partners:
Broadview Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing Program,
Catholic Community Services, Invest in Youth, Neighborhood House,
and Treehouse.
Lead Organization Description:
Founded in 1950, World Vision is a worldwide Christian relief
and development organization with a focus on helping communities
build sustainable partnerships that have lasting benefits in
the lives of children and families. World Vision's program
in Seattle, Washington, has worked toward reducing youth violence
and gang involvement since 1995.
Project Description:
Local and national World Vision staff
members will provide training to members of the collaborative. Each
of the five partner organizations will be assigned a technical assistance
consultant, and partners will receive at least thirty-six hours of training
and forty hours of individualized technical assistance during the first
year of the project. In addition, 30 percent of the Federal award will
be provided as financial assistance to partners for individual capacity
building projects.
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