Alternatives,
Inc.
2021-B Cunningham Dr., Ste. 5
Hampton, VA 23666
757-838-2330
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Alternatives, Inc. is a youth development organization
that serves as a local intermediary in Hampton and Newport
News, Virginia. It has thirty years’ experience
in the provision of youth programming, particularly in
the areas of service learning and civic life, and in the
provision of training and technical assistance to community
volunteers and youth-serving organizations. Its mission
is “to inspire the inherent potential of young people
and to inspire adults to recognize this same potential.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Capacity Building and Youth Engagement—The BEST
for Community Builders Network
Project Description:
Alternatives, Inc. is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations by providing enhanced social
services to address youth violence. The BEST project is
increasing the sustainability of partnering faith-based
and community organizations in the cities of Hampton and
Newport News, Virginia, through a two-tiered approach
to capacity building. Level I organizations receive: 1)
four two-day leadership retreats that focus on board governance,
financial administration, volunteer management, marketing,
and fund development; and 2) technical assistance and
a stipend to assist them in implementing what they have
learned. Staff from organizations that complete all sessions
receive a Certificate in Non-profit Management through
a local community college. Level II organizations will
complete a more intensive program highlighting effective
non-profit management practices. This includes: 1) participating
in leadership retreats; 2) establishing a staff development
plan based on an inventory of staff competencies; 3) improving
the organizational engagement of youth based on an assessment
of youth development practices; and 4) creating youth/adult
partnerships in which youth provide input into planning,
implementation, and evaluation of program services. All
organizations receive a stipend to facilitate the implementation
of their plans.
Partners:
The Support Group; Strong Teens Opposing Problems; Outstanding
Youth on the Move; Greater Southeast Development Corporation;
Freedom Outreach Center; Giving Resources Of Wisdom, Training
and Hope; Young Men and Women of Distinction; Break the
Silence; First & Ten Program; Southeast Community
Day Planning Committee; Young Ladies and Gents in the
Making; In Agape; Rushmere Community Development Corporation;
Just-Us-Kidz, Inc.; Youth Teen Program; LINK of Hampton
Roads; Good Seed Good Ground; East End Neighborhood Association;
Community Empowerment Center, Inc.; Help Educate All Daughters
& Sons in Newport News Communities; Growth in Youth
Diamond and Pearls & Boys to Men; Hoopmasters Academy;
Community Builders Network of Hampton Roads Chapter; Youth
Against Drugs and Disease; 7th District Court Services
Unit; Boys & Girls Club of the VA Peninsula; Center
for Child and Family Services; City of Newport News; Commonwealth’s
Attorney; Department of Juvenile Services; Ft. Eustis
Family Advocacy; Healthy Families Initiative; Hampton
Newport News Community Builders Network; Hampton Newport
News Community Services Board; Libraries & Information
Services; Newport News Commission on Youth; Newport News
Police Department; Newport News Public Schools; Newport
News Redevelopment & Housing Authority; Newport News
Department of Social Services; Office of Human Affairs;
Office on Youth Development; Parks, Recreation & Tourism;
Peninsula Health District; Peninsula Metropolitan YWCA;
Planning Department; PreSchool Partners of the VA Peninsula;
Public Utilities; Transition Family Violence Services;
United Way of the Virginia Peninsula; YWCA Virginia Peninsula.
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American
Indian Resource Center, Inc. (AIRC)
328 E. Downing St.
Tahlequah, OK 74464
918-456-5581
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Alternatives American Indian Resource Center, Inc. is
a minority-owned non-profit organization with twenty-three
years’ experience providing technical assistance,
training, evaluation, program development, and program
implementation at the local, state, and federal levels.
The organization’s work often focuses on supporting
the American Indian population in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES) Project
Project Description:
AIRC's CEY project is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity and youth violence.
Objectives of the YES project include: 1) assessments
of the needs of partner organizations regarding their
infrastructure, strengths, and challenges; 2) training
for all the partners on team building, leadership, and
grant writing; 3) establishment of an intra- and inter-mentoring
program for partners; 4) creation of a Web-based resource
center for partners' use; 5) development of partners into
a collaborative association that meets monthly and works
towards a larger common goal for the community as a whole;
and 6) collaborative development of a model training curriculum
for youth action groups on topics such as service leadership,
community mapping, city governance, and community history.
The YES Project targets the community of youth-serving
programs, many of which have a special focus on supporting
the American Indian population in the five counties of
Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, and Sequoya in northeastern
Oklahoma that are within the fourteen-county jurisdictional
area of the Cherokee Nation.
Partners:
Boys and Girls Club of Delaware County; Boys and Girls
Club of Green County, Inc.; Boys and Girls Club of Sequoyah
County; Boys and Girls Club of Tahlequah; CASA of Cherokee
County; FASTimes (First United Methodist Youth); Fresh
Start Ranch; Heartland Youth, Inc.; Legacy Cultural Learning
Community, Inc.; Marble Community Pantry and Youth Services;
Skate Park Youth Advisory Council
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American
Indian Services, Inc.
817 N. Elmwood Ave.
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
605-334-4060
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
American Indian Services, Inc. is a non-profit organization
chartered thirty-three years ago by a board of directors
comprised of Native Americans, prominent doctors, and
businesspeople in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with a mission
to “serve and build community for Native Americans
now and in the future.” It provides a food pantry,
a shelter for transitional housing, social services, mental
health services, traditional Native American parenting
classes, and tutoring services that encompass both Dakota/Lakota-
and Western-based teachings and strategies for learning.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
The Okiciyapi (Helping One Another) Youth Empowerment
Project
Project Description:
American Indian Services is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity and youth violence.
This project is aiming to infuse Native American culture
into existing programs at partnering organizations in
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to improve their ability to
reach families and youth, particularly those currently
involved in the juvenile justice system. The grassroots
strategy by which the partnership will work towards this
goal includes: 1) monthly brown bag luncheons with the
director of the Okiciyapi program and use of written materials
and radio and television programming to promote the work
being done by the partnership; 2) training in the history
and culture of native populations; and 3) training and
technical assistance in such areas as 501(c)(3) incorporation,
financial management software training, and leadership
mentoring services for newly formed partners.
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Asian
American Coalition for Children and Families, Inc. (CACF)
50 Broad St., Ste. 1701
New York, NY 10004
212-809-4675
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Asian American Coalition for Children and Families, Inc.
is a pan-Asian children’s advocacy group. CACF was
founded in 1986 with the aim of “improving the well-being
of Asian Pacific American children, youth, and families.”
CACF provides training and technical assistance to faith-based
and community organizations, schools, and city agencies
to effectively serve their target population in the Corona,
Elmhurst, Flushing, Jackson Heights, and Jamaica neighborhoods
of Queens, New York.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Project PACT (Promoting Assets and Capacity Together)
Project Description:
Asian American Coalition for Children and Families is
building the capacity of faith-based and community organizations
to provide enhanced social services to address gang activity,
youth violence, and child abuse and neglect. PACT is a
community-driven partnership between four Asian-American
youth-serving organizations that have identified common
priorities and strategies to build their capacity to better
serve disadvantaged youth. Capacity building activities
includes: 1) annual retreats for board members of each
organization, during which they develop leadership succession
plans and learn more about the role of board members;
2) individualized technical assistance on board responsibilities
and functioning based on consultants’ observations
of board meetings; 3) leadership roundtables and coaching
for executive directors; 4) professional development workshops
and seminars on management, grant writing, and career
growth for staff; 5) consulting to develop community needs
assessment plans and data collection instruments; 6) technical
assistance on recruiting, training, and supporting youth
who help conduct the community needs assessment and analyze
data; 7) training and technical assistance on outcomes-based
evaluation processes and tools and help in conducting
annual evaluations of services; 8) regular IT support
from an IT consultant on purchase of new equipment and
software, development of new tracking databases, and assessment
and implementation of enhanced communications strategies;
and 9) assessment and facilitation to improve, such as
roundtable discussions, partners’ other collaborative
relationships.
Partners:
Filipino American Human Services, Inc.; Korean American
Family Services Center; South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!)
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Asian
Community Mental Health Board
310 8th St., Ste. 201
Oakland, CA 94607
510-869-6062
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Asian Community Mental Health Board has served the
Oakland, California, area for over thirty years by providing
treatment services for youth who are actively using drugs
and alcohol and by providing licensed clinical supervision
for middle and high school age youth who are referred
by schools and probation officers for violent behavior.
Additionally, it operates the Caring Asian Families Alliance,
a multidisciplinary team of bilingual and bicultural mental
health professionals who provide individual, family, and
group psychotherapy, crisis counseling, and home- and
school-based visits.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Regional Alliance for Community Empowerment (RACE)
Project Description:
The Asian Community Mental Health Board is building the
capacity of faith-based and community organizations to
provide enhanced social services to address gang activity
and youth violence. The RACE partnership: 1) addresses
partnership staffing needs and funding; 2) sets a partnership
vision and model for integrated services; 3) is building
capacity to engage harder-to-reach youth by developing
a network of institutional providers and by conducting
focus groups and interviews to inform program development;
4) establishes a workshop schedule and identify topics
to assist the partnership; and 5) provides training and
technical assistance in areas such as board development,
running community forums and focus groups, using QuickBooks
software, and establishing written fiscal policies and
procedures.
Partners:
Filipinos for Affirmative Action; Korean Community Center
of the East Bay; Lao Iu Mien Culture Association; Oakland
Asian Student Educational Services; and Pacific Islander
Kia Association through the Arts, Research and Curriculum
Associates.
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Augusta-Richmond
County Community Partnership for Children and Families,
Inc. (ARCCP)
353 Telfair St.
Augusta, GA 30901
706-721-4885
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Over the past fifteen years, Augusta-Richmond County Community
Partnership for Children and Families, Inc. (ARCCP), a
non-profit organization that spearheads social service
efforts in the county, has brokered partnership services
to youth ages 12–21, particularly in the areas of
gang activity, juvenile arrest, youth violence, substance
use/abuse, infant mortality, and child abuse/neglect.
ARCCP believes that the needs of youth are better met
by collective community models than by individual agencies.
ARCCP works with a collaborative of more than one-hundred
direct-service organizations providing oversight, support,
training, and leadership to ensure successful delivery
of services.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Augusta-Richmond Community Partnership for Children and
Families, Inc. CEY Project
Project Description:
ARCCP is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
ARCCP’s training and technical assistance approach
will be multifaceted, comprehensive, and ongoing. This
approach consists of: 1) expanding ARCCP’s and its
partners’ resource libraries; 2) offering and supporting
special meetings, seminars, and conferences; 3) offering
state-based resources and support; and 4) offering semi-monthly
training classes and individualized technical assistance
at basic, intermediate, and advanced levels of study.
Training and technical assistance address such topics
as Board and staff development, financial management,
human resources, grant writing, information technology,
curriculum development, program monitoring, and needs
assessment to name a few.
Partners:
Abatsu African Culture Performing Arts; Boys & Girls
Clubs of Augusta; Central Savannah River Area Outreach,
Inc.; Friendly Church of God in Christ Social Services,
Inc.; Generations of Destiny Seekers, Inc.; Georgia Children’s
Mental Health Care Network; Good Hope Social Services,
Inc.; Johnson Youth Organization, Inc.; Koinonia Community
Development Corporation; MACH Academy, Inc.; Ounce of
Prevention Services; Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault Services;
Revelation Ministries
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Bethany
for Children & Families
1830 6th Ave.
Moline, IL 61265
309-736-6649
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Bethany for Children & Families is a non-sectarian,
non-profit agency that has provided services to children
and families in western Illinois and eastern Iowa since
1899. Over the past thirty years, Bethany has moved beyond
the provision of child welfare and adoption services to
address problems and situations that impact children,
youth, and families. Bethany is both a licensed child
welfare and a child-placing agency.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Training and Technical Assistance
Project Description:
Bethany is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
This partnership will include a team of community experts
in non-profit development and management to formulate
a bifocal certification process that consists of classroom
training throughout the year and onsite technical assistance
for every training session attended. The participants
in the project, including the lead organization and its
partners, expect outcomes of 1) increased overall organizational
stability and sustainability; 2) enhanced ability to provide
youth services; 3) augmented ability to develop and diversify
funding sources; and 4) improved ability to establish
collaborations and alliances, as well as an effective
economy of scale. This project targets youth-serving,
faith based and community organizations in the Iowa counties
of Clinton, Jackson, Muscatine, and Scott, along with
the western Illinois counties of Henry, Mercer, and Rock
Island.
Partners:
Arrowhead Ranch, Big Brothers/Big sisters, Boys and Girls
Club of the Mississippi Valley, Broadway Presbyterian,
Child Advocacy Board, Child Abuse Council, Christian Friendliness,
Christ United Methodist Church, Church of Peace, Community
Caring Council, Eagle Ridge Child Outreach, Inc., Faith
Lutheran Church, Family Resources, Inc., First Baptist
of Blue Grass, Gloria Dei Presbyterian Church, Friendly
House, Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, Grace Lutheran
Church, Greater Antioch Church, Hope Enrichment Center,
Hope House, Keep Rock Island Beautiful, Martin Luther
King Center, Metropolitan Youth Group, Safer Foundation,
Rock Island County Area Project, Second Baptist Church,
United Way of the Quad Cities Area, Churches United of
the Quad City Area, The Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit
Resource Center
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BiasHELP,
Inc.
60 Adams Ave.
Hauppauge, NY 11788
631-479-6015
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Incorporated in 1997, BiasHELP, Inc. serves the region
of Long Island, New York, by fostering diverse coalitions
that work toward the prevention of youth violence. BiasHELP,
Inc. strives “to bridge Long Island’s geographic,
social, racial, and ethnic divides by mobilizing a wide
variety of stakeholders against violence of all kinds,
including bullying and gang violence.” BiasHELP,
Inc. provides coalition development, technical assistance,
and training.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Building Excellence and Sustainability Together (BEST).
Project Description:
BiasHELP is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
youth violence. To better serve the needs of Long Island’s
growing youth and minority populations, BiasHELP, Inc.
has implemented an asset-based model that includes: 1)
an assessment of current capacity to develop a blueprint
for capacity building activities and measure changes in
capacity over time; 2) the facilitation of monthly meetings
to bring project partners together for networking; 3)
the preparation of annual retreats to promote peer-learning;
4) the provision of workshops and ongoing technical assistance
to build skills of volunteers, staff, management, and
board members of all partnering organizations; and 5)
the distribution of bi-weekly “BEST Practices”
email bulletins to share resources for capacity building.
Partners:
Economic Opportunity Council of Suffolk, Inc.; First Baptist
Church of Riverhead; Hispanic Brotherhood of Rockville
Centre; Struggling To Reunite Our New Generation Youth,
Inc.
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Black
Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston, Inc. (BMA)
2326-R Washington St.
Roxbury, MA 02199
617-445-2737
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Black Ministerial Alliance is an intermediary organization
with historical faith-inspired motivation. It provides
funding and technical assistance to faith-based and community
non-profit organizations that support and strengthen youth
and families from low-income communities in Boston. BMA
has been involved in collaborative community efforts around
the youth violence crisis since 1994.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston’s Communities
Empowering Youth Project
Project Description:
BMA is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity and youth violence. BMA conducted organizational
assessments of all partnering organizations and worked
with each partner to develop a training and technical
assistance work plan to address its specific capacity
needs. Each work plan entails: 1) group training workshops
that are supplemented through individualized technical
assistance; 2) bi-monthly CEY partner meetings that addresses
common capacity needs or service coordination issues through
peer-learning and sharing of expertise, as well as establish
collaborative relationships among partners; 3) monthly
High-Risk Youth Network meetings that bring together more
than 127 government agencies, funders, employers, and
faith-based and community organizations to facilitate
service coordination for high-risk youth in Boston; 4)
partner stipends; and 5) assessments to record progress
on meeting work plan goals.
Partners:
Bethel Pentecostal Church; Boston TenPoint Coalition;
Boston Urban Youth Foundation; Bruce Wall Ministries;
Children’s Services of Roxbury; Cape Verdean Community
UNIDO; Future Hope Apprenticeship Program; Mt. Olive Kingdom
Builders Worship Center; Project RIGHT; Inc.; Roxbury
Youthworks
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The
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
809 S. Marshfield Ave., MB 502, M/C 551
Chicago, IL 60612
312-996-1319
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public
Health houses the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention
(The Project). The Project is recognized locally, nationally,
and internationally as a leader in the violence prevention
community. The Project takes a multifaceted approach to
violence by changing the thinking and behavior of those
at greatest risk. Over time, The Project has established
partnerships with faith and community based organizations
in gang impacted communities and has used these collaborations
to engage individuals at risk for violence and help them
become contributing members of society. The Project is
supported in part by the U.S. Department of Justice, the
State of Illinois, and numerous foundations as well as
private organizations.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
CeaseFire Communities Empowering Youth Program
Project Description:
The Board of Trustees’ CEY project is building the
capacity of faith-based and community organizations to
provide enhanced social services to address gang activity
and youth violence. CeaseFire is a multifaceted approach
to stopping gun violence by changing the thinking and
behavior of those at greatest risk of shooting someone
or being shot themselves. To this end, CeaseFire’s
parent organization, the Chicago Project for Violence
Prevention (the Project), a division of the Board of Trustees
of the University of Illinois, collaborates with faith-based
and community organizations to mobilize their communities
and identify and engage those individuals who are likely
to be involved in a shooting, redirecting them to positive
pursuits. The Project has been in existence since 1995
and is supported by the U.S. Department of Justice and
the State of Illinois. CeaseFire addresses the four areas
of capacity building (community engagement, leadership
development, organizational development, and program development)
by: 1) assessing partners’ assets, leadership, missions,
and organizational systems; 2) providing on- and offsite
training that involves group-based adult education and
skill building activities; 3) providing onsite technical
assistance that is customized to the needs of each partner;
4) developing curricula to institutionalize core training
for key community partner positions; and 5) developing
a “Toolkit for Partners” as a readily available
online reference for managers on implementation of CeaseFire,
maintenance of both program and fiscal records, and program
and fiscal reporting requirements. CeaseFire targets the
issue of violence prevention in the Auburn-Gresham, Grand
Boulevard and Logan Square neighborhoods of Chicago, Illinois.
Partners:
Alliance of Logan Square Organizations; Grand Boulevard
Federation; Target Area Development Corporation, Ceasefire
West
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Boys
and Girls Clubs of the Big Bend (BGCBB)
306 Laura Lee Ave.
Tallahassee, FL 32301
850-656-8100
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Since 1993, Boys and Girls Clubs of the Big Bend has been
providing youth development services in the panhandle
region of Florida, serving Tallahassee, Leon, Franklin,
and Jefferson counties. BGCBB provides after-school and
summer programs that focus on four aspects of youth development:
a sense of belonging, a sense of usefulness, a sense of
competence, and a sense of influence.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Big Bend Tallahassee/Leon
County Communities Empowering Youth Project
Project Description:
BGCBB is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
youth violence. BGCBB’s approach for this collaborative
includes: 1) an assessment of organizational capacity
and the development of detailed action plans to support
the types of training and technical assistance services
provided throughout the project; 2) coaching to build
skills on topics such as succession planning, board development,
strategic planning, financial management, and components
of successful youth programming; 3) financial assistance
to implement action plans; and 4) monitoring progress
utilizing an independent evaluator to provide performance
feedback to partner organizations. Additionally, BGCBB
will establish learning circles in which executive directors
of each project partner receive coaching from their peers
on how to work through a current, real-life issue.
Partners:
Capital City Youth Services; Children’s Home Society
of North Florida; Faith Family Resource Center; Kids Incorporated
of the Big Bend; Tallahassee Girls Choir; United Partners
for Human Services; Youth Leadership Tallahassee
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Capital
Workforce Partners (CWP)
One Union Place, 3rd Floor
Hartford, CT 06103
860-522-1111
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Capital Workforce Partners, based in Hartford, Connecticut,
was established in 1993 and provides free-of-charge training
and career services that include several initiatives targeted
specifically at youth. CWP currently serves thirty-seven
central Connecticut municipalities with a mission “to
support an effective workforce development system that
strategically connects economic development and education
resources for the purpose of building and maintaining
a strong and vibrant workforce.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Hartford's Empower Local Partners (HELP) Project: Strengthening
Alternatives to Youth Violence and Gang Activity
Project Description:
CWP is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
youth violence. The HELP project involves: 1) conducting
a community needs assessment; 2) conducting an assessment
of partners to pinpoint capacity building needs in each
of the four critical areas (community engagement, leadership,
organizational development, and program development);
3) facilitating training and customized technical assistance
seminars to provide professional and career development
for staff of project partners and build skills in non-profit
incorporation, fundraising, grant writing, financial systems,
management systems, programmatic best practices in violence
prevention, data-driven outcome measurement, and marketing;
4) monitoring progress of capacity building efforts; and
5) convening quarterly colleague workgroups and information
sessions to promote problem solving, sharing of ideas,
and co-mentoring.
Partners:
Blue Hills Civic Association; Boys and Girls Club of Hartford;
Capitol Region of Conference of Churches, Inc.; Catholic
Charities - Archdiocese of Hartford; Center for Children’s
Advocacy; COMPASS Youth Collaborative; Connecticut Puerto
Rican Forum; Hartford Communities that Care; Men of Color;
Metropolitan Community Development Corporation; Mi Casa
Family Service and Educational Center; Our Piece of the
Pie; Sons of Thunder; South Arsenal Neighborhood Development
Corporation; Union Baptist Church Community Engagement
Program; Urban League of Greater Hartford
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Catholic
Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Inc.
1112 Broadway
Kansas City, MO 64105
816-221-4377
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Inc. began
as an orphanage in 1876 and has grown into a comprehensive
social service provider for individuals and families in
the metropolitan area of Kansas City, Missouri. Its programs
include adoption, youth anger management and counseling,
services to pregnant teens, community based abstinence
education, and youth violence and truancy prevention.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Communities Empowering Youth Program
Project Description:
Catholic Charities is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address youth violence. Its Communities Empowering
Youth Program : 1) provides leadership to a coalition
of faith based and community organizations for a minimum
of three years to achieve increased capacity through training
and technical assistance sessions that are based on individual
organizational needs assessments; 2) engages youth as
partners in fostering positive development in their lives
by creating a youth leadership coalition comprised of
at least six youth per year to provide input on CEY program
activities, and by supporting youth in this role through
life, leadership, and communication classes; and 3) integrates
the CEY coalition into the fabric of the communities of
Kansas City and St. Joseph, Missouri, by training partners
in ways of involving youth and by showcasing partners’
programs and services through media releases and positive
youth development conferences.
Partners:
Church Health Ministry Coalition; Dismas; Gay, Lesbian,
and Straight Education Network; Mother’s Refuge;
Peers Organized to Support Student Excellence (POSSE);
Saint Stephen’s Academy; Save a Child; Teen/Youth
Community Awareness Program (T-CAP); Vineyard Neighborhood
Association
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Center
for Human Services
1700 McHenry Village Way, Ste. 11
Modesto, CA 95350
209-526-1476
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Center for Human Services was founded in 1970 with
the mission “to provide and promote outcome-based
counseling, prevention, and shelter programs for youth
and families with the goals of preventing child abuse,
youth violence, and increasing youth resiliency.”
CHS is the primary provider of Medi-Cal mental health
services for low-income youth in Stanislaus County, California.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Stanislaus Community Capacity Project (SCCP)
Project Description:
CHS is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
This project is designed to build the systems and expertise
of partnering organizations through training and technical
assistance that cover: 1) professional development for
staff and volunteers to help them understand their responsibilities
within the workplace and their roles as human service
professionals; 2) budgeting, financial forecasting, and
grants management to develop partners’ financial
and IT systems and ensure their fiduciary health; and
3) survey implementation and demographic data collection
and analysis to help partners examine their service portfolios
in light of the shifting needs of youth and families.
Also, this project will assist partners in implementing
new hardware and software, such as data tracking systems,
to support the above-mentioned activities.
Partners:
Ceres Partnership for Healthy Children; Westside Community
Alliance
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Chicago
Area Project (CAP)
55 East Jackson Boulevard, Ste. 900
Chicago, IL 60604
312-663-3574
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Chicago Area Project is a private, non-profit organization
with a 75-year history of providing delinquency services
in communities with limited opportunity. CAP’s mission
is “to work toward the prevention and eradication
of juvenile delinquency through the development and support
of affiliated, local community, self-help efforts in communities
where the need is greatest.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Strengthening Organizations Leading Youth Development
(SOLYD)
Project Description:
CAP is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
Key capacity building strategies in the areas of community
engagement, leadership, organizational development, and
program development include: 1) individualized technical
assistance; 2) learning circles; 3) resource forums; 4)
executive coaches; and 5) linkages to existing training.
CAP has identified the six Chicago neighborhoods of Austin,
East Garfield, Englewood, Humboldt Park, North Lawndale,
and Woodlawn, and the four suburban Cook County communities
of Ford Heights, Markham, Maywood, and Robbins, as the
service areas for this project.
Partners:
Bishop Shepard Memorial Center; Ford Heights Community
Committee; Fresh Start Intervention; Lillian Smith Center
for Youth Development; Mid Austin Steering Committee;
Saint Agatha Family Empowerment; Sembrando El Futuro
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Chiesman
Foundation for Democracy, Inc.
1641 Deadwood Ave.
Rapid City, SD 57702
605-341-4311
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Chiesman Foundation for Democracy, Inc. was founded
in 1995 as a private, non-partisan organization that focuses
on civic education, engagement, and leadership. It researches,
develops, and disseminates materials relevant to these
foci, and provides evaluation services and technical assistance
to faith based and community organizations, school districts,
and other entities. The Chiesman Foundation for Democracy,
Inc. has three offices located in Pierre, Rapid City,
and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Empowering Youth Training and Technical Assistance Program
Project Description:
The Chiesman Foundation for Democracy’s CEY project
is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity and youth violence. This project includes:
1) planning meetings to communicate the appropriate use
of federal funds; 2) a comprehensive organizational needs
assessments to fully identify each partner’s specific
capacity building needs in the areas of community engagement,
leadership development, organizational development, and
program development, and to develop individualized workplans;
3) training events that include group-based adult education
and skill-building activities; 4) one-on-one technical
assistance for each partner’s leadership, key staff,
and board members; 5) an annual workplan review to respond
to partners’ changing needs and priorities; and
6) an evaluation to determine whether project activities
have contributed to organizational improvement and achievement
of capacity building goals.
Partners:
The Club for Boys; Rural American Initiatives; Youth &
Family Services, Inc.
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Child
Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County (CAPC)
218 Estates Dr.
Roseville, CA 95678
916-772-2272
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County is
a private, non-profit organization established in 1988
to prevent child abuse in all its forms through public
awareness campaigns and direct services to children and
families. Another component of CAPC’s mission is
“to ensure effective, efficient, coordinated children’s
services countywide,” a goal it works toward by
engaging in collaborative activities with other youth-serving
organizations.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Technical Assistance Coalition (TAC)
Project Description:
CAPC is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
youth violence and child abuse and neglect. This project
aims to enhance board member, executive staff, and staff
capabilities in strategic planning, grant writing, evidence-based
programming, and collaborative relationship building through:
1) training and technical assistance meetings that are
attended by staff liaisons who later transfer the knowledge
they have gained to staff and volunteers at their own
organizations; 2) a learning community in which partners
participate and provide feedback during one another’s
planning processes; 3) partnership meetings that are facilitated
by professional mediators to create a shared vision for
the partnership; 4) a forum for partners to plan interagency
programming and joint funding applications; and 5) yearly
internal assessments of each TAC partner. To foster collaboration
among project partners, individual organizations are invited
to provide assistance on specific areas in which they
hold expertise. Additionally, expert capacity building
consultants are accessed through local resources, such
as the Center for Applied Research Solutions and the Sacramento
Non-Profit Resource Center.
Partners:
A Touch of Understanding, Inc.; Big Brothers Big Sisters
of Sacramento, Boys and Girls Club of Auburn; Lincoln
Lighthouse Counseling and Family Resource Center; Placer
Collaborative Network; Sierra Adoption Services; Sierra
Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence; Wonder, Inc.
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Child
and Family Resource Council
118 Commerce Ave. SW, Ste. 220
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
616-454-4673
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Since 1985, the Child and Family Resource Council has
worked to promote community engagement and capacity building
with the goals of violence prevention and positive youth
development. It has been designated as the child abuse
and neglect council for Kent County by the Michigan Children’s
Trust Fund. It operates support networks for new parents,
programs that help children achieve developmental milestones,
and a violence and sexual assault prevention program for
teens.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Empowering Youth Project
Project Description:
Based on organizational assessments of each partner, this
project is providing capacity building activities that
address the four critical areas (community engagement,
leadership development, organizational development, and
program development). Specific strategies include: 1)
coalition-level workshops on a commonly identified need;
2) agency-level workshops that are provided to a specific
agency’s board or staff based upon individual need
or desire for privacy and confidentiality; and 3) agency-level,
one-on-one technical assistance to organizational leadership.
Additionally, the Child and Family Resource Council will
complete a community needs assessment related to gang
activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect;
review community services databases that track youth development
services and work towards appropriate consolidation of
databases; and identify best practices related to youth
development and violence prevention and add them to an
online resource listing.
Partners:
Arbor Circle; Baxter; Campfire; D.A. Blodgett; Fountain
Hill Counseling; Girl Scouts Michigan Trail; Safe Haven
Ministries; South End Community Outreach Ministries; United
Methodist Community House
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Child
and Family Services of Newport County (CFS)
24 School St.
Newport, RI 02840
401-849-2300
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
CFS has been a center for community involvement and a
human services provider for Newport County, Rhode Island,
since 1866. On this project, CFS is serving as the lead
agency of the Newport Partnership for Families, a collaboration
of local agencies and organizations established in 1990
with the mission “to develop and maintain a coordinated
network of services to strengthen all families in the
city of Newport.” The Newport Partnership for Families
advocates for families and works to increase access to
and utilization of services by engaging in collaborative
initiatives, operating one-stop service centers, and developing
referral networks.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Newport Partnership for Families
Project Description:
CFS’s CEY project is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity, youth violence, and
child abuse and neglect. The Newport Partnership for Families
objectives are: 1) implement an inter- and intra-agency
staff mentoring program; 2) implement a leadership development
program based on a model currently in effect at a partner
agency; 3) provide workshops on revenue development to
enhance strategies, marketing, and effective communication;
4) provide technical assistance on revenue diversification,
advocacy efforts for youth-serving organizations, sustainability,
and community engagement; and 5) hire a research assistant
to synthesize literature about current best practices
in community-wide strategies that aim to address underlying
causes of social issues such as crime and neglect.
Partners:
Boys and Girls Club of Newport; Community Organization
for Drug and Alcohol Control (CODAC) Behavioral Healthcare;
East Bay Community Action Program; Visiting Nurse Services
of Newport and Bristol Counties; Women’s Resource
Center
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Children’s
Coalition for the Bayou Region (CCBR)
8024 Park Ave.
Houma, LA 70364
985-872-1880
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year One: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Operating in the Assumption, Lafourche, and Terrebonne
parishes of southern Louisiana, the mission of Children’s
Coalition for the Bayou Region is to ensure that “all
children are healthy, safe, educated, and nurtured.”
To that end, CCBR coordinates collaborative initiatives,
such as “Safe and Healthy Kids Day,” during
which organizations come together to provide services,
give out information, and award prizes. CCBR has helped
implement educational programs for youth on finding alternatives
to violence, making good choices, and choosing abstinence.
CCBR has also organized media campaigns on parenting and
public forums on substance abuse prevention.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Children's Coalition for the Bayou Region's Community
Empowering Youth Program
Project Description:
CCBR is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
CCBR and partnering organizations are enrolled in the
Louisiana Association of Non-Profit Organization’s
(LANO) Standards for Excellence certification program.
Activities include: 1) an application clinic to provide
organizations with information on assembling their application
for the certification program; 2) a preliminary review
of each organization’s application and an organizational
assessment to design individualized capacity development
plans; 3) trainings and technical assistance to advise
on best practices in non-profit management and provide
guidelines and sample policies and procedures documents;
and 4) monthly meetings to review progress.
Partners:
Beautiful Zion Baptist Church; AJDC Pharr Foundation;
Circle of Hope.; Dulac Community Center; Masterbuilders
Community Center; Casa of Terrebonne
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Christ
Temple Holiness Church
4000 Velva Ave.
Shreveport, LA 71109
318-635-9417
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Founded in 1921, Christ Temple Holiness Church works to
prevent youth gang activity and violence in Shreveport,
Louisiana, by serving community youth through programs
and services that include after-school tutorials, music
enrichment, education, and character development.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Building Better Communities Partnership
Project Description:
Christ Temple Holiness Church is building the capacity
of faith-based and community organizations to provide
enhanced social services to address gang activity, youth
violence, and child abuse and neglect. Christ Temple Holiness
Church and partner organizations: 1) formalize the community
partnership through the adoption of a memorandum of agreement,
the creation of a joint mission statement, the establishment
of ground rules and policies, and the creation of a rotating
leadership and action plan to which all partners contribute;
2) involve appropriate staff in the completion of organizational
self-assessments; 3) complete community mapping and needs
assessments to develop a coordinated response to these
needs while delivering consistent messages and reaching
youth through a variety of channels; 4) receive financial
assistance to fund additional capacity building activities;
5) create a youth advisory board and develop members’
leadership skills to provide input on issues youth face
in the community, provide feedback on programs and services
designed to address those issues, and get buy-in; 6) send
executive directors and board members to trainings covering
leadership development, organizational development, program
development, community engagement, and community advocacy
for social justice; 7) receive one-on-one technical assistance;
8) create a comprehensive strategic plan for the partnership;
and 9) conduct semi-annual town hall meetings to inform
constituents of the partnership’s goals and progress.
Partners: Adkins Ministries,
Inc.; Families United for Change, Inc.;LEHSOM, Inc.; New
Zion Baptist Church Urban Corporation; Olive Branch Ministries;
Possessing Your Power Program, Inc.; Soldiers of Compassion
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City
of Peoria Community Foundation of Central Illinois (CFCI)
211 Fulton St., Ste. 300
Peoria, IL 61602
309-495-8926
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Since 1988, the Community Foundation of Central Illinois
has been a vehicle to serve donors with varied interests,
at various levels of charitable giving. CFCI links those
donors with charitable agencies that can most efficiently
carry out the donors’ objectives and desires, and
offers maximum flexibility in terms of assets that can
be used to create a fund and options for the use of a
donor’s gifts.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
City of Peoria CEY Program
Project Description:
CFCI is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
This capacity building project involves: 1) community
assessment and mapping; 2) volunteer recruitment, development,
and retention; 3) grant writing and research; 4) consortium
building; 5) program design, development, and implementation;
and 6) monthly meetings and quarterly reports to CFCI
for assessment and assistance. In conducting the above-mentioned
activities, the partnership makes use of qualitative and
quantitative pre- and post-service assessments to determine
the true extent of need, identify best approaches, and
track modifications. CFCI contracts with the City of Peoria
Workforce Development Department in carrying out this
project in target areas including the County of Peoria,
the City of Peoria, and a U.S. Department of Justice-designated
Weed & Seed area within the City of Peoria.
Partners:
Children’s Home Association; Community Builders
Foundation; Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity;
Tri-County (Peoria) Urban League
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Colorado
Foundation for Families and Children (CFFC)
303 East 17th Ave., Ste. 400
Denver, CO 80203
303-837-8466
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Established in 1991, Colorado Foundation for Families
and Children (CFFC) is a non-profit statewide intermediary
organization that provides training, technical assistance,
evaluation, and capacity building services to faith-based
and community organizations that serve vulnerable families,
youth, and children. Its mission is “to identify,
create, and support the best programs, policies, and practices
to improve health, education, and well-being of children
and their families.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Capacity Building for Community-based and Faith Based
Youth Serving Partners
Project Description:
CFFC is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
This project involves a three-tiered strategy: 1) ongoing,
customized technical assistance that is based on organizational
assessments and their resulting capacity building plans
to address the four critical capacity building areas of
community engagement, leadership development, organizational
development, and program development; 2) peer networks
to bring together project partners with other community
stakeholders for the purpose of conducting a strategic
community prevention planning process that identifies
youth needs, services, resources, gaps, and areas needing
improved coordination between agencies; and 3) community
summits to build the strength of both project partners
and their peer networks on program development topics
such as effective gang prevention and intervention practices,
violence prevention strategies, and mentoring programs.
Partners:
Bennie Goodwin After School Academic Program (ASAP); The
Conflict Center; Ethiopian Community Development Council
Inc./The African Community Center; Goals, Inc.; Project
Pave; Project Respect; Tree House; Youth Biz.
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Colorado
State University
114 Bristlecone Dr
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970-484-2580
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
In 1989, Colorado State University helped develop the
Even Start Family Centered Learning project, which became
the Community Organizing to Reach Empowerment (CORE) Center
in 2002. Through partnerships with Colorado State University,
Poudre School District, and local community organizations,
the CORE Center provides educational programs and support
services to youth and families from diverse, high-need
backgrounds to: 1) improve and stabilize physical living
conditions; 2) increase the level of safety in the neighborhoods
and the well-being of the family; and 3) increase educational
and economic opportunities that lead to self-sufficiency.
In addition to providing direct services, the CORE Center
also works as a capacity builder with a mission “to
serve as a community-based learning site for other community
organizations.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Fort Collins Communities Empowering Youth Collaborative
(FCCEYC)
Project Description:
Colorado State University is building the capacity of
faith-based and community organizations to provide enhanced
social services to address gang activity, youth violence,
and child abuse and neglect. FCCEYC will 1) conduct initial
research to assess organizations’ current capacity
building needs in the areas of leadership development,
organizational development, program development, and community
engagement; 2) develop action plans and specific strategies
to meet goals; 3) reflect on the impact and outcomes of
training programs and activities; 4) and evaluate the
effectiveness, appropriateness, and outcomes of capacity
building. Specific capacity building activities will include
retreats, workshops, in-service activities, and technical
assistance support.
In addition, FCCEYC is addressing the needs of neighborhoods
in the Fort Collins’ North College Corridor by:
1) developing an effective collaborative with organizations
with demonstrated success in leadership and effective
programs; 2) strengthening the knowledge and skills of
the lead organization and key partners; 3) increasing
skilled leadership and program personnel; 4) forging new
collaborations between key faith-based groups, local organizations,
and neighborhood residents; and 5) implementing a systematic
plan for service provision based on research strategies
and tactics with measurable outcomes.
Partners:
Healthier Communities Coalition; Larimer County Cooperative
Extension 4-H Youth Development Program; Office of Student
Leadership and Civic Engagement at Colorado State University;
Vineyard Church of Fort Collins
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Columbia-Boone
County Community Partnership
601 Bus. Loop 70 W., 217C
Columbia, MO 65203
573-256-1890
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Columbia-Boone County Community Partnership (CBCCP)
targets the distressed community of Columbia’s City
Council Ward I in Boone County, Missouri to reduce the
violent gang behavior that has increased in this area
during the last few years. CBCCP has experience working
with disadvantaged youth, victims of, or participants
in, violence as well as with victims of child abuse and
neglect.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Community Empowering Youth in Columbia, Missouri
Project Description:
CBCCP’s CEY project is building the capacity of
faith-based and community organizations to provide enhanced
social services to address gang activity and youth violence.
CBCCP and partnering members receive training and technical
assistance in board composition, governance, communication
strategies, grant writing, program monitoring and evaluation,
asset mapping, and staff development. The knowledge and
skills gained through these activities allow the partnership
members to: 1) better compete for federal funding; 2)
design better quality intervention programs; and 3) provide
at-risk youth with positive alternatives to violence and
gang activity. The project will focus on Columbia's City
Council Ward I in Boone County, Missouri in order to address
the increase in gang violence in that area.
Partners:
Destiny of Hope; Intersection; Youth Empowerment Program
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Communities
In Schools of GA, Inc.
600 West Peachtree Street, Suite 1200
Atlanta, GA 30308
404-888-5784
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Communities In Schools of GA, Inc. (CISGA) was formed
in 1989 to champion the connection of needed community
resources with schools to help young people successfully
learn, stay in school, and prepare for life. CISGA offers
programming to disadvantaged youth as well as supports
the development of local affiliates throughout Georgia.
Programs include mentoring partnership, youth leadership,
civic engagement, tutoring programs, and parent education.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Compassion Capital Fund Communities Empowering Youth Program
Project Description:
CISGA is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
youth violence. The CEY project is building on an existing
coalition, the Provider’s Council of the Georgia
Mentoring Partnership, operated by CISGA. The project
fosters positive youth development, provides alternatives
to violence and gang activity, and better serves those
most in need by: 1) increasing the effectiveness and sustainability
of CISGA and each partner; 2) enhancing the ability of
CISGA and each partner to provide social services; 3)
providing CISGA staff and each partner with the knowledge
and skills needed to diversify funding sources; and 4)
creating more effective collaborative partnerships. After
initial self-assessments, partners participate in a broad
range of trainings, such as grant writing, volunteer recruitment,
career development, and board training, to name a few.
In addition, CISGA and partners are developing web-based
resources to support fundraising efforts and programming,
volunteer training and retention curriculum, communications/public
awareness strategies, and program evaluation tools. CISGA
utilizes AmeriCorps VISTAs to help meet CEY project objectives.
Partners:
CIS of Candler County; CIS of Troup County; CIS of Valdosta/Lowndes
County; Dodge County Connections: A CIS Approach; Glascock
Action Partners; Hart Partners, Inc.
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Community
Prevention Partnership of Berks County (CPPBC)
227 North 5th St.
Reading, PA 19601
610-376-6988
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Community Prevention Partnership of Berks County was established
in 1991 through a federal grant from the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center
for Substance Abuse Prevention and became a non-profit
in 1995. CPPBC’s mission is to “make a difference
by offering a variety of prevention services to the Berks
County community that help to address problems and risks
associated with: alcohol, tobacco and other drugs; violence;
teen pregnancy; abuse; crime; school dropout; and other
related social issues.” CPPBC currently delivers
fourteen programs, all of which are collaborative efforts
that entail either co-delivery of services with other
organizations or utilization of partners as advisory boards
that assist with program design, implementation, and delivery.
CPPBC’s programs, which include case management,
crisis intervention, and education classes in areas such
as prenatal care, child development, parenting skills,
substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS, are targeted to low-income
families, particularly Latinos, in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Building Prevention Capacity to Empower Youth in Berks
County Project
Project Description:
CPPBC is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations by providing enhanced social services to
address gang activity and youth violence. This project
strengthens the broad-based community efforts taking place
in Berks County, Pennsylvania, by providing training and
technical assistance to build the capacity of CPPBC, six
partnering organizations, and other community providers
of prevention services. The goal supports Berks County’s
efforts for a more cohesive and comprehensive effort in
addressing the myriad issues that disadvantaged youth
face in the community. Work towards these objectives include:
1) completing a community needs assessment; 2) completing
organizational assessments; 3) devising a prevention plan
for Berks County with the intention that CPPBC and partners
carry out the plan based on results of the needs assessments;
and 4) devising a systematic data collection plan for
all youth prevention programming being implemented in
Berks County. A series of eight workshops on topics such
as grant writing, non-profit status, fiscal management,
cultural competence, program development, evaluation,
and board development are available throughout the year
and are supplemented with ongoing one-on-one technical
assistance.
Partners:
Berks County Prevention Coalition; Boyertown Communities
That Care; Reading-Berks Conference of Churches; Reading
Communities That Care Collaborative; Strengthening Families
First Coalition; Wilson Communities That Care.
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Court
Appointed Special Advocates of New Jersey, Inc. (CASA
of NJ)
844 West State St.
Trenton, NJ 08618
609-695-9400
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Organizational Description:
Formed in 2000, Court Appointed Special Advocates of New
Jersey, Inc. provides training, support, and technical
assistance to fifteen individual CASA programs across
New Jersey. Its mission is “to support a statewide
network of local, non-profit, community-based CASA programs
through which trained volunteers advocate for the best
interests of abused or neglected children in out-of-home
placement.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Capacity Building Project for New Jersey’s CASA
Network
Project Description:
CASA of NJ will build the capacity of faith and community-based
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
child abuse and neglect. CASA of NJ’s plan to increase
its own capacity and that of its partners includes: 1)
assessment of board composition and functioning and development
of plans to address these findings; 2) creation of Executive
Director and Executive Committee succession plans; 3)
staff development in volunteer management and case management
through Rutgers University certification programs; 4)
implementation of quantitative and qualitative oversight
plans for pass-through funding to local CASA programs;
5) accounting training and fiscal management assistance;
6) assessment of office technology needs and development
and implementation of a technology plan for statewide
information sharing between CASA organizations; 7) development
of individualized organizational growth models for each
program focusing on staff and board, facilities and infrastructure,
and budgeting and funding; 6) facilitation of a Rutgers
University research project to determine the CASA model’s
effectiveness in the lives of New Jersey’s abused
and neglected children and development and implementation
of a plan to address inefficiencies identified in this
research project; and 7) collaboration with New Jersey’s
Division of Prevention and Community Partnerships in statewide
community capacity building efforts.
Partners:
Bergen County CASA, Inc.; CASA of Atlantic and Cape May
Counties, Inc.; CASA of Burlington County, Inc.; CASA
of Camden County, Inc.; CASA of Cumberland, Gloucester,
& Salem Counties, Inc.; CASA of Mercer County, Inc.;
CASA of Middlesex County, Inc.; CASA of Monmouth County,
Inc.; CASA of Morris and Sussex Counties, Inc.; CASA of
Ocean County, Inc.; CASA of Somerset, Hunterdon &
Warren Counties, Inc.; CASA of Union County, Inc.; Essex
County CASA, Inc.; Hudson County CASA, Inc.; Passaic County
CASA, Inc.
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Creative
Visions Social Services & Consultants, Inc. (CVSS)
1201 North Watson Rd., Ste. 144
Arlington, TX 76006
817-368-1764
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $224,993
Organizational Description:
Creative Visions Social Services & Consultants, Inc.
has provided youth development programs and services to
at-risk youth in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, since 1997.
CVSS works in poor neighborhoods with high levels of youth
violence and gang activity. Its mission is “to engage
youth by providing leadership skills and opportunities
for self-sufficiency.” The goal of CVSS programs
is “to strengthen and enhance personal growth, education,
economic development, self-sufficiency, and leadership.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Youth Enterprise Resource Center (YERC)
Project Description:
CVSS is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services which
address gang activity and youth violence. CUSS and its
community partners host a Youth Enterprise Resource Center
(YERC) for youth ages 16–22. The YERC project involves:
1) distribution of youth employment and health care surveys
to youth, businesses, hospitals, schools, and faith-based
and community organizations to identify community needs
and assets; 2) creation of a database listing employment
opportunities; 3) development of training curricula for
at-risk youth on employment, health care and substance
abuse prevention; and 4) creation of a Youth Enterprise
Coalition. CVSS’ capacity building efforts for partners
include assisting with non-profit incorporation, leadership
development, board development, fundraising, and fiscal
management. Partner organizations provide each other with
specific expertise in marketing, IT, health, outreach,
and public relations to enhance the capacity of all partners
to provide effective youth programming through the YERC.
Partners:
Emmanuel Fellowship Baptist Church; Envisioning New Boundaries,
Inc.; Self-Renewal Project
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Delta
State University, Center for Community and Economic Development
1417 College St.
PO Box 3134
Cleveland, MS 38733
662-846-4339
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Established in 1994, the Center for Community and Economic
Development at Delta State University engages in teaching,
outreach, and research programs to improve and enhance
the quality of life in the Mississippi Delta region. According
to its mission, “building and empowering relationships
that strengthen communities,” the Center for Community
and Economic Development provides community service, training,
and technical assistance to local communities, organizations,
and institutions to improve their capacity to address
regional, community, and economic development needs.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Mississippi Delta Leaders Empowering Youth (MDLEY)
Project Description:
Delta State University Center for Community and Economic
Development is building the capacity of faith-based and
community organizations to provide enhanced social services
to address gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse
and neglect. Sixteen faith-based and community-based organizations
in the Mississippi Delta region have been selected to
join the Mississippi Delta Leaders Empowering Youth (MDLEY)
Program through which they: 1) conduct an organizational
assessment to aid in creating a capacity building plan
with measurable objectives and benchmarks; 2) engage in
monthly face-to-face consultation with an assigned project
consultant to assist in mapping and executing the capacity
building plan; 3) participate in relevant trainings and
technical assistance; 4) receive small group and one-on-one
grant writing training; 5) receive financial assistance
to facilitate implementation of capacity building plans;
6) become members of the Mississippi Center for Non-profits
(MSCN) to access key resources; and 7) attend MSCN’s
annual conference to participate in management and faith-based
and community training. The Center for Community and Economic
Development, the lead agency responsible for project administration,
works with MSCN to provide training and technical assistance
and with the Institute for Community-Based Research to
provide the evaluation component for this project.
Partners:
Albert Jenkins Sr. Ministries, Inc.; Ambassadors for Children;
Beating the Odds; Boys & Girls Club of Washington
County, Inc.; Cleveland School District Mentoring Program;
Cleveland Youth Council; Coach Powe Community Foundation;
Families and Mentors Instituting Leadership in Youth (F.A.M.I.L.Y.);
Lighthouse Arts and Heritage After-School Program; Mississippi
Delta Service Corps; Mississippi Delta Youth Build; Mound
Bayou Public Schools Alumni Association; North Delta Youth
Development Center; Salvation Army of Washington County;
St. Gabriel Mercy Center; West Tallahatchie County Ministerial
Alliance
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Empower
New Haven
59 Elm St.
New Haven, CT 06501
203-776-2777
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Empower New Haven (Empower) is the implementing agency
for the HUD-designated New Haven Empowerment Zone and
has administered programs in the areas of at-risk youth,
business development, housing and homeownership, and workforce
development since 1999. Empower’s mission is “to
facilitate or create processes and practices that provide
sustainable, measurable improvements in the economic status
and quality of life of individuals, families, and businesses
in New Haven, Connecticut.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Compassion Youth Provider Initiative
Project Description:
Empower New Haven is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity and youth violence.
The Compassion Youth Provider Initiative is building upon
Empower’s New Haven Non-Profit Academy, a CCF technical
assistance, training, and financial assistance project
that began in 2004 to build the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations (FBCOs) serving the New Haven
Empowerment Zone. Empower is engaging youth-serving FBCOs
in a five-step capacity building process consisting of:
1) comprehensive organizational needs assessments; 2)
detailed work plans, including timeframes for the provision
of technical assistance, short- and long-term goals, and
a monitoring plan; 3) capacity building training including
courses on organizational bylaws, board development, budgeting
and financial management, youth development, and building
partnerships and collaborations; 4) one-on-one technical
assistance tailored to each organization’s individual
needs; and 5) post assessments of each organization’s
capacity increases.
Partners:
Centro San Jose Catholic Charities; Church on the Rock;
Connecticut Ribat; New Haven 828; New Life Corporation;
Project Model Offender Reintegration Experience; The Color
of Words; City Wide Youth Coalition; the Center for Capacity
Development; New Paradigms Consulting
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Fair
Chance
1413 K St. NW, 3rd floor
Washington, DC 20005
202-338-8206
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Fair Chance provides capacity building support to youth
and family organizations in Washington, DC’s underserved
Ward 5–8 neighborhoods since 2002. Fair Chance’s
service model consists of three components: 1) providing
intensive, individualized technical assistance to faith-based
and community youth programs; 2) building ongoing peer
networks among non-profit leaders; and 3) connecting high
poverty communities to resources outside of their borders.
Fair Chance currently provides assistance to fifteen partner
organizations and plans to expand that number over the
next three years through the CEY grant.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Compassion Capital Fund Communities Empowering Youth Program
Project Description:
Fair Chance is building the capacity of faith-based and
community organizations by providing enhanced social services
to address gang activity and youth violence. The Compassion
Capital Fund Communities Empowering Youth Program includes:
1) a month-long assessment of each partner organization
to gain an understanding of its strengths, weaknesses,
and level of capacity; 2) a one- to two-year work plan
for each partner to specify goals and activities of the
partnership; 3) weekly meetings and ongoing interim communication
via email and phone between Fair Chance Program Associates
and partner organization executive directors to meet partners’
technical assistance needs and implement the work plan;
4) bi-monthly Fair Chance Partner Roundtables to provide
a venue for training in non-profit management topics and
an opportunity for networking; 5) subscription to the
Fair Chance Update, a monthly e-newsletter exclusively
for partner organizations and alumni, to keep each organization
abreast of community developments, partners’ projects
and initiatives, and training and funding opportunities;
and 6) monthly evaluations to collect data and document
each partner’s organizational growth and programmatic
highlights.
Partners:
Ascensions Community Services, Inc.; Beyond Talent; DC
Squash Academy; Free Minds; Interstages; Joy of Sports
Foundations; Kid Power DC; Life Pieces to Masterpieces;
Literacy Volunteers of America; Mentoring ToDAY.
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Families
First New York
29 North Hamilton St.
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
845-452-1110
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Families First New York was established in 2003 with a
mission to “improve the lives of individuals, children,
and families by strengthening the organizations that serve
them.” Families First New York offers its clients
in Poughkeepsie, New York, a full range of basic computer
software tools and an array of workshops including accounting
for non-accountants, correspondence and grammar, cultural
sensitivity, dealing with difficult people, management
planning and team building skills, safety and security,
and time management.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Families First NY: Empowering Youth Agencies
Project Description:
Families First New York is building the capacity of faith-based
and community-based organizations to provide enhanced
social services to address gang activity. The Empowering
Youth Agencies program includes: 1) monthly CEO forums
that are led by Families First New York’s President
and focus on the role CEOs play in the four critical capacity
building areas of community engagement, leadership development,
organizational development, and program development; 2)
a community needs assessment using HAY tools and models;
3) community feedback sessions that report on the needs
assessment; 4) planning, intervention, and treatment planning
sessions in which the partners and other members of the
subcommittee develop coalition strategies based on community
needs assessment results and community feedback; 5) individual
organizational assessments and capacity building plans
that include clear goals, responsibilities, budgets, and
financial commitments; 6) management training sessions
based on needs assessments and suggestions from the CEO
Forum; 7) staff training sessions that address topics
such as cultural diversity, harassment, and standard software
application skills; 8) community youth worker training
sessions that introduce asset-building, good mentoring
practices, and adolescent behavior management techniques
to new youth development workers; 9) implementation of
technical assistance plans that are based on partners’
individual organizational plans; and 10) evaluation and
feedback.
Partners:
Beulah Baptist Church; Cornell Cooperative Extension;
The Family Partnership Center; Family Services, Inc.;
The Neighborhood Economic And Cultural Activities Program;
Nubian Directions, Inc.; Smith Metropolitan AME Zion Church;
Youth Mission Outreach
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Fields
& Associates, Inc.
1628 18th St. SW
Birmingham, AL 35211
205-925-3988
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Field & Associates, Inc., formed in 1991, is a minority
consulting firm in the Birmingham, Alabama metropolitan
area that specializes in providing capacity building services
to small inner city grassroots non-profit organizations.
Its clients include 102 non-profits in Alabama and 143
others nationwide. Field & Associates, Inc. specializes
in strengthening fledgling organizations with humanitarian
ideas, advising on best practices, assisting with applications
for non-profit status, and providing board development
and grant writing training.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Fields & Associates Compassion Capital Fund Project
Project Description:
Fields & Associates is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services addressing gang activity and youth violence.
This project helps partner organizations attract, train,
and retain potential board members; develop both senior
and program staff through training on fundraising, best
practices, goal setting, logistics, motivation, and program
planning; and facilitate program sustainability in order
to involve more youth participants in anti-gang programs.
These objectives are accomplished by: 1) hiring a full-time
program director and an education coordinator for the
lead organization; 2) assessing partners’ capacity
building needs as a basis for establishing year-long trainings;
3) providing capacity building training classes to partners’
staff and board members; 4) formulating customized technical
assistance strategies for partners; 5) reviewing/updating
partners’ bylaws; 6) conducting bi-monthly individualized
coaching/ motivation sessions with each organization’s
executive director; and 7) providing biannual “how
to” 501(3)(c) workshops for all partner organizations.
Partners:
Acknowledge Outreach Ministries; Agape House, Inc.; Alabama
Youth, Inc.; All Nations Performing Arts, Inc.; Beginning
Bridges, Inc.; Blessings Child Development Services, Inc.;
Childcare Service Foundation, Inc.; Disciples Community
Development Corporation (CDC); D&K Child Development
Center, Inc.; Empowerment Outreach Services, Inc.; Families
In Focus, Inc.; Future Links, Inc.; G.R.O.W., Inc.; HopeChest
Foundation, Inc.; Horizon Center, Inc.; Inner City Outreach
Services, Inc.; Joseph’s House, Inc.; New Directions,
Inc.; Operation Help Now, Inc.; Parents Against Violence
Foundation, Inc.; Power of T.E.E.N.S.; Project Moses CDC;
Stephens CDC; Sunflower CDC, Inc. Supreme Leadership Youth
Academy; Treasure Arts, Inc.; WestStar Learning CDC; W.J.
Gilmore Community Services, Inc.; World Changers, Inc.
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Flintridge
Foundation
1040 Lincoln Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103-3263
626-449-0839
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Flintridge Foundation is a private, non-profit foundation
that was established in 1986 with the mission of “nourishing
individualism, honoring diversity in society and nature,
supporting creativity, and promoting just and cooperative
partnerships.” In 1993, Flintridge Foundation’s
Community Services program began serving Northwest Pasadena
by providing trainings, workshops, and one-on-one consulting
and by making its Philanthropy Resource Library available
to youth- and family-serving faith-based and community
organizations. These services and resources are designed
to empower, encourage, and nurture organizational development,
leadership capacity, and responsible fiscal and organizational
management.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Northwest Empowering Communities, Helping Others (ECHO)
Project Description:
Flintridge Foundation is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity, youth violence, and
child abuse and neglect. Specific activities include:
1) a project launch to introduce Northwest ECHO to the
community, share expectations of and requirements for
participation, and generate excitement about the social
benefits that might potentially result in Northwest Pasadena
through the partnership’s work; 2) one-on-one technical
assistance provided by field experts to address needs
and work towards outcomes and strategies that were identified
by individual partners in their organizational capacity
improvement plans; 3) small cluster trainings throughout
the year to address capacity building needs common to
several partners; 4) a mandatory three-hour training on
“Working Effectively with Field Experts” to
empower organizations to be informed consumers of technical
assistance efforts; 5) community engagement events and
bi-annual meetings to provide inspiration, reflection,
and skill building to partner organization staff; 6) partner
stipends that will directly contribute to achieving capacity
building objectives; 7) an Empowering Youth Web site to
serve as a hub for Northwest ECHO participants to access
needs assessment results, training schedules, and links
to capacity building resources and the national CCF CEY
community; and 8) a community needs assessment of Northwest
Pasadena to identify community risk/protective factors,
assets, gaps in resources, service preferences, and barriers
to service utilization.
Partners:
Alkebu-lan Cultural Center; Bridging Resources in Technology
and Education; California Living Histories; Catholic Big
Brothers; El Centro de Accion Social; Creative Arts and
Education Forum; Crown Cities Community Development; D’Veal
Family and Youth Services; Day One; Fun After School Telecommunications
Project; Helping Others To Pursue Excellence Now; Jacobs
Deliverance Foundation; Lake Avenue Community Foundation;
Mentoring and Partnership for Youth Development; Mustangs
on the Move; Neighbors Acting Together Helping All; Neighbors
Empowering Youth; Outward Bound Adventures; Partnership
for Children, Youth, and Families; Pasadena Church Future
in Focus; Pasadena Police Activity League; Pasadena Youth
Center; Pasadena Youth Christian Center; Reach Our Community
Kids; Starting Now to Save a Generation; Teen Futures/Baby
Let’s Wait; Youth Empowered for Success, Corp.
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Flying
High, Inc.
PO Box 4971
Youngstown, OH 44515
330-797-3995
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Organizational Description:
Serving the city of Youngstown, Ohio, Flying High, Inc.’s
mission is “to strengthen youth, their families,
and the community by providing effective, early intervention
services that empower them to increase the knowledge,
skills, attitudes, and behaviors necessary for positive,
productive, and responsible lives.” Flying High,
Inc. has experience providing prisoner re-entry services
and positive youth development activities for children
of ex-offenders. Flying High, Inc. also provides training
and technical assistance to faith-based and community
organizations throughout the Youngstown area.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Let Your Potential Soar Coalition
Project Description:
Flying High will build the capacity of faith and community-based
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity and youth violence. A partnership since
1994, Let Your Potential Soar Coalition’s primary
objectives are to: 1) conduct a community assessment of
Youngstown, Ohio, as it relates to gang activity and violence;
2) conduct individual assessments of young people involved
in or identified as being at risk for gang activity and
violence; 3) develop coordinated responses among coalition
partners to meet assessed needs of youth; 4) build the
capacity of the lead organization and its partners through
one-on-one technical assistance and training sessions
provided by contracted partner Strategy Solutions, Inc.;
5) coordinate coalition efforts with other state and local
youth-serving agencies such as The Mahoning Valley Law
Enforcement Task Force; and 6) work cooperatively and
collaboratively with ACF and other federal agency officials
and other CEY grantees conducting related activities.
These activities will support: 1) a board development
action plan; 2) future product/market positioning strategy;
3) a strategic investment capability plan; 4) a complete
strategic plan; 5) a fund development plan; and 6) an
implementation management plan. Flying High, Inc., hopes
to expand its Let Your Potential Soar Coalition model
to other communities across the United States.
Partners:
HeartReach Ministries; Salvation Army; Warriors, Inc.;
Youngstown Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach
Programs, Inc.
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Hands
Across Cultures Corporation (HACC)
#89 La Puebla Rd.
PO Box 2215
Espanola, NM 87532
505-747-1889
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Hands Across Cultures Corporation was formed in 1992
to address the high rates of youth and families experiencing
human service-related problems, particularly through disease
prevention and health promotion efforts. The mission of
HACC is “to improve the social functioning, health,
education, and well-being of the people of northern New
Mexico through culturally appropriate youth and family-centered
approaches deeply rooted in the multicultural traditions
of the communities.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Moviemiento Para La Vision
Project Description:
HACC is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
The Moviemiento Para La Vision program is providing: 1)
needs assessments of each partner to develop organization-specific
growth plans; 2) multi-day training events that utilize
hands-on adult learning methodologies; 3) onsite, telephone,
small group, and computer-aided technical assistance led
by existing and newly recruited organizational mentors;
and 4) ongoing evaluation to gauge capacity building progress.
The program also plans to design and develop an information
dissemination system based on these activities. DVD technology
will be used to share interactive learning materials,
trainings, short lectures, and case studies that may be
used by faith-based and community providers in the broader
northern New Mexico area as well as by fellow CCF CEY
grantees. Topics will include cultural competency, strengths-based
intervention methods, modern management and supervision
models, technology use, social marketing and environmental
strategies, organizational planning, program development,
and evaluation.
Partners:
Interfaith Leap; La Clinica del Pueblo Youth; La Vision
del Valle Coalition; Pojoaque Boys and Girls Club; Promotoras
de Salud: Oasis of Peace Youth Group
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Hawaii
Youth Services Network
677 Ala Moana Boulevard, Ste. 702
Honolulu, HI 96813
808-531-2198
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Founded in 1980, Hawaii Youth Services Network is a statewide
coalition of over forty-five youth-serving organizations
whose collective mission is “to promote the well
being of youth and strengthen families and communities
by providing leadership, encouraging collaboration, and
creating partnerships statewide.” Hawaii Youth Services
Network provides training and technical assistance and
helps strengthen programs in the areas of street outreach,
transitional living, mentoring children of prisoners,
domestic violence, runaway and homeless youth, and teen
dating violence.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Hawaii Communities Empowering Youth
Project Description:
Hawaii Youth Services Network is building the capacity
of faith-based and community organizations to provide
enhanced social services which address gang activity,
youth violence, and child abuse and neglect. The Hawaii
Communities Empowering Youth project includes: 1) organizational
assessments for the lead and partners in four critical
capacity areas (community engagement, leadership development,
organizational development, and program development);
2) implementation of customized training and technical
assistance to address priority areas identified in each
organization’s assessment; 3) ongoing evaluation
to determine the effectiveness of training and technical
assistance in meeting participants’ needs; 4) annual
training workshops for partners and representatives of
area government, non-profit, and faith-based organizations;
and 5) a listserv that disseminates information on non-profit
management and other capacity building strategies. The
Hawaii Youth Services Network will contract with the Hawaii
Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development, the
University of Hawaii Center on the Family, and the Volunteer
Resource Center of Hawaii to implement these activities.
Partners:
Chuuk Hawaii Community Council; Chuukese Christian Church;
Family Support Services of West Hawaii; Fonungin Association;
Hale Kipa; Hawaii Foster Youth Coalition; Ka Hale Ola
Makamae; Maui Youth and Family Services
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Hawkeye
Indian Cultural Center, Inc. (HICC)
5700 Red Springs Rd.
Red Springs, NC 28377
910-843-9484 or 910-850-8908
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Hawkeye Indian Cultural Center was organized in 1997 by
leaders of the Hoke County, North Carolina, Native American
community to provide services to the local Native American
people and manage services at the regional, state, and
national level. HICC provides services and referrals in
the areas of housing, social services, job development
and training, education, and cultural development. HICC’s
mission is “to magnify the quality of life through
education enhancement, social and economic development,
and cultural enrichment for all Native American communities
in Hoke County communities.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Youth Interfaith Empowerment and Leadership Development
(YIELD)
Project Description:
Hawkeye Indian Cultural Center’s CEY project is
building the capacity of faith-based and community organizations
to provide enhanced social services to address gang activity,
youth violence, and child abuse and neglect. The YIELD
project serves as a catalyst for participants to transform
into vital, productive non-profit organizations through:
1) a project orientation that covers such topics as community
mapping, federal laws and regulations, participants’
obligations, project guidelines, and training schedules;
2) identification of participants’ capacity building
needs; 3) monthly workshops in revolving locations that
addresses topics such as board composition and function,
community asset mapping, curriculum development, financial
management, grant writing, human resource systems, policy
writing, program monitoring, staff professional/career
development, and succession planning; 4) supplemental
grant writing seminars hosted by local community colleges
and/or universities; and 5) additional technical assistance
provided by HICC staff as needed outside of monthly trainings.
Additionally, participants are given laptops so that they
can receive trainings during the above-mentioned revolving
meetings in rural areas and so that they are able to work
from satellite locations beyond the main training center.
Partners:
Alpha Pi Omega Sorority/Dogwood Foundation of NC; Community
Outreach Advocate; Dundarrach Baptist Church; Island Grove
Baptist Church; Life-After-Life; Lighthouse Baptist Church;
Mount Airy Baptist Church; NOW Generation; Mount Elim
Enterprises; ; NOAH’s Center; Philadelphia Cluster
Group; Praise and Worship Center; St. Joseph’s Miracle
Revival Center; Union Chapel Holiness Methodist Church
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Heartland
Big Brothers Big Sisters (HBBBS)
6201 Havelock Ave.
Lincoln, NE 68507
402-464-2227
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Heartland Big Brothers Big Sisters has been serving the
needs of low-income, disadvantaged youth from Nebraska’s
Lincoln/Lancaster community since 1970 and Saline County
since 2002. Its mission is “to help children reach
their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one
relationships with measurable impact.” HBBBS provides
mentoring programs and services to children and mothers
who are domestic violence victims and offers technical
assistance on mentoring, volunteer recruitment, and child
recruitment to other direct service organizations.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
BOOST: Building On Our Strengths Together
Project Description:
HBBBS is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
youth violence and child abuse and neglect. BOOST program
activities include: 1) assessment of needs and assets
of each partner to set capacity building priorities; 2)
group training on volunteer recruitment and retention,
marketing, grant writing, and fundraising, followed by
individual technical assistance to address specific partner
needs; 3) community needs assessments that involve focus
groups with individual agency staff, clients, and community
stakeholders; 4) development of customized program evaluation
designs; and 5) updating work plans yearly based on assessment
of progress. Technical assistance plans for partner organizations
include board development, community partnership building,
seeking 501(c)(3) status, public awareness campaigns,
and non-profit procurement.
Partners:
The HUB; Northeast Family Center; St. Mary’s Catholic
Church; St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
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High
Expectations, Inc.
152 Front St.
Beaver Dam, WI 53916
920-887-8193
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
High Expectations, Inc. is an agency in Dodge County,
Wisconsin, that is dedicated to assessment and prevention
strategies for at-risk youth and works to mobilize the
community towards these ends by providing prevention activities
for youth, building collaborative partnerships among existing
agencies, and changing community norms. Formed in 1998,
its mission is “to develop youth assets in the community,
prevent delinquency, create a safe environment, and empower
youth.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Empowering Youth and Youth Serving Organizations to Build
Capacity in the Dodge County Area
Project Description:
High Expectations is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity, youth violence, and
child abuse and neglect. High Expectations, Inc. is utilizing
one-on-one consulting and technical assistance, skills-based
training, direct leadership development, and community
education plans as strategies towards achieving the overall
capacity of the lead and its partners. Specific activities
include: 1) board recruitment and training; 2) rural leadership
conferences; 3) grant tracking systems; 4) partner meetings;
5) Healthy Youth/Healthy Communities and Prevention conferences;
6) community-wide communication strategies; 7) community
assessments of youth needs; 8) Leadership Program Committee
meetings that will also be attended by local Wisconsin
Leadership Program graduates; 7) a nationally broadcast
Maximum Impact Leadership seminar; 8) one-on-one organizational
assessments and consultations with each partner as needed;
9) trainings and consultations on fundraising, fiscal
controls, and financial management; 10) program development
trainings that include a survey of youth program effectiveness
for each partner; and 11) a public awareness promotion
and communication campaign for each partner.
Partners:
Beaver Dam Ministerium; First Lutheran Church; Grace Presbyterian;
Lifespan; Renewal Unlimited; United Migrant Opportunity
Services; Youth for Christ; Youth Services of Southern
Wisconsin, Inc.
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HIP
of Spokane County, dba Community-Minded Enterprises
421 W. Riverside, Ste. 353
Spokane, WA 99223
509-444-3088
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Community-Minded Enterprises (C-ME) was founded in 1997
both to provide direct services to youth and to help other
youth-serving organizations build their capacities within
the Spokane County, Washington, region. C-ME has focused
on mentoring for youth with disabilities, academic/vocational
support services, reducing youth gun violence, and improving
the physical health of youth.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Partners for Empowered Youth
Project Description:
Community-Minded Enterprises is building the capacity
of faith-based and community organizations to provide
enhanced social services to address gang activity, youth
violence, and child abuse and neglect. CM-E is building
its own capacity and that of its partners in the areas
of community engagement, leadership development, organizational
development, and program development through one-on-one,
customized training and technical assistance. Six strategies
are being used toward achieving the project goals, including:
1) in-depth organizational assessments that supplement
pre-project assessments to determine specific capacity
building needs for each partner; 2) individual capacity
building plans based on the organizational assessments
to guide all capacity building activities and serve as
a formal agreement between C-ME and each partner; 3) training
workshops to provide opportunities for shared problem
solving, increased collaboration, and heightened levels
of support for all participants; 4) individual, customized
technical assistance; 5) financial assistance to be used
for capacity building costs; and 6) collaboration opportunities
facilitated and hosted by C-ME, including an annual youth
empowerment conference and other community engagement
events, to bring together various community stakeholders
with project partners.
Partners:
Boys and Girls Club of Spokane County; Camp Fire USA Inland
NW Council; Childbirth and Parenting Alone (CAPA) Program;
Crosswalk Volunteers; Cup of Cool Water; East Central
Community Center; Healing Lodge of the Seven Nations;
Martin Luther King Center; Odyssey Youth Center; Project
HOPE (Helping Our Young People Excel); Youth-Family-Adult
Connections
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Hopa
Mountain, Inc.
8671 Panorama East
Bozeman, MT 59715
406-586-2455
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Hopa Mountain, Inc., located in Bozeman, Montana, has
served the area of the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains,
and the upper Missouri River Basin since 2004. Hopa Mountain’s
mission is “to support tribal and rural community
leaders in their efforts to improve education, ecological
health, and economic development.” Hopa Mountain
provides these leaders with training, mentoring, networking
opportunities, and financial resources.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Native Non-profit Leadership Program (NNLP)
Project Description:
Hopa Mountain Inc. is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity, youth violence, and
child abuse and neglect. The project is building the organizational
sustainability and effectiveness of experienced organizations
and their partnering community agencies that are working
to improve education and social services to reduce high
drop-out rates, poverty, teen substance abuse, and youth
violence in Montana’s tribal communities. The project
is building upon the intensive relationship-building phases
and successes of youth education and community development
programs developed by all project partners. These phases
will focus on: 1) intensive capacity building training
for lead administrators of non-profit organizations; 2)
training for significant adults in the lives of Native
youth; 3) sharing of best practices for youth programs
among non-profit organizations working with Native youth,
families, schools, and communities in both rural and urban
areas; and 4) capacity building for experienced NNLP partners.
Partners:
Healing Tree; Women's Opportunity and Resource Development,
Inc.
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Knoxville
Leadership Foundation (KLF)
901 East Summit Hill Dr., Ste. 300
Knoxville, TN 37915
865-524-2774 x101
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Knoxville Leadership Foundation has served disadvantaged
youth since it was founded in 1994. It has experience
addressing child abuse/neglect, gang activity, and youth
violence, and has implemented, administered, and evaluated
a variety of projects. KLF’s mission is “to
serve the Knoxville area by connecting communities of
resource with communities of need while reconciling people
spiritually to each other.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Center for Communities
Project Description:
KLF’s CEY project is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations by providing enhanced social
services to address gang activity, youth violence, and
child abuse and neglect. KLF Center’s for Communities
provide capacity building assistance to small organizations.
Through this project, the KLF Center for Communities focus
includes more faith-based and community organizations
serving at-risk youth in disadvantaged communities of
Anderson, Blount, and Knox counties.
KLF’s approach involves: 1) assessment of community
needs and incorporation of assessment results into project
activities with a focus on increasing partners’
ability to fill gaps in service; 2) annual in-depth assessment
of organizational capacity regarding board and staff,
evaluation, financial management, marketing and communication,
and resource development; 3) creation of a development
plan that addresses a minimum of two of the four critical
capacity building areas (community engagement, leadership
development, organizational development, and program development)
for each partner based on the organizational assessment;
4) implementation of training through a series of monthly
small group meetings that are targeted to partners’
capacity building needs and involve interaction and peer-learning;
5) implementation of 2-4 hours of specialized coaching
and individualized technical assistance per month to take
place at each partner’s office; and 6) evaluation
of project implementation and outcomes conducted by an
external evaluator.
Partners:
Blount County Children’s Home; Centro Hispano; Community
Mediation Center; Focus Prison Ministries; House of Courage;
John Jordan Center; Joy of Music School; Knox Area Rescue
Ministries; Lennon-Seney United Methodist Church; Mount
Olive Academies Music School; Mount Zion Baptist Church;
Tribe One; Urban Family Outreach; Wesley House Community
Center
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Korean Churches for Community Development (KCCD)
3550 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 922
Los Angeles, CA 90010
213-984-4243
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Korean Churches for Community Development was founded
in 2001 to build the organizational capacity of Asian-American
service providers that address barriers and problems faced
by Asian-American, particularly Korean-American, youth,
families, and communities. KCCD has specific expertise
in the full spectrum of Asian-American youth gang and
violence services including prevention, adjudication,
and rehabilitation. Based in Los Angeles, KCCD is a national
intermediary that has provided training and technical
assistance to faith-based and community organizations
across the country through funding from various federal
and state governmental offices.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
KCCD Communities Empowering Youth Project
Project Description:
KCCD’s CEY project is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity and youth violence.
Specific activities of the KCCD Communities Empowering
Youth project include: 1) a quarterly Training Academy
that focuses on subjects such as grant writing, community
needs assessment, asset mapping, sustainability planning,
practical program evaluation, understanding risk and protective
factors, and improving outreach to Asian and Pacific Islander
youth and families; 2) organizational assessments for
each partner; 3) individualized technical assistance plans
that are based on organizational assessments and focus
on six areas for improvement over a three-year period;
4) individualized technical assistance through onsite
sessions, email, phone meetings, and teleconferences;
and 5) financial subawards to support implementation of
capacity building plans. Additionally, project activities
will include testing of program tools and curricula that
are specifically designed to be effective with at-risk
Asian-American youth and dissemination of proven models
for replication on a national basis. KCCD and its contracted
capacity building partner, United Way of Greater Los Angeles,
concentrate their efforts on organizations that work in
high-density Asian and Pacific Islander areas of Los Angeles
and Orange County, California.
Partners:
All Peoples Christian Center; Asian Youth Center; Kollaboration;
Our Savior Center; P.F. Bresee Foundation; Philipino Workers
Center; Create Now; Step Off Ministry; Christian Latino
Association of Music and Arts, and Korean American Coalition.
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Latino
Pastoral Action Center, Inc. (LPAC)
14 West 170th St.
Bronx, NY 10452
718-681-2361
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Since 1992, the New York City-based Latino Pastoral Action
Center, Inc. has sought to educate, equip, and empower
Latino-focused entities by strengthening the “Four
Pillars of Community Life”—families, schools,
community-based organizations, and churches—and
by developing leaders who give back to their communities.
LPAC’s vision is “to energize civil society
and rebuild social capital” in the greater New York
City area by providing both direct services and capacity
building assistance.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Transforming Youth Capacity Building Project (TY)
Project Description:
LPAC’s CEY project is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity and youth violence.
LPAC has been partnering with The Coalition, an association
of evangelical youth workers, youth pastors, and youth
leaders from greater New York, with the goal of enhancing
each organization’s ability to provide social services,
develop and diversify funding sources, and strengthen
existing collaborative efforts. Work towards these goals
includes: 1) financial assistance for The Coalition to
be used for client tracking, community asset mapping,
curriculum development, database development, implementation
of communications strategies, and strategic planning;
2) regular partner gatherings to celebrate past accomplishments,
network with other groups, and review the organizational
self-assessment form; 3) an initial onsite meeting of
training and technical assistance providers and Coalition
members completed a baseline assessment that was tailored
by self-assessment profiles; 4) full-day retreats and
training series to address topics within the four critical
capacity building areas of community engagement, leadership
development, organizational development, and program development;
5) peer-to-peer exchanges between various members of The
Coalition’s board, staff, and youth leader group
to facilitate shared learning opportunities.
Partners:
The Coalition
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Leadership
Training Institute
50 Clinton St., Ste. 607
Hempstead, NY 11550
516-483-3400
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Leadership Training Institute, founded in 1968, is
a minority-run community organization that directs its
efforts, energies, and resources toward educational and
developmental programming and related research projects
for at-risk youth and their families in Nassau and Suffolk
counties in New York. LTI’s mission and primary
focus is “the development of leadership skills in
children and youth of disadvantaged minority communities.”
LTI is particularly committed to the maintenance of ethical
leadership and has, therefore, implemented character development
and character education methods throughout its programming.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Long Island Compassion Capital Fund Communities Empowering
Youth Program
Project Description:
LTI is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
At the outset of the project, LTI participated in a succession
planning training facilitated by a contracted consulting
firm to prepare LTI to lead the project and further strengthen
its employees for long-term individual and organizational
success. Similarly, LTI also is taking part in a communication
strategy training. The project provides: 1) group-based
adult education and skill building workshops to address
subcategories within the four critical areas (community
engagement, leadership development, organizational development,
and program development) and to provide attendees with
training materials to build their organization’s
professional development library; 2) one-on-one technical
assistance to supplement trainings; and 3) evaluation
by a local university to gauge the quality of provided
services and measure the capacity building progress of
each project partner.
Partners:
Able Body of Believer’s Alliance; All Saint’s
Chaplaincy Academy; Christian Charities Deliverance Church;
Five Towns Community Center; Genesis Transitional Services;
Harbor Day Care Center, Inc.; Harvest Christian Bible
Church; Hempstead Employment Opportunity Corporation;
Hempstead Hispanic Civic Association; Jackson Memorial
AME Zion Church; Safe Harbor Mentoring Program, Inc.
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Little
Dixie Community Action Agency, Inc. (LDCAA)
209 North 4th St.
Hugo, OK 74743
580-298-2921
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Little Dixie Community Action Agency, Inc. was formed
in 1968 in response to the war on poverty. Throughout
its 38 years of service, LDCAA has operated numerous federal
and state programs that help citizens in and around Okalahoma
achieve a better quality of life. The agency’s mission
is “Helping People. Changing Lives.” Some
current LDCAA programs include Mentoring Children of Prisoners,
AmeriCorps, Head Start, Early Reading First, Child and
Adult CARE Food Program, Rural Housing and Economic Development,
and Youth Restitution. LDCAA also provides training and
technical assistance through three economic development
programs.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Empowering Youth Technical Assistance Program
Project Description:
Little Dixie Community Action Agency is building the capacity
of faith-based and community organizations to provide
enhanced social services to address gang activity, youth
violence, and child abuse and neglect. The project approach
includes: 1) utilizing Empowering Youth Training Specialists
to coordinate and lead training and technical assistance
for partner organizations; 2) training the specialists
through workshops, trainings, and conferences; 3) holding
monthly group workshops and trainings for all partners;
4) quarterly updates from law enforcement about community
needs and developing issues; and 6) creation of a resource
library. This project is serving youth programs in Oklahoma’s
Choctaw, McCurtain, and Pushmataha counties.
Partners:
Boys and Girls Club of Broken Bow; Boys and Girls Club
of Choctaw County; Girl Scouts Rural Youth Advisory Council;
Men United; New Beginnings; The Southeast Oklahoma Victims
Advocacy Board-Child Advocacy Center-Kidz Kottage
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Looking
Glass Youth and Family Services, Inc.
72b Centennial Loop
Eugene, OR 97401
541-607-0627
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Looking Glass Youth and Family Services, Inc., founded
in 1970, is the primary provider of services for youth
ages 11–18 in Lane County, Oregon. Specifically,
the organization provides services to runaway and homeless
youth as well as youth who are at risk of family separation,
abuse, and neglect.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
The Oregon Homeless and Runaway Youth Collaboration Project
Project Description:
Looking Glass Youth and Family Services is building the
capacity of faith-based and community organizations to
provide enhanced social services to child abuse and neglect.
This project is supporting capacity building and sustainability
in homeless and runaway youth programs by: 1) creating
a model for community engagement, leadership development,
and organizational development with young people as the
key architects; 2) utilizing an extensive collaboration
to determine the optimal means of caring for and empowering
homeless and runaway youth and further explore and identify
critical community, faith-based, and service elements
that are necessary to sustain services; and 3) providing
technical assistance to identify those service standards
and practices that are unique to effective homeless and
runaway youth programs to create programmatic accountability
and long-term sustainability. The project convenes homeless
and runaway youth providers from around the state of Oregon
to dialogue about effective, evidence-based practices
and sustained data keeping and results.
Partners:
Lane County Department of Children and Families; Oregon
Alliance of Children's Programs; Portland State University
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Lycoming-Clinton
Counties Commission for Community Action, Inc. (STEP)
2138 Lincoln St.
Williamsport, PA 17701
570-326-0587
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Lycoming-Clinton Counties Commission for Community Action,
Inc. was founded in 1966 with a mission “to assist
low-income persons to achieve self-sufficiency and to
impact on the causes and conditions of poverty”
in Pennsylvania’s Lycoming and Clinton counties.
These goals are accomplished through the operation of
social services, training, and education programs (STEP),
through development of the economy and affordable housing,
and through the mobilization of local, state, and federal
resources. Most recently, STEP has worked to develop service-learning
opportunities for middle school youth as a strategy for
resisting gang membership.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Capacity in Action
Project Description:
STEP is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations by providing enhanced social services to
address gang activity and youth violence. The Capacity
in Action project includes: 1) pre-organizational needs
assessments to refine partners’ understanding of
capacity building and how they can grow, and post-organizational
needs assessments to measure improvements; 2) training
in topics such as community engagement, positive youth
development, sensitivity/cultural awareness, and volunteer
recruitment and retention; 3) assisting with audits, fiscal
controls, and preparation of tax returns; 4) professional
development for partner staff through attendance at national
conferences and completion of certification programs;
5) equipment enhancement supplemented with technical assistance
in database creation and management, newsletter production,
online marketing and public relations, Web page design,
and overall communication system improvement; 6) curriculum
development and refinement; and 7) regular partner meetings
to enhance collaboration between partner organizations.
STEP plans to lead the effort of developing a countywide
Gang Taskforce to strengthen ties between youth and their
families, schools, and communities.
Partners:
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Lycoming County, Inc.; The
Campbell Street Family, Youth, and Community Association
(The Center); Community Alliance for Progressive Action;
Lycoming County Salvation Army; Williamsport Crime Commission
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Michigan
Neighborhood Partnership (MNP)
3301 23rd St., 2nd floor
Detroit, MI 48208
313-361-4530
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Michigan Neighborhood Partnership was founded in 1993
with a mission “to lead and support neighborhood
and faith-based organizations to strengthen individuals,
families, and communities through collaboration on social
and economic development.” MNP member organizations
serve and represent urban residents in the Detroit, Michigan
area and focus on issues including adoption of schools,
mentoring, teen sexual abstinence, and violence prevention.
MNP’s role is to facilitate collaborations among
and provide technical assistance to Detroit’s faith-based
and community organizations. When leading collaborative
projects, MNP often finds partners in universities, businesses,
and government.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Center for Shared Excellence (CSE)
Project Description:
MNP is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity and child abuse and neglect. The CSE project
involves: 1) an initial assessment to determine each organization’s
capacity building needs; 2) a capacity building plan that
is developed by the board and staff of each partner and
outlines specific activities, trainings, and workshops
to address needs identified in the assessment; and 3)
day-long group training sessions and one-on-one, onsite
technical assistance visits by expert practitioners to
address topics such as evaluation functions, finances
and accounting, fundraising, managing and planning for
best use of human capital, monitoring of outcomes, and
program development. CSE project partners will receive
technical assistance based on their areas of need and
will provide technical assistance based on their areas
of expertise.
Partners:
ACCESS, Cathedral Community Services, Core City Neighborhoods,
Empower Outreach, Hartford Agape House, Joy of Jesus,
Latino Family Services, NorthStar Community Development
Corporation, People’s Community Services
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Mid-Atlantic Network of Youth & Family Services (MANY)
135 Cumberland Rd., Ste. 201
Pittsburgh, PA 15237
412-366-6562
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Mid-Atlantic Network of Youth & Family Services
has been in operation for 17 years with the mission “to
provide training, technical assistance, resources, and
support to community-based youth-serving agencies and
others working with youth in high-risk situations.”
MANY focuses on agencies in Baltimore, Maryland, that
serve youth who are placed in the child welfare system
or who run away from home due to child abuse/neglect.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Baltimore Homeless Youth Initiative
Project Description:
MANY is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations by providing enhanced social services to
address child abuse and neglect. MANY’s project
capacity building activities are relationship-based, addressing
organizational capacity building needs, utilizing peer
networks, are culturally competent, and are responsive
to the unique needs of the group. MANY’s plan include:
1) meeting with each partner to develop an individualized
technical assistance plan that is based on mutually agreed-upon
goals and objectives and that covers at least two of the
four critical capacity building areas of community engagement,
leadership development, organizational development, and
program development; 2) providing group training workshops
that are based upon the principles of adult learning,
that apply basic skills to real life situations, and that
actively involve all participants; 3) offering individualized
technical assistance onsite, in small groups by email,
by mail, or by telephone; and 4) developing a peer-learning
program as a vehicle for partners to share their expertise
with each other and to develop their leadership skills.
Partners:
AIDS Interfaith Residential Services; Fellowship of Lights
Youth Services
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Morehouse
School of Medicine (MSM)
720 Westview Dr., SW
Atlanta, GA 30310
404-752-1097
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Since its inception in 1975, the Morehouse School of Medicine
(MSM), based in Atlanta, Georgia, has conducted over thirty
capacity building projects involving faith-based and community
organizations throughout the southeastern United States.
MSM believes in working side by side with communities
in a manner that engenders mutual trust and respect. MSM
has access to a variety of capacity building content experts
who specialize in a range of areas, including community
psychology, evidence-based violence prevention approaches,
grant writing, management, organizational development
psychology, and technical writing.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Atlanta Violence Prevention Capacity Building Project
Project Description:
MSM is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity and youth violence. The Atlanta Violence
Prevention Capacity Building Project will use the Capacity
Framework, which defines nonprofit capacity as seven essential
elements, to build the organizational capacity of the
lead and partner organizations. Specifically, this approach
involves: 1) an assessment of organizational strengths
of project partners involving a review of essential elements
(human resources, organizational structure, systems and
infrastructure, aspirations, organizational skills, strategy,
and a cultural element); 2) training in evidence-based
violence prevention strategies that are appropriate for
minority youth; 3) training in automated needs assessment
and ongoing evaluation techniques involving hand-held,
data collection technology; and 4) site visits to each
partner to ensure training content is being implemented,
using follow-through, and fidelity assessments and sessions
to solve implementation problems. This project will focus
on organizations in the metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia,
area—particularly Clayton, DeKalb, and Fulton counties.
Partners:
The Advocacy Foundation, Inc.; Genesis Prevention Coalition;
Visions Unlimited
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Mountain
Home Montana, Inc.
2606 South Ave., W.
Missoula, MT 59804
406-541-4663
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Mountain Home Montana, Inc. is a non-profit organization
established in 1998 in Missoula, Montana. It currently
operates a residential program for homeless teenage mothers
and children, and provides consulting services regarding
teenage pregnancy.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
System to Improve Teen Services (S.I.T.S.)
Project Description:
MHM is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
child abuse and neglect. Skill-building workshops and
customized technical assistance will be used to develop
the lead and its five partners in all four critical capacity
building areas of organizational capacity: 1) leadership
development will include professional and career development
for management staff, training for direct care staff,
and additional staff support; 2) organizational development
will include improved communication technology and support
to increased professionalism and communication; and 3)
community engagement strategies will include strengthening
collaborations between partner organizations and promoting
recognition of teen pregnancy as a significant social
problem throughout both the Missoula County community
and the state of Montana as a whole.
Partners:
Community Restorative Justice; Early Head Start; First
Way Pregnancy Center; Futures; Missoula Indian Center;
Youth Court
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National
Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD)
1970 Broadway, Ste. 500
Oakland, CA 94612
510-208-0500
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
NCCD works at the national level and with states, counties,
local jurisdictions, and community-based organizations
to conduct research and evaluation studies and to provide
technical assistance on a variety of criminal justice
and child protection issues. While NCCD has worked throughout
the country, its main constituents are from the San Francisco
Bay Area. NCCD’s specific areas of expertise include
program evaluations, community planning, and community
mobilization.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Capacity Building for Organizations Empowering Communities
Against Youth Violence
Project Description:
NCCD is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
youth violence. This project begins with a baseline assessment
of each participating organization to clarify specific
needs and areas for development. Also, NCCD will provide
training workshops and individualized technical consultation
to each of its partners in the following areas: 1) leadership
development, where the focus will be on the development
of a board of directors, a core leadership team of staff,
and a human resource manual; 2) organizational development,
which will include the creation of a management information
system to track client data, development of the ability
to diversify funding portfolios, and development of the
capability to report on outcomes and write grant applications
that provide justification for funding requests; 3) program
development, centered on increasing knowledge and understanding
of, as well as improving ability to conduct, program evaluations;
and 4) community engagement, which enhances capacity to
market and communicate work. To build its own capacity,
NCCD hired an expert to guide its senior staff and board
members through a succession planning process. Also, NCCD
has hired a consultant to assist in improving its community
engagement strategies by conducting interviews and focus
groups with senior staff. The targeted areas of the project
are the cities of Oakland and San Francisco, California.
Partners:
East Bay Asian Youth Center; Japanese Community Youth
Center
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National
Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)
5100 SW Macadam Ave., Ste. 300
Portland, OR 97239
503-222-4044
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The National Indian Child Welfare Association was founded
in 1987. It is “dedicated to the well-being of American
Indian children and families” and has a vision that
“every Indian child has access to community-based
and culturally appropriate services, which help them grow
up safe, healthy, and spiritually strong.” Based
in Portland Oregon, NICWA provides training and technical
assistance to Indian tribes and faith-based and community
organizations locally and throughout the United States,
with the aim of increasing the capacity to deliver quality
child welfare, mental health, and youth services.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Honoring Native Youth through Capacity Building
Project Description:
NICWA is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
The Honoring Native Youth through Capacity Building project
includes: 1) individualized capacity needs assessments
that is helping organizations prioritize at least two
high impact strategies for addressing needs among the
four critical capacity building areas of community engagement:
leadership development, organizational development, and
program development; 2) individualized written capacity
building plans to articulate measurable objectives; 3)
training and technical assistance activities to implement
strategies identified in each organization’s capacity
needs assessment; 4) monthly monitoring of compliance;
and 5) continual evaluation and reporting to document
post-technical assistance capacity. Additionally, the
project is developing a youth leadership and governance
collaboration with youth-directed service providers and
student organizations, with the hope that youth advisors
and interns will provide program feedback and will become
future volunteers, staff, board members, and leaders.
Partners:
Good Spirit; Linim Miyac (My Child); Native American Rehabilitation
Association of the Northwest, Inc.; Native American Youth
and Family Center; Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
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National
Youth Advocate Program, Inc. (NYAP)
3780 Ridge Mill Dr.
Hilliard, OH 43026
614-777-2191
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
NYAP is a non-profit organization that serves children,
youth, and families involved in the juvenile justice,
child welfare, mental health, and substance abuse systems.
It was founded in Hilliard, Ohio, in 1978 and now has
programs in seven states, including California, Georgia,
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, South Carolina, and West Virginia.
Its mission is “to be an energetic instrument of
compassion and change in the lives of children, youth,
and families and the systems, structures, and practices
that affect them.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Youth Compassion Initiative (YCI)
Project Description:
NYAP is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
YCI has completed a community and capacity needs assessments
that resulted in the development of an Organizational
Initiative Plan for each partner and the Plan serves as
a roadmap and lay out measurable outcomes for each year
of the project. YCI also provides 1) in-house technical
assistance and training specialists, who assist each partner
in understanding and benefiting from their capacity building
experiences and who are equipped to provide similar training
and technical assistance to faith-based and community
organizations outside of YCI; 2) numerous courses and
full-day trainings that address the core curriculum topics
of evaluation and oversight, collaboration, fundraising,
program administration, program development, and sustainability;
3) additional trainings on capacity building topics that
are specifically related to the challenges faced by disadvantaged
youth and their families; 4) a brown-bag lunch and lecture
series, and “Smarter In a Minute” fact sheets
that supplement the training topics; 5) seminars, held
at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, that address
public service management; 6) technology development,
including informational technology assessments, improved
Internet connections, additional equipment, and IT support
including up-front installation, configuration, and testing;
7) ongoing one-on-one technical assistance that addresses
areas of greatest need; and 8) financial assistance to
support the implementation of newly acquired capacity
building knowledge.
Partners:
United Church of Christ, Southside Settlement House, United
Methodist Children’s Home
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Neighborhood
Service Organization (NSO)
220 Bagley, Ste. 1200
Detroit, MI 48226
313-961-4890
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Neighborhood Service Organization is a private non-profit
human services organization that has been serving the
Detroit area since 1955. NSO is a decentralized, multi-service
organization whose branches are united by the philosophy
of developing and providing services for the underserved,
at-risk people for whom conventional assistance has been
ineffective. This population includes children with developmental
disabilities, individuals at risk of suicide, adults with
addiction disorders, children of adults with addiction
disorders, and youth at risk of substance abuse and/or
gun violence. It is NSO’s mission to be “Always
Within Reach.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
NSO/Youth Initiatives Project (YIP)
Project Description:
NSO is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity and youth violence. This partnership brings
together law enforcement, media, healthcare, and faith-based
partners to reduce gun violence in Detroit’s east
side. The technical assistance strategies will: 1) be
shaped by the group’s agenda; 2) incorporate best
practices in youth violence management; and 3) utilize
the resources of the Technical Assistance Clearinghouse,
an online tool for project development. Technical assistance
workshops is focusing on establishing long-term goals
and implementation strategies that will help organizations
analyze and anticipate trends, so they can better control
the service environment rather than respond in a reactive
manner to challenges. Quarterly leadership summits will
address common leadership goals.
Partners:
Cleansing Springs Missionary Baptist Church; Grace Church
of the Nazarene; New Bride Missionary Baptist Church;
United Families and Communities Organization; Osborn Hmong
Community Organization; PLUS – People Lending United
Support; Ravendale Community, Inc.; Rose of Sharon Church
of God in Christ; Saint Matthew & Saint Joseph’s
Episcopal Church
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New
Futures for Youth, Inc.
103 East 7th St., Ste. 931
Little Rock, AR 72201
501-374-1011
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
New Futures for Youth, Inc. was created in 1988 by a community
collaborative seeking to provide technical assistance
and evaluation to direct service organizations in the
city of Little Rock, Arkansas, to improve outcomes for
youth and their families. New Futures for Youth, Inc.
and its collaborative partners have implemented a variety
of strategies designed to improve academic success, reduce
youth violence, reduce teen pregnancies, improve employability
skills, and increase opportunities for young people and
their families to participate in well-structured, high
quality programs and activities in their neighborhoods.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Little Rock Compassion Capital Fund Youth Initiative Project
(YIP)
Project Description:
New Future for Youth is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity and youth violence.
YIP is an initiative working to prevent violence and gang
activity, as well as to provide intervention in those
areas; operating in Little Rock, Arkansas, YIP is led
by New Futures for Youth, Inc. Through its Communities
Empowering Youth grant, YIP has added a new member to
its consortium and will focus on building each member
agency’s capabilities. Leadership development is
being accomplished through: 1) quarterly training in violence
prevention and youth development; 2) continuing education
opportunities and modules concerning gang prevention and
intervention; 3) a leadership development course for member
executives; and 4) board director technical assistance
sessions. Organizational development will involve the
creation of resource diversification plans and implementation
of electronic financial and programmatic recordkeeping
software. Program development steps include: 1) completion
of the Standards for Baltimore After-School Opportunities
in Youth Places tool; 2) annual completion of the Standards
Assessment; and 3) enhancement of the YIP evaluation system.
Each YIP member organization also will complete a community
asset/deficit assessment to increase coordination of resources
among YIP sites; each will also work with a communications
specialist to plan a public awareness effort that promotes
YIP activities within its individual community.
Partners:
Black Community Developers, Inc.; Greater Second Care
Center, Inc.; Hunter United Methodist Church; Boys &
Girls Clubs of Central Arkansas; Promiseland Ministries;
St. John Baptist Church Unto Others; The Step Up Support
Center
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New
Mexico Voices for Children (Voices)
2340 Alamo SE, Ste. 120
Albuquerque, NM 87106
505-244-9505
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Voices has been advocating for social and economic justice
for New Mexico’s low-income families since 1987.
Its mission is “to catalyze sustainable change that
benefits low- and moderate-income families and their children.”
This mission is accomplished through research, policy
analysis and advocacy, public education, and building
community capacity for civic participation. Voices also
monitors governmental and private sector practices and
regulations, trains communities in advocacy skills, and
promotes youth and community leadership.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Building Foundations for Youth Development
Project Description:
Voices’ CEY project is building the capacity of
faith-based and community organizations to provide enhanced
social services to address gang activity, youth violence,
and child abuse and neglect. This project is providing
services to youth-focused organizations in the Santa Fe
County–area through: 1) assessment of individual
organizations to provide information regarding overall
organizational health as well as alignment with best practices
in positive youth development; 2) assessment of the coalition’s
collaborative work to provide information regarding its
ability to mobilize the community; 3) assessment of the
community to gather information regarding the strengths
and gaps in service provision and resources for youth
(this information will be the basis for monthly coalition
trainings, and will provide criteria for prioritizing
partners’ technical assistance activities); 4) training
and technical assistance that assists partners on a one-on-one
basis and in a group format that brings together partners
with similar needs and different strengths; and 5) development
of a Learning Community to build collaboration among youth
service providers and to align systems that support them.
Partners:
Campaign 20/20; Envision Your Future; Fine Arts for Teens;
Santa Fe Civic Housing Resident Council; Youth Shelters
and Family Services
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Nome
Eskimo Community (NEC)
PO Box 1090
Nome, AK 99762
907-443-9111
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Nome Eskimo Community (NEC) formed in 1939 as a federally
recognized tribe in Nome, Alaska, Nome Eskimo Community
addresses the health, education, economic, and social
welfare of its members. One of NEC’s objectives
is “to provide programs and services that promote
and support educational activities and opportunities for
the personal and cultural development of [its] community’s
youth.” NEC provides student tutoring and wellness-related
activities; offers cultural, educational, and truancy
prevention programming for youth; and contributes to the
school breakfast program.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Cooperative Capacity Building Project
Project Description:
Nome Eskimo Community is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity, youth violence, and
child abuse and neglect. Quarterly training activities
through NEC’s Cooperative Capacity Building Project
increase the capacity of NEC and its partner the Nome
Community Center to prevent child abuse/neglect, substance
and alcohol abuse, and youth. More specifically, capacity
building efforts include 1) leadership and professional
development training on such topics as executive director
mentoring, child and youth development, emergency response
strategies, Quickbooks software, team building, and youth
anger de-escalation; 2) organizational capacity building
training sessions will include computer systems, grant
writing, information technology, strategic planning, and
Web page design; 3) program development training topics
include design and implementation of substance abuse and
youth delinquency prevention programs, and developing
program monitoring, evaluation, and outcomes assessments;
and 4) community engagement training includes conducting
community needs assessments and establishing collaborative
relationships with other youth organizations. Training
will be supplemented by technical assistance provided
via telephone and email.
Partners:
Nome Community Center
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Non-profit
Resource Center
828 I St.
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-264-2786
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Non-profit Resource Center, located in Sacramento,
California, has been providing training and technical
assistance in all areas of non-profit functioning since
1989. It has specific expertise in specialized training
programs designed to help boards and executive directors
strengthen their leadership abilities. The Non-profit
Resource Center recognizes the importance of the faith-based
and community sector in improving the well-being of inner-city
neighborhoods, such as Oak Park, California, and works
to strengthen the non-profit sector’s capacity to
do so.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Oak Park Compassion Capital Fund Empowering Youth Program
Project Description:
The Non Profit Resource Center is building the capacity
of faith-based and community organizations to provide
enhanced social services to address youth violence. This
capacity building project will involve: 1) financial assistance;
2) comprehensive organizational needs assessments and
the development of individualized technical assistance
plans to address priority needs; 3) a number of group
training events, including board retreats, monthly CEO
Network meetings, interactive staff development workshops
through a Leadership Institute, and the opportunity to
attend courses at the Non-profit Resource Center; 4) technical
assistance consisting of intensive training, resources,
and mentoring in specific skill areas; 5) giving local
leaders open house tours of each participating organization;
and 6) an educational public forum on youth development,
which details services the organizations provide, results
of youth surveys, and breakout sessions to develop a strategic
plan for youth services in Oak Park, California. The Non-profit
Resource Center will collaborate with the Oak Park Neighborhood
Multiservice Center in carrying out the project.
Partners:
Big Brothers Big Sisters; Cornerstone Recovery, Inc.;
Gifted Healing Center; International Neighborhood Ministries;
Itasker Hollins Kids Served in Love aka Krazy Sac Ladz;
Northern California Minority Junior Golf Scholarship;
Oak Park Methodist Church; Oak Park Outreach Program;
Take 4 Teen Media Training Program; Williams Memorial
Church of God in Christ
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North
Carolina Central University (NCCU)
1801 Fayetteville St.
Durham, NC 27707
919-530-7333
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
North Carolina Central University is a historically black
university located in Durham, North Carolina, and has
the motto “Truth in Service.” NCCU has a history
of building capacity for faith-based and community organizations
both within its immediate environment and beyond. Its
current and past capacity building partners have provided
a range of activities to youth, including mentoring; recreational,
educational, cultural, and social activities; and health
education.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
The Seven Cs Coalition
Project Description:
NCCU is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
youth violence. The Seven Cs Coalition project includes:
1) review of charters and bylaws; 2) a workshop to develop
strategic plans; 3) assessment of volunteer needs; 4)
assignment of students to add to the volunteer base of
each partnering organization; 5) training for volunteers
to enhance their youth service skills; 6) training on
planning and executing annual meetings, developing an
annual report, and holding board elections; 7) software
installation for, and technical assistance on, keeping
records of finances, productivity, and lessons learned;
8) training on grant writing skills; 9) an annual conference
to formalize the strategic plan for the partnership; 10)
the development of a communications strategy for the partnership;
11) a series of reports and papers to educate the public
on partnership activities; and 12) a closing conference
to share partnership success and invite others to join
as the coalition moves forward. NCCU applies concepts
and constructs from the Community Action Coalition Theory,
Inter-organizational Relations Theory, Social Network
and Social Support Theory, Natural Helpers Theory, and
a Behavioral Ecological Model as a framework for its capacity
building techniques.
Partners:
Antioch Is building Community; Pines Community Center,
Inc.; Rites of Passage; Refiners Fire Community Church;
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North
County Interfaith Council, Inc.
2195 Oceanside Blvd.
Oceanside, CA 92054
760-721-2117
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
North County Interfaith Council, Inc., dba Interfaith
Community Services (Interfaith), was incorporated in 1982.
It provides a variety of social services to the North
County San Diego, California community, including counseling,
a nutrition center, supportive housing, shelters, and
homes, and various career building and job training services.
Interfaith has also provided training and technical assistance
to nearly one-hundred non-profits in Southern California
and throughout the country.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Community Partners Incubator (CPI)
Project Description:
North County Interfaith Council is building the capacity
of faith-based and community organizations to provide
enhanced social services to address gang activity and
youth violence. The Community Partners Incubator project
seeks to address youth issues in the area comprising the
cities of Carlsbad, Oceanside, and Vista. The project
consists of: 1) capacity building assessments conducted
for lead and partner agencies; 2) development of a capacity
building plan for each partner, based on the capacity
building assessments and identifying specific objectives,
activities, results, and timeframes for achievement; 3)
assigned CPI staff member “guides” to each
partner agency, helping project partners implement their
goals through hands-on, personalized coaching; 4) quarterly
group trainings that address one of the four critical
capacity building areas of community engagement, leadership
development, organizational development, and program development;
4) an annual allowance that is used for identified capacity
building needs; and 5) ongoing technical assistance that
addresses areas of specific need, including board recruitment
and retention, financial management, program monitoring
and evaluation, relationship building, and staff development.
Additionally, a CPI organizational specialist conducts
quarterly evaluation assessments with each partner agency
using the customized capacity building plans as a baseline.
Partners:
Eagle’s Peak Charter School; Faith-Based Community
Development Corporation; San Diego County Service Employment
Redevelopment, Jobs for Progress Inc.; Soaring Eagles;
North County Trade Tech High School, a program of New
Haven Youth & Family Services
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Northwest
Hennepin Human Services Council (NWHHSC)
6120 Earle Brown Dr., Ste. 230
Brooklyn Center, MN 55430
763-503-2520
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Northwest Hennepin Human Services Council was created
in 1972 to research, plan, and coordinate human services
for the northwest Hennepin County area. In its 35 years
of service, NWHHSC has connected community partners, built
community consensus around human services needs, and helped
create sustained services in and around Minneapolis, MN.
For example, NWHHSC has convened the northwest faith collaborative,
a group of 148 local churches, temples, synagogues and
service agencies that address human service needs in Minneapolis,
MN. As part of its mission, NWHHSC believes that “municipalities
should share in responsibility of meeting needs of residents;
residents and consumers should play a critical role in
defining their own needs and problems and in recommending
appropriate solutions; and suburban residents should have
access to services within their communities.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Communities Empowering Youth
Project Description:
NWHHSC is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity and youth violence. A community needs assessment
and organizational needs assessment for each partner will
determine the topics for monthly workshops, which will
provide hands-on experience as well as opportunities for
networking. These workshops will use cooperative learning
strategies and participatory activities. Six hours of
individual and organizational technical assistance will
be provided after each training workshop to address specific
issues. To the extent possible, each partner organization’s
board members, staff, volunteers, and clients will all
be involved in capacity building activities. NWHHSC will
also access existing partnerships to enhance the support
of and connections with the grant partners.
Partners:
Brooklyn Peacemaker Center; Centaur Foundation; The Center
of Hope and Compassion; Fastforward Education
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Northwest
Leadership Foundation (NLF)
419 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Tacoma, WA 98405
253-272-0771
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Founded in 1989 and located in Tacoma, Washington, the
Northwest Leadership Foundation is part of the national
Leadership Foundations of America network of faith-based
organizations that mobilize leaders, frontline faith-based
and community organizations, and other resources to serve
the poor. NLF’s three service strategies include
education, leadership development, and capacity building.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Communities Empowering Youth Capacity Building Initiative
Project Description:
NLF is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
The Communities Empowering Youth Capacity Building Initiative,
which aims to serve youth in greater Tacoma, Washington,
involves four steps that apply to both NLF and project
partners: 1) a pre-assessment strategy involving an organizational
assessment detailing capacity building needs in the four
critical capacity building areas (community engagement,
leadership development, organizational development, and
program development); a baseline profile survey that details
the current number of clients served, systems capacity,
strength of collaborations, and volume and impact of services;
and site visits that incorporate the voice of boards and
leadership; 2) customized development plans for each partner
organization that are based on the results of the pre-assessment;
3) monthly three-hour training workshops that include
one hour on experiential leadership development and discussion
of its principles, a second hour on one of the three other
critical capacity building areas, and a third hour that
uses a case study to foster peer learning and the application
of tested theories; and 4) intensive, individualized technical
assistance including an assigned case consultant who assists
each partner organization in the establishment of customized
development plans. Project managers and case consultants
are conducting post assessments to ensure participant
progress and satisfaction with the provided technical
assistance.
Partners:
Amherst Wilder Foundation; Central City Tacoma Young Life;
Communities Transforming Mission; Community Counseling
Institute; Hilltop Health Ministries; Peace Community
Center; Proyecto MoLE; The Safe Streets Campaign; Salishan/Eastside
Lutheran Mission; Tacoma Goodwill Industries; Tacoma Public
Schools; Trinity Presbyterian Church; Way Out Records
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Nueva
Esperanza, Inc.
4261 North 5th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19140
215-324-0746
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Nueva Esperanza, Inc. is a Latino faith-based community
development corporation founded in 1987 and located in
the targeted community of northeastern Philadelphia. Nueva
Esperanza has four years of experience providing capacity
building training and technical assistance to faith-based
and community organizations across the United States.
Its mission is “to strengthen the Hispanic community
nationwide by raising awareness and identifying resources
through a network of participating Hispanic faith-based
and community organizations, churches, and ministries.”
Nueva Esperanza serves individuals and families through
higher education programs, housing and economic development,
job training, and outreach to at-risk youth.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Communities United to Empower Youth (CUEY)
Project Description:
Nueva Esperanza will build the capacity of faith and community-based
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
Nueva Esperanza will provide yearly training in the four
capacity building areas of community engagement, leadership
development, organizational development, and program development.
This training will be supplemented through in-depth technical
assistance that addresses relevant partner needs; those
needs will be determined through an organizational assessment
that is scored against a continuum of capacity framework
and that results in the development of an individualized
Capacity-Building Plan (CBP). The technical assistance
will integrate ongoing assessment with revised CBPs.
Partners:
The Cardinal Bevilacqua Community Center; Centro Nueva
Creacion; Centro Pedro Claver; Eastern North Philadelphia
Youth Services Coalition; The Lighthouse; Inc.; Norris
Square Civic Association; Taller Puertorriqueno; Salvation
Army Tabernacle Corps
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Opportunities
Industrialization Center of Racine County, Inc. (OIC of
Racine)
1020 Washington Ave.
Racine, WI 53403
262-636-3818
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
OIC of Racine was incorporated in 1988 “to improve
economic development opportunities for high-need, low-resource
individuals throughout Racine County, Wisconsin.”
OIC of Racine has run a number of direct service programs
for adults and youth since its inception in areas such
as mentoring, GED obtainment, HIV prevention, office skills
training, pre-employment training, and remedial education.
Additionally, OIC of Racine has experience providing capacity
building training and technical assistance to non-profit
organizations.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Project YEAH (Youth Empowerment Action Helpers)
Project Description:
OIC of Racine is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity and youth violence.
This partnership is: 1) developing a management structure
by electing an Executive Committee, establishing a working
group for each of the four critical capacity building
areas (community engagement, leadership development, organizational
development, and program development), adopting rules
of governance and writing a statement of purpose; 2) assessing
each partner’s needs and assets; 3) collaborating
to develop specific training and technical assistance
plans; 4) meeting on a monthly basis to provide ongoing
policy input into project implementation; 5) developing
a password-protected Web site to facilitate communication
among partners and consultants; 6) engaging in small group
trainings that address areas such as the role of the CEO,
the role of the board, developing a strategic plan, conducting
needs assessments and community asset mapping, researching
best practices, managing non-profit finances and taxes,
grant writing, and management information systems; and
7) receiving targeted technical assistance that addresses
specific needs in an ongoing fashion.
Partners:
African-American Business and Professional Association;
Project New Life; Racine Community Economic Development
Corporation; Racine Family YMCA; Racine Vocational Ministry;
Urban League of Racine and Kenosha Counties; Why Gang?
(Racine Gang Diversion Taskforce)
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Ozone
House, Inc.
1705 Washtenaw Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
734-662-2265
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Ozone House, Inc. has served runaway and homeless youth
since 1969 through integrated programming including crisis
intervention, strengths-based counseling, independent
living resources, and community support.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Capacity Building for Youth Development in Washtenaw County
Project Description:
Ozone House is building the capacity of faith-based and
community organizations to provide enhanced social services
to address gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse
and neglect. This project is building the capacity of
its members through a three-year differential curriculum
of training and continuously managed technical assistance.
The coalition will: 1) document child neglect and abuse,
gang activity, and youth violence within the county by
undertaking a community needs assessment; 2) conduct an
initial assessment of the capacity of all seven organizations
in the four capacity building areas (community engagement,
leadership development, organizational development, and
program development); 3) develop core curriculum materials
to support initial training in those four areas; and 4)
implement the core curriculum. All of the stated activities
are intended to expand or stabilize at-risk youth services
in the Washtenaw County area.
Partners:
The Corner Health Center; HelpSource; Parkridge Community
Center; People, Organized, Working, Evolving, Reaching,
Inc. (POWER Inc.); The Village Initiative of Michigan
Washtenaw Area Council for Children
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Partners
for Community (PfC)
1628-1640 Main St.
Springfield, MA 01103
413-536-5403
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Partners for Community is a management services organization
that supports affiliate faith-based and community organizations,
many of which provide social and/or educational services
to youth, individuals and families throughout Holyoke
and Springfield, Massachusetts. Part of the PfC mission
is “to strive toward continuous quality improvement
as well as to implement best practices.” PfC has
specific expertise in the areas of grant writing, human
resources, information technology, program development,
and relationship building.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
PfC Communities Empowering Youth project
Project Description:
Partners for Community is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity and youth violence.
This project includes: 1) a community assessment that
details the need in greater Springfield and Holyoke, Massachusetts,
in relation to child abuse/neglect, gang activity, and
youth violence; 2) organizational self-assessments; 3)
leadership development workshops that focus on volunteer
training and development; 4) organizational development
trainings and small group workshops that include topics
such as accounting software, financial and information
technology planning, grants management, and written policies
and procedures; 5) program development trainings that
focus on outcome evaluation, use of logic models, and
grant writing; 6) community engagement trainings that
focus on establishing collaborative relationships; and
7) senior management meetings that are attended by all
participating organizations. PfC is conducting all of
the training workshops and individual technical assistance,
unless additional support is needed in areas in which
PfC does not specialize. Training opportunities are announced
on radio stations such as National Public Radio. In addition,
PfC includes information on its partner organization,
New England Partners in Faith (NEPIF), to its own Web
site so that NEPIF’s programs become more visible
and accessible to the community.
Partners:
New England Farm Workers’ Council; New England Partners
in Faith
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Partnership
for After School Education (PASE)
120 Broadway, Ste. 230
New York, NY 10271
212-571-2664
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Partnership for After School Education operates in the
greater New York City area “to build the capacity
of organizations to achieve positive outcomes for youth,
families, and communities.” Since 1998, PASE has
worked to increase the number of quality programs available
to young people, particularly at-risk youth, in out-of-school
time. PASE promotes effective managerial and direct service
practices in youth-serving organizations through staff
and program development, resource sharing, networking,
advocacy, research, assessment and evaluation, and collaboration
among community organizations, families, and communities.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
The PASE Compassion Consortium: Empowering New York City’s
Youth (CCY)
Project Description:
PASE is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
PASE brings together five faith-based and community organizations
(FBCOs) as its partners to form a Central Consortium.
Each partner convenes its own Community Coalition consisting
of four FBCOs having a common geographic location, service
area, or population served. Members of the Central Consortium
receive the most intense level of technical assistance
and training, consisting of: 1) a comprehensive needs
assessment to determine capacity building priorities and
appropriate modes of training and technical assistance;
2) development of an individualized work plan listing
specific trainings and technical assistance needed; 3)
content-specific workshops targeting a wide range of organization
staff; 4) technical assistance in the form of ongoing
direct and individualized organizational consultations;
and 5) access to financial assistance to be used to obtain
assistance with capacity building. Central Consortium
members share the knowledge and skills gained though this
capacity building process with their own Community Coalitions.
Six-week seminars focusing on each of the four critical
areas of capacity building (community engagement, leadership
development, organizational development, and program development)
are offered to both the Central Consortium and Community
Coalition members. PASE also facilitates the development
of peer mentoring connections between members of the Central
Consortium as well as among the Community Coalitions.
PASE is focusing its own capacity building efforts on
participating in trainings and receiving technical assistance
aimed at increasing its ability to connect with and serve
faith-based institutions.
Partners:
East Harlem Churches and Community Urban Center; Effective
Alternative in Reconciliation Services; Fresh Youth Initiatives;
Operation Exodus-Inner City; Youth Ministries for Peace
and Justice
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The
Providence Plan (ProvPlan)
56 Pine St., Ste. 3B
Providence, RI 02903
401-455-8880
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Providence Plan has a mission “to improve the
economic and social well being of Providence, its neighborhoods,
and its residents.” This mission is pursued through
programs that reduce poverty, promote social connectedness,
increase affordable housing, and make neighborhoods safe
and livable. ProvPlan also operates the largest data warehouse
in the state and provides access to neighborhood-level
data through its Web site. This data is used to analyze
information and guide decisions around education, health,
human services, and public safety. In addition, ProvPlan
houses a capacity building initiative for faith-based
and community organizations, a workforce initiative for
at-risk youth, and a school readiness initiative.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Providence Empowering Youth Partnership
Project Description:
ProvPlan is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity and youth violence. Project partners objectives
are:1) complete an organizational needs assessment; 2)
work with project staff to craft an individual capacity
building action plan and a corresponding logic model that
includes inputs, outputs, expected outcomes, and indicators
of success; 3) participate in monthly group trainings
that address topics of common concern, which provide a
forum for shared-learning opportunities on topics including
implementing a fund development plan, promoting youth
leadership through nonviolence training, forming successful
youth-run enterprises, promoting positive youth policy,
and developing strategies to engage civic leaders and
elected officials; and 4) receive individual technical
assistance based on capacity building needs identified
in the organizational assessment.
Partners:
AS220 Broad Street Studios; Curse Breakers; Iglesia Vision
Evangelica; The Institute for the Study and Practice of
Nonviolence; The Providence Youth Student Movement; Youth
in Action; YouthBuild Providence
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Puerto
Rican Organization for Community Education and Economic
Development, Inc. (PROCEED)
1126 Dickinson St.
Elizabeth, NJ 07095
908-351-7664
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
PROCEED, located in Elizabeth, New Jersey, has thirty-five
years’ experience providing direct services to approximately
5,000 clients per year at several local sites. Services
include: domestic violence support and counseling; early
childhood centers; HIV counseling, testing, and referral
services; HIV prevention services; parental support; substance
abuse prevention and counseling; transitional housing
for adults; and after-school and other youth programs,
such as anger management classes. In addition to direct
services, PROCEED has a federally funded capacity building
division that provides training and technical assistance
to faith-based and community organizations, helping them
build their community engagement, leadership development,
and organizational development capacity to design and
deliver high-quality programs and services.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Communities United for Youth Empowerment
Project Description:
PROCEED is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
youth violence and child abuse and neglect. This project
includes: 1) group training and technical assistance to
strengthen infrastructure; 2) community mapping of local
assets and resources; 3) assessment of mentoring programs;
4) development of staff skills and knowledge in youth
conflict resolution techniques, hard-to-reach youth engagement
and retention strategies, and concrete ways of providing
youth with positive experiences and meaningful roles;
5) dissemination of youth development resources through
a shared electronic database; 6) involvement of youth
advisors; and 7) development of a compendium of service-learning
opportunities. Additionally, an evaluation was completed
to measure organizational, programmatic, collaborative,
and community-wide change.
Partners:
El Club del Barrio; Jefferson Park Ministries; La Casa
de Don Pedro; National Latino Peace Officers Association
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Richard
Stockton College of New Jersey
PO Box 195
Pomona, NJ 08240
609-652-4959
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $222,362
Organizational Description:
Formed in 1969, Richard Stockton College is a liberal
arts college situated in southeastern New Jersey. Richard
Stockton College has provided organizational capacity
building and technical assistance to area organizations
for 20 years and has worked with local government and
communities to apply its knowledge in developing innovative
approaches to youth and community development. Recently,
Richard Stockton College and the Atlantic Cape Community
College (ACCC) partnered to create the Community Development
Institute. The Institute’s mission is “to
engage non-profit organizations, community leaders, volunteers,
and constituents in a long-term process to build organizational
sustainability.” The Institute aims to build organizational
capacity and increase individual skills while creating
a culture of sharing resources and jointly developing
promising community models.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Atlantic Cape Safe Youth Partnership
Project Description:
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey is building the
capacity of faith-based and community-based organizations
to provide enhanced social services to address gang activity,
youth violence, and child abuse and neglect. The Atlantic
Cape Safe Youth Partnership is a collaborative project
organized by Richard Stockton College and ACCC. The partnership
is housed in the Community Development Institute and its
objectives are: 1) engage a diverse group of partners
committed to issues of child abuse/neglect, gang activity,
and youth violence in Atlantic and Cape May counties;
2) conduct a community-wide strengths and needs assessment
to identify resources and service gaps and to determine
priorities for training and technical assistance; 3) act
as a catalyst for peer learning and resource sharing by
requiring each partner organization to conduct an organizational
self-assessment to identify strengths, weaknesses, and
goals; 4) convene quarterly roundtable discussions, with
invited speakers as appropriate, on local and national
best practices and promising models; 5) facilitate partner-led
and externally-led technical assistance and training on
a broad range of organizational capacity topics; 6) promote
community leadership by providing skill development workshops
to staff at all levels; 7) provide access to information
and resources through Richard Stockton College and ACCC’s
electronic research databases; and 8) host an annual conference
for community organizations and non-profit leaders.
Partners:
4-H Youth Development/Rutgers Cooperative Research &
Extension; Atlantic Cape Community College; Atlantic Cape
Family Support Organization, Inc.; AtlantiCare Center
for Community Health; Cape Counseling Services; Caring
for Kids; Court Appointed Special Advocates of Atlantic
& Cape May Counties, Inc.; Center for Community Arts;
Christ Gospel Church; Community Mediation Services; Everything
is Attitude; Family Service Association; United Way of
Atlantic County
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Rio
Grande Valley Empowerment Zone Corporation (RGVEZC)
3406 West Alberta Rd.
Edinburg, TX 78539
956-928-5000
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Rio Grande Valley Empowerment Zone Corporation was
established in 1994 to provide fiscal and program accountability
and oversight for Rio Grande Valley Empowerment Zone/Enterprise
Communities Program in Texas. RGVEZC works with the distressed
communities of the Rio Grande Valley, providing community
assessment, funding, grant management, outreach, and technical
assistance. Through the RGVEZC, individuals and communities
work together to plan and implement strategies for economic
growth and sustainable community development. RGVEZC has
funded projects in the areas of administration and measurement,
business, elderly services, health care, infrastructure
public safety, public transportation, workforce training,
and youth services.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Proyecto Empoderamiento
Project Description:
The RGVEZC’s CEY project is building the capacity
of faith-based and community organizations to provide
enhanced social services that address gang activity, youth
violence, and child abuse and neglect. This project is
building capacity through: 1) community needs assessment
and asset mapping; 2) individual organizational assessments
measuring ability to provide direct services and administer
social service programs; 3) development of a training
and technical assistance plan; and 4) monthly group training
workshops and one-to-one technical assistance which address
capacity building needs such as board composition and
governance, volunteer recruitment, or youth development
and involvement. As part of a local Juvenile Probation
Department initiative, Proyecto Empoderamiento trains
volunteers to serve as mentors to at-risk youth with a
history of gang involvement or violence. RGVEZC also trains
youth to serve on advisory boards or committees of youth-serving
FBCOs. RGVEZC will contract with the Gulf Coast Trades
Center and Workforce Solutions Office for Business Partnerships
in carrying out the project.
Partners:
Cameron County Community Youth Mentoring Program; Children’s
Advocacy Center of Hidalgo County; Community Action Council
of South Texas; Laguna Madre Boys and Girls Club; Mujeres
Unidas; Pony Project – Willacy County
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San
Antonio Fighting Back, Inc.
2803 E. Commerce
San Antonio, TX 78203
210-271-7232
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Started in 1990, San Antonio Fighting Back, Inc. has led
and managed thirty-four community coalitions in San Antonio,
Texas. The goal of those coalitions has been to address
youth development, family development, and community development
through partnerships that provide comprehensive services.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Community Capacity Building Partnership Project (CCBP)
Project Description:
San Antonio Fighting back is building the capacity of
faith-based and community organizations to provide enhanced
social services which address gang activity and youth
violence. The COB project is building the capacity of
faith-based and community organizations working to improve
the health and safety of youth and families in the federally-designated
Empowerment Zone and Weed and Seed service areas of San
Antonio, Texas. primary project components are: 1) organizational
assessments and individualized capacity building plans;
2) training in leadership development, organizational
development, program development, revenue strategy development,
and community engagement; 3) targeted technical assistance;
4) technology assessment and expansion; 5) peer-to-peer
support; 6) one-on-one mentoring; 7) revenue development
strategies; and 8) training in program evaluation.
Partners:
Antioch Community Transformation Network; BEAT-AIDS, Inc.;
Bexar County Community Corrections; Bexar County Family
Drug Court; Bexar County Felony Drug Court; Bexar County
Misdemeanor Drug Court; Boys & Girls Clubs of San
Antonio; Communities of Churches; Davis/Scott YMCA; Edgewood
Independent School District; Educating Parents in Communities
Collaborative; Elite Counseling; Ella Austin Community
Center; Ella Austin Health Clinic; Family Life Christian
Church; Harlandale Independent School District; Hispanic
Partnership for Community Health; Love Demonstrated Ministries;
Mentors Fighting Back; New Rose of Sharon, Inc.; New West
Weed and Seed Coalition; National Institute of Sobriety,
Education, Rehabilitation and Recovery; Not Forgotten
Coalition; Opportunity Industrialization Center; Palmer
Drug Abuse Program; The Patrician Movement; PRIDE Youth
Academy; Project Assist; San Antonio Independent School
District; San Antonio Police Department; Students In Christ
Youth Center; Texas Department of Family and Protective
Services (Adult Protective Services); Texas Department
of Family and Protective Services (Child Protective Services);
The Well Good Institute; Women With The Word; Youth Entrepreneurship
& Services Coalition
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Second
Chances Outreach Ministries, Inc. (SCO)
8400 Veteran’s Parkway, Ste. 924
Columbus, GA 31909
770-631-8508
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Founded in 1984, Second Chances Outreach Ministries, Inc.
works to prevent youth violence by providing positive
alternatives to gang involvement and other high-risk behaviors.
SCO provides youth development programming primarily targeting
at-risk minority males aged 12–21. SCO has operated
across the United States, and for the past nine years
has collaborated with faith-based organizations, schools,
law enforcement officials, and health and human service
providers on projects in Greater Fort Pierce, Florida.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
R.A.W.D.A.W.G.S. Youth Corps Expansion
Project Description:
SCO’s CEY project is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services addressing gang activity and youth violence.
Through this project, SCO is building the organizational
capacity of its partners to replicate and expand its model
gang prevention program, R.A.W.D.A.W.G.S. Youth Corps,
which targets minority males. The project work plan includes:
1) hiring and training a coordinator, a community liaison,
and an outreach worker; 2) recruitment of local youth
and volunteers to participate in the partnership; 3) training
and professional development for SCO and partner organizations’
staff; 4) application for 501(c)(3) non-profit status;
5) identification of curriculum models; 6) new membership
in or formation of local coalitions; 7) development of
outcome measurement tools; 8) training and technical assistance
to partners on best practices, policies and procedures,
and fiscal controls; 9) workshops on board recruitment
and grant research and writing; 10) a conference on strategies
to combat youth and gang violence; and 11) evaluation
activities.
Partners:
The Love Center of Regeneration Ministries, Inc.; Project
Rock of Miracle Prayer Temple; Common Grounds Vineyard
Church
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Shawnee
County Family Resource Center (SCFRC)
400 SW Oakley
Topeka, KS 66606
785-357-4763
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Shawnee County Family Resource Center, founded in
1995, provides coordinated community-based care including
prevention, intervention, and treatment services to help
families be safe and healthy. Its priorities are youth
development; truancy prevention; violence prevention;
and family strengthening, including work to prevent child
abuse and neglect and reduce the trauma that results from
witnessing domestic violence. SCFRC intervention services
include alternative education and community service programming
for youth who are expelled or suspended long term, first-time
juvenile offenders, kinship-care programming, and truancy
prevention case management. In addition to these direct
services, SCFRC works to create a single point of entry
to various service delivery systems including juvenile
justice, education, emergency assistance, health, mental
health, and substance abuse. SCFRC’s mission is
“that through partnership and collaborations, individuals
and families have easy access to a full array of community
resources.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Comprehensive Capacity Building to Empower Today’s
Youth
Project Description:
SCFRC is building the capacity of faith-based and community-based
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
This project: 1) assesses partners’ capacity building
needs; 2) develops individualized consulting plans that
outline specific deliverables to suit the needs of partners
3) provides consulting, coaching, and training in board
development; capacity building, program design, and development;
collaboration; community engagement; evaluation; leadership
and supervisory development; non-profit business development;
organizational assessment and evaluation; organizational
development and change; organizational “turnarounds”;
program development, marketing, and evaluation; resource
development; and strategic planning and facilitation;
4) uses peer learning to expand partners’ knowledge
and provide forum to share feedback, materials and mutual
support; and 5) conducts frequent, quick, and practical
evaluations to ensure capacity building goals are being
met.
Partners:
Kansas Youth Empowerment Academy; Odyssey Group; The Prairie
Advocacy Center; Prevention and Recovery Services; Success
By Six; Topeka Day Care Learning Center; Topeka Center
for Peace and Justice; The Topeka Youth Project
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Shawnee
Health Service
109 California St.
Carterville, IL 62918
618-529-2621
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Shawnee Health Service, founded in 1979, is a non-profit
organization that offers medical and social services throughout
southern Illinois. The organization’s social services
focus on prevention of child abuse, pregnancy, sexually
transmitted diseases, substance abuse, and youth violence.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Jackson County Communities Empowering Youth Project: Building
Capacity to Serve Disadvantaged Youth
Project Description:
Shawnee Health Service is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity and youth violence.
This project includes the following services to partner
agencies: 1) quarterly training events; 2) implementation
of an individualized technical assistance plan; 3) implementation
of a community education campaign; 4) coalition building
activities; and 5) assessment of project services by an
outside evaluator. The target service area for the project
is Jackson County, Illinois.
Partners:
Attucks Community Services,
Boys and Girls Club of Carbondale, Community Life Concepts
of SI, NFP, SIUC Family Housing Evergreen After-school
Program, Family Advocacy Services, Ministerial Alliance
of Carbondale Mentoring Program, Murphysboro Youth and
Recreation Center, Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship/Rainbow
Café, Reality Youth Center, Southern Illinois Regional
Social Services, Young Entrepreneurs Program
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Shepherd
Community, Inc.
4107 East Washington St.
Indianapolis, IN 46201
317-375-0203
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Shepherd Community, Inc. was founded in 1988 and serves
the near-eastside neighborhoods of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Its mission is “to transform these neighborhoods
by breaking the cycle of poverty in the second generation
neighborhoods, where hunger is common, education is lacking,
and hope is in short supply.” Shepherd Community,
Inc. provides direct services to low-income children,
youth, and their families through a continuum of care
that includes after-school tutoring and mentoring, college
access programs, emergency clothing, food, and shelter,
free meals, and summer camps.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Shepherd Community Capacity Building Initiative—Serving
Indiana’s Most At-Risk Youth
Project Description:
Shepherd Community’s CEY project is building the
capacity of faith-based and community organizations to
provide enhanced social services to address gang activity,
youth violence, and child abuse and neglect. The Shepherd
Community Capacity Building Initiative provides capacity
building for the lead organization and two other youth-serving
organizations in the inner city of Indianapolis, Indiana.
This project has completed pre-organizational assessments
that determined partners’ capacity building needs
and identified areas in which they can act as peer-to-peer
mentors to supplement the training and technical assistance
provided by expert consultants. In addition, the Initiative
provides 1) audit assistance, expert training and technical
assistance, and peer mentoring to improve the organizational
capacity of project partners in the areas of human resources,
leadership assessment and development, legal/fiscal controls,
resource development, strategic planning, technology,
and volunteer infrastructure; 2) post-organizational assessments
to measure the progress each partner has made towards
increased capacity. Additionally, the partners are developing
a training program relating to child abuse, design a youth
leadership development model, and partner with the Marion
County Prosecutor’s Office to develop an integrated
referral and case management intervention program for
youth at risk of gang involvement.
Partners:
Outreach, Inc.
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Smart
Choices for Youth, Inc. (SCFY)
201 East Ash St.
PO Box 1202
Goldsboro, NC 27533
919-735-0008
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Smart Choices for Youth, Inc. has served at-risk and disadvantaged
youth in North Carolina’s Wayne and Wilson counties
since 1989. SCFY provides mentoring to youth involved
with the juvenile justice system and children of prisoners,
and provides gang and youth violence prevention after-school
programs.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Project UNITY (Unlocking New Ideas Toward Youth)
Project Description:
Smart Choices for Youth is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address gang activity and youth violence.
Participants in this project: 1) organize, engage, and
facilitate a collaborative learning network within the
partnership through study groups and cluster meetings;
2) complete a community assessment; 3) develop action
plans for each partnership member; 4) provide monthly
technical assistance based on the action plan; 5) utilize
bi-annual project assessments; and 6) offer an ongoing
Leadership Academy with mentoring and succession planning.
Partners:
Eastern Chapel Church; Farmington Heights Church of God;
Gospel Perspectives, Inc.; Jackson Chapel First Missionary
Baptist Church; Youth Surge, Inc.
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South
Coast Business Employment Corporation (SCBEC)
PO Box 1118
93781 Newport Lane
Coos Bay, OR 97420
541-269-2013
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
South Coast Business Employment Corporation has been in
existence for more than 25 years and serves the Coos and
Curry County areas in Oregon. SCBEC’s programming
includes counseling, job training, life skills training,
mentoring, and work experience in efforts to foster positive
youth development and provide alternatives to youth violence.
In addition to providing direct services, SCBEC also has
experience acting as an intermediary organization that
provides support to faith-based and community organizations
and manages federal, state, and local grants.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Coos Curry Empowering Youth
Project Description:
SCBEC’s CEY project is building the capacity of
faith-based and community organizations to provide enhanced
social services to address youth violence and child abuse
and neglect. This project involves: 1) an initial assessment
to develop individual work plans for each partner; 2)
adult education trainings and customized technical assistance
consultations that partners attend as a group to gain
a shared understanding of the project (partners will also
have the opportunity to select “off the menu”
for one-on-one provision of assistance); and 3) ongoing
monitoring to ensure that new knowledge and skills move
from theory to actual implementation within partner organizations.
Specific topics that may be addressed include grant writing,
development of policies and procedures, bylaws, fiscal
management, computer programs, Web site development, or
other best practice management systems. The project may
also address board composition and function, board governance,
community mapping, needs assessment, non-profit incorporation,
policies and procedures, and written staff professional
and career development. Emphasis is being placed on experiential
learning, in which focus is placed on equipping participants
with a product or skill, as well as a plan for implementing
it.
Partners:
Alternative Youth Activities; Bandon Teen Center; Bay
Area TOGETHER for Youth; Belloni Ranch, Inc.; Bridges
Advocacy and Outreach Center; Coos County Foster Parents
Association; Coquille Praise Center; North Curry Families
and Children Center; Powers Together; South Coast Community
Resource Center
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Southeastern
Network of Youth and Family Services (SEN)
28331 S. Tamiami Trail, Unit 3
Bonita Springs, FL 34134
239-949-4414
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
SEN is a private non-profit organization made up of eighty
youth- and family-serving agencies in the states of Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Tennessee. SEN was founded in 1977
and has since served as the Regional Training and Technical
Assistance Provider for all federally-funded Family and
Youth Services Bureau basic center shelters, transitional
living programs, and street outreach programs in the southeast.
SEN works to strengthening organizations as they strengthen
youth, families, and communities.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Southeastern Network Communities Empowering Youth Project
(SEN-CEY)
Project Description:
SEN’s CEY project is building the capacity of faith-based
and community-based organizations to provide enhanced
social services to address child abuse and neglect. The
project serves partner organizations in Birmingham, Alabama
and Knoxville, Tennessee and involves a four-tiered approach:
1) conducting site visits with each partner to complete
an in-depth assessment of organizational status, current
and long term goals, and barriers in achieving program
objectives; 2) providing onsite, community-based, and
Web-based training and technical assistance to address
specific capacity building needs, bringing partners together
for networking, peer learning, and mentoring; 3) assisting
partners to implement new knowledge, skills, and experience
as well as to create collaborative community strategies
for helping youth; and 4) utilizing peer trainers to assist
partners and local community coalitions to enhance existing
resources to increase their community-based support and
program sustainability.
Partners:
Child and Family Tennessee; Children's Aid Society; Family
Connection, Inc.; Jefferson County Commission on Economic
Opportunity in Greater Birmingham
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Springfield
Urban League, Inc.
100 North 11th St.
Springfield, IL 62703
217-789-0830
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Springfield Urban League, Inc. is a non-profit corporation
founded in 1926. The League serves more than 6,000 persons
(including about 2,000 youth) each year in the Springfield,
Illinois area. Its mission is “to enable African-Americans,
other minority groups, and the underprivileged to cultivate
their potential and exercise their full human rights as
American citizens.” The League’s programming
offers a full spectrum of services to assist youth and
their families in reaching their full potential economically,
educationally, emotionally, physically, and socially.
The League currently runs Head Start, Early Head Start,
after-school, college preparatory, job readiness, teen
pregnancy prevention, and youth mentoring programs.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Springfield Urban League, Inc.: Communities Empowering
Youth Program
Project Description:
Springfield Urban League is building the capacity of faith-based
and community-based organizations to provide enhanced
social services to address gang activity and child abuse
and neglect. Project partners are improving the services
they provide by having conducting a community needs assessment
of issues faced by disadvantaged youth in Springfield,
Illinois, and designing a systematic process by which
to apply the results to improve existing programs and
in the development of new programs. Additionally the project
partners 1) have formed a coalition of youth-serving organizations
and of adult and youth community members and are creating
an action plan for providing coordinated and comprehensive
services to disadvantaged youth and developing a youth
services resource directory that lists each youth-serving
organization, their contact information, and a matrix
of available services; 2) have expanded the Community
Health Training Center’s curricula to include in-person
workshops and Web-based training that meet the needs of
faith-based and community organizations serving disadvantaged
youth; and 4) provide customized technical assistance
to partners on topics such as completing applications
for non-profit status, designing program objectives, designing
Web pages to supplement the above-mentioned trainings,
developing curriculum, evaluating program outcomes, and
reviewing grant proposals.
Partners:
Lincolns Challenge Academy, NAACP Alternative School,
Calvary Baptist Church,Fresh Visions Community Church,
Brown Street Church
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Syracuse
Model Neighborhood Facility, Inc. (SMNF)
401 South Ave.
Syracuse, NY 13204
315-474-6823
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility, Inc. was founded
in 1974 to “work with individuals, families, and
communities to promote health and well-being through prevention,
intervention, and education” in the predominantly
African-American, low-income area of southwest Syracuse,
New York. SMNF also serves as a non-profit fiscal agent,
providing fiscal management and support for faith-based
and community projects. SMNF has also worked in the areas
of HIV/AIDS services and prevention and youth violence
prevention.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Syracuse Urban Youth Development Coalition
Project Description:
SMNF is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity and youth violence. The coalition creates
and executes a sustainable youth development system. A
strategic plan for the coalition is emerging through a
period of bi-weekly leadership symposia. Individual partners
also, through monthly leadership sessions, develop their
capacity in the four critical areas of capacity building:
community engagement, leadership development, organizational
development, and program development. A coalition-wide
communication process was developed to allow for monthly
updates. Mentoring also is utilized for designated community
trainers.
Partners:
Bellegrove Missionary Baptist Church; Faith and Hope Community
Center, Inc.; Greater Love in Christ Church, Inc.; Interdenominational
Ministerial Alliance; Violence Intervention Prevention
Program
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Texas
Christian University (TCU)
2800 South University Dr.
Fort Worth, TX 76129
817-257-7130
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, has served
as a teaching and research institute for more than 130
years. TCU has an established track record providing training
and technical assistance to faith based and community
organizations in four key areas of capacity building and
has offered community enrichment, service and development
classes in the Fort Worth area for more than 40 years.
TCU lives by its mission “to educate individuals
to think and act as ethical leaders and responsible citizens
in the global community.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
TCU YOUth Program—Youth Organizations Unite, TCU
Helps
Project Description:
The TCU YOUth program is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations in northeast Texas’
Tarrant County to provide enhanced social services to
address gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse
and neglect using a three-stage strategy . Phase one is
building coalition infrastructure by establishing program
and operating models; building a personnel bank of core
instructors and consultants; working with larger, more
established partners; and consulting with smaller organizations
to refine delivery of training and technical assistance.
Phase Two strategically incorporates additional youth-serving
organizations; sets priorities for the addition of grassroots
organizations; refines programming; and expands the bank
of core instructors and consultants increasing use of
community volunteers. Phase Three will establish the coalition’s
self-sufficiency by developing a cost-effective fee structure
for ongoing training and consulting services; incorporating
more community volunteers into training and consulting
roles; and opening training and consulting opportunities
to additional faith-based and non-profit organizations
with appropriate fees to cover expenses.
Partners:
H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People Excel) Farms, Inc.; H.O.P.E.
Tutoring; Tarrant County Youth Collaboration; Trinity-Brazos
Area of the Christian Church; Volunteer Center, North
Texas
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TOGETHER!
PO Box 5325
Lacey, WA 98509
360-493-2230
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Since 1993, TOGETHER! has provided technical assistance
and brokered training in the four capacity building areas
of community engagement, leadership development, organizational
development, and program development to seven community
coalitions in Thurston County, Washington. TOGETHER! has
a long history of community mobilization, coalition building,
and programming efforts targeting youth violence and alcohol,
drug, and tobacco use.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
The Community Action Partners Aquiring Capacity to Invest
in Thurston Youth (CAPACITY) Project
Project Description:
TOGETHER!’s CEY project is building the capacity
of faith-based and community organizations to provide
enhanced social services to address gang activity, youth
violence, and child abuse and neglect. The CAPACITY project
includes: 1) a community-level assessment that documents
the extent of child abuse/neglect, gang activity, and
violence in Thurston County; inventories the current resources
that support prevention of these problems; and identifies
gaps in service and strategy in support of healthy youth
development; 2) an organizational-level assessment that
identifies specific organizational capacity building needs;
3) local training series that are presented by contracted
specialists (e.g., a corporation lawyer presenting on
incorporation) to address training needs identified by
more than one partner; and 4) brokered participation in
existing training conferences to address training needs
that are identified by a single partner or that are more
reasonably provided in this manner. In addition to addressing
their own needs, CAPACITY project partners will outreach
to faith-based and community organizations in the larger
community—specifically in communities of color,
and in rural south Thurston County, Washington—to
build overall community capacity to respond to youth needs
in effective and culturally-appropriate ways.
Partners:
Community Youth Services; Lacey Presbyterian Church; Rochester
Organization of Families; United Churches of Olympia
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United
Way of Central Massachusetts (UWCM)
484 Main St., Ste. 300
Worcester, MA 01609
508-757-5631
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Since the 1930s, the United Way of Central Massachusetts
has not only been a vehicle for raising contributions
from individuals, corporations, and foundations, it has
also established a “community impact agenda”
to create significant, lasting change in community conditions.
It worked to establish an accessible, interactive, online
source of data on more than thirty indicators of the quality
of life in the Worcester community. Most recently, UWCM
worked to create a sustainable, community-wide commitment
to improving the lives of youth by mobilizing prominent
business leaders, government officials, education representatives,
young people, faith leaders, and youth-serving organizations
to identify needs, their root causes, and an agenda for
systems change.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Worcester Youth Capacity Project
Project Description:
United Way of Central Massachusetts is building the capacity
of faith-based and community organizations to provide
enhanced social services to address gang activity and
youth violence. The Capacity Project includes: 1) an asset-based,
participatory organizational assessment project that culminates
in the creation of a training and technical assistance
plan that develops the capacity of staff and volunteers
to assess their environments; 2) a community assessment
that identifies community strengths and weaknesses in
addressing youth violence, gang involvement, and effects
of child abuse/neglect and informs partners’ efforts;
3) organizational mentoring from a consultant and through
peer relationships with local faith-based and community
organizations; 4) customized leadership and youth development
training and technical assistance; 5) bi-monthly educational
forums and collaborative learning experiences for staff
and board members, assisting them in building organizational
development skills; 6) installation of evaluation technology
that enables partners to measure the degree to which their
programs foster participant achievement; and 7) a community-level
cluster evaluation that determines the impact of the Capacity
Project as a whole.
Partners:
Higher Education Resource Center; Nativity After School
Program; Toxic Soil Busters Cooperative; Worcester Youth
Center; Youth Effect
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United
Way of El Paso County (UWEP)
PO Box 3488
El Paso, TX 79923
915-533-2434
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The United Way El Paso County has been in existence since
1923 with “a strong commitment and an extensive
record of accomplishment working to prepare the youth
of El Paso, Texas, to succeed and contribute as both teenagers
and adults.” UWEP funds 29 youth-focused programs
and offers education programming, healthcare initiatives,
and prevention services.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Compassion: Helping Increase Capacity of Organizations
(CHICO)
Project Description:
UWEP is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect
through 1) a community needs assessment and asset mapping
conducted by neighborhood residents and partner staff;
2) organizational needs assessments completed by partner
board members and staff; 3) customized plans to build
capacity of each partner in at least two critical capacity
areas -- community engagement, leadership development,
organizational development, and program development --
identified through the assessment; and 4) training and
technical assistance to implement the customized plans.
Partners:
Big Brothers Big Sisters of El Paso; Boys and Girls Clubs
of El Paso; Child Crisis Center of El Paso; El Paso Human
Services; Jewish Family & Children’s Services;
Project Vida; Victory Warriors Drill & Dance Team;
YMCA; YWCA
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United
Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona
330 North Commerce Park Loop, Ste. 200
Tucson, AZ 85754
520-903-9000
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona has operated
in the Tucson area since 1922. The organization has extensive
experience providing training and technical assistance
to faith-based and community organizations. It has a primary
focus to achieve impacts with quantifiable outcomes in
the targeted areas of children, families, and seniors.
The current goals are “to: 1) serve as the primary
catalyst in mobilizing the community; 2) identify critical
community issues and provide appropriate responses; and
3) secure funds and other resources that can be used to
develop an economically strong, safe, and healthy community
where southern Arizona residents can live and work.”
As such it funds after-school programs so that “more
youth [may be] engaged in a range of safe and productive
after-school activities.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Youth Program Empowerment
Project Description:
United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona is building
the capacity of faith-based and community organizations
to provide enhanced social services which address gang
activity and youth violence. This project includes: 1)
training workshops in the four critical capacity areas
of community engagement, leadership development, organizational
development, and program development; 2) workshops on
mentoring and best practices working with youth and self-assessment
and quality improvement for out-of-school programs; 4)
assessments to identify capacity building needs to be
addressed through specialized technical assistance; 5)
comprehensive outreach to promote training activities;
6) creation of a network for out-of-school-time program
staff to facilitate collaboration and resource sharing;
and 7) training on community asset mapping.
Partners:
Chaparral Middle School-Community Partnership; Girls,
Inc.; Metropolitan Education Commission; Naylor Middle
School-Community Partnership; Pascua Yaqui Tribe Education
Division; Pima County Juvenile Court; Pio Decimo Center
After-School Program; Salvation Army; Tucson Urban League;
VOICES Community Stories Past and Present, Inc.
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United
Way Silicon Valley (UWSV)
1922 The Alameda
San Jose, CA 95126
408-345-4300
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Established in 1922, the United Way Silicon Valley has
been guided by the mission to “improve lives by
mobilizing the caring power of its community.” UWSV
focuses on: 1) building family stability through crisis
resolution—basic needs, access to healthcare, counseling,
and support; and 2) ensuring long term self-sufficiency
through building adult living skills: obtaining, holding,
and advancing in employment, financial management, and
effective parenting.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
San Jose Empowering Youth Collaborative
Project Description:
UWSV’s CEY project is building the capacity of faith-based
and community-based organizations to provide enhanced
social services to address gang activity and youth violence.
This project addresses the needs of local faith-based
and community organizations serving at-risk youth in the
area of Santa Clara County, California. It includes: 1)
pre-assessments; 2) training and technical assistance;
and 3) evaluation of results in order to strengthen the
capacity of local organizations. The project will design
and deliver customized training and technical assistance
to formalize youth development curricula and to create
sustainable organizations and networks that have a greater
impact on reducing poverty in low-income communities.
Distinct programs are developed and made available to
local non-profits that focus on positive youth development
and gang intervention; among the resources developed are
curriculum, packaging, training, and evaluation tools.
Partners:
California Youth Outreach; Catholic Charities Santa Clara County
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Vision
for Children at Risk
2433 North Grand Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63106
314-534-6015
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Vision for Children at Risk coordinates, convenes, and
facilitates the St. Louis Metropolitan Children’s
Agenda, a partnership that addresses critical needs of
children and youth in the St. Louis region. Since 1993,
the Children’s Agenda has engaged 300 social service
agencies and community organizations in launching programs
and policies impacting children. The purpose of the Children’s
Agenda is “to encourage regional collaboration among
agencies and to provide a framework for launching strategic
initiatives benefiting children.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
St. Louis Children’s Agenda Capacity Building
Project Description:
Vision for Children at Risk is building the capacity of
faith-based and community organizations to provide enhanced
social services to address child abuse and neglect. This
project includes: 1) training and technical assistance
around the four capacity building areas (community engagement,
leadership development, organizational development, and
program development) that will cover topics such as development
of a communication plan, development of the executive
committee, marketing, staff training, and strategic planning;
2) quarterly workshops around an evidence-based curriculum;
3) quarterly symposia around collaborative and integrated
social services; 4) twice-monthly meetings with management
from all partner organizations to review capacity building
activities, monitor progress, and identify needs for further
training and technical assistance; and 5) upgrading technology
systems for partnership members.
Partners:
Kids Hope United – Hudelson Region; St. Louis Family
and Community Partnership; Vision for Children at Risk
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W.E.B.
DuBois Learning Center (DLC)
5501 Cleveland Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64130
816-523-3339
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center (DLC) was established
in 1973 in Kansas City, Missouri, with the objective of
providing tutorial assistance in reading and mathematics
to a small group of students. DLC has since expanded greatly,
currently serving more than 500 students a year through
volunteers who provide tutoring in reading, math, science,
and computer technology.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Compassion Capital Fund Communities Empowering Youth Program
Project Description:
DLC is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect.
This project includes: 1) community needs assessment and
asset mapping; 2) development of a strategic plan and
identification of future collaborators; 3) training for
all partners on staff professional development and grant
writing; 4) smaller training groups on select topics based
on partner needs; 5) technical assistance for all partners
regarding board selection and function, implementation
of a program monitoring system, and program evaluation;
and 6) technical assistance on specific areas of capacity
development, based on partner needs.
Partners:
Black Family Technology Awareness Association of Kansas
City; Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council; Peers Organized to
Support Student Excellence (P.O.S.S.E.); Trace’s
Place
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Wesley
Center for Family and Neighborhood Development (Wesley
Center)
6830 S. Pleasant Valley Rd.
Austin, TX 78744
512-326-8545
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Established in 2002 in Austin, Texas, the Wesley Center
is a faith-based organization that provides youth development
and family strengthening services as well as training
and technical assistance to faith-based and community
organizations to improve outcomes for families and neighborhoods.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Communities Empowering Youth
Project Description:
The Wesley Center’s CEY project is building the
capacity of Wesley Center and its partners in the southeast
Austin community of Dove Springs provides enhanced social
services to address gang activity, youth violence, and
child abuse and neglect. Project activities include: 1)
an organizational assessment of programs, activities,
policies, practices, and procedures documented in written
report which details major findings, makes and recommendations
and establishes baseline data for capacity development;
2) participatory strategic development culminating in
a documented strategic plan which includes quarterly events,
establishes success indicators, and defines roles and
responsibilities to assist the Wesley Center and its partners
in tracking outcomes and milestones; and 3) customized
training and technical assistance based on preliminary
assessment results. The Wesley Center will also convene
parents, youth, community organizations, churches, schools,
and businesses to develop a comprehensive approach to
preventing child abuse/neglect, gang activity, and juvenile
violence.
Partners:
Avance; Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church; River City Youth
Foundation; Southeast Corner Alliance of Neighborhoods
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Wichita
State University, Self-Help Network (SHN) Center for Community
Support and Research
1845 Fairmount, Box 201
Wichita, KS 67260
316-978-3039
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Wichita State University’s Self-Help Network has
more than 20 years of experience providing capacity building
assistance to groups, grassroots organizations, coalitions,
and non-profit organizations that work with youth in Wichita,
Kansas. SHN was founded in 1985 as a clearinghouse for
self-help support groups, particularly those concerned
with drug and alcohol use, mental health, and youth and
family issues. SHN subsequently broadened its focus to
offer capacity building services to a wider range of community
coalitions and faith-based organizations, and in 1999
SHN became a Center for Community Support and Research.
SHN’s vision is that “all Kansans have a voice
and share their talents and experiences to create thriving,
supportive communities.”
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Wichita Youth Empowerment Partnership
Project Description:
Wichita State University is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services which address gang activity and youth violence.
This project include: 1) capacity building workshops and
one-to-one direct assistance related to the four critical
capacity areas of community engagement, leadership development,
organizational development, and program development; 2)
financial assistance; 3) a service-learning project in
which advanced undergraduate and graduate students at
Wichita State University provide additional organizational
capacity assistance to project partners; 4) development
of a youth empowerment coalition that includes project
partners, government entities, law enforcement, youth,
and other community groups; 5) Web-based materials for
project partners on commonly-faced organizational issues
such as strategic planning, board development, leadership,
and volunteer recruitment; and 6) additional assistance
from consultants with expertise in grant development,
executive director coaching, legal issues, public awareness,
and youth empowerment.
Partners:
Eden’s Promise, Inc.; Forever Crowned with Glory
Ministry of Training, Inc.; Good Gang; Hope Street Youth
Development; Independent World Chess Championships, Inc.;
Kappa League; NAACP Youth Organization; National Conference
for Community & Justice; Uhuru Faith Ministries; Youth
Development Services, Inc.
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William
Byrd Community House (WBCH)
224 South Cherry St.
Richmond, VA 23220
804-643-2717
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
William Byrd Community House was founded in 1923. It operates
on two parallel tracks: 1) delivering direct services
to more than 2,000 individuals each year, and 2) delivering
community development services to faith-based and community
organizations throughout central Virginia. WBCH’s
direct social services include after-school programs,
elderly programs, emergency services, Head Start, parent
groups, and youth programs. WBCH’s community development
services incorporate non-profit research and development,
guidance and education for non-profit organizations and
collaborative ventures.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Richmond Empowers Youth (REY)
Project Description:
WBCH is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations by providing enhanced social services to
address youth violence. WBCH and its partners have completed
a pre-assessment to determine priority capacity building
areas for the CEY project. Project activities include:
1) a mutual learning and consulting process that develops
a common language and understanding of organizational
systems between partners to provide them with a common
vision and purpose; 2) an initial orientation session
to inform partners of federal funding regulations; 3)
a Leadership Track to provide training for organizational
directors and managers in all four critical capacity building
areas of community engagement, leadership development,
organizational development, and program development and
to give them an overall understanding of the systems underlying
successful non-profit organizations; and 4) a Priority
Needs Track to focus on the two key areas of capacity
building identified for each organization through their
pre-assessments. WBCH contracts with the University of
Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University in carrying
out the project.
Partners:
Family Lifeline Communities in Schools; Richmond Organization
for Sexual Minority Youth; Sacred Heart Center; SynerGeo
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Yellowstone
Boys and Girls Ranch
1732 South 72nd St. West
Billings, MT 59106
406-655-2100
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
Founded in 1957, Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch provide
services to children and adolescents, including clinical
psychiatric residential treatment, group homes, and community-based
services with a strong emphasis on pastoral care and academics.
The Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch also provides training
and guidance to public and private agencies to foster
strong leadership and better services through its Yellowstone
Resource Center.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Yellowstone County Empowering Youth Project
Project Description:
Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch is building the capacity
of faith-based and community organizations to provide
enhanced social services to address child abuse and neglect.
This project will: 1) engage in a strategic planning process
that defines the goals for the community partnership;
2) develop a community education and communication plan
to inform the local community of the project efforts;
and 3) assess each community partner to provide the basis
for courses as well as for individual technical assistance
activities in each of the four critical capacity building
areas: community engagement, leadership development, organizational
development, and program development. The targeted service
areas for this project are Montana’s Billings and
Yellowstone counties.
Partners:
The Child & Family Intervention Center of Montana;
Faith Evangelical and “Living Water” Churches;
The Family Tree; First Assembly Life Center; The In-Care
Network; Inc.; The Montana Children & Family Advocacy
Program; Native American Achievement Center; Tumbleweed
Runaway Program; Yellowstone County Kids Management Authority;
Yellowstone Court Appointed Special Advocates
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Youth
Life Foundation of Tennessee, Inc. (YLFT)
4402 Tennessee Ave.
Nashville, TN 37209
615-385-3881
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Youth Life Foundation of Tennessee, Inc. is a Nashville-based
ministry that was established in 2001 as an affiliate
of the national Youth Life Foundation. It has five centers
in the Nashville area. YLFT develops after-school programs
focused on academic achievement and leadership for at-risk
youth in low-income communities.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
YLFT Capacity Building Project
Project Description:
YLFT is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations by providing enhanced social services to
address gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse
and neglect. The YLFT Capacity Building Project includes
capacity building for YLFT and its affiliates and partners.
Capacity building for YLFT includes development of a national
office to coordinate major activities, including the development
of the School of Youth and Social Services to train center
staff, as well as the National Technical Training Center
(NTTC) to assist non-profit organizations in developing
youth development centers. The project provides capacity
building for affiliates and partners. Training includes:
1) one-on-one training to meet the needs of individual
organizations; 2) one-day seminars for small groups; and
3) an annual conference focused on best practices, program
standardization, and youth research findings. Training
also includes YLFT methodology for center replication.
Partners:
Exchange Club Family Center; Powerhouse Youth Project;
Y-Build
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Youth
Policy Institute (YPI)
634 South Spring St., Ste. 818
Los Angeles, CA 90014
213-688-2802
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Youth Policy Institute works with both large and small
faith-based and community organizations to provide needed
services for low-income youth, particularly Latinos, in
Los Angeles. YPI currently operates a preschool, after-school
programs, a charter middle school, tutoring and college
preparation programs, adult education and parenting classes,
workforce development for youth and adults, day laborer
centers, and technology initiatives including a technology
center for youth and families.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
YouthFirst-LA
Project Description:
YPI’s CEY project is building the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations to provide enhanced social
services to address youth violence. YouthFirst-LA project
involves: 1) an orientation to familiarize partners with
the project and with federal regulations concerning the
grant award; 2) pre- and post-organizational assessments
to develop a target plan for each area in which partners
require assistance and to measure progress towards expanded
capacity; 3) a community needs assessment to set priorities
for training and technical assistance; 4) monthly seminars
to directly address priorities within the four critical
areas of capacity building (community engagement, leadership
development, organizational development, and program development);
5) one-on-one services for senior staff to discuss specific
capacity building methodologies; and 6) financial assistance
to bolster implementation of target plans. YouthFirst-LA
also emphasizes technological support for each partner.
Project partners are provided with resources for Internet
services, email, and organizational Web sites and are
also being assisted in incorporating the use of a database
to help manage organizational and programmatic information.
While YouthFirst-LA partners with five FBCOs in the San
Fernando Valley and Central Los Angeles, additional resources
and materials are made available to all organizations
in these areas through the project Web site.
Partners:
Clinica Romero; Communities in Schools; Fuerza Matrimonial;
Heroes of Life; Salvadoran American Leadership and Educational
Fund
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Youth
Policy Institute of Iowa (YPII)
7025 Hickman Rd., Ste. 4
Des Moines, IA 50322
515-727-4220
Award Year: 2006
Award Amount, Year One: $300,000
Award Amount, Year Two: $225,000
Organizational Description:
The Youth Policy Institute of Iowa is a non-profit intermediary
organization that supports state and local youth-serving
agencies through policy analysis, training and technical
assistance, and program coordination and assessment. YPII
has provided technical assistance to communities and to
individual faith-based and community organizations on
strategic planning, needs assessments, and evaluation.
Name of CEY Initiative Project:
Iowa Communities Empowering Youth Project
Project Description:
YPII is building the capacity of faith-based and community
organizations to provide enhanced social services to address
youth violence. The project goal is to increase the capacity
of faith-based and community organizations in three of
Iowa’s counties—Black Hawk, Johnson, and Polk
—to assure sustainability and improve the effectiveness
of youth services, programs, and practices. This is being
accomplished through: 1) baseline assessments of current
capacity of partners; 2) the development of training and
technical assistance plans based on results of the assessments;
3) provision of training and technical assistance; and
4) the development of state and community infrastructures
to coordinate youth development efforts through the use
of Web-based communication tools. YPII is working with
the Iowa Collaboration for Youth Development, a network
of state agencies and community partners, to provide capacity
building to the partners of the project.
Partners:
The Polk County Youth Development Partnership; United
Action for Youth; Urban Dreams, Inc.
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