America on Track
600 West Santa Ana Boulevard
Suite 710
Santa Ana, CA 92701
714-531-7144
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
America on Track and its partner organizations have a wealth of experience addressing
gang activity, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect. America on Track and
its three partner organizations, two community-based and one faith-based, are all
located in Santa Ana, California. Organizations in the collaborative have nine to
one hundred years of experience working in the community, and have worked together
since 1999 on numerous projects through the local Weed & Seed coalition. All
partners meet monthly to brainstorm, collaborate, and review progress on goals and
objectives.
Partners:
The Cambodian Family, Santa Ana Education Foundation, and Trinity Cristo Rey Lutheran
Church.
Lead Organization Description:
Founded in 1995, America on Track works to provide a support system for disadvantaged
families and protect their children from drug abuse, gang involvement, and educational
failure. In addition, the organization provides training and technical assistance
to other local faith-based and community organizations.
Project Description:
At the beginning of each project year, the On Track Communities Empowering Youth
project uses the McKinsey Capacity Assessment Grid to identify organizational strengths
and deficiencies as the foundation for training and technical assistance. America
on Track offers individualized quarterly training sessions to partner organizations
in each identified area of need. In addition, it offers numerous workshops, to be
attended by two representatives from each organization. Training and technical assistance
for the three partners is led by staff and directors of America on Track. America
on Track also provides $108,200 per year as financial assistance to its three partners.
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Asociación de Organizaciones Comunitarias para el Desarrollo de Viviendas de Puerto
Rico
Plaza de Mercado de Caguas
P.O. Box 31238
2nd Floor, Suite 16
San Juan, PR 00929
787-744-1325
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Asociación de Organizaciones Comunitarias para el Desarollo de Viviendas de Puerto
Rico (the Association) has been in operation for five years, and its two partner
organizations have nearly fifteen years of experience working with the local community.
Together, they collaborate on coordination and implementation of the Positive Youth
Program, which will focus on decreasing gang activity, youth violence, and child
abuse and neglect in the Cantera Peninsula community. The three partners, all involved
in the local Weed & Seed program, hope to strengthen their ability to address
the many social issues in their community both as a collaborative and as individual
organizations.
Partners:
Apoyo Empresarial and Consejo Vecinal.
Lead Organization Description:
The Association was created in 2002 by area leaders as a result of funding from
the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Since its inception, the
Association has provided technical assistance to local nonprofits addressing youth
development, and has recruited twenty-eight member organizations.
Project Description:
During the second year of the project, the Association
will deliver a total of 126 hours of direct training and
approximately 1,112 hours of TA between both partner organizations.
These trainings will focus on the four critical areas
of community development, which will give both partners
the tools necessary to increase community participation
with services provided for positive youth development.
The Association makes 25 percent of total CEY funding
available to its partners as financial assistance for
organizational improvements.
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Center for Success and Independence
3722 Pinemont Drive
Houston, TX 77018
713-426-4545
Award Amount, Year 1: $249,978
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Building on a shared history of working together in their community, the Gate of
Light partners’ goal is to strengthen the community’s capacity to sustain large,
complex collaborations. The project will develop database infrastructure to serve
the needs of each organization and the collaborative as a whole, create a community-wide
advisory board that provides feedback, and establish links with government and business.
Partners:
Bering Memorial United Methodist Church and Light House Village.
Lead Organization Description:
Founded in 2000, the Center for Success and Independence (TCSI) offers prevention,
screening and assessment, treatment, case management, evaluation, and training to
adolescents in Houston, Texas. It also serves as a lead organization in multiple
interagency collaborations.
Project Description:
Through the Gate of Light Capacity Building Project, TCSI offers training in advanced
nonprofit leadership and financial systems management. TCSI will also upgrade its
internal information systems to build its own capacity. To launch the project, collaborative
members completed community and organizational assessments and are using TCSI’s
Prevention Toolbox software to develop strategic plans for capacity building. Partners
receive training from TCSI, a management consultant, and an IT consultant in multiple
critical capacity areas. The Gate of Light Capacity Building Project provides partners
with technical assistance and financial assistance suited to their individual needs.
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Cincinnati Beulah Missionary Baptist Church
1834 Section Road
Cincinnati, OH 45237
513-531-7283
Award Amount, Year 1: $249,012
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Beulah Missionary Baptist Church and its two partnering faith-based organizations
increase collaboration, coordination, community participation, and the leveraging
of resources to more effectively address the issues of youth violence and neglect.
Partners:
Council of Christian Communions and World Outreach Christian Center.
Lead Organization Description:
Beulah Missionary Baptist Church (BMBC) has been a presence in its community for
nearly 100 years. BMBC has become a provider of numerous social service programs
for youth, couples, families, and ex-offenders. Additionally, BMBC provides training
and technical assistance (TA) to FBCOs throughout Cincinnati, Ohio.
Project Description:
Lead organization BMBC trains staff and volunteers in best practices for working
with youth violence, detecting and reporting abuse, teamwork, and resource management.
The collaborative partnership holds quarterly meetings to keep other churches, businesses,
civic organizations and families informed about the services available to them.
Partner organizations use assessments to determine goals and objectives for capacity
building. BMBC also provides more than $62,500 in financial assistance to its partners.
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Clemson University
Office of Sponsored Programs
Box 345702, 300 Brackett Hall
Clemson, SC 29634
864-656-2424
Award Amount, Year 1: $249,918
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Faith in Youth Collaboration is made up of Clemson University’s Youth Learning
Institute and five well-established youth-serving organizations in two South Carolina
counties. The oldest partner organization was founded in 1886, and the newest in
1999. All five organizations have previous involvement with the Youth Learning Institute.
Partners:
Carey Hill Development Corporation, Christ Central Ministries, Redd’s Branch Baptist
Church, Second Baptist Church, and The Imani Group.
Lead Organization Description:
Located in Clemson University’s Institute on Family and
Neighborhood Life, the South Carolina Center for Grassroots
and nonprofit Leadership is dedicated to building the
capacity of the state’s most-in-need nonprofits. The Center
was formed in 1998 by a collaborative of major foundations,
universities, nonprofits, faith-based networks, and state
agencies, and has served as a CCF intermediary since 2002.
Project Description:
The Youth Learning Institute (YLI) is building its capacity as a training center
for organizations that work with at-risk youth by strengthening its leadership and
staff development, community engagement, volunteer management, and evaluation procedures.
YLI builds partner capacity by providing a series of three-day residential training
retreats. Partners also receive technical assistance through residential retreats
individually tailored to meet predetermined capacity building needs; YLI also makes
its fifty-person staff available to partners for consultation on specific needs.
YLI gives each of the five partner organizations $20,000 per year as direct financial
assistance.
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Communities in Schools of KCK/Wyandotte County
4601 State Avenue
Suite 38
Kansas City, KS 66102
913-627-4381
Award Amount, Year 1: $249,062
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Communities in Schools of KCK/Wyandotte County (CIS of KCK/WC) and its collaborative
partners provide programming in several Kansas City public schools through CIS’s
Adopt-a-School program, which engages local churches to adopt neighborhood public
schools and provide them with a variety of services and resources. Through the CEY
grant, the six partner churches undergo extensive training to build and strengthen
their capacity to offer programming.
Partners:
Evangelistic Center, Grace Lutheran Church, Living Stone Family Worship Center,
Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church, Salem Missionary Baptist Church, and Victory
Hills Church of the Nazarene.
Lead Organization Description:
CIS of KCK/WC is a community-based organization that removes barriers to education
through the integration of community resources. Since its founding in 1998, CIS
of KCK/WC has partnered with area agencies, schools, and faith-based and community
organizations to distribute resources to youth and families who need them most.
Project Description:
CIS of KCK/WC and its partners receive training through the University’s Community
Capacity Building Training Institute, a series of workshops and classes which begins
with a study of community engagement and ends with completion of the collaborative’s
community needs assessment. Staff of the Training Institute will lead training and
technical assistance efforts in year two. By year three, CIS of KCK/WC will have
sufficient capacity to facilitate the majority of capacity building assistance to
its partners. CIS of KCK/WC provides its partners with financial assistance totaling
at least 25 percent of its total award based on the level of need identified in
their organizational assessments.
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Community Action Agency
1214 Greenwood Avenue
Jackson, MI 49203
517-784-4800
Award Amount, Year 1: $249,635
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
This collaborative is composed of organizations that have worked together in the
Partnership Park neighborhood of Jackson, Michigan, since 2001. Together, they formed
the Partnership Park Downtown Neighborhood Association (PPDNA). PPDNA conducts a
community assessment, creates an action plan that follows the assessment’s findings,
builds a communications task force, and replicates the assessment process in other
neighborhoods. The group also continues to be involved in the local Weed & Seed
initiative.
Partners:
Catholic Charities of Jackson, Partnership Park Downtown Neighborhood Association
(PPDNA), and St. John’s United Church of Christ.
Lead Organization Description:
The Community Action Agency (CAA) has worked to address the needs of low-income
residents of three Michigan counties for more than forty years. Currently, CAA operates
approximately sixty direct service programs and provides training and technical
assistance to faith-based and community organizations throughout Michigan.
Project Description:
CAA provides training and TA to its partner organizations, with particular emphasis
on PPDNA. Among other services, PPDNA provides leadership training to community
residents and runs an after school program for community youth. PPDNA receives $62,500
in financial assistance from CAA annually.
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Community Council of Greater Dallas
1349 Empire Central
Suite 400
Dallas, TX 75247
214-871-5065
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Community Council of Greater Dallas works with three established partner organizations—two
community-based and one faith-based—in CCGD’s Dallas Community Youth Development
Program, which has operated since 1996.
Partners:
Good Street Baptist Church, Teens at Work, and Vision Regeneration.
Lead Organization Description:
The Community Council of Greater Dallas (CCGD), founded in 1940, is dedicated to
bringing people together to address issues that affect the well-being of children
and young people in its community. CCGD researches and disseminates information
on the needs of children and youth and coordinates the efforts of community leaders
and professionals to develop community-based action plans to address those needs.
Project Description:
Throughout the project, CCGD will build its capacity and that of its partners. During
the summer of year 2, CCGD partners will implement a “Train the Parent” workshop
to teach parenting skills to the parents of its program partipants. Each year, partner
agencies receive training from CCGD through quarterly seminars and individualized
technical assistance (TA) sessions. CCGD divides $62,500 in financial assistance
among its partners, based on level of need.
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Corporación de Apoyo a Programas Educativos y Comunitarios
PMB 106 P.O. Box 4956
Caguas, PR 00726
787-745-3710
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Community Alliance for Empowering Youth is a long-standing collaborative of
five community organizations and one faith-based organization. An advisory board
whose members represent each partner organization plays a major role in the project’s
implementation, its periodic evaluation, and planning for the future.
Partners:
EcoRecursos Comunitarios (Community EcoResources), Asociacion Nuevo Milenio (New
Millennium Association), Asociacion de Residentes de Brisas del Mar (Brisas del
Mar Residents’ Council), Comunidad Organizada de San Salvador (Organized Community
of San Salvador), and Casa Laura Vicuna.
Lead Organization Description:
Corporación de Apoyo a Programas Educativos y Comunitarios
(CAPEDCOM) was founded in Puerto Rico in 1994 with the goal of using education as
a tool to help disadvantaged people improve their lives. It has a long history of
providing capacity building services and creating sustained relationships among
faith-based and community organizations.
Project Description:
CAPEDCOM provides $62,500 each year in financial assistance to partners based on
each organization’s needs assessment and operating budget. CAPEDCOM offers partners
four training sessions each month—one for each critical capacity building area—and
provides direct, individualized technical assistance to each organization the following
week. A consultant assists organizations using a learn-by-doing approach in which
organizations receive training and technical assistance simultaneously to achieve
optimal results.
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Dallas Leadership Foundation
717 North Harwood Avenue
Suite 840
Dallas, TX 75201
214-777-5520
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Each of the faith-based and community groups involved in the Dallas Leadership Foundation’s
(DLF) collaborative has worked with DLF on past projects, some for as many as twelve
years. Through this collaborative, partners address the issues of gang activity
and youth violence through a coordinated, city-wide effort—a method that has proved
effective in other DLF initiatives. The DLF partnership also participates in the
West Dallas Weed & Seed group.
Partners:
The Bridge Enterprises, Cornerstone Ministries, Dallas Urban Young Life, East Dallas
Community Organization, Hamilton Park United Methodist Church Youth Ministry, Light
Economic & Development, Mothers Against Teen Violence, Project Still I Rise,
RMC Ministries, Tamar Circle Program, Rehoboth Missionary Baptist Church, Simple
Faith International, St. Mark AME Zion Church, and Voice of Hope.
Lead Organization Description:
DLF brings people together to rebuild underserved communities and works with disadvantaged
youth to address issues of youth violence and gang activity. DLF provides affordable
housing and mobilizes churches, the business community, and other stakeholders to
participate in community-strengthening projects. DLF also provides capacity building
services to grassroots organizations in the surrounding area.
Project Description:
DLF conducts baseline and follow-up assessments to collect information on each partner’s
needs and track progress and outcomes. In addition to quarterly training offered
by DLF and the Faith & Philanthropy Institute, DLF-facilitated peer-learning
sessions allow interaction among partners on capacity building topics. DLF provides
each partner two hours a month of one-on-one technical assistance to develop and
implement a customized capacity building plan. Finally, DLF provides $62,500 in
financial assistance to partners.
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Duluth Area Family YMCA
302 West 1st Street
Duluth, MN 55802
218-722-4745
Award Amount, Year 1: $249,982
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Duluth Area Family YMCA leads a collaborative of youth-serving organizations
with established programs and community connections in four high-risk neighborhoods
of Duluth, Minnesota. The Prevention Partners collaborative is a network of faith-based
and community organizations of various sizes and provides an array of prevention
services.
Partners:
Boys and Girls Club of Duluth, Copeland Community Center, East Hillside Patch, Grant
Community School Collaborative, Life House, Men as Peacemakers, Neighborhood Youth
Services, Valley Youth Center, and YWCA of Duluth.
Lead Organization Description:
Duluth Area Family YMCA has provided youth programming for 125 years and volunteer
services to 120 agencies in the Duluth/Superior area for sixty-nine years. It facilitates
Mentor Duluth and the Duluth Youth Agency Coalition–a six-agency mentoring collaboration.
In 2004, the YMCA developed an AmeriCorps Program that supports fifty-four organizations
in northeast Minnesota through the collaboration of regional agencies, including
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, Bois Forte Indian Reservation, and the
Arrowhead Interfaith Council of Churches.
Project Description:
The YMCA and contracted service providers administer on-going individualized technical
assistance to members of the collaborative. YMCA program staff, consultants, and
mentors work one-on-one with each organization; they also offer a minimum of two
workshops in each critical capacity area for organization leaders, staff, and board
members. Over thirty months, all collaborative members will each receive at least
forty hours of training. During year two of the project, each member will also receive
twenty-five hours of individualized technical assistance. Financial resources provide
time for organization staff to attend trainings and make possible the purchase of
new equipment. The YMCA’s annual financial assistance to partners totals at least
$62,500.
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Fresh Ministries, Inc.
1131 North Laura Street
Jacksonville, FL 32206
904-355-0000
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
In addition to its own staff and resources, Fresh Ministries makes use of Beaver
Street Enterprise Center, the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida, and Volunteer
Jacksonville to provide comprehensive capacity building services to its partners
and the Urban Core collaborative.
Partners:
Beaver Street Enterprise Center, East Jacksonville Resource Center, Family Nurturing
Center, Household of Faith, Jacksonville Hospitality Institute, Nonprofit Center
of Northeast Florida, Police Athletic League, Providence Christian Fellowship, Sanctuary
on 8th Street, and Volunteer Jacksonville.
Lead Organization Description:
Founded in 1994, Fresh Ministries is an interfaith, community-based nonprofit association
working to address poverty and its impact on families and communities in urban Jacksonville,
Florida, through equal access to education, economic opportunities, and necessary
support systems. Fresh Ministries also has extensive experience in providing training,
technical assistance, and funding to faith-based and community organizations.
Project Description:
The Urban Core project provides four quarterly, three-hour workshops to area nonprofits.
In addition, Fresh Ministries assigns a staff project advisor to each partner to
assist in completion of a baseline organizational assessment and capacity building
plan. The advisor helps identify appropriate service providers to work with the
partner on identified needs. Fresh Ministries provides funds totaling at least $62,500
per year to partner organizations.
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Future Foundation
1892 Washington Avenue
East Point, GA 30344
404-766-0510
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Future Foundation and its project partners are among the most stable and well-established
organizations serving East Point, Georgia, with nearly eighty years of collective
experience in youth services. The three partners have worked together for the past
three years within a larger established coalition of faith-based and community organizations
in the Atlanta area.
Future Foundation and its partners completed intensive needs assessments to identify
capacity needs. The results of these assessments guide their capacity building plans.
Partners:
Andrew and Walter Young Family YMCA and East Point Community Action Team.
Lead Organization Description:
Established in 2001, Future Foundation runs six youth development programs that
support the academic, social, and physical development of young people in metropolitan
Atlanta. Future Foundation operates a state-licensed comprehensive youth development
and learning center that works to fulfill the organization’s mission to improve
the lives of youth by empowering them to achieve success.
Project Description:
Project partners attend group training workshops, presentations, professional development
seminars, and staff retreats with support provided by training and technical assistance
experts identified through the Georgia Center for Nonprofits. Future Foundation
provides at least $62,500 in direct financial assistance to its partners.
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Heritage Community Services, Inc.
2810 Ashley Phosphate Road, B-7
North Charleston, SC 29418
843-863-0508
Award Amount, Year 1: $199,937
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The three organizations in this collaborative, all experienced service providers
in metropolitan Charleston, South Carolina, have worked together for five years.
This project allows them to better understand the issues facing their community’s
youth and develop strategies to adapt programs that accommodate the needs of its
growing Hispanic population.
Partners:
Charleston Area Community Development Corporation and Midland Park Community Ministries.
Lead Organization Description:
Heritage Community Services, Inc. (HCS) provides training and counseling in healthy
relationships, marriages, and families. Established in 1995, HCS also offers training
and technical assistance to South Carolina’s faith-based and community organizations.
Project Description:
HCS provides ongoing organizational assessment tools to its partners throughout
the grant period. Heritage staff provide training and technical assistance with
input from local and state experts in various social service areas. In addition
to training workshops, direct and individualized technical assistance, and monthly
partner coordination meetings, Heritage provides each partner with $25,000 in financial
assistance each year of the grant.
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Human Services Associates, Inc.
1703 West Colonial Drive
Orlando, FL 32804
407-422-0880
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Human Services Associates, Inc. (HSA) and its four faith-based and community partners
have an average six-year history of working together. HSA currently maintains a
contractual agreement with each of its partners. The collaborative participates
in a minimum of five youth initiative meetings per month in the Orlando, Florida
area.
Partners:
Center for Non-violence Learning, Community Counseling Center of Central Florida,
Firm Foundation, and Life and Work Solutions.
Lead Organization Description:
Founded in 1993, HSA offers assessment, intervention, prevention, education, and
treatment services to at-risk youth and families in sixteen central Florida counties.
Project Description:
HSA is building its capacity in information technology infrastructure, with the
ultimate goal of becoming paperless. HSA conducts assessments with each partner
and works with them to create individual capacity building plans. A team of four
high-level HSA staff—experts in fiscal management, human resources, quality management,
and community outreach—spends an average of thirty hours per month providing training
and technical assistance to partners. Based on initial needs assessments, each partner
receives a portion of $62,500 in financial assistance for further capacity building
efforts.
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International Rescue Committee
122 East 42nd Street
14th Floor
New York, NY 10168
212-551-3000
Award Amount, Year 1: $249,999
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Park Hill Network collaborative is comprised of three community-based organizations:
International Rescue Committee, African Refuge, and the Century Dance Complex. All
three groups are dedicated to serving refugee and immigrant youth in New York City.
In the second and third year of the project, the three organizations in the original
Network will welcome a fourth partner.
Partners:
African Refuge and the Century Dance Complex.
Lead Organization Description:
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a nonsectarian voluntary organization
that has provided relief, protection, and resettlement services to refugees, victims
of oppression, and victims of conflict since 1933. IRC offers a variety of services
to foster the academic and social development of refugee and immigrant youth in
Staten Island.
Project Description:
IRC holds monthly training workshops to support each partner organization with its
individual organizational capacity building requirements. IRC coordinates quarterly
two-day training workshops focused on capacity building topics, advancing from the
foundational level to more sophisticated areas of development. IRC also offers customized
technical assistance to partners through two site visits each year, written recommendations,
and one-on-one meetings with staff members. In years two and three, IRC will offer
its partners a total of $70,000 annually.
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Murtis H. Taylor Multi-Service Center
13422 Kinsman Road
Cleveland, OH 44120
216-283-4400
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Murtis H. Taylor Multi-Service Center and its four partner organizations have a
six-year history of collaborating to address issues facing youth in Cleveland’s
Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. For the past two years, partner organizations have participated
in the Mt. Pleasant Weed & Seed coalition.
Partners:
Discovery Center, Peace in the Hood, Teen Point of View, and Thea Bowman Center.
Lead Organization Description:
Murtis H. Taylor Multi-Service Center (Center) has nearly
sixty years of experience providing social support services
and behavioral healthcare. Center programs address parenting,
conflict resolution, anger management, violence prevention,
and substance abuse prevention and intervention. Since
1997, the Center has run the Building and Unifying Services
Collaborative (BUCS), an initiative that focuses on strengthening
the internal capacity of small and medium nonprofits in
Cleveland.
Project Description:
The Murtis H. Taylor Multi-Service Center coordinates training and technical assistance
provided by Center staff and consultants for all partners. During year 2, the project’s
capacity building director, working with local educational institutions, will engage
stakeholders, residents, and workers in a comprehensive and inclusive strategic
planning process with the goal of developing a collaborative-level five-year strategic
plan. The Center makes 25 percent of its total grant funds available to its four
project partners for use in further capacity building activities.
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National Indian Justice Center
5250 Aero Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
707-579-5507
Award Amount, Year 1: $249,788
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Activating Native Youth Assets Project is a collaborative comprised of twenty-two
Pomo tribes. Partners provide community services to at-risk Native American youth
in Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties in California. The project uses group and
individual learning approaches and strategic use of financial assistance to build
capacity to ensure sustainable, high-quality social services.
Partners: California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, and Sonoma County
Indian Health Project.
Lead Organization Description:
The National Indian Justice Center (NIJC) is a nonprofit organization with twenty-four
years of experience providing capacity building training and technical assistance
to tribal communities nationwide.
Project Description:
NIJC assesses the needs of its target service populations. Organizational assessments
allow for creation of action plans for the project. Three-day conferences with capacity
building workshops in all four capacity building areas and quarterly networking
lunches create and foster strategic community alliances. NIJC utilizes a project
Web page to share resources and promote continuing education. Financial assistance
equal to 25 percent of the total grant award is distributed among partners to support
individual capacity building efforts.
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Nebraska Children and Families Foundation
215 Centennial Mall South
Suite 200
Lincoln, NE 68508
402-476-8251
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Having worked with all partners in south Omaha projects addressing numerous issues
facing children and families, Nebraska Children and Families Foundation leads its
five partners in its capacity building initiative South Omaha Community Learning
Collaborative (SOCLC). Using collaborative training, workshops, and financial awards,
SOCLC members hope to establish and sustain an interdependent system of care for
children in south Omaha, Nebraska.
Partners:
Camp Fire USA Midlands Council, Lutheran Family Services, Neighborhood Center for
Greater Omaha, Nothing But Net Foundation, and South Omaha Weed & Seed.
Lead Organization Description:
Nebraska Children and Families Foundation (NCFF) was established in 1997 to leverage
public and private resources and promote positive outcomes for vulnerable children
and families statewide. Partner organizations provide services in a distressed community
defined by three neighborhood association borders and the South Omaha Weed &
Seed target area.
Project Description:
NCFF staff and consultants provide partners 250 hours of technical assistance and
fifty-two hours of collaboration training and peer exchange through quarterly group
learning circles and workshops. NCFF distributes financial awards totaling 25 percent
of the Federal award, or $62,500, each year to augment capacity building services.
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New England Network for Child, Youth and Family Services, Inc.
156 College Street
Suite 301
Burlington, VT 05401
802-658-9182
Award Amount, Year 1: $249,949
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Windham Capacity Project for Youth brings together
established youth service providers, newer faith-based
youth programs, and training organizations to share challenges
and knowledge, while providing expert input to support
skill-building. The New England Network for Child, Youth
and Family Services, Inc.(NEN) and each of its three partners
have worked together on shared community initiatives for
twenty years, and each partner brings specialized programming
experience in the prevention of youth violence, child
abuse, and neglect.
Partners:
Youth Services Inc., Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro, and the Ecumenical Council.
Lead Organization Description:
NEN is a private, nonprofit organization that works to support and advance child
and youth services throughout New England. For twenty-three years, NEN has organized
and implemented local training and technical assistance programs that focus on building
the capacity of faith-based and community organizations working with traumatized
children and youth; families at risk for child abuse and neglect; and youth at risk
for violence, substance abuse, and other high-risk behaviors.
Project Description:
Staff from NEN and the United Way provide each partner with approximately forty
hours of professional training and eighty hours a year of customized, on-site technical
assistance. In year two, NEN will pilot its Pro Youth Work Toolkit with its Windham
Capacity Project for Youth partner organizations to provide skills building around
helping young people achieve their developmental assets. NEN distributes $62,000
each year in financial assistance.
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Oasis Counseling International
333 Norfolk Avenue
Suite 201
Norfolk, NE 68701
402-379-2030
Award Amount, Year 1: $249,168
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Collaboration Capacity Building to Empower Youth project serves the area of
Norfolk, Nebraska. Oasis Counseling International has worked with two of its three
partners to empower the youth of Norfolk since the 1980s and has collaborated with
the third partner for three years. Together, the four organizations have more than
150 years of experience strengthening young people’s health.
Partners:
Norfolk Family YMCA, Norfolk Family Medicine, and Northeast Nebraska Child Advocacy
Center (NENCAC).
Lead Organization Description:
Oasis Counseling International offers holistic bilingual behavioral health treatment
in the Nebraska cities of Norfolk, O'Neil, and Ainsworth.
Project Description:
Oasis Counseling International (Oasis) and its partner organizations participate
in capacity building activities to meet the needs revealed in the community assessment
and organizational assessments completed in year one. In addition to providing all
partners with group training seminars and individualized technical assistance, Oasis
will distribute $157,000 as financial assistance to partners in the second grant
year.
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Prim n Proper, Inc./Choosing to Excel
416 Sturgis Road
Conway, AR 72034
501-269-4166
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Choosing to Excel (CTE)
leads a collaboration of four youth-serving organizations that work with and address
the needs of at-risk youth in the city of Conway, located in Faulkner County, Arkansas.
The collaborative brings together the faith-based community, the juvenile justice system,
and local community organizations.
Partners:
Conway Alternative School, Faulkner County Juvenile Court, Pleasant Branch Baptist
Church, and Excel Upward.
Lead Organization Description:
CTE, operated by Prim n Proper, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit healthy choice and
prevention organization. Since 1994, CTE has provided services that strengthen families
and reduce the number of youth involved in criminal activity by providing a variety
of programs and services for at-risk youth.
Project Description:
Prim n Proper, Inc./Choosing to Excel enhances both its own and its partners’ ability
to empower community youth and reduce youth violence, gang activity, and child abuse
and neglect by providing quarterly one and two day group training and workshops,
monthly customized technical assistance consultations, and individualized technical
assistance as needed to each member of the collaborative. A steering committee of
community members assists with a community assessment, which guides strategic plans
for each member of the collaborative. The steering committee also develops and reviews
criteria for distributing financial assistance. Financial assistance totals $62,500
and amounts to each partner are based on their specific needs.
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Reach Out West End
1126 West Foothill Boulevard
Suite 185
Upland, CA 91786
909-982-8641
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Reach Out West End’s partner organizations include faith-based and community organizations
with a history of working together in the Pomona Weed & Seed Partnership and
the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Partnership. The ExecNet CEY (E-CEY) collaborative
led by Reach Out West End uses best practices and peer-based learning to increase
the capacity of partner organizations to serve at-risk youth.
Partners:
Bilingual Family, Boys and Girls Club of Pomona Valley (BGCPV), Camp Fire USA San
Antonio Council, Samaritan Counseling Center, Inland Valley Counsel of Churches-Hope
Partners, Foothill Family Shelter, and Pacific Lifeline.
Lead Organization Description:
Founded in 1969, Reach Out West End offers a variety of programs that provide positive
alternatives for at-risk youth. Its services target western San Bernardino and eastern
Los Angeles counties in California.
Project Description:
All partner agencies of the E-CEY collaborative plan and implement quarterly trainings
based on their work plans. Each partner has a technical assistance (TA) coach who
provides monthly on-site skill building. TA coaches are in regular contact with
their assigned organizations to ensure that their personalized TA plans are sensitive
to the importance of cultural competency and meet identified capacity building needs.
Each partner organization works with its TA coach to finalize a specific budget
based on need prior to receiving financial assistance ranging from $15,000 to $19,000.
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South Brooklyn Youth Consortium
2811 Mermaid Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11224
718-266-7052
Award Amount, Year 1: $249,970
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
South Brooklyn Youth Consortium’s Compassion Consortium: Empowering New York City's
Youth (CCY) project brings together five faith-based and community organizations.
South Brooklyn and its partners have existing relationships working to address the
needs of young people.
Partners:
Amethyst Women’s Project (Amethyst), Gone But Not Forgotten, Children’s Choice Family
Services (CCFS), United Community Organization, and Books Before Ball.
Lead Organization Description:
Since its official incorporation in 1996, the South Brooklyn Youth Consortium (SBYC)
has provided training and technical assistance to more than sixty staff members
of youth-serving organizations throughout the greater New York City area. SBYC seeks
to increase the capacity of youth and community development programs to provide
quality services, set high standards in youth and community development and service
delivery, increase the visibility of youth and community development work, and advocate
for increased resources.
Project Description:
SBYC uses its Peer Network Model to coordinate training and technical assitance
to build both its own capacity and that of its partners. The six members (including
the lead organization) of the consortium receive financial assistance to improve
their capacity in accordance with assessed needs. All members of the network participate
in twelve workshops, four six-week seminars led by outside experts, and forty-eight
days of technical assistance. SBYC also provides financial assistance of approximately
$18,000 to each of its partners.
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St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center
2213 Cherry Street
Ste. ACC #307
Toledo, OH 43608
419-251-2122
Award Amount, Year 1: $230,505
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
St. Vincent Mary Medical Center and its partner organizations have worked together
for three years on multiple community issues including healthy marriages, youth
development, and academic support services. The goal of their collaborative is to
improve and expand program services to youth and the community. Additionally, this
project participates in the community Weed & Seed network by sharing and providing
information, resources, and data for two of its programs.
Partners:
Mentoring, Education & Leadership, New Beginnings Development Corporation, and
The Mark-et Place.
Lead Organization Description:
Established in 1855, St. Vincent Mary Medical Center’s (SVMMC) mission is to improve
the health and well-being of the Toledo, Ohio, community with special attention
to the poor and under-served. Its youth development programs address teen pregnancy
and mental health services. SVMMC also provides training and technical assistance
to smaller faith-based and community organizations through collaborative groups
and partnerships.
Project Description:
SVMMC and its partners share responsibility for training based on level of expertise.
Staff from the lead agency provide training on youth violence prevention curricula;
outside experts and partners provide training on other topics. Trainers also provide
direct and individualized technical assistance to partners. Financial assistance
provided is 38 percent of the total project budget.
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Temple University
Center for Social Policy and Community Development
1601 N. Broad Street, Room 100
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-204-8691
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
This collaborative of five nonprofit organizations has a history of working together
to address issues facing at-risk youth in north Philadelphia. Three of the partner
organizations worked with the Center for Social Policy and Community Development
(CSPCD) on a previous capacity building grant. The collaborative works to create
a community of practice, develop and implement best practices in program services,
and increase organizational capacity as well as community awareness of youth violence
and child abuse and neglect.
Partners:
Helping Energize and Rebuild Ourselves, Ludlow Youth Community Center, The Place
of Refuge, and Women's Institute for Family Health.
Lead Organization Description:
Temple University’s CSPCD has served the northern Philadelphia community since 1969.
CSPCD bridges social concerns of the community and the academic and service goals
of the university to build the community’s capacity to meet social, economic, and
educational challenges.
Project Description:
CSPCD augments monthly training with fifty hours of individual technical assistance
for each partner organization. During the first year of the project, training and
technical assistance will focus on developing logic models and financial management
systems. Partners will also have access to outside consultants for additional training.
Financial assistance totaling $62,500 will be used for staff development, organizing
community forums, and assisting partners with implementation of individual work
plans.
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Twin Cities Christian Foundation fka Kingdom Oil Christian Foundation
701 Fourth Avenue South
Suite 750
Minneapolis, MN 55415
612-288-2299
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
In addition to Twin Cities Christian Foundation’s (TCCF) formal and informal instruction,
training opportunities, and resource development, partners in the CEY-Minneapolis
project benefit from collaboration with Weed & Seed Central Minneapolis, which
shares information and work with the collaborative to reach and serve Minneapolis
area high-risk youth.
Partners:
African American Adoption Agency, Church of New Life, Girls in Action, MAD DADS,
Mothers of Crime Victims, New Salem Missionary Baptist Church, Oasis of Love, Parenting
with Purpose, The Street Coalition, Track Minnesota Elite, Urban Hope's Star
Club, Urban Youth Conservation, and Youth Enterprise.
Lead Organization Description:
TCCF was established in 1997 to address the needs of disadvantaged youth in Minneapolis.
Its mission is to encourage and facilitate the release of resources and administer
community partnerships, with the goal of bringing divergent sectors of the community
together to assist people in need.
Project Description:
TCCF staff and contractors provide extensive training, as well as an additional
twenty-five hours of technical assistance annually to each member of the collaborative.
Each year, TCCF distributes 33 percent or more of its total award to its partners
based on their capacity building plans and the level of need identified in their
organizational assessments.
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UMOS, Inc.
P.O. Box 04129
Milwaukee, WI 53204
414-389-6600
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Milwaukee Youth Collaborative Partnership is a unique partnership of six neighborhood
social service agencies with a total of over 100 years of experience serving a changing
multi-cultural, low-income community. An advisory committee oversees the implementation
of partner activities and objectives.
Partners:
Pathfinders, La Causa Child Welfare Program, Youth Independence Project, Kosciuszko
Community Learning Center, United Community Center, and Latina Resource Center.
Lead Organization Description:
UMOS, Inc. is a comprehensive, multi-state social service agency headquartered in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. UMOS, Inc. has more than twenty years of experience providing
capacity building training and technical assistance to faith-based and community
organizations.
Project Description:
In the second year of the grant, UMOS staff, under the direction of the Milwaukee
Youth Collaborative Partnership, will plan and implement a year long training and
technical assistance plan scheduled based on partners’ needs. The partnership will
provide community capacity building training to increase the capacity building knowledge
base and skills of at least 200 faith-based and community organization staff, board
members, and volunteers. Each partner will also receive financial assistance, which
will total $200,000.
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Voices For Children, Inc.
2305 Canyon Boulevard #101
Boulder, CO 80302
303-440-7059
Award Amount, Year 1: $122,700
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The organizations involved in this collaborative range in age from three to twenty
years. The members of the partnership bring greater community awareness of the plight
of abused teens and children of high-conflict divorce.
Partners:
Boulder County Partners Mentoring Program, Boulder Institute for Psychotherapy and
Research, and St. Vrain Family Center.
Lead Organization Description:
Since 1985, Voices for Children (VFC) has worked to increase community awareness
of child and teen abuse by training volunteers as court-appointed special advocates
(CASAs), who provide direct services to abused and neglected children in Boulder
County, Colorado.
Project Description:
VFC contracts with the M. Caplan Company to help each partner set specific goals
and to provide workshops, executive coaching, and individualized technical assistance
to its partner organizations. The working collaboration increases the ability of
the partners to coordinate services, especially for those clients who receive services
from more than one of the partners. VFC distributes at least 25 percent of its grant
award to its partners.
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Winston-Salem State University
Center for Community Safety
601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27110
336-750-2200
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
Winston-Salem State University and its three faith-based partners work collaboratively
to increase staff skills and abilities, increase the number of FBCOs working
together in the community, improve program outcomes for youth, increase resources,
and document best practices in youth and community services.
Partners:
Green Street United Methodist Church, New Birth of Christ Church Community Development
Enterprise, and United Metropolitan Baptist Church.
Lead Organization Description:
Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) is a historically black public university
whose primary mission is to offer high-quality educational programs at the baccalaureate
and masters levels for a diverse student population. As a public service and research
center, the Center for Community Safety (CCS) of WSSU works to build the capacity
of the community to address a broad range of issues affecting the qualifty of life
for citizens of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, North Carolina.
Project Description:
WSSU provides training and technical assistance using a three-level approach. Level
one focuses on individual capacity building needs of each partner. Level two training
and technical assistance focuses on collaborative community mapping and program
evaluation projects. Level three training focuses on engaging other organizations
in the community. WSSU also provides a total of $62,500 in financial assistance
to its partners for implementation of individual and collaborative work plans.
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World Vision, Inc.
US Programs
34834 Weyerhauser Way South
Federal Way, WA 98001
202-572-6384
Award Amount, Year 1: $250,000
Award Year: 2007
Collaboration Description:
The Seattle Tutoring Coalition (STC), a partnership formed in 1993 between World
Vision Seattle and five other organizations, helps provide for students’ unmet intellectual,
social, and emotional needs. STC’s project seeks to address youth violence and gang
involvement in Seattle’s Rainier Valley area.
Partners:
Broadview Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing Program, Catholic Community
Services, Invest in Youth, Neighborhood House, and Treehouse.
Lead Organization Description:
Founded in 1950, World Vision is a worldwide Christian relief and development organization
with a focus on helping communities build sustainable partnerships that have lasting
benefits in the lives of children and families. World Vision's program in Seattle
has worked toward reducing youth violence and gang involvement since 1995.
Project Description:
Local and national World Vision staff members provide training to members of the
collaborative. Each of the five partner organizations has a technical assistance
consultant who will provide them with at least thirty-one hours of training and
forty-five hours of individualized technical assistance during the second year of
the project. In addition, 30 percent of the Federal award is provided as financial
assistance to partners for individual capacity building projects.
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