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BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LODI
Lodi, NJ
$40,000 to support a full-time Development Coordinator position to help implement and strengthen a resource development strategic plan. The Club, which currently serves 1,300 youth each year, recently opened its second unit in Hackensack. A full-time Development Coordinator is required to help them build the capacity required to achieve their annual financial goals and serve more youth at their 2 units, and to take advantage of the development opportunities as the Club celebrates its 60th Anniversary in 2011.
CATHOLIC BIG SISTERS
(d/b/a Catholic Big Sisters and Big Brothers)
New York, NY
$30,000 to support a second clinician to help them expand their counseling department and serve more families. Their program delivery utilizes a family systems model that addresses the family as an entire unit, allowing family members to work together to identify the root causes of problems and initiate changes within the family as a whole. They use an integrated matrix of services that includes mentoring and after school programming, in addition to the sophisticated family systems counseling. These services help their clients to achieve consistently positive results such as improved family relationships, increased connectedness, an increased skill level which ultimately leads to improved academics, and a reduction in high-risk behavior.
| CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES (“CUCS”)
New York, NY
$25,000 to support a training and consulting initiative to strengthen the performance of New York City transitional housing providers receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”). CUCS believes that providing agencies with training and technical assistance to help them understand setting performance targets, tracking progress towards meeting these targets, and making programmatic adjustments to strengthen performance will both increase the effectiveness of services delivered to homeless people and increase the likelihood that the City will continue to receive all available HUD McKinney Vento funds. The trainings will be open to all HUD funded programs, with intensive consultation services provided to two programs identified as low performers.
| THE CHILD CENTER OF NEW YORK
Woodside, NY
$30,000 to support staffing for their Safe and Sound Project, an initiative designed to detect, prevent and respond to violence and child abuse among 450 children and their families who participate in their early childhood education programs. Services will include parent-child interaction groups using evidence-based models – “Bright Beginnings” for ages 0-3, and “Parent Corps” for ages 4-5 – to help improve parents’ skills and abilities to nurture their young children. The ultimate goal is that Safe and Sound will contribute to ending the intergenerational cycle of abuse in these families
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (“CASA”)
New York, NY
$30,000 program expansion grant to fund the implementation of a new full-time Project Coordinator position to oversee advocacy and services to adolescents and older youth in their Bronx and Queens Offices. This position builds on their Adolescent Initiative which makes certain that adolescents receive needed services, connection to social supports and monitoring. The Coordinator will be responsible for training and supervising an additional 15-20 advocate volunteers with the expertise to oversee 50 to 75 additional youth cases in these offices, and will be available to offer case consultation and guidance, as needed.
| FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICES
Elizabeth, NJ
$35,000 to provide renewed support for the At Risk Youth Counseling Services program which will serve up to 30 youth, ages 9 to 17, who are at-risk of entering the juvenile justice system and their families. Services include individual and family therapy to resolve communication, relationship, conflict and anger issues, and case management to identify and link youth and their families to additional community resources. Youth served will reside in Union County, New Jersey.
| FORTUNE SOCIETY
Long Island City, NY
$30,000 to support a new Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives responsible for their workforce development programs that seek to break through barriers to employment that their clients with criminal justice histories face in today’s labor market. The Director will oversee their new sector-focused Career Pathways Training Program, including the development and execution of vocational training initiatives, the launch of a new Business Advisory Council, and the management of strategic partnerships. They hope to create a replicable model that will focus on how to make this population competitive for jobs in today’s knowledge-based, high-tech labor market where sector-based skills are essential to get into the labor force and make continuous gains on a career pathway.
| HOPE PROGRAM
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000 to provide salary support for an Employment Specialist for the GROCERYworks pilot initiative. This eight-week sector-based job training and placement program prepares hard-to-serve New Yorkers for jobs in the food retail industry which offer decent pay, benefits and advancement opportunities. Participants gain knowledge in customer service, cashiering, product recognition and store maintenance as well as obtain licenses in occupational safety and food handling. The Employment Specialist will be responsible for developing and strengthening relationships with businesses in the community that would provide their clients with internships and jobs, and for providing the students with job search assistance including resume-writing and interview practice.
| JERICHO PROJECT
New York, NY
$25,000 to support the second year of their Veterans Supportive Apartments (“VSA”) Program. The program (originally a pilot with the Bronx VA Medical Center), has expanded to include the VA Harbor Healthcare System, enabling them to serve 50 homeless and low-income veterans from all New York City boroughs. Jericho provides supportive housing including comprehensive employment and educational assistance, helping veterans to improve their economic standing, reunite with their families, and transition from the streets and shelters to independent living. The Veterans Administration Hospitals provide case management services including medical and mental health support.
| LAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK
New York, NY
$40,000 for renewed support of the Program Preservation Initiative which provides legal services to help nonprofits sustain their services in this economic downturn. They advise nonprofit leaders and Board Members, as well as the pro bono attorneys advising nonprofits, on successful strategies to preserve essential community programs, ensure service continuity, and manage agency risk related to sharp declines in public and private philanthropic dollars. In providing these services, they have helped nonprofits that are undergoing corporate transitions, forming strategic alliances, engaging in joint ventures with other organizations, downsizing staff, and/or consolidating programs and resources.
| NONPROFIT COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK (“NPCC”)
New York, NY
$30,000 for renewed support to complete full implementation of the Nonprofit Outsourcing Clearinghouse, an effort to offer cost saving strategies to nonprofits. Through this effort NPCC is able to identify, research, broker, facilitate and provide guidance to a pilot group of nonprofits, enabling them to secure cost-savings through outsourcing one or more back-office functions and to track resulting savings and other benefits over time. Additionally, they will complete the building and launch of a searchable database of vetted providers of outsourced services, and provide lasting guidance and resources in the form of a Nonprofit Guide to Outsourcing Services.
| SUMMIT AREA YMCA
Summit, NJ
$25,000, the final installment of a total $50,000 grant payable over 2 years, in support of an endowment campaign which has a campaign goal of $6 million. The purpose of the Y’s endowment fund is to bridge the gap between what they raise and what they give away to meet their charitable mission each year by providing subsidized Y membership and program fees and through free and low cost programs. The Y has an open door policy which mandates that all Y programs be made available to everyone, regardless of one’s ability to pay. The Y is a full-service community organization with programs for individuals of all ages and abilities.
| SAFE HORIZON
New York, NY
$30,000 to support the adaptation of the Child & Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (“CFTSI”) model in their four Child Advocacy Centers (“CAC”) to include children placed in foster care, age seven and older, and their primary foster parents. CFTSI is a brief, evidence-based intervention developed by the Yale University Child Study Center’s Childhood Violent Trauma Center designed to reduce the onset of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in children who have been exposed to potentially traumatic events. Given the effectiveness of Safe Horizon’s implementation of CFTSI for child victims age seven and older who reside with a parent/caregiver, they would like to make the necessary adaptations to offer the intervention to children in foster care age seven and older, as foster children represent about half of the children they serve in their CACs.
| URBAN PATHWAYS
New York, NY
$40,000 to provide continued support for the Deputy Executive Director position. To meet the needs of their clients ready to move on to more private and independent lives, Urban Pathways is developing nearly 500 new units of housing, expanding its safe haven program and doubling in size over the next three years. This position is needed to enhance their capacity to supervise new program start-ups, significantly improve program monitoring and supervision, and ensure excellent service delivery. Urban Pathways provides social services and supportive housing for homeless individuals.
| VOLUNTEER CONSULTING GROUP (“VCG”)
New York, NY
$35,000 for support of a new Tech and Web Developer position. This position will focus on developing and maintaining organization websites and internal applications as required, and social media outreach for their Board candidates and clients. VCG is committed to improving the quality of the governance of nonprofit organizations through Board recruiting, consulting services, and Board Member support services through its Governance Matters programming.
| | TOTAL SOCIAL WELFARE GRANTS: $475,000 |
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