For staffing to support core programming for high school students in their Teen Center. The programs they offer include: Diplomas 2 Degrees; Career Launch; Money Matters; and the Keystone Club. They better prepare their Newark teens to graduate high school, avoid negative behaviors, prepare for college and careers, and ultimately break free of the cycle of poverty. The Boys & Girls Club of Newark, which recently celebrated its 75th Anniversary, is dedicated to providing Newark’s kids with a safe place and the support they need to be successful in school and life. The resources offered by the Teen Center are important in putting their members on a path to college and career success.

For their anniversary planning efforts which include the hiring of a consultant to help them to plan, launch and manage a comprehensive 150th Anniversary Campaign. They will use this unique opportunity to both deepen their connections to the individuals, families and communities that they serve, as well as to broaden the public’s awareness of BCS and the opportunities they offer for the community to come together and support the needs of their numerous neighbors who live in poverty. They plan to engage their current stakeholders, identify new donors, and strengthen their relationships with philanthropic leaders. Their goal is to raise $5 million through this Campaign, which will enable them to stabilize their financial infrastructure and build a fund that will be used to make strategic investments in program innovations.

To support the CDI Career Academy, a sectoral-based employment program for out-of-school, out-of-work youth, many of whom are alumni of one of CDI’s three partner high schools. The Academy, launched as part of a pilot initiated by JobsFirstNYC and currently in the first year of a two-year pilot, offers an eight-week Essential Skills training program to address the needs identified by healthcare employers, including intensive training in Workplace Readiness, Customer Service and Introduction to Healthcare and Care Coordination, as well as targeted tutoring and individual case management services. This is followed by a nationally-recognized Medical Assistant Certificate program at Borough of Manhattan Community College, and results in the participants being placed in sustainable, high-quality employment. The critical innovation lies in leveraging the powerful relationships that CDI has formed with students while they are attending one of their three partner high schools.

For salary support of an Advocate Supervisor/Recruiter Trainer who will supervise 10 volunteers, allowing them to serve up to 20 youth aging-out of foster care without compromising their service quality. The volunteer advocates will support these young people who, after spending much of their adolescence in foster care, are faced with the task of building successful lives as adults. The advocates will receive core CASA training as well as Fostering Futures – Possible Selves training designed to improve the outcomes of “aging-out” youth 14 to 21 years of age in out-of-home placement. The training prepares the volunteer advocates to assist these youths to discover their strengths and weaknesses and prepare to live independently when they leave foster care.

For continued support of the Project Coordinator position to further expand the GOSO Paid Internship Program to serve 60 participants. The Project Coordinator will monitor the performance of all interns, interface with employers providing internships, and collect all data associated with the program. Their objective is to provide their participants with a broader range of educational levels and career paths, with workplace experience, job training opportunities, professional mentorships and the opportunity to begin to develop a network of professional contacts. GOSO is a re-entry program established to reduce recidivism and promote financial independence for justice-involved men aged 16 to 24 years through purposeful education and directed employment.

To support the new Manager for Training and Coaching, a position necessary for their expanded staff training and coaching efforts. In order to achieve excellence and targeted outcomes with children and families, a top strategic priority is to further develop a supportive culture of self-reflection, feedback, learning, and growth by providing the staff with pre-service and ongoing coaching and training. Critical steps in reaching this goal include continuing to implement evidence-supported models that equip their staff with proven and effective tools, and building their internal capacity for training and coaching staff in those models and in leadership development skills. The Manager of Training and Coaching will oversee two additional Coach/Trainers to support this expanded professional development effort.

For continued support of the Professional Development Manager responsible for creating a holistic and integrated professional development program to attract, train, support, and retain youth workers and frontline staff. The Manager will focus on three areas: 1) collecting data and tracking trainings; 2) assessing the initiative and evaluating its impact on the K-12 school-aged population; and 3) engaging parents. The project leads to better staff support and development, improved services for participants, and increased retention rates for both staff and participants. The underlying goal of their work is to help individuals and families increase their capacity to reach higher levels of economic stability.

To support a new Staffing Coordinator (recruiter) position for the Top Talent Initiative of their Human Resources Department, which will expand and refine their human resources capabilities. The Staffing Coordinator position will play a vital role in their ability to recruit and retain talented staff in a highly competitive non-profit job market, while centralizing functions that have historically been split between Human Resources and program staff. The Staffing Coordinator will manage Henry Street’s recruitment, interview, and hiring processes, enabling them to more efficiently fill open positions through a qualified and vetted talent pool. Henry Street is a settlement house which provides comprehensive social and educational services to people on the Lower East Side.

To support an Evaluation Coordinator to implement and manage the improved evaluation plan developed in conjunction with the Rennselaerville Institute over the past year. The goal of this effort, which is about to begin its second phase, is to develop evaluation tools that can be used by all program areas, for both internal quality improvement and for external communications. This individual will serve a critical role in ensuring that the new evaluation tools function effectively, are adopted in a timely fashion by all staff members, and are producing useful data and insights. The implementation of the enhanced evaluation program will better ensure that new evaluation metrics and processes will be implemented, adapted, and utilized to improve their programs, guide strategic decisions and resource allocations, and strengthen their future outreach and funding requests.

To provide continued support for their Chief Program Officer, a crucial senior-level position needed to successfully implement their growth strategies. Jericho is concluding a period of significant organizational growth in which the agency has doubled the number of clients it serves and expanded programming beyond its traditional supportive housing model. It now provides housing, employment, and case management services to over 1,200 adults and children in five core service areas: Supportive Housing; Workforce Opportunities; Family Programs; Veterans Initiatives; and Homelessness Prevention and Housing Placement. The Chief Program Officer’s responsibilities include developing comprehensive evaluation, quality assurance, and reporting tools, and ensuring program and data quality assurance, standardized services and effective staff training and development.

For continued support of their work to address the legal needs of organizations that help older disadvantaged and disconnected youth as they transition to adulthood. Through this initiative, they will provide legal representation on 150 matters for at least 100 nonprofits that serve transitioning youth, and provide legal information to nonprofit managers through client outreach, telephone consultations, and their educational programs. Legal guidance assists organizations to better comply with complex regulations and provide enhanced services with reduced liability and greater efficiency, enabling them to better assist these youth to become healthy, productive adults. LANY is the leading provider of business and transactional legal services for nonprofit organizations serving New York City’s neighborhoods.

To support an Assistant Director, Community Outreach for their new Outreach, Recruitment and Community Relations Department who is responsible for coordinating and systematizing a year-round outreach and enrollment effort for their youth programs. The need for this Department arose as OBT’s youth programs have grown rapidly over the last three years, both in the number of slots available as well as in the communities that they serve. They currently serve 840 youth in job training programs in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. The Assistant Director will initiate new community partnerships, and collect and analyze marketing and demographic data to increase the sophistication of the Department’s outreach efforts. OBT is a comprehensive job-training program serving low-income neighborhoods through academic, vocational and social-skills training for young people and adults, helping them to become financially self-sufficient.

For the addition of a Youth Internship Coordinator/Care Manager to expand their capacity to create and place justice-involved youth in meaningful internships. The project will target 45 justice-involved youth aged 16-24 residing in the Bronx. They will place youth in paid internships with community partners and employers as a means to provide participants with direct on-the-job work experience, increased exposure and access to viable career pathways, economic security and mitigated risk for further criminal involvement. The Youth Internship Coordinator/Care Manager will also provide wrap-around support via transitional planning, enrollment in health care and education, and referrals to additional programming. The Osborne Association serves individuals and families impacted by incarceration.

For continued support of the Program Operations Manager who will provide crucial administrative support for their core programs as well as develop administrative processes and partnerships for their two new initiatives (Afterschool and Community Schools) which support the youth within their core program areas. The Manager provides the operational support crucial to scaling their programs with integrity, integrating technology into their services, collecting evaluation data, and helping their social workers perform their jobs more effectively. Partnership with Children provides a suite of services for more than 14,000 young people in the highest-need New York City public schools in the five boroughs. Services include: individual and small group counseling; family outreach and case management; full classroom and school-wide social emotional learning; and targeted professional development.

For a targeted program of outreach and legal assistance to youth and family-serving nonprofit organizations in 5 Northeast New Jersey Counties, providing their full range of legal assistance and education services to these agencies. They will leverage their outreach by providing 5-8 evening presentations to Board Members of nonprofit clients at their clients’ sites focused specifically on their needs, and providing the subsequent legal work generated by these workshops. This initiative is based on their lawyers’ perceptions that many clients’ corporate documents and policies may need to be reviewed, and that Board Members may not fully understand their roles and responsibilities – particularly new recruits to clients’ boards. Pro Bono Partnership provides pro bono, legal technical assistance to nonprofit organizations.

For support of a new Literacy Coordinator for the continued expansion of their Economic Empowerment Program (“EEP”) and its pioneering career readiness, literacy, and information technology hard skills training program for domestic violence victims. While job readiness and the digital divide have been recognized as critical issues to be addressed by workforce development programming, literacy gaps often prevent low-income women from accessing vocational training, higher education, and jobs which require a high school or high school equivalency diploma. The Literacy Coordinator will play an integral role in helping these increasingly at-risk clients attain grade level performance through enhanced literacy services. The primary goal is to assist EEP clients obtain and maintain living wage employment within NYC’s service sector economy.

For support of their Breaking the Cycle Initiative, a workforce development program for formerly incarcerated individuals. The initiative provides a 10-week course that provides the tools and training necessary to secure employment in the building maintenance, building management, construction, and culinary fields, based upon the areas of interest of their enrolled participants. The goal is to provide participants with a pathway toward successful re-entry into their own home community, as well as with the skills necessary to be competitive on the open job market, obtaining and retaining gainful employment, and thus reducing the recidivism rates of the clients served. St. Paul’s Community Development Corporation’s programs respond to the needs of the community by providing comprehensive, supportive social services that can break the cycle of homelessness and move an individual from shelter to transitional housing, to employment, and to a permanent home.

For renewed support for the Deputy Director of Member Services. This position was created to strengthen UNH’s capacity-building work, providing additional assistance to the Director of Member Services in setting the overall direction for UNH’s capacity-building activities and adding new experience and skills to the Member Services Department. Capacity-building projects are developed in consultation with UNH members in response to their identified needs, helping to ensure their continued abilities to best serve their respective communities. UNH is the membership organization of 38 New York City settlement houses and community centers.