Grant Highlights
Human Services
In response to the economic crisis, our trustees approved one-time operating support grants in 2009 and 2010 to recent grant recipients for safety-net services such as food, shelter, and other emergency assistance. This support helped direct-service organizations on the front line cover funding gaps caused by the economic crisis.
In response to the economic crisis, our trustees approved one-time operating support grants in 2009 and 2010 to recent grant recipients for safety-net services such as food, shelter, and other emergency assistance. This support helped direct-service organizations on the front line cover funding gaps caused by the economic crisis.
The alliance offers leadership and management-development services to its national membership network of 350 nonprofit human-services agencies serving 3,000 people in 8,000 U.S. communities. This grant supports the planning phase of a pilot project to create chief strategy officer positions within the alliance’s national office and 15 multiservice member organizations.
Operating in a 21-county area in southeastern Georgia, the nonprofit provides food to partner agencies and operates a Mobile Food Pantry program to distribute food directly to rural residents. The construction of an addition to a food warehouse, assisted by this challenge grant, provides a commercial kitchen for the Kids Café program.
The agency provides emergency and transitional shelter, child day care, meals, counseling, and support services to women and children who are victims of domestic violence. A challenge grant supports the construction of a new LEED-rated multiservice center.
In response to the economic crisis, our trustees approved one-time operating support grants in 2009 and 2010 to recent grant recipients for safety-net services such as food, shelter, and other emergency assistance. This support helped direct-service organizations on the front line cover funding gaps caused by the economic crisis.
In response to the economic crisis, our trustees approved one-time operating support grants in 2009 and 2010 to recent grant recipients for safety-net services such as food, shelter, and other emergency assistance. This support helped direct-service organizations on the front line cover funding gaps caused by the economic crisis.
The university’s Heller School of Social Policy and Management anchors the Institute on Assets and Social Policy, which is dedicated to promoting a better understanding of how assets and asset-building opportunities improve the well-being and financial stability of individuals and families left out of the economic mainstream. The institute is using this three-year grant to conduct research on asset-building strategies and their impact.
The center is a joint effort to transform a vacant school into a green facility offering affordable space for nonprofit organizations in a seven-county region. The new Third Street Center, supported by this challenge grant, houses 25 community and regional nonprofit tenants.
Working through a partnership network, the coalition identifies and launches innovative strategies to help people and communities thrive. General operating support, provided by this three-year grant, enables Catalyst Miami to pursue strategies for strengthening human-services agencies in the Dade County area, promoting civic leadership, and informing providers in the human-services field.