Spokane County United WayBold Goals – Innovation Fund

February 2013

Community Impact Committee Recommendations

Bold Goals/ Innovation Fund – Program Funding

• Funded with UW and Gates Foundation Funds

• Open to:

• Local not-for-profit or governmental entity

• $20,000 - $40,000 available per program

• Consortium/collaboration

• $50,000 - $90,000 available per consortium

• Two-year grants

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“Alone we can do so little; Together we can do so much.”

- Helen Keller

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Community Impact Committee Recommendations

Bold Goals/ Innovation Fund – Program Funding

Programs must demonstrate:

• Alignment with our “Bold Goal” areas of focus:

• Decrease child abuse & neglect (mitigate impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences)

• Increase kindergarten readiness

• Increase high school graduation

• Otherwise intentionally focused on reducing intergenerational poverty

• Otherwise intentionally focused on reducing inequities

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“Decreasing incidence and impact of child abuse and neglect.”

• Strengthening families:

• Parental resilience

• Social connections

• Concrete support in times of need

• Knowledge of parenting and child development

• Social and emotional competence of children

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“Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.”

- Dr. Haim Ginott

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“Decreasing incidence and impact of child abuse and neglect”

• Children removed from families are in

• stable, nurturing environments

• have resources to support healthy development

• have resources to support family reunification

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Increasing Kindergarten Readiness:

• Birth to 5

• Framework of Inland Northwest Alliance for Early Learning:

• Parent and family information & support

• Quality early care and education

• Support social-emotional development of children

• Healthy attachment/trauma sensitive environments

• Access to health care, developmental assessment, medical home

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“Increasing the high school graduation rate”

• Parents know how to support academic success

• Access to high quality after-school programs

• Access to caring adults: mentors and tutors

• Resources to build resilience

• Resources to address early warning risk factors:

• Attendance, Behavior, Course completion

• Alignment with school

• Successful school transitions

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“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”

- Mother Theresa

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“Decreasing intergenerational poverty”

Increase educational success

Increase family financial stability and opportunity

Employment

Asset-building strategies

Opportunity for multi-generational approach

Opportunity for place-based approach

Neighborhood focus

Encourage engagement of people who are focus of services in project development/implementation.

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“Decreasing inequities in education, income and health experienced by low income and diverse populations in Spokane County”

“..differences in education, income and/or health outcomes between groups that can be traced to unequal economic and social conditions that are avoidable and systemic.”

Opportunity/achievement gaps

Disproportonality

- Odds Against Tomorrow: Health Inequities in Spokane County”, Spokane Regional Health District, 2012

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Poverty by Race/Ethnicity

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Overall Poverty, 2000 to 2008

Data Source: Washington State Population SurveyNH=Non-Hispanic, AIAN=American Indian/Alaska Native, API=Asian Pacific Islander

Children Living in Poverty by Race/Ethnicity

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Poverty among Children Less Than 18 Years of Age, 2000 to 2008

Data Source: Washington State Population SurveyNH=Non-Hispanic, AIAN=American Indian/Alaska Native, API=Asian Pacific Islander

“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”

- Frances Wright

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Decreasing inequities –

Intentionally focused on specific population

Intentionally focused on specific neighborhood

Strategies likely to involve improving education outcomes, improving financial security, and/or mitigating impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Strategies likely to help eliminate/mitigate the impact of historical trauma.

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Community Impact Committee Recommendations

Bold Goals/ Innovation Fund – Program Funding

Application & Review Process:

Letter of interest (LOI) due 3/15

Review & preliminary selection by CI Committee +

RFP issued to select applicants 4/1

Proposals due 5/8

Volunteer review process mid-May – mid-June

CI Committee funding recommendations to Board in June

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Questions?

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