Building Community

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Building Community

• Building a network of community support

• That creates connects people with opportunities

• For them to achieve their full potential

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Building Community
Opportunities for.
Strengthening Resources
Building Relationships
Making Connections
Developing Potential
Creating Opportunities
Providing Support
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Special Initiatives

• For 2004
• Community AIDS Partnership
• Childrens Early Start
• Miami Fellows
• Miracle Loan
• Closes 2003
• Miamians Working Together

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Community Grants

• Formally Discretionary Grants Program

• Grants are made from Permanent Endowment

• Deadline Mon., December 1st by 5 p.m.

• Grants Awarded In February

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Application Process

• Non-profits - 501 (c)
• Guidelines
• Broad range of program areas
• Over 20 field of interest funds

Community Grants
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Grant Use

• Grant awards may be used for most activities that
  support proposed project.

• Such as
• personnel salaries and benefits,
• equipment,
• printing and copying
• project supplies and materials

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Grant Use
The Foundation does not usually provide grant
support for

• Memberships
• Fundraising Events
• Memorials
• Travel Outside of Dade County (i.e. conferences)
• Construction
• Indirect Costs

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Evaluation Criteria Site Visits

• Community Need Resources
• Organizations Unique Role
• Accessing Target Population
• Project Objective, Strategies Activities
• Project Impact
• Project Resources Organizational Capacity

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Community Need Resources

• How well the organization demonstrates knowledge
  understanding of community need and resources

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Organizations Unique Role
Organization demonstrates that it understands why
it is well positioned to pursue the project
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Accessing Target Population
Potential to reach engage target population
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Project Objective, Strategies Activities

• Sound Planning
• Quality Programming
• Relation to target population, project goals

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Project Impact

• How well the project demonstrates potential to
  achieve some type of positive, lasting impact for
  those they reach
• What will change as a result of funding? How will
  you know?

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Project Resources Organizational Capacity

• Capacity of organization to implement project
• Overall strength of organization

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Final Decision

• Board of Directors

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• Ruth Shack,
• President
• 200 South Biscayne Blvd., Suite 505
• Miami, Florida 33131
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• www.DadeCommunityFoundation.org
• Program Staff
• Charisse Grant, Director of Programs
• Betty Alonso, Program Officer
• Gianne Ewing-Chow, Program Associate