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Have you registered?

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Priority Program Funding Process

• Bidders Conference
• April 25, 2006
• Grossman Center
• University of the Incarnate Word

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Purpose

• To give competing applicants equal access to
  uniform information
• about the new application process
• about the new funding opportunities
• To let you hear, first-hand, the questions, the
  answers and the emphasis with which they are
  delivered.

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Agenda

• Welcome, Purpose, Agenda
• United Ways New Priorities
• Developing Successful Children
• S01 Caregiver/mentor
• Questions on S01
• S02 Building Quality Child Care
• Questions
• Developing Individual Capacity for Success
• S03 Students-Families-Schools
  RelationshipsEast Pod
• S04 Students-Families-Schools
  RelationshipsS.E. Pod
• Questions on S03 and S04
• The Priority Program Funding Process
• Questions on Process
• Questions on other topics
• Adjournment

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United Ways New Priorities

• Write your question on half sheets
• Check v other

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Targeted Community Impact

• Engaging community
• to get to the heart of the matter
• and change underlying conditions
• of our most pressing problems

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3 Issue Areas 9 Concerns

• Developing Individual Capacity for Success
• Insufficient educational outcomes
• Issues of personal well-being
• Deficiencies in sense of personal competence
• Strengthening Families
• Family Financial Insecurity and Instability
• Family Parenting
• Fragile Neighborhoods
• Developing Successful Children
• Early Care and Education
• Protection of/for children
• Healthcare for children

2006 Solicitations deal only with the 1st
Concerns circled above.
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Issue Council Planning Process
How Did We Get Here?
Root Causes Underlying Conditions
Specific Results For Selected Populations
Strategic Changes In Conditions
Which Do We Address First?
DT, TFSUW Executive Committee Trustees
People, Relationships Money, Knowledge?
Why? How Do We Know?
What Do We Want To Fund?
Complementary Actions To Accomplish Vision
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Integrated Action Plans

• Broad Strategies that Include Recommended

Policy Systems Change

• System and Policy Changes

Community Initiatives and Neighborhood
Initiatives

• Community Neighborhood Initiatives

• Outcomes and best practices
• for Issue Directed Programs

Issue Responsive Programs
Current Programs
Basic Safety Net Services
Issue Driven Fund Raising
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Ramping up Fund Raising Planning For
Priorities
Raise Funds Priorities 1, 2 3
50 in 6 Years Sooner If We Can Slower If We
Have To
Raise Funds Priorities 1 2
Raise Funds Priority 1
20-30
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Mar 2005
2008
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Plan Priority 3 Monitor Update Priorities 1 2
Plan Priority 1
Monitor Priority 1
Plan Priority 2 Monitor Update Priority 1
Monitor Priority 1 2
Monitor Priorities 1, 2 3
1st year 1.5 m
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Four Solicitations

• to strengthen the quality of early childhood
  education and improve educational outcomes of
  children -- in specific target populations and
  geographic areas.
• S01 Caregiver/Parent Mentor
• S02 Building Quality Child Care
• S03 Students-Families-Schools
  RelationshipsEast Pod
• S04 Students-Families-Schools
  RelationshipsSoutheast Pod

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Successful Childrens Issue Council

• Context and Contents
• S01 Caregiver/Parent Mentor
• S02 Building Quality Child Care

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Successful Childrens Issue CouncilOverview of
Planning Decisions
Most Pressing Concerns
Target Population

• Early Care and Education
• Protection of/for children
• Healthcare for children

• Children ages 0-5 from low income (150 of
  poverty)
• Households located in 78207 and 78237
• Children experiencing risk factors for failure

Vision

• School readiness
• Emotional well-being
• Childrens health
• Age appropriate development
• Social development
• Safety

Root Causes

• Families attitudes toward child rearing
• Mistrust of government and the community
• Debilitating influence of risky behaviors
• Parents education limits the families awareness
• Family instability due to limited finances,
  resources
• Complexity of service system
• Parents dont have parenting skills or support
  system

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Successful Childrens Issue Council Strategies
to Move Past Barriers

• Building community trust to increase learning
  and developmental opportunities
• Integrating aligning resources systems
• Reaching out to and educating informal caregivers
  about early childhood
• Engaging and educating parents caregivers for
  their empowerment
• Improving increasing quality child care

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S01 Caregiver/Parent Mentor

• Write your question on half sheets
• Check v S01

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SO1 Caregiver/Parent Mentor

• Solicitation Summary
• Program that creates a trusting and culturally
  sensitive mentorship's for parents/caregivers of
  newborns
• Focus on developing social and emotional
  development
• Focus on connect parent/caregivers to existing
  community resources

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SO1 Caregiver/Parent Mentor

• Definitions
• Caregiver - A person whose duties include the
  supervision, guidance, and protection of a child
  or children.
• Parent is the childs biological parent or
  could be the guardian of the child
• Newborn 0-1 month

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SO1 Caregiver/Parent Mentor

• Priority Population
• Newborns in zip code areas 78207 and/or 78237
• Services must be delivered in the zip code area

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SO1 Caregiver/Parent Mentor

• Lasting Change
• All children are preparing to succeed when they
  enter school.
• Community Conditions being addressed
• Emotional Wellbeing of Children
• Age Appropriate Development

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SO1 Caregiver/Parent Mentor

• Issue Directed Outcomes
• Improve social/emotional development of children
• Increase caregiver/parent knowledge in
  infant/toddler development
• Connecting parents/caregivers to existing
  community resources

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SO1 Caregiver/Parent Mentor

• Indicators
• Parents and other informal caregivers stimulate
  early childhood development.
• Improvement in assessment scores of
  caregiver/parent knowledge in infant/toddler
• Improvement in assessment scores of
  infant/toddler development
• (tools such as Denver II, Ages and Stages, or
  comparable should be used)

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SO1 Caregiver/Parent Mentor

• Required Program Elements
• Mentors guide by side
• Training for mentors
• Recruitment and retention of mentors
• Proven model to do mentoring
• Outreach plan to reach parents of newborns
• Connect parents/caregivers to other community
  resources
• New parents/caregivers who are not involved in
  other similar home visiting or parent program

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SO1 Caregiver/Parent Mentor

• Budget
• Mentors should be paid a stipend and mileage
• Training costs

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Questions and Answers

• On Solicitation
• S01 Caregiver/Parent Mentor

Write your question on half sheets Check v S01
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S02 Building Quality Child Care

• Write your question on half sheets
• Check v S02

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SO2 Building Quality Child Care

• Solicitation Summary
• Child Care centers and home providers to work
  toward quality improvement
• Do an assessment, set and achieve goals based on
  assessment

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SO2 Building Quality Child Care

• Definitions
• Texas Licensed Child Care Centers- Child Care
  center that is registered in the state of Texas.
  Child Care services are provided in a facility
  that is not a residential home.
• - For SO2, Head Start and Early Head Start
  Centers will not be considered for this
  solicitation.
• Texas Licensed or Registered Home Providers
  child care provider that is registered or
  licensed with that state of Texas to provide
  care, custody, supervision, assessments,
  training, education, or treatment of a child that
  occurs in a place other than the child's own
  home.

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SO2 Building Quality Child Care

• Priority Population
• Children 0-5 years old being served in a licensed
  child care center and/or licensed/registered home
  provider in 78207 and/or 78237
• Head Start and Early Head Start are not included
  at this time

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SO2 Building Quality Child Care

• Lasting Change
• All children are preparing to succeed when they
  enter school.
• Community Condition
• School Readiness
• Age Appropriate Development
• Social Development
• Safety

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SO2 Building Quality Child Care

• Issue Directed Outcomes
• To improve quality at licensed child care centers
  and registered/licensed home providers
• To improve training and develop career plans with
  center and home provider staff

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SO2 Building Quality Child Care

• Indicators of Success
• Improve quality of Early Childhood Education in
  licensed child care centers and/or registered or
  licensed home providers
• Improvement in ECERs, ITERs, FDCRs
• of staff increased their training hours
• Improvement in other assessments the applicant
  uses

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SO2 Building Quality Child Care

• Required Program Elements
• - Survey or assess the participating child care
  centers and/or home providers
• Prioritize improvements needed
• Achieve improvements
• Training
• Materials,
• Curriculum and internal assessments

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SO2 Building Quality Child Care

• Budget
• Training costs (include incentives for
  accomplishments)
• Materials and resources for quality improvement
• Assessments and curriculum
• Capital improvements are NOT included

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Questions and Answers

• On Solicitation
• S02 Building Quality Child Care

Write your question on half sheets Check v S02
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Individual Capacity for Success Issue Council

• Context and Contents
• SO3 and SO4
• Students-Families-Schools Relationships
• East and Southeast Pods

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S03 and S04 Students-Families-Schools
Relationships

• Write your question on half sheets
• Check v S03 or S04
• (Or both)

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Individual Capacity for Success
Target Population
Most Pressing Concerns

• Insufficient educational
• outcomes
• Issues of personal well-being
• Deficiencies in sense of
• personal competence

• All 4th 6th graders in selected schools
• (2 elementary 1 middle school)
• Selected Schools
• High incidence of economically disadvantaged
• students
• High rate of illiteracy, drop outs, etc.
• Feed into a high school with established
• learning communities

Vision
Root Causes

• Community Engagement
• Competence
• Family values and support
• Academic Achievement
• Healthier environment
• Self respect

• Inadequate engagement of childs entire learning
  community e.g., parents, community stakeholders
• Priorities dictated by survival
• Inefficient and disconnected support systems
• Failure to value diversity
• Poor Health
• Poor Parenting Skills

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Lasting Change

• All stakeholders (students, parents, teachers,
  schools, neighborhood community, etc.) working
  together (shared responsibility) and holding each
  other accountable for insufficient educational
  outcomes.

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Individual Capacity for SuccessStrategies

• Identify and engage elected officials to
  participate in dialogue processes
• Develop a resource matrix
• Surface neighborhood concerns and mechanisms for
  ongoing dialogue
• Facilitate new relationships
• Develop goals by campus
• Capacity building
• Measurable student outcomes

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Target Population Two Pods

• East Pod Wheatley Middle School, Bowden
  Elementary School, Pershing Elementary School
• Southeast Pod Page Middle School, Herff
  Elementary School, Riverside Park Elementary
  School

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Community Condition

• Insufficient educational outcomes
• Unacceptable graduation rates
• 3rd grade TAKS scores parity across community,
  regardless of socio-economic factors
• 10th grade TAKS scores direct correlation
  between low scores and economically disadvantaged
  students

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Indicators of Community Change

• Long Term
• Academic performance
• Student Behaviors
• Parental Involvement
• Graduation

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Issue-Directed Outcomes

• Short Term (first year)
• Parental involvement
• Family to family engagement
• Family coaches
• Specific students performance

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Indicators of Success

• Year One
• Increased parental involvement
• Attendance at school-related events
• Parent volunteers and hours
• Decreased early dismissal
• Parental input survey
• Increased student attendance
• Family to family engagement
• Families trained to coach
• Identified number/goal
• 3. Improved student performance
• All day attendance
• Discipline,
• Decreased truancy
• decreased absenteeism

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Required Program Elements

• Celebration
• Parental Involvement
• Campus Learning Community-Centered Goals
• Lots of Dialogue
• Parent Coaches Capacity Building
• Respect
• Measurable Student Outcomes
• Campus Presence
• Non-Traditional Hours
• Communications Structure
• Criminal Background Checks

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Preferred Program Elements

• Year One listen, discover, explore and assist
  in guiding the parents and students needs and
  areas of interest
• Bi-lingual (Spanish/English) staff
• Willingness to bring in additional participants
• A working knowledge of the assets and resources
  at each campus
• Ability to align resources and skills needed

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Program Budget

• Financial support needed for the required and
  preferred program elements
• The Issue Council also asks that you consider
• Parent coach-related expenses
• Celebrations, student fairs, outreach materials
  and supports, etc.

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Issue Council Strategies

• More inclusive participation from all learning
  community partners
• Where every family, student, teacher is contacted
• Needs, thoughts, concerns, hopes and goals are
  identified by various stakeholders

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Questions and Answers

• On Solicitations S03 and S04 Students-Families-S
  chools Relationships

Write your question on half sheets Check v S03
or S04 (or both)
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The Priority Program Funding Process

• Write your question on half sheets
• Check v process

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Eligible Applicants

• Non-Profit Organizations
• Faith Based Organizations
• Grassroots Organizations
• See United Way Announces Funding Opportunity
  for details.

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The Preliminary Application

• Complete Organizational Information (s 1-12)
• Initial Certifications 13a to 13d
• Review Background Info for Context
• 14 History and Mission (10pts)
• 15 Capacity to do the work (30 pts)
• 16 Ability to work w/ population (20 pts)
• 17 Ability to Achieve Outcomes (20 pts)
• 18 Commit matching dollars (20 pts)
• Observe page limits format rules in headers
• 20 copies plus electronic copy on disk

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Cash Match Requirements

• Agencies w/UW funded Programs (20 pts)
• lesser of a 1 for 1 match or 20 of UW funding
  in most closely aligned with the solicitation
  or more, at the agencies option
• Complete section 18a
• Check accuracy of UWs 2005-2006 funding
• Other non-UW Organizations (20 pts)
• dollar-for-dollar match, or more at the
  organizations option
• For grants 2,500.00 can make case for
  unique/compelling reasons to waive match

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The Final Application Submit only if invited

• Organizational Information (s1-12)
• Initial Certifications (13a to 13d)
• Review Background Info for Context
• (See scale p 3 and weights pp 4-6)
• 14 Issue Directed Outcomes (30pts)
• (See IC expectations and initial reviewing
  questions)
• 15 Indicators of Success (10 pts)
• (See IC expectations and initial reviewing
  questions)

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The Final Application (Cont) Submit only if
invited

• 16 Required Elements Attributes (40 pts)
• (See IC expectations and initial reviewing
  questions)
• 17 Preferred Program elements (10 pts)
• (See IC expectations and initial reviewing
  questions)
• 18 Program Budget and Match (10 pts)
• (See Footnotes p 7)
• Observe page limits format rules in headers
• 20 copies plus electronic copy on disk

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Agencies Seeking Affiliation

• See Attachment G H
• Benefits
• Standards for Affiliation
• Other Terms of Affiliation
• Application
• Submit only if full proposal is invited
• UW reserves right to require application

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Priority Program Funding Process

• See Attachment A
• Two-part competitive process
• Issue Council Reviewing Committee
• Program Funding Solicitations
• Preliminary Application 80
• Final Proposal 70
• Face to face meeting if gt 25,000
• Conditional Funding up to 4 years
• UW may reject all proposals

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Four Solicitations

• You may apply for more than one.
• Do so separately.

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Grant Period

• Sep. 1, 2006 Jun 30, 2007
• Each solicitation identifies the expected maximum
  grant size

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Proposals may be funded up to four years

• Continued funding depends on
• performance,
• adaptability to lessons learned,
• availability of funds,
• acceptable stewardship
• continued volunteer confidence.
• After four years recipients will
• Re-apply in open competitive process with UW
  funds subject to re-allocation among best
  competitors.
• UW may -- based on collective success/failure --
  recommend to reduce or extend the time period for
  the conditionally-continued funding
• UW will reduce/discontinue funding to programs
  that fail to perform

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Program Reporting Learning Performance
Assessment

• For 2006-2007 Reports are due
• January 10, 2007
• (for Sep 1 to Dec 31, 2006)
• April 10, 2007
• (for Jan 1 to Mar 31, 2007)
• July 10, 2007
• (for Apr 1 to Jun 30, 2007)
• Learning Workshops
• Assess Performance Against Commitments

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Transition To Web-based Submissions and Reviews

• Including
• applications for funding,
• requests for program changes,
• performance reporting
• stewardship review
• Successful applicants will first be affected by
  items in red.

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Remaining Timeline

• Apr 25 Mandatory Bidders Meeting
• May 10 - Deadline Preliminary Applications - 430
  p.m.
• Jun 2 - Issue Councils Invite Final Proposals
• Jul 7 - Deadline Final Proposals 430 p.m.
• Aug 30 - Official Notice
• Sep 1 - Funding Starts

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Posing Questions After April 25

• E-mail nramirez_at_unitedwaysatx.org
• IDENTIFY Process or Solicitation SPECIFY which
• Process
• S01 Caregiver/Parent Mentor
• S02 Building Quality Child Care
• S03 Students-Families-Schools
  RelationshipsEast Pod
• S04 Students-Families-Schools
  RelationshipsSoutheast Pod
• Answers on website within 48 hours (or so)
• www.unitedwaysatx.org
• Deadline for questions 430 p.m. May 3, 2006,
  c.s.t.

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Sample Questions

• e-mail to nramirez_at_unitedwaysatx.org
• Process Must our agency apply for affiliation?
• S01 May our agency apply to provide services in
  different Zip codes?

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Other Questions

• Write your question on half sheets
• Check v other

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Have you registered?
Thank you for your interest

• You MUST register yourself and your organization
  as present.

Do so at check-in desk.