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Leadership Fund
Family Leadership
Fund
http://www.familyleadershipfund.org/
The Northwest Institute
for Children and Families has entered into a collaboration
with the Family Leadership Fund to operate a charitable
giving program in King County.
The Family Leadership
Fund, founded in 1995, is a donor-advised fund of the Seattle
Foundation. Its mission is to improve the lives of children
and families in communities of color and in communities
disproportionately represented in poverty. The Fund is
advised by a community board, which assists in developing
policy and recommending funding decisions. The Northwest
Institute, under a contractual relationship with the Fund,
provides staff and other support towards implementing the
strategies of the Fund.
Current strategies
include: researching and responding to needs in communities
of color; supporting grassroots grantseekers; funding pilot
projects; offering multi-year funding to promote project
stability; educating other grantmakers on the priorities
for funding in communities of color; promoting evaluation
as an ongoing program activity in funded projects; and
providing technical assistance to community based organizations.
The Fund is committed
to supporting community programming which responds to community
identified needs. It has adopted the approach of asking
each community of color, "What are the major issues impacting
children and families in your community?" The information
collected is then used to develop granting priorities which
are unique to each community. Typical grants average $10,000
per year with opportunity for renewal up to a total of
three years. The Fund does not accept unsolicited proposals
for consideration.
The collaboration
between the Northwest Institute and the Fund goes beyond
the provision
of staff and support. The Fund utilized the resources of
NICF's Evaluation Services to develop and refine its evaluation
strategy. The Northwest Institute along with School of
Social Work faculty and students developed several research
papers for the Fund. The paper titled "A Strengths and
Needs Assessment of Ethnic Agencies in Communities of Color" was
the impetus behind the Fund's involvement in the development
of a two and a half year pilot project called the Non-profit
Assistance Center which began operation in September 1999.
This pilot project provides training and consultation in
organizational development targeted to small community-based
non-profits and organizations serving people of color.
View and/or print a Request for Proposals for the Family Leadership Fund by
following the link below.
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Click here to
read the recent literature review on African American Kinship
Caregivers
For more information, please
contact Natasha
Grossman |
