Develop, strengthen, and enhance the governance and capability of nonprofit organizations in order to assist them in attaining their goals towards accomplishing their mission.
Objectives:
- Build organizational capacity through direct or indirect general operating support
- Strengthen the leadership skills of nonprofit organizations through technical assistance and training opportunities
- Support nonprofit organizations through sharing resources and mentoring opportunities
- Promote and encourage opportunities for collaborations among like-minded nonprofit organizations
Programs:
- Nonprofit Capacity Building Training and Technical Assistance
- Board Basics
- Board Governance versus Support
- Preliminary Grant Proposal Development Workshop
- Starting A Nonprofit Organization
- Standards of Excellence Training
Build and improve the economic and financial conditions of low and moderate-income families.
Objectives:
- Help head of households maintain financial stability through training opportunities
- Increase financial/asset-building of families through educational opportunities
Programs:
- Fundamentals of Household Budgeting
Advance career and employment opportunities for at-risk youth that will increase the likelihood for educational success and concurrently reduce school dropout, juvenile delinquency rates, reduce gang involvement and engaging in violent activities.
Objectives:
- Conduct activities that develops critical and strategic thinking
- Expose at risk youth to project-based learning experiences that increase their expectation for a viable future
- Provide enrichment activities that supplement academic disciplines
- Foster an environment that nurtures, encourages and contributes to positive relationships of at risk youth
- Expose at risk youth to unconventional employment and career alternatives, including entrepreneurship
- Promote activities that develop new learning skills and advances traditional ones
- Engage at risk youth in activities that provide team building, networking, communication, and other soft skills
Programs:
- Legal Awareness of Alcohol
- On Southgate Pond - Student Leaders Program
- Youth Film Project
- Youth Summer Enrichment
- Collaborative Programs: Rites of Passage
Seek and support opportunities to advance the protection and conservation of the environment and assist stakeholders through such pathways as educational awareness campaigning and advocacy.
Objectives:
- Promote conservation of native plants and their habitats and resource conservation
- Develop and deliver environmental education presentation for youth and adults
- Promote the conservation and protection of historical resources
- Promote the education awareness of the environment through the media, newspaper, etc.
Programs:
- Sea Turtle Protection Campaign
- Magen’s Bay Nature Hike
To adopt, achieve, and maintain standards of excellence and ethics in all foundation projects and partner relationships.
Objectives:
- Provide superior services to the nonprofit community
- Maintain the highest professional standards of board and staff
- Conduct and promote activities and programs that are philanthropically mission-driven
- Maximize the allocation of resources by engaging in collaborative efforts and partnerships whenever possible