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At CSF, funding decisions are driven by our Community Impact Framework—crafted WITH partners—to ensure that Jackson County’s community's dollars create the healthiest, most meaningful impact for our kids. Our framework is guided by five foundational attributes: 1️⃣ Equitable Access: Every child deserves access to support. 2️⃣ Individualized Approach: Championing innovative and tailored solutions. 3️⃣ Evidence-based Work: Investing in strategies backed by proven success. 4️⃣ Representation: Ensuring children see and hear from diverse voices. 5️⃣ Collaboration: Fostering partner connections to amplify impact. These rigorous standards uphold the integrity of our mission to strengthen organizations and equip them to expand their reach as they work to help #JacksonCountyKids thrive. #CommunityImpact #KidsMentalHealth

The REPAIR framework uses five parts to frame how institutions can work with the communities they serve to implement long-term, sustainable, community-institution solidarity for racial healing. Learn more from Build Healthy Places Network and our CIRE partners’ new racial healing framework that shares actionable steps to heal the impact of systemic racism by building relationships, trust, and collective community power. https://ow.ly/1F1G50PKmk0 #racialhealing #communitypower #structuralracism #REPAIRframework #racialhealingmodels #CIRE #racialequity #healthequity

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"I know the value of people coming together and in that survival mode, you’re isolated, you’re alone. When you stay isolated, you don’t get as much knowledge as you get from being in a community. And that’s the thing, UpTogether provides a community." UpTogether member Pamela, Cincinnati In 2022, UpTogether distributed $29,284,801 to 10,400 members in 32 cities and counties. Check out our Annual Impact Report to learn more about what we accomplished last year: https://hubs.la/Q0233P2P0

Transfer of power to communities is ideal, yet experiences of volunteers reveal challenges in practice. Our response to #DemocracyMatters includes recs for aligning with the Volunteer Charter, Fair Funding, & accountability in power transfer. Read here: https://ow.ly/sPLM50QNscN

"One thing that has not and will not change is who we support." - President & CEO Nichole June Maher With a new name, updated mission and values, and a visual makeover in the past year, Inatai saw many changes in 2022 while remaining committed to communities we are accountable to. We made 687 grants and contributions to organizations led by and for people most impacted by inequity and injustice in Washington and beyond, amounting to nearly $64 million in funding. Read more about where and how we supported powerful communities in our 2022 Grantmaking Report: https://lnkd.in/g_zm-ZbX

Dear Professional Community, I am thrilled to share with you the launch of a very special project that has been a labor of love for me - the Onyx Cares Foundation. Our Mission: Inspired by the need to make a meaningful difference, the Onyx Cares Foundation is dedicated to uplifting communities through targeted initiatives. Our mission is grounded in the belief that with the right support and resources, we can catalyze lasting positive change. Learn more about our initiatives at https://onyxcares.org/ Get Involved: To provide deeper insight into the challenges we aim to address and the communities we wish to support, we have shared an interview conducted at Roxbury Correctional Institute. This conversation sheds light on the very issues at the heart of our foundation's mission. I invite you to watch and hopefully be inspired by the potential for change we have before us. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/e-SUXdVF As we look ahead, the Foundation seeks to partner with like-minded individuals and organizations on future initiatives, particularly those focused on empowering the youth; we're also focused on enhancing community and economic development. Further, we aim to leverage Onyx Consulting Services' recent HubZone certification to underscore our commitment to making a significant difference in historically underutilized business zones. Stay Connected: Keep up with the latest updates on our projects, events, and opportunities to make a difference by following us on social media. Your active engagement and support—whether it be through partnerships, sharing our message, or simply keeping track of our progress—are vital to our collective success. https://lnkd.in/ejyz9JTc Thank you for your support as we embark on this meaningful journey together. With your help, we can achieve profound, lasting change. PS. If you’ve previously visited our draft website and are not seeing the most recent updates, please clear your browser cache (CTRL+Shift+DEL) to view the latest content. #atriskyouth #community #empowerment #501(c)(3) #AcademicAchievement #STEAM #HealthandWellness #NeurodiversityAwareness #advocacy

The key is filling in long-term gaps in community.

Many community leaders and active citizens tell me that they are exhausted, worn out, and frustrated by the mounting challenges in our society and the difficulties in addressing them. Of course they are. You may be, too. There are days when I am. That's exactly why I launched a new nationwide campaign: "Enough. Time to Build." I am undertaking this civic campaign to show that we need not give in to negativity or despair. There is an alternative, realistic, and hopeful path forward. It starts in our local communities. It’s there that we can see and hear one another. Where we can uphold dignity for all. Where we can grow our belief that we can get things done together. This campaign is to remind us of what is possible and what we are capable of. We can build stronger communities, together. And we can get started today with simple, practical steps. https://lnkd.in/gVkPqYVp

🚨Interrupting this broadcast to state the following: As I addressed earlier - promoting the concept of community developed frameworks across the networking sector was met with an abundance of resistance. This is one of the main reasons why the overall process to fund the model took three years in total. At the time Youth HQ was funded we were the first, it was the SECTORS Pilot Project and it came from Blacktown From last years blowout, I have since seen a rise in organisations promoting and integrating a more accomodating approach for the community to contribute. Honestly, it was easy for me to see it in my own community first To picture such an accessible, thriving dream, not just in ONE organisation but in EVERY organisation - would’ve meant that EVERY young person could’ve walked through the open doors of ANY organisation and be received as the professional of their own life The community sector is a path I could never walk again, not after taking the high road out. Nonetheless, I know what I’ve done has still changed the course of it’s history “The doors stay open to all young people, no matter what” had its burdens and curses, but setting Youth HQ alight still had its honour: the suffering of young people was not worth a single dime that was stolen from them #dearwesternsydney #youthled #advocacy #communitydeveloped #youthhq #blacktown #westernsydney #community #crappyfundingpractices #tickabox #frauds