Greetings from the Strengthening Our Community Council! Over the past six months, the SOC council has gone through some staffing transitions as well as shifting our focus from the application and agency contract process to the research and planning phase of our work. Currently, our council is hard at work on developing a strategic and investment plan that will help to guide our work in the subject areas that we cover: Employment for adults with developmental and other significant disabilities, Youth development and academic success,…
The New Solutions Council is currently in a very exciting place! We are working on many different ideas, plans and projects that will help further our impact on the local community. One of our biggest projects is working on our new Strategy & Investment Plan. This plan will help guide our work in an even more concise way than we have experienced since the forming of our group in February 2009. It will help us to assist local communities who have identified and implemented strategies…
In fall of 2009, New Solutions funded several projects and over the next few months the final reports will be coming in. The Brothers and Sisters Project combined the resources of Child Care Resources, American Red Cross and the Community Schools Collaborative to address the high number of youth that aren’t able to participate in after school activities because they are needed at home to care for younger brothers and sisters. The project was implemented in three different schools in South King County: Evergreen Campus…
The New Solutions Council met last month and had a very informative and interactive meeting. Our council volunteers led portions of the meeting and had great ideas about how we can move forward and ways to measure that we as a group are achieving our goals and how we can best convene groups to discuss various topics out in the community! We are about to start the process of checking in with some of our small grants funded projects to see how their programs are…
The New Solutions Council has been busy look at our measurement tools for both ourselves and the projects that we fund. We are hard at work looking into how we have funded projects in the past and are looking at ways to help assist many agencies in better working together to collaborate on projects for similar goals in the community! Stay tuned for more details about our work!
We are very busy with our Youth and Older Adults funding process! We received a large amount of applications and look forward to reviewing the information about the great work that our local agencies provide to the members of our community. Our focus through the remainder of January will be on this project and look forward to moving our work forward in many other ways aside from our investments in the coming months!
Greetings from the New Solutions Impact Council! We wanted to give a quick update to all of our readers that UWKC’s New Solutions Community Impact Council has been working very hard on several key projects. At the December meeting, we discussed our progress and ongoing work involving the faith community with UWKC to a greater extent. This will provide the New Solutions Council and UWKC as a whole, more opportunities to find out what the needs are of people who traditionally are served only by their…
We wanted to give a quick update to all of our readers that UWKC’s Strengthening Our Community Council has been hard at work over the past couple of months busily preparing for our upcoming agency application review! On January 6th, all agencies who wish to apply for either our Older Adults or Youth Development funding should have their applications complete and submitted to UWKC for review. Once all of the applications are received, lead staff and volunteers will conduct a very thorough review process. Based…
On Monday, the Strengthening Our Community Council had a very informative meeting. In preparation for our upcoming application review and allocation process, we learned about two key subject areas under our council’s umbrella Youth Development and Older Adults. These are the only two subject areas that we will have Outcomes open for non-profit agencies to apply for funds under in January 2010. We had two wonderful panels (one for each subject matter) made up of persons who are leaders in these fields in the King County…
The New Solutions Community Impact Council had our most recent monthly meeting last week and it was a very productive, informative and interactive meeting! After welcoming everyone and doing our normal introductions, we went on to discuss our thoughts on the many new and different ways that our council can stay connected with our local community here in King County as well as how to obtain information from community members, leaders, stakeholders, etc. This conversation was both exciting and inspiring as we brainstormed our ideas and had…
