To mobilize our community to create measurable results that improve people's lives.
Governance
An update on the fiscal year 17-18 budget occurred. A key finding was open staff positions (currently four) through the year have covered the loss in campaign revenue, bringing us to a break even point.
Staff will work on the FY 18-19 budget and present a draft to the Finance and Executive Committee in early April. The plan is to present a budget for FY 18-19 at the April Board meeting.
Thank you to Hamilton Studio for stepping up as our media sponsor this year.
Their gift includes social media videos,including the featured video in this newsletter, event photography and 2018's Campaign Video.
Day of Impact 2018, ALICE Simulation:
Thank you Board Members for the ongoing discussion about our annual Kickoff and Day of Action event. Your guidance led to this year's Day of Impact 2018 ALICE Simulation.
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Community Impact
CI Committee Reccommendation on Gates Investment
Today the Board passed the Community Impact Committees Recommendation to use the Bill & Melinda Gates Investment to fund a Landlord Liaison position.
The Landlord Liaison position focuses on homeless youth ages 18-24 with a goal to stabilize homeless youth, young adults and families with children by providing coordination of housing assessment, housing placement, and supportive services.
Eight partner agencies participated in this pilot program. Both students and agency participants were surveyed on their experience.
7/8 agencies agree / strongly agree such training and or technical assistance should be integrated into grant awards to help agencies plan for, and implement program monitoring and evaluations.
There is interest in providing a similar opportunity going forward. This will involve incorporating things we learned, and developing a more formal process to increase the pool of academic institutions interested in building this community capactiy.
Resource Development Information
Tim presented trends based off of five year's of campaign data. These trends highlighted corporate and employee giving for our top 35 companies and key losses within this sector. The data lifted up trends for corporate and employee giving in all other companies under our top 35 and lifted up new growth and dollars raised outside of the campaign.
Mission: Excelerate Success acts as a catalyst pursuing Education Equity.
Vision: Excelerate Success will ignite sustainable social and systemic change by leveraging community voice and power to identify and confront opportunity gaps. Through individual and collective transformation, we work to create learning spaces that honor the unique identities and lived experiences of every person.
