SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Central New York Community Foundation Inc. has awarded more than $161,000 in grants to area nonprofits.
The funding is part of the fifth round of grants in the organization’s “performance management” initiative.
The effort “helps organizations navigate the complexities of data measurement to evaluate and communicate their effectiveness,” the Community Foundation said in a news release.
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All grant recipients are now members of a new performance-management learning community, the Community Foundation said.
The group will meet over the course of the next year to “hone their data-management skills and share their successes and challenges with one another.”
The CNY Community Foundation operates at the CNY Philanthropy Center, which is located at 431 East Fayette St. in Syracuse.
Established in 1927, the Community Foundation encourages local philanthropy by “supporting the growth of permanent charitable endowments for the betterment of the region,” according to its news release.
The Community Foundation says it is the largest charitable foundation in the region with assets of nearly $193 million.
Red House Arts Center
The grant recipients include the Red House Arts Center, Inc., described as a “regional provider of community based arts education for at-risk youth and individuals with disabilities,” according to the news release.
It’ll use a grant of $20,000 to measure the impact of its partnership with the Syracuse City School District at the middle-school level compared to its similar data from the elementary level.
“We are looking forward to continuing this partnership to help enrich students, strengthen learning and academic progress and promote fun learning in middle schools,” Samara Hannah, executive director of the Redhouse, said in the Community Foundation news release. “With the help of this grant we will continue to track the impact of the program as we look to expand to other schools in the region, with a goal to expand nationally.”
After participating in the performance-management learning community in 2015, the Redhouse decided to reapply for a second grant, the Community Foundation said.
“Participation in the learning community allowed us to refine and systematize our data collection for our children’s programs launched with the Syracuse City School District,” said Hannah. “We learned a great deal throughout our experience and have been excited to reapply for another grant to further advance and measure the partnership this year.”
Additional recipients
Besides the Red House Arts Center, WCNY will use a grant of nearly $16,000 to “strengthen its capacity to demonstrate the impact” of its Enterprise America program.
The Community Foundation also awarded ProLiteracy Worldwide of Syracuse a $20,000 grant to evaluate whether its online educational program is producing positive outcomes for adult learners.
Additionally, the Onondaga County Department of Health will use a $20,000 award to assess a relationship between recidivism rates and transition programming offered to those who are serving jail time.
The organization also awarded the Center for Community Alternatives a grant of $20,000 to “strengthen the ability” of its employment-related programs to gather and use data for planning, quality assurance and program improvement.
In addition, McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center will use a grant of more than $16,000 to evaluate the High Five child-abuse prevention program, track outcomes, and analyze the program for quality improvement.
The recipients also included the Samaritan Center of Syracuse, which will devote a grant of more than $17,000 to collect and analyze data relevant to an “expanding” case management and programming effort “in order to improve its ability to meet guests’ needs.”
The recipients also included Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County, which will use a grant of $19,000 to conduct a study to determine unmet legal needs in the community.
In addition, the Westcott Community Center is getting more than $13,000 to utilize data-collection skills that will provide the community with a “picture” of the center and its work in the organization’s first annual report.
Contact Reinhardt at ereinhardt@cnybj.com
