Resources

Resources categorizes the line of services we offer to local leadership foundations (LLFs) that are more concrete in nature.  These services usually take the form of financial and program opportunities, and are often not accessible to a LLF alone, but are accessible to the collective membership.  This includes opportunities to participate in multicity projects and initiatives, and federal and private grant assistance.

Evaluation
Standard evaluation metrics for a variety of local programs that allow LLFs to measure their progress in transforming lives in cities.

Web-based Resource Library
LF offers a resources library to the network of LLFs with helpful tools, templates, and other technical assistance.

Funding Assistance
LF explores and mobilizes sustainable revenue sources for LLFs that can be replicated throughout the network.  LF offers funding consulting services to LLFs in the public and private sector.  LF’s history of brokering these types of resources include:

Juvenile Crime & Delinquency
In 2007 Leadership Foundations and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (DOJ) jointly undertook this one-year 3-City demonstration project to strengthen and expand the work of more than 60 small faith-based and community groups that serve at-risk youth in sections of cities with high rates of juvenile crime and delinquency. The Department of Justice and LF jointly selected three cities with high rates of youth crime, delinquency, and related risk factors to be part of the project—Pittsburgh, Dallas, and Minneapolis. The Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation, Dallas Leadership Foundation, and Twin Cities Christian Foundation coordinated project recruitment and the capacity-building activities with the 20-25 youth-serving organizations involved in each city. Participation in this project helped Dallas and Minneapolis compete for the expansion of Communities Empowering Youth program (CEY) in 2007, funded by the Compassion Capital Fund.

HIV/AIDS in Africa
In 2008 Tshwane Leadership Foundation secured the first ever federally funded international grant in the LF network to fight HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Announced on World AIDS Day 2005, the New Partners Initiative (NPI) is part of a broader effort within the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to work with new partners, including community- and faith-based organizations, enhancing their technical and organizational capacity and ensuring the quality and sustainability of HIV/AIDS programs by supporting community ownership.

National Mentoring Project
In 2008 Leadership Foundations received a one-year, $1.6 million National Mentoring grant through the U.S. Department of Justice to improve systems and programs that address juvenile delinquency, by strengthening and expanding programs in 16 cities that mentor children and youth involved in or at-risk of being involved in juvenile crime and delinquency, through a collaborative community approach. This includes training, technical assistance, increased program funding and sharing of promising program practices across cities. These capacity-building methods will enhance and improve the organizational capacity, system efficiency, and cost effectiveness of these systems and programs.