Community Impact
Strategic Partnerships
Contest: Innovative Partnerships Prize
Contest is Now Closed
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applications will be reviewed.
After reviewing the thirty applications received for Phase 1, we are proud to announce the finalists for Phase 2 of the Innovative Partnerships Prize contest. The selected groups will be asked to provide a 10-minute presentation on their partnership to be given at the Strategic Partnerships Conference: Creating Innovation and Impact Through Partnership on December 3, 2010. Three prizes of $15,000 will be awarded at the culmination of the conference using a combination of audience voting and deliberation by an expert panel. The five partnerships selected include:
Farm to Families Initiative:
Partnering Organizations: St Christopher’s Foundation for Children, farmers and producers from the Delaware Valley foodshed, Common Market, SHARE Food Program, Women’s Community Revitalization Project, Neighborhood Bike Works, Health Promotion Council, The Food Trust, OMG Center for Collaborative Learning, The Reinvestment Fund, the University of Pennsylvania’s PennDesign, and Greensgrow Philadelphia Project
Farm to Families connects a diverse group of Philadelphia-based nonprofits to get fresh, affordable, local food to North Philadelphia families each week, year-round.
Philadelphia Refugee Health Collaborative:
Partnering Organizations: Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and Council Migration Service (HIAS and Council), Lutheran Children and Family Service (LCFS), and Nationalities Service Center (NSC), and their affiliated refugee health clinics (Jefferson Family Medicine Associates (JFMA), Fairmount Primary Care Center, Nemours Pediatrics, Drexel Women’s Care Center, Penn Center for Primary Care)
The project’s core goal will be to create an equitable system of refugee health care in the Philadelphia region that ensures a consistently high standard of care for all newly arrived refugees.
Diplomas Now:
Partnering Organizations: Philadelphia Education Fund, Johns Hopkins University, School District of Philadelphia, City Year of Greater Philadelphia, and Communities in Schools of Philadelphia
Diplomas Now is a unique data-driven collaborative that works closely with school administrators, teachers and other onsite providers to identify off-track youth and develop, implement and sustain comprehensive, targeted and intensive strategies to get them back on track.
Double Dollars:
Partnering Organizations: Fair Food, Wholesome Wave Foundation, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health
This Double Dollars partnership hopes to target families and heads of households in order to improve the wellbeing of Philadelphia communities and create lasting connections between healthy food and hungry stomachs.
Women Against Abuse and Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Delaware County:
The proposed partnership involves financial literacy and capability initiatives for women and families that have been affected by domestic violence and cross-agency training opportunities for staff members of each agency to learn about the issues addressed by the other organization.
