women of wealth -- presbyterian committee on the self-development of peoples grant application

8/6/2019 Women of Wealth -- Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of Peoples Grant Application

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PRESBYTERIAN COMMITTEE ON THE SELF-DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLEPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.)

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Louisville, KY 40202-1396Tel.: 1(888) 728-7228 ext 5782Fax (502) 569-8963www.pcusa.org/sdop

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Please PRINT or TYPE all information. Incomplete applications WILL NOT be processed.

I. Applicant Identification

Name of the Project: Women of Wealth

Name of the Organization:(if different from Project) Women of Wealth, (Fiscal Sponsor, Atwood Health Foundation)

Address: 1010 W Adams St

(If P.O. Box # please provide physical address.)City: Phoenix State: AZ ZipCode: 85007

Telephone: 602-643-8302 Fax: Email: [email protected] Person

Name: Tillie McCoy Position/Title Co-Founder; Elected Director

Telephone: 1) 602-643-8302 2)

Fax: 1) 2)

Email: 1) [email protected] 2) Elizabeth Venable, [email protected], 951-640-77

II. The Proposala) What is the project?

Women of Wealth was founded in 2009 as the first women's group on the Maricopa CountyHuman Services Campus. The project is a peer-run group for homeless women in the shelter and

expanding to more locations throughout Phoenix. The group runs programming around self-esteemand empowerment, as well as creative arts, career skills, and health. The group also works collectively to

women address their most pressing needs, focusing in particular on family reunification and reentry issues, balso on learning basic skills, getting access to resources, and helping women to gain employment and housing.

Project#:

Please send five copies of the application via mail

and one electronic copy [email protected]

Review Self-Development Of Peoples Criteria Before Filling Out This ApplicationGrants Usuall Do Not Exceed $20 000
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b) Why is the project needed?

The project is the only program for women on the Human Services Campus and is also one of the onlyhomeless peer-run organizations in Phoenix. The project is needed because it provides a safe space fowomen who have experienced many types of trauma to address the issues and barriers they face in aculturally sympathetic manner. Many of the services offered by Women of Wealth address very sensatiissues such as regaining parental rights and addressing the criminal justice system. WOW runs these

programs without blame or shame, because members have experienced shared and similar traumas.c) Who will benefit directly from this project?

Women on the Campus experiencing homelessness, as well as women in other facilities, will benefit difrom the project. The greatest portion of the budget goes directly to housing subsidies for women who nhelp with deposits or rent. The second-largest amount of money goes towards a stipend for Tillie McKohas been elected director. In addition, the project seeks to develop the leadership capacity of other womin the group by providing internships for interns who will be elected by the group. Women on the Camp

and other locations will meet in group and privately 3+ days a week to solve private issues women faced) Who initiated the project and how will they be involved?Tillie McCoy and a number of other women initiated the group in 2009 because they saw the need to haa women's group on the Human Services Campus, the primary provider for many homeless services inPhoenix. Penny Wise was elected the first Director, and laterTillie was elected to be Director.

e) How did the group come together?

The group came together in 2009after Tillie McCoy and others who lived at the Watkins Overflow Sheltand at Central Arizona Shelter Services realized the lack of services for women, which included not evehaving basic feminine hygeine products such as pads and tampons. The members wanted to create a gwhere women who experienced homelessness could come for a safe space, to enjoy themselves, toempowerthemselves, and to achieve their life goals. The group identified particular needs including

CPS services, Probation/Parole, MVD, Counseling, Pregnancy, Mentoring, Incentive Programs, and

Scholarships.

f) Who owns and controls the project?The Women of Wealth members own and control the project, but are hosted by the Lodestar Day Resource Cand Arizona Organizing Project (Fiscal Sponsor: Atwood Health). Tillie McCoy was elected Director and thenstrengthened the group through an Americorps internship as the first homeless woman to go through AmericoIf we recieve this grant (our first), we would manage project money via our board and with the oversight of the

elected Director and interns. We would present women in the group with financial reports to encouragetransparency and responsibility.

he Project Goal & Objectives: (In 2-3 sentences)

What is the project goal? (What will be different because of what the group is trying to do?)The goal of the project is to expand and increase the capacity of Women of Wealth as an organization. The goals of theproject include increasing homeless women's access to housing via scholarships, to nurture self-esteem and empowerment,trengthen programs addressing family reunification and reentry, to expand to two locations or more, to offer weekly self-estee

empowerment, craft, and skills developing meetings at bothe the Lodestar Day Resource Center and the Arizona OrganizingProject's community center. The project aims to help women to improve their status and condition, to achieve housing, stabilinner peace, improved relations with family members, employment, and empowerment by helping themselves and other peers

How long do you expect it to take to reach the stated goal?The project is ongoing and runs consistently througout the year. The goal of continuing and expanding the group to otherocations is already underway. The goal of strengthening family reunificaton, reentry, and housing programs would begin inMonth 1 after funding and strengthened program would be fully developed by Month 6. Evaluation of the results of the programand womens' perceptions of the program would occur quarterly in Month 1, Month 4, Month 7, and Month 10. Reaching the stagoal of achieving measurable results from strengthened program would occur at Month 12.

Describe the results you expect to achieve by the end of the funding period:0-15 women would be awarded housing scholarships; 3 women would go through year-long internships; 5-10 women will bereunited with their children; 10 women will address reentry problems, meetings will be held weekly at 2 or more locations;20 or more women will be assited withother problems they face such as literacy, training, finding access to resources; evaluatwill show increasing program success and increasing approval from women in the group.


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d) What step-by-step activities will be carried out to achieve these results?1 Host and expand weekly programs every week, and expand to second location and office. 2 Contact allieand agencies involved in family reunification and reentry, and develop program models. 3. Democratically einterns and assign duties. 4 Develop assessment tools. 5 Expand programs. 6 Generate more finances to increased programming. 7 Work with women to develop personal goals and keep track of goals. 8. Surveyparticipants on a quarterly basis. 9Maintain regular programming throughout the year with guest speakerswith personal work helping women in the group. 10 Give regular financial updates to the group so that it cafinancially transparent and democratic.

IV. The Evaluation/Monitoring: (In 2-3 sentences)a) How will you determine if the project is successful? und,

We will determine that the project is successful if we are able to show positive impacts from our housing fund,by monitoring the personal successes of women who attend the group and especially those initiated by the group,

by mothers that we are able to successfully reunite with their children, and by the number of the number of women who

are able to clear up problems with the criminal justice system. The project will also be determined to be successful if it is aboffer regular weekly programs at 2 or more locations with a diverse array of topics to meet the women's interests and need

b) How will the project be evaluated?In addition to collecting numerical data about the success of our housing, family reunification,personal support, and reentry programs, we will solicit input from women about their progress

and perceptions of the group using quarterly surveys. We will also work with programs such as theASU School of Social Work to strengthen both our programs and our evaluation protocols.

c) Who is going to evaluate the project?The project will be evaluated quarterly bu members of the group through surveys, and numerically throughthe gathering of success stories directly related to our programs. The group will solicit outside help instrengthening its programs and determining evaluation measures from the ASU School of Social Work and

Arizona Organizing Project.

V. Decision Makers:

How many members are in the group?he group attendance varies between 15-30 and over 100 for special events. A core group of 10 members helps to keepe group functoning. The membership composition changes over time because women come in and out of cycles of

omelessness and because their access to shelter programs often has a specific end date. Active list of 70-80 women.

How are decisions made?

ecisions on programming are solicited from the group members and the group decides on a consensus/democratic basisbout the tupes of programming they would like to see offered. As the group develops and financial planning decisions are

made, they will be approved by the group. Interns and the Director will be elected by the group. Decisions over which personaupport projects (e.g. family reunification, literacy, housing) to pursue are based upon the needs of the woman and are madeonfidentially. The group is working to strengthen its formal governance and democratic decision-making processes.


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c) PLEASE LIST THE DECISION MAKERS (majority must be below poverty level)

Name & Phone #Address (City, State & Zipcode) *No Post Office Box

Job/Occupation(How each makes a living)

PovertyLevel*Checkone

Indicate howchosen

Check one

Tillie McKoy

602-643-8302

325 W Pasadena Ave

Phoenix, AZ 85013

Formerly Homeless (WOW Director)

Certified Nursing

Assistant

Above Appointed

Below X Elected X

Self-Selected

Dorthea Hogan

602-441-6007

Homeless/crashing at

friend's house (WOW Vice Pres.)

Truck Driving Above Appointed

Below x

Elected xSelf-

Selected

Elizabeth Venable

951-640-7747

1950 E Cortez St.

Phoenix, AZ 85020

Never Homeless

Grant Writer and

Public Policy

Organizer -AZOP

Above x Appointed

BelowElected

Self-Selected x

Alice Jackson Central Arizona

ShelterServices (WOW Secretary)

unemployed Above Appointed

Below X Elected x

Self-Selected

Lawanda Mitchell Watkins Womens unemployed Overflow Shelter (WOW President)

Below XElected X

Self-Selected

Barbara McBride Watkins Overflow unemployed Above Appointed

Below XElected

Self-Selected

x

Penny Wise 2740 W Medlock

Apt 108

Phoenix, AZ 85017

Above Appointed

Below X

Elected

Self-Selected

x

Human Moffitts 2016 N Central Ste 91Phoenix, AZ, DisabilityAbove Appointed

Below XElected

Self-Selected

x

Amanda Burk Central Arizona

Shelter Services

unemployed Above Appointed

Below X

Elected

Self-Selected

x

Beth Farley bunking/homeless unemployed Above Appointed

Below XElected

Self-Selected

x

Brenda Williams bunking/homeless unemployed Above Appointed

Below X Elected

Self-Selected

x

*How does your group define poverty?

Members of our group are either currently homeless or formerly homeless. A less strict definition of pov

would be people with incomes under the federal poverty line. However, our members often face much de

cycles of poverty and exclusion. Thus grant writer E. Venable is listed as not poor although her income


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C1. If appointed, how and by whom (and why appointed rather than elected)?

Decision-makers are elected by the group and solicit the input of members of the group. Women of Wea

is undergoing a growth process where it is developing formal democratic decisionmaking structures. Dec

makers include week-to week participants and long-term members. We have recently had new elections

C2. If self-selected, explain why:

Members of the board are self selected as long term and current participants in Women of Wealth.

Decision-making seeks to include input from all members of WOW. WOW is working to developits formal democratic decisionmaking structures, so it includes both transient and long-term members' id

We have recently had elections to hold the elected Director accountable and now have a President, VicePresident, and Secretary. and are forming a three-member Treasurer team. Elections were held in AprilC3. Are any of the decision makers related? If so, who are they and how are they related?

None of the decision makers are related except by their common experience in shelters.

C4. Are the decision makers members of the group?

Yes, the decision makers of Women of Wealth are members of the group--women experiencing or who

have experiences homelessness. They also recive assistance from Lodestar Day Resource Center and

Arizona Organizing Project. Many things are decided by consensus or democratic vote.

VI. RESOURCES (Please be specific)A. What is the exact amount you are requesting in this application from the National Self-

Development of People (SDOP)? _$20,000_____________________

B. What are the resources available to support this project?

1. Physical property

The group has access to space 1 day per week at the Lodestar Day Resource Center and 5+ d

a week through the Arizona Organizing Project. The group will maintain its own office at the

AZOP Community Center and have access to meeting rooms, fiberarts facilities, computer su

and othe resources.

2. In-kind resources (e.g., non-monetary resources such as volunteer work,

complimentary legal services, free use of office space or building, non-paid labor,

donated supplies and/or equipment). List all in-kind services and/or goods that

will be provided and state who will provide them and their estimated value:

The group recieves a great number of in-kind donations, including access to space (see aboveclothing ($500/year), toiletries ($250 per year), toys ($250 per year), craft supplies ($400 per presenters, LDRC room space ($1000 per year), AZOP office space ($3000 per year), meetingrooms ($3000 per year), printing ($1000 per year), and computers ($500 per year).

3. Financial resources from within the group

AZOP currently offers Tillie McCoy a stipend of $200/per month to develop and run WOW.


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C. List all financial resources requested, promised and received from other sources (e.g.

foundations, corporations, etc.) If other funds have been requested, please indicate. (This

information must be provided.)

Organization name and address Requested Promised Received Date

Received

Arizona Foundation for Women $10-20,000 met with

program officer March 2011 n/a

Arizona Organizing Project $2400 stipend

and in-kind

January 2011 Feb. 2011 200/month

Hilton Foundation $500 2010 2010 2010

Lodestar Day Resource Center in-kind space 2009 2009 Fall 2009

VII. INCOME/EXPENDITURE BUDGET

A1. Does this project have any paid staff? If yes, please list by name and describe their job functions.

Staff of the project have not been paid since the conclusion of Tillie McKoy's Americorps scholarship, but the groucontinued to run successfully. However, because the membership, like homelessness, are open to factors of insta

and because the capacity of the group is greater when there are paid staff, we are proposing to have the Directora stipend and to democratically elect 3 Interns to recieve stipends. This will increase the ability of the group toprovide services and foster new leadership in the group. Job functions will include securing speakers and planninevents, connecting women to services, counseling women, seekig donations, working to resolve problems in wom

lives.

A2. Who has the authority to hire and/or fire the staff?

Members of the group will run yearly elections for the Director and Interns. Determinations of hiring and firing wilmade by the group democratically. WOW is working to strengthen its democratic decision-making processes inclu

hiring and firing of Director and Interns. Director will be held accountable to group and Interns will primarily be he accountable to the Director and also the group.B.What is the total cost of the project?

This year _present-$1000__goal-$20,000-30,000 _ Last year $15400 _ Next year$30,000-50,000 including in

C. How will the group carry on the project financially in the future?

The group has proven its ability to run with meagre resources and via donations of presentations and supplies, afconclusion of the Americorps internship. The group will work with the Arizona Organizing Project to complete a

development plan to generate grants funding and increase individual donations.

D1. Has the group received SDOP funding in the past?

Check all that apply: no

D2. Is the group currently applying for local SDOP

funding? Check all that apply: no

National SDOP: __ Year _________

*Local (Synod): __ Year _________

*Local (Presbytery): __ Year _________

*Synod: __

*Presbytery: __

*Local (Synod/Presbytery) SDOP Committees are not in all areas. Check with the National SDOP office for your area.


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E. REQUIRED BUDGET FORMAT

INCOMEIndividual Cash Donations

$ 3000In-Kind

$ 14000

Fund raising Events $ 3000SDOP

National SDOP $ 20,000

Local SDOP (Synod) $

Local SDOP (Presbytery) $

Arizona Foundation for Women $ 10,000Arizona Organizing Project

$ 2,400

$

*TOTAL INCOME $ 52,400

*(TOTAL INCOME MUST EQUAL TOTAL EXPENSES)

*(TOTAL INCOME MUST EQUAL TOTAL EXPENSES)

Applications without a balanced budget will not be processed.

EXPENSESItemize all expenses over $500

NationalSDOP

Local SDOP(Synod/

Presbytery)

OtherSources

Total

Housing Scholarships for Deposits/Rent $ 5000 $ $ 5000 $ 10000

12-month Stipend for Director @ 700/mo $ 3600 $ $ 4800 $ 8400

12-month Stipend for 3 Interns @ 200/mo $ 3600 $ $ 3600 $ 7200

1 Laptop for use by group $ 500 $ $ 500 $ 1000

Family Reunification Fund $ 1500 $ $ - $ 1500

Womens Reentry Fund $ 1500 $ $ - $ 1500

Office Supplies $ 400 $ $ 200 $ 600

Supermarket Gift Cards $ 350 $ $ 200 $ 550

Printing $ 500 $ $ 1000 $ 1500

Fund for Women's Achievements & Goals $ 1000 $ $ 1000 $ 2000

T-Shirts and Bags for WOW $ 250 $ $ 50 $ 300

Office Space, Facilities, Utilities @100/mo $ 1200 $ $ 9200 $ 10,400

In-kind donations(clothing, toys, crafts) $ - $ $ 2000 $ 2000

Women's Hygeine Products $ 250 $ $ 250 $ 500

Retail Gift Cards for Work Clothing $ 350 $ $ 250 $ 600

*TOTAL EXPENSES $ 20000 $ $ 28,050 $ 48,050


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VIII. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

A. How did the group find out about SDOP? (Please check whichever applies)

Community Workshop (please indicate where and when)

SDOP Website

Local Church (please indicate the name of the church)X

Word of mouth-Chaplain Dave Goodall, Maricopa County Human Services Campus, and Wayne

Gnatuk, Associate for Church-Wide Relations, Self-Development of People.

B. Who completed the application? What is this persons relationship to the group?

Tillie McKoy and Elizabeth Venable prepared this application.

Elizabeth Venable is a grant writer for the Arizona Organizing Project, which helps homeless peer

groups to emerge, develop capacity, and grow. http://www.azop.org

C. While SDOP does not require the group to have the four items below, we would like to know if you

have any or all of them. Please do not include copies with your application.

By-laws Yes No x

Tax-exempt certificate Yes No x

Non-profit status Yes No x Applied for

Articles of incorporation Yes No x Applied for

Fiscal Sponsor: Atwood Health Foundation; Group does not have to use fiscal sponsor.

D. Are there any additional comments the group would like to make? (Limit to one page)


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CRITERIA

The following standards are used by Self-Development of People Committees to determine whether aproject is valid for funding within this ministry:

1. A project will be presented, owned, and controlled by the group of people who willbenefit directly from it.

2. A project will address long-term correction of conditions that keep people bound bypoverty and oppression.

3. A project presented for funding will describe, in detail, its goal (the point of theproject), its objectives (the specific steps the group will take to accomplish the goal),the way the direct beneficiaries will be involved in all stages of the project, and themethods to be used to achieve the goal and objectives.

4. A project will be sensitive to the environment while accomplishing its goal andobjectives.

5. A project will not advocate violence as a means of accomplishing its goal andobjectives.

6. A project presented for funding will describe fully the resources know to be availablefor its support, including a description of a) those within the community, b) thoseavailable to the community, and c) the in-kind and other financial resources sought orto be sought.

7. A project presented for funding will contain a balanced income and expenditurebudget. A financial plan showing expected income and expenditures over the fundingterm of the project will be included.

8. A project presented for funding will specify how progress toward the stated goaland objectives will be evaluated by the group, and when the evaluation will be made.

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Please send five copies of the application via mail and one electronic copy [email protected]

REQUIREMENTS IF FUNDED:A bank account.A letter from your bank (in the banks letterhead) verifying that the group has an account inits name and the account number. If a fiscal agent will be used these documents will beneeded from them, along with a letter of agreement stating that no fees will be charged,

that they are simply a pass through for the funds. A letter from you explaining why a fiscalagent is needed will also be required.

Two signatures on the bank account for all withdrawals (cannot be from same family,names needed)Taxpayer Identification Number (W-9 Form) in the name of the group.
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