Building Community Collaboratives and Caring for Our ChildrenCalifornia only has enough licensed child care spaces for
one quarter of the state's children. To address this astounding shortage, the
Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) launched the
ABCD Initiative in 2003 to support the development of quality child care facilities.
In a recent
report, BTW examines one strategy of the ABCD
Initiative--Constructing Connections.
Through this strategy, LIIF supported local collaborative teams consisting of child
care operators, developers, civic leaders, small business leaders and other
stakeholders in 11 California counties. These collaborative teams worked
together to identify and eliminate local and regional barriers to child care
facilities development, streamline the development process and provide support
to new child care construction projects.
Bridging Clinics with Communities: The Role of Community Health Promoters
Community health workers, public health aides,
promotores and peer
educators are all
terms used to describe the role of community health promoters. These
workers
are recruited from communities to apply their knowledge of the area and
their
personal connections with residents to promote the public's health.
Read more about BTW's work with the
Community Clinics Initiative in documenting the role and effectiveness of community health promoters
in
their
Networking for Community Health grantmaking program.
A Tale of Two Nonprofits and Their Coaching ProjectsTwo nonprofits,
LeaderSpring in California and
The Center for Leadership Innovation (TCLI) in Maryland, recently embarked on individual projects
to offer coaching to nonprofit leaders. The projects, supported by the
Coaching and Philanthropy Project, differ greatly in the
structure and type of coaching. BTW examined both models and wrote two reports
that highlight key strengths of each model and offer considerations for others
who would like to support similar types of coaching efforts. The
first report examines
LeaderSpring's project which integrates coaching into their existing leadership
program. The
second report looks at TCLI's project which offers both peer coaching and one-on-one
coaching to leaders.