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HomeMy WebLinkAboutGrant Request - FAN Foundation#17 Economic Development Fund Discretionary Grant Program Organization: Family Access Network Foundation Organization Description:. The Family Access Network (FAN) has been in operation since 1993. FAN created a network of health and social service providers, school, businesses, community organizations and individuals to ensure children receive the services they need. FAN also has 26 advocates in 45 public schools, including three early childhood centers, to link children and families with social services in the community Project Name: Family Access Network Luncheon Fundraiser Project Description: This event, the 6th Annual luncheon fundraiser, is intended to raise enough money to support 300 children during the school year, which is $30,000. These funds will be used for direct support. Project Period: April 2012 Amount of Request: $2,500 (Total Fundraiser Expenditures = $3,000) Previous Grants: • Sep. 2002: $1,500 Fundraising event ($750 Daly; $750 Luke) • Jan. 2007: $2,000 Breakfast fundraiser ($1,000 Baney; $500 Luke; $500 Daly) • Feb. 2008: $3,000 Breakfast fundraiser($1,000 Daly; $1,000 Luke; $1,000 Baney) • FY 2009 Community Grant: $15,000 • July 2008: $1,375 Golf fundraiser (Luke $825; Baney $275; Daly $275) • Feb. 2009: $3,000 Lunch fundraiser (Luke $1,000; Baney $1,000; Unger $1,000) • Feb. 2010: $1,500 Lunch fundraiser (Baney $1,000, Unger $500) • FY 2011 Community Grant: $10,000 • Dec. 2010: $1,575 Lunch fundraiser (Unger $1,000; Baney $575) • FY 2012 Community Grant: $10,000 Deschutes County Board of Commissioners 1300 NW Wall St., Bend, OR 97701-1960 (541) 388-6570 - Fax (541) 385-3202 - www.deschutes.org DESCHUTES COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM APPLICATION Direct Application to: Commissioner Tammy Baney Commissioner Anthony DeBone Date: 09/22/11 Project Name: Project Beginning Date: Amount of Request: Commissioner Alan Unger All Three Commissioners L x Family Access Network Luncheon for Children Fundraiser April 2012 (date TBD) $2,500 Applicant/Organization: Address: Project End Date: Date Funds Needed: Tax ID #: City & Zip: Telephone: Email: Family Access Network Foundation 2125 NE Daggett Lane Contact Name(s): Fax: Julie N. Lyche (541) 693-5651 Alternate Phone: (541) 693-5675 April 2012 January 1, 2012 20-3534560 Bend, 97701 (541) 693-5677 julie.lyche@hdesd.org On a separate sheet, please briefly answer the following questions: 1. Describe the applicant organization, including its purpose, leadership structure, and activities. 2. Describe the proposed project or activity. 3. Provide a timeline for completing the proposed project or activity. 4. Explain how the proposed project or activity will impact the community's economic health. 5. Identify the specific communities or groups that will benefit. 6. Itemize anticipated expenditures*. Describe how grant funds will be used and include the source and amounts of matching funds or in-kind contributions, if any. If the grant will support an ongoing activity, explain how it will be funded in the future. Attach: Proof of the applicant organization's non-profit status. *Applicant may be contacted during the review process and asked to provide a complete line item budget. Tammy Baney: Amount: Signature: Anthony DeBone: Amount: Signature: Alan Unger: Amount: Signature: Family Access Network DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM APPLICATION 1. Describe the applicant organization, including its purpose, leadership structure, and activities. The Family Access Network (FAN) has been serving local disadvantaged families since 1993. Currently, FAN has 26 advocates in 45 public school sites (including three early childhood centers). FAN is unique to Deschutes County in two ways. First, FAN created a network of health and social service providers, schools, businesses, community organizations and individuals who collaborate to ensure children receive the services they need most. Second, FAN provides advocates in all Deschutes County public schools and three early childhood sites. FAN advocates are hired by the schools as service brokers who link children and families to critical social supports in the community. Working through one dedicated advocate, a child or parent is referred for dental work, job opportunities, clothing, rent assistance, childcare support, health insurance, and more. The High Desert ESD manages the county -wide FAN program with the Director and one support staff position, working closely with FAN advocates. The FAN Foundation was established in September 2005, to ensure fiscal stability and long-term support of FAN. The expansion of FAN to include the FAN Foundation has ultimately allowed the organization to increase the number of disadvantaged children served through FAN advocates. The Foundation staff includes a part-time Development Specialist and part-time Assistant to support the work. The Foundation has allocated more than $1 million to the FAN program since inception. This includes support for FAN advocate salaries, client emergency funds and scholarships for children. 2. Describe the proposed project or activity. The FAN Foundation is conducting its sixth annual fundraiser in April of 2012 (date TBD) at a luncheon in Bend. The goal of this event is to raise enough money to serve 30o children with FAN services during the school year. Through community sponsorship and individual donations, the target is $ 30,000. Last year FAN increased the number of supporters, revenue and multi-year pledges for the event. Sponsorship funds provided through the Deschutes County Economic Development Fund will be used for direct support as with other local sponsors and event contributors. 3. Provide a timeline for completing the proposed project or activity. FAN 2012 Luncheon Fundraiser Timeline Sept — Dec: Secure community sponsorships — in process Oct - Nov: Reserve location for FAN luncheon fundraiser - pending January: Recruit table captains for individual attendees January: Finalize community sponsorships February: Develop written materials for event February: Finalize speakers, including FAN advocate, youth and family March: Complete guest list April: Conduct event April: Report back to sponsors 4. Explain how the proposed project or activity will impact the community's economic health. The Family Access Network works with families in dire need within Deschutes County. These are often the working poor. More than half of the families served through FAN receive assistance only one or two times, based on life transition due to a job change, domestic violence, a medical issue, or another life occurrence. With assistance, these families are able to continue to support themselves and avoid the long-term cycle of poverty. With the current economic downturn FAN is working with families who have never needed help in the past. Families who have become homeless due to foreclosure, bankruptcy or employment lay-offs are walking through the doors of our FAN offices. Many of these families have been donors to FAN in the past. FAN advocates are working to help these families navigate a social service system they have never been in need of prior to their current struggles. Through support of the FAN luncheon fundraiser, the Economic Development Fund will assist in building upon the current successes of our FAN advocates. By helping families move to the next level, out of poverty and into a self supporting family situation, our work impacts the economic health of our community. The FAN Foundation is pleased with their success in pursuing sustainable funding for this very important piece of our social service network. Through FAN, we are able to help break the cycle of poverty, assist families in improving their living situation, and move towards the economic health of our children and families. 5. Identify the specific communities or groups that will benefit. During the 2010/2011 school year, FAN improved the lives of 10,204 children and family members. This is a 29% increase from the prior year. Children and families were assisted through the following services: 4,443 clothing connections; 3,007 health services connections; 2,886 school supply connections; 3,240 food connections; 2,892 heating connections; 1,754 housing connections; 827 health insurance connections and 191 employment referrals/opportunities. Many of these families are struggling to make ends meet. The group benefiting from this request is one of our most fragile populations — children in poverty. Research clearly indicates that education breaks the cycle of poverty. FAN advocates work with these children and families to remove barriers and pave the way fora child's school success. 6. Itemize anticipated expenditures*. Describe how grant funds will be used and include the source and amounts of matching funds or in-kind contributions, if any. If the grant will support an ongoing activity, explain how it will be funded in the future. Grant funds received will be used as community sponsorship of the FAN luncheon fundraiser. The goal is to net $3o,000 in corporate/community sponsorship and individual donations at the event. Sponsorships will be used to leverage and challenge individual contributors to attain the goal of 300 children served through the event. This grant and the event are one component of the larger sustainability plan developed for the Family Access Network. There is no obligation to support an ongoing activity through the proposal. Local sponsorship will be secured on a year by year basis. Listed below are the event expenditures, pending sponsorship contributions, and the funding goal. Project Expenditures Fundraiser food costs (for 175 guests): Printing costs Facility Total Expenditures Pending Corporate Contributions Fred Meyer Bank of the Cascades Miller Lumber Bend Memorial Clinic Columbia State Bank Pepsi SolAire Homebuilders AmeriTitle OnPoint Credit Union The Garner Group Steve Scott Realtors PepsiCo - Besty Skovborg Fratzke Commercial Deschutes Economic Dev. Fund $ 2,650 $ 350 $ o (in-kind) $ 3,000 $5,000 $2,500 $1,000 $1,000 $ 250 $ 25o $ 25o $ 25o $ 25o $ 25o $ 250 $ 25o $ 25o $ 2,500 TOTAL $14,25o pending — prior sponsor pending — prior sponsor pending — prior sponsor pending — prior sponsor pending — prior sponsor pending — prior sponsor pending — prior sponsor pending — prior sponsor pending — prior sponsor pending — prior sponsor pending — prior sponsor pending — prior sponsor pending — prior sponsor request submitted FAN Fundraiser Goal: $3o,000 (300 children served during one school year) 11-19-2008 01:05 HIGH DESERT ESD 5416935701 INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE P. 0. BOX 2508 CINCINNATI, OH 45201 Date: APR 12 2006 FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION C/O JULIE N LYCHE 2480 NE TWIN KNOLLS DR STE 201 BEND, OR 97701 Dear Applicant: PAGE2 DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Employer,idcntification Number: 20-3534560 DLN: 17053061009046 Contact Person: RENEE RAILEY NORTON Contact Telephone Number: (877) 829-5500 Accounting Period Ending: June 30 Public Charity Status: 170 (h) (1) (A) (vi) Form 990 Required: Yes Effective Date of Exemption: December 30, 2005 Contribution Deductibility: Yes Advance Ruling Ending Date: June 30, 2010 ID# 31172 We are pleased to inform you that upon review of your application for tax exempt status we have determined that you are exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to you are deductible under section 170 of the Code. You are also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the Code. Because this letter could help resolve any questions regarding your exempt status, you should keep it in your permanent records. Organizations exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Code are further classified as either public charities or private foundations. During your advance ruling period, you will be treated as a public charity. Your advance ruling period begins with the effective date of your exemption and ends with advance ruling ending date shown in the heading of the letter. Shortly before the end of your advance ruling period, we will send you Form 8734, Support Schedule for Advance Ruling Period. You will have 90 days after the end of your advance ruling period to return the completed form. We will then notify you, in writing, about your public charity status. Please see enclosed Information for Exempt Organizations Under Section 501(c)(3) for some helpful information about your responsibilities as an exempt organization. Letter 1045 (DO/CG) 11-19-2008 01:05 HIGH DESERT ESD 5416935701 PAGE3 FAMILYACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION -2- Sincerely, Lois G. Lerner Director, Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements Enclosures: Information for Organizations Exempt Under Section 50].(e)(3) Statute Extension Letter 1045 (Do/Cc)