2016-600-E Finance - Ligo Dojo of Budo Karate - Outside Agency Performance Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 913F749B-B9E8-4103-AF9D-A4296D01069E t A - continued Provider's Outside Agency Application MAIN APPLICATION Karate is an activity that teaches all students to be more "upstanding" in terms of personal behavior and personal presentation; it teaches them to stand up taller, walk lines in life more straight than before; youth interact with figures of authority in a more respectful manner improving pro-social skills and supporting factors—including physical health, confidence, self-esteem, self-discipline, anger management and conflict resolution—youths become less inclined to get themselves into trouble with crime, gangs, drugs, etc. d)Agency's Experience with Similar Programs as the Funding Request We have been operating our Young Warriors Program consistently for 8 years, funded by grant- making bodies including: the NC Governor's Crime Commission (GCC), Durham and Orange County's Juvenile Crime Prevention Councils (JCPC), Triangle Community Foundation (TCF), the City of Durham, the Cities of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, Orange County, Wells Fargo Foundation, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Strowd Roses Foundation, and others. The Young Warriors Program accepts referrals of disadvantaged youth from over a dozen agencies in Durham and Orange County. Greater than that, however, would be a list of the successful programs we've run under the auspices of the NC Dept. of Juvenile Justice which we list here (each one represents a grant received) and the fact that we have measured success rates showing our accomplishments in the fives of the youths we have taught: Young Warriors (YW) JCPC Durham '09-10, YW JCPC Durham '10- 11, YW JCPC Durham '11-12, YW JCPC Orange '11-1012, YW CBT Level II Program '11- 12, YW JCPC Durham '12-'13, YW JCPC Orange '12-13, YW CBT Level II Program '12- 13, YW JCPC Durham '13-14 (current year), YW JCPC Orange '13- 14, YW CBT Level II Program '13-'14, ), YW JCPC Orange '14- 15, YW, YW JCPC Orange '15- 16 (current year) , e) Other Pertinent Agency Information Chapel Hill/Carrboro native Nathan Ligo founded The Society for the Betterment of the Human Condition through the Training, Instruction and Propagation of Budo Karate in 1999, and opened Ligo Dojo of Budo Karate in Durham (a d.b.a. name for the same 501.c.3 nonprofit) in 2006, and now our second location, Ligo Dojo of Budo Karate in Chapel Hill, in 2011. It has become a remarkably common occurrence for us that parents tell us "my child is SO much better behaved now at home," or "my child's teacher at school told us yesterday how she's doing so much better in class, and we know it's all because of karate!" or even "my child hasn't gotten in a single fight at school since he's been here at the dojo!" Beyond this type of recognition we have been recognized in numerous ways. ED Nathan Ligo was interviewed on ABC news (interview available on our website), the Raleigh N&O named him Tar Heel of the Week one week in 2012, and Governor Perdue wrote him a handwritten card congratulating him for his organization's successes. In 2010 Triangle Community Foundation awarded us its state-wide What Matters Innovation Award for Nonprofit Excellence. Main Application 1/25/2016 10:16:09 AM Page 5 of 20