2017-587-E Finance - Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History - Outside Agency Performance Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 10F0B4DA-C8B5-4AB3-9AFA-939AE0010B18 (HIBIT A PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION d) Agency's History with Providing These Services: This is the fourth year of the Jackson Center's Youth Leadership & Civil Rights Education Program. Each year we have met and exceeded our goals and benchmarks laid out for our program. Halfway into the current year, for example, we have already significantly expanded our school partnerships by creating a new and exciting relationship with Phoenix Academy, a school that not only has our target youth demographics but also has historical ties to Northside; by establishing a second ongoing partnership with the Boomerang Youth Program, to pair alongside our sustained collaboration with Northside Elementary; and by developing a course partnership template to further engage our University students and help build our programming capacity. In addition to a full-staff team of support, we have two staff members (including one lifetime resident of the neighborhood) and two four-year long interns dedicated solely to the prat/ram. Additionally, we have built a community-first and driven teacher team, composed of Jj more than a dozen long-term residents who lived through and participated in the Civil Rights struggle. Coined our 11„4,„ 1111 "Community Mentors," these treasured neighbors drive 1'19 1L the implementation of our curriculum through the telling of their stories. Finally, the Jackson Center has gained support from local, state, and national foundations SIL 114'111111140,10, 111111'11 "'" „6. 9111 „ because of the success of this program and has been Irl du io invited to participate in local, state, and national presentations for our model of place-based learning and ill Hp ti intergenerational civil rights and oral history curricula, e) Other Pertinent Agzncy Information: The Jackson Center has been recognized with several awards for its work over the last six years, including but not limited to: the Harlan Joel Gradin Award for Excellence in the Public Humanities from the NC Humanities Council; the Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge Builder Award from UNC- Chapel Hill: the Advocacy Award from Preservation Chapel Hill for our historical education work in Chapel HilliCarrboro; and an award from UNC's Office of Engaged Scholarship for our neighborhood partnership work, Our Fusion Youth Radio program served as the inspiration for WUNC'S Youth Radio Institute and several of our youth pieces have won national awards, Our events and forums have been hailed by civil rights and social justice activists as the most genuinely integrated events" they have ever attended. In the last year we have been leading partners in the Northside Neighborhood Initiative, a major housing collaboration between neighborhood leadership, Self-Help Credit Union, UNC, the Towns of Chapel Hill & Carrboro, and all local affordable housing agencies to preserve the future of Northside. We have also begun a 3-year strategic planning process, led by our Executive Director and Board of Directors, which should help us increase capacity for our core programming in the coming year. f) Schedule of Positions (For Entire Agency) ▪ Full Time Equivalent(FTE)staff will be noted as 1.00; half time as 50: quarter time as 25, etc. O Calculate a Full Time Equivalent for all recorded volunteer hours using the following: Total Volunteer Hours Volunteer FTE 2,080 # of FTE Full-Time Paid Positions: 3 (+1 Full-time AmeriCorps Member) # of FTE - Paid Part-Time Positions: 2.1,t, 4 paid summer interns) #of Volunteers: 380 # of FTE Volunteers: 4,1§ **Please note: Our Executive Director is a volunteer of-30 hours/week, We also have a Social Work Intern (25 hoursiwk) and six undergraduate interns (6 hrs/wk each) in addition to the large number of volunteers for discreet service each year. Agency Information 1/31/2017 10:50:57 AM