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I <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 29, 1991 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. =--tb <br />SUBJECT: Resubmission of Opportunities for Families (OFF) <br />proposal <br />DEPARTMENT: County_ ^ - -- Manager PUBLIC -HEARING: No_ k <br />ATTACHMENT(S): No INFORMATION CONTACT: -- <br />Albert Kittrell, ext 2307 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill - 968 -4501 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Durham _ 688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: To consider submission of the - Opportunities -for - - <br />Families Fund (OFF) proposal to various foundations for funding. <br />BACKGROUND: The County's OFF grant was not funded last year, <br />although the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation cited several <br />"compelling" strengths. Since that time, a group of people, <br />comprising Albert Kittrell, Assistant County Manager; Marti <br />Pryor -Cook, DSS Director; Lucy Lewis, Interim Director, <br />Commission for Women; Jan Schopler, County HSAC; Frank Loda, <br />Center for Early Adolescence; and John Hughes, Adolescents In <br />Need, has continued to explore alternative funding sources. The <br />group has identified two new potential funders at this point, the <br />W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, <br />and has been encouraged to resubmit the grant by the Z. Smith <br />Reynolds Foundation. Tentative plans are to submit proposals to <br />the Kellogg and Mott Foundations by July 1, and to resubmit the <br />proposal to the Reynolds Foundation by August 1, 1992. <br />The program objectives remain the same: <br />(1) Increase the motivation and capacity of males to contribute <br />financially and emotionally to their families; <br />(2) Involve young males in the development of programs which <br />assist them: <br />(3)) Increase the coordination of education and employment <br />services so that young males can become economically competitive: <br />(4) Increase the effectiveness of services through interagency <br />collaboration and structural changes in service delivery: and, <br />(5) Strengthen broad community participation in the lives of <br />young males. <br />RECOMMENDATION: The Manager recommends that the Board approve <br />efforts of County staff t.o submit the OFF proposal to various <br />foundations for funding, and authorize the Chair to sign these <br />proposals. <br />