2018-416-E Finance - Marian Cheek Jackson Center outside agency agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 7A9252AF- OE3A- 47EE- A4F6- 2A3D9DF527FF EXHIBIT A: PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION collaboration between neighborhood leadership, Self -Help, UNC, the Towns, and all local affordable housing agencies. Finally, the Jackson Center has gained support from local, state, and national foundations because of the success of our program work and has been invited to participate in several national presentations for our model of place -based learning, intergenerational civil rights and oral history curricula, and housing justice to preserve the future of historical African - American communities. Within our program's fifth year, the Jackson Center's Learning Across Generations education curricula has continued to initiate the creation of classrooms for equity and social justice. Currently, we have successfully piloted our rebranded audio immersion program The Telling Your Story (TYS) Project with middle and high school students at McDougle Middle School and Phoenix Academy. Prioritizing marginalized students within the district, our program empowers youth to recognize the power of their voices and their space within history. Our partnership with Phoenix Academy represents another hallmark of our program so far: sustained and deepened connections with school partners. In addition to our continued relationship from the prior academic year, we have maintained ongoing commitments with Boomerang Youth Inc and reestablished our sustained collaboration with Northside Elementary. We are excited by the conversations we have created with new school partners and educators. The crux of our curricular initiatives is centered within our Community Mentor Team. This community -first teacher team is composed of community elders, long -term Northside residents, and sustained activists who lived through and participated in the local civil rights struggle; they are critical collaborators in refining our curricular activities and ushering in student critical thinking and reflection via their storytelling in classroom settings. The support of our Community Mentor Team is complemented by two staff members (including one lifetime resident of Northside) and two four -year long interns dedicated solely to the program. e) Other Pertinent Agency Information (Ex. Has the agency experienced any major changes in the past year? Is there a new Executive Director? Are there new initiatives ?) The successful completion and unveiling of the Northside Freedom Fighters Gateway, positioned outside of St. Joseph C.M.E. Church, is one major success that the Jackson Center saw to fruition in 2017. Providing a brief but impactful glimpse into Northside's critical position in the local struggle for civil rights, the gateway features historic Jim Wallace photography and incorporates quotations from oral history interviews within our Oral History Trust. In addition, we completed our intensive Victory Planning Process, which provided a 3 -year strategic map to build capacity for our core programming. We have also been recognized with several awards for our work over the last nine 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 Hill /Carrboro; and an award from UNC's Office of Engaged Scholarship for our neighborhood partnership work. The shift from Fusion Youth Radio (FYR) to The TYS Project represents both a major change and new initiative that our education programming has seen. Through FYR, our audio - immersion initiative functioned primarily as an afterschool program for high school students to create their own audio - documentary pieces and produce a monthly radio show to air on UNC - Chapel Hill's student - run station, WXYC. With hopes of nurturing participatory retention and developing a larger community base for growth, creativity, and collaboration, we transitioned to The TYS Project, an in- classroom model embedded within the school day. Currently taking place in two schools across five different class sections, the weekly workshop sessions now champions the voices of middle and high school students. f) Schedule of Positions (For Entire Agency) # of FTE - Full -Time Paid Positions: 4 # of FTE - Paid Part-Time Positions: Z-(+ 4 paid summer interns) # of Volunteers: 410 # of FTE - Volunteers: 3.5 lincludes volunteer ED) g) Living Wage Does this agency pay permanent employees a minimum living wage? (Yes /No) Yes