2018-482-E Finance - Human Rights Center DBA Refugee Community Partnership outside agency agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID: A2273A84- 8827 - 4141- A87E- C8CFF83C3936 EXHIBIT A: PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION school environments for conversation practice. At the beginning of each semester, students set personal learning goals and work with instructors to create a customized academic plan based on individual priorities. Classes take place outside of typical work hours to increase access for working adults. This class has taught more than 115 local residents over the years, many of who attribute their citizenship exam performance to this program. d) Agency's History with Providing These Services: Started by refugee community leaders and local stakeholders, RCP sprung out of the Chapel Hill Carrboro Human Rights Center in 2011 in response to the Refugee Community Assessment published by the Orange County Health Department and the UNC School of Public Health. The report identified the widening gaps between local refugee populations and the broader Carrboro - Chapel Hill community and the absence of refugee support organizations, producing frightening outcomes like increasing rates of high school dropouts among refugee youth, pervasive trauma - related mental health disorders, under and unemployment, housing insecurity and evictions, and persistent poverty. RCP has spent the last 5 years using a community- driven approach to helping refugees address immediate needs, adjust to their new surroundings, and providing long term support. Our approach draws on strategic partnerships with cross - sector organizations, agencies, and institutions, mobilizing Chapel Hill- Carrboro's existing assets to increase equitable access among refugee communities. Our work is built from the bottom up, producing powerful methods for community collaboration, decision making, and coordinated action, and building a shared sense of ownership and accountability. Mutually transformative relationships are built between volunteers and refugee members, which changes the help giving relationship to one based on reciprocity and mutual benefit. Here, community innovation flourishes, with new initiatives and new partnerships being born out of lived experiences of local refugees. With this relationship- centered approach, RCP strategically and adaptively fills gaps - gaps in access, opportunities, and social support that otherwise keep forcibly displaced people living in the margins. 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 ?) In the past year, RCP has experienced significant and expansive growth. Over the past year, program participation has grown from 158 participants to 260, and from 42 volunteers to over 90. To meet the increased demand, staff capacity has grown, from 1 half -time position to 1 full -time position (Executive Director) and 1 half -time position (Bridge Builders Program Manager), and will grow again at the start of 2018. RCP won the Triangle Community Foundation's 2017 Social Innovation Award, and has acquired 38 new donors. RCP moved its headquarters to the new YouthWorx building in downtown Carrboro —where we collaborate and share resources and knowledge with other area non - profits - -and its operating budget has increased from $22,000 to $82,000. In December 2017, Madison Hayes (ED) was awarded the Roddenberry Fellowship for her work expanding RCP's relationship -based and refugee - governed model for as a regional and national model for refugee support and integration. RCP is being evaluated by Harvard and Duke University's global health program as a model for refugee integration in the Southeast. 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. • Calculate a Full Time Equivalent for all recorded volunteer hours using the following: Total Volunteer Hours = Volunteer FTE 2,080 Agency Information 1/23/2018 3:14:24 PM P a g e 10 of 36