DEADLINE: Applications must be received by September 15, 2015 at 4pm. 2016 PROGRAM GRANT APPLICATION FORM COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS THAT BENEFIT CITIZENS IN EACH OF DELAWARE S COUNTIES ORGANIZATION INFORMATION: Program Name: Teach. Excellence. Academic. Mentoring (TEAM) UP! Lead Organization Name: Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Contact Person: George Krupanksi Title: President/CEO Address: 669 S. Union Street City: Wilmington State: DE Zip: 19805 Federal Employer Identification Number: 51-0068712 Telephone: (302) 658-1870 E-mail: gkrupanskil@bgclubs.org Program Budget: $120,615. Amount Requested (maximum $100,000): $100,000 County served by program: New Castle County Program Location(s): H. Fletcher Brown Boys & Girls Club, 1601, N. Spruce Street, Wilmington, DE 19802 New Castle Boys & Girls Clubs, 19, Lambson Lane, New Castle, De 19720 Program Start Date: January, 2016- December 31, 2016 E-mail completed application package to: Elizabeth M. Bouchelle Director of Grants bbouchelle@delcf.org Organizations applying for collaborative grants must use this form and limit their responses to the space provided. No other forms will be accepted. Submit only the required attachments. 2
PROGRAM INFORMATION: 1. The DCF s goal is to fund collaborative efforts that will benefit citizens in each county. Briefly describe your program, its objectives, strategies, and anticipated benefit to the community. TEAM UP! Is a collaborative between Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware, Mike Clark Legacy Foundation (MCLF), Wilmington Friends School and Tatnall School and Dream Chasers, that engages youth ages 5-18 in mentoring, academic excellence, positive behavior, and STEM programs to prepare them with 21 st century skills for successful education and careers. To address the need for building 21 st century skills for successful education and careers, these partners propose to deliver a rich combination of hands-on labs, engineering challenges and digital investigations to keep youth engaged and excited about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Children explore the subjects of energy and urban infrastructure by participating in modules created by Discovery Education. Program objectives are: Engage youth in small group mentoring sessions. Increase youth school and community connection through academic success and positive behavior. Strengthen interest in STEM through Delmarva STEM Club activities. Deepen mentoring impact through collaboration and partnerships. Program Strategies are: BGCDE will be the lead agency providing program and budget oversight. Hire a part-time contract manager to coordinate program activities, budget and data collection. Increase staff capacity as having familiar and reliable staff for a mentoring program is the single biggest predictor of its success. Conduct curriculum based four eight-week sessions of Mike s TEAM in co-ordination with the WFS and Tatnall School schedules, allowing students to mentor. Sessions will include: Summer, fall, Winter & Spring. Twice weekly, student mentors and Club members will engage in group mentoring activities, with a curriculum designed to build social skills, harmony and friendships. In addition, student mentors will assist their mentees in completing homework and improving academic skills. Conduct a series of four workshops on substance abuse, confrontation, disagreement, violence, and the reactions they have in addressing these challenges. Conduct STEM Club program sessions. At the end of each session, an exciting closing event will celebrate accomplishments and positively end the group mentoring relationships. Built into each program is an evaluation period for both mentors and mentees. At the year end, all members of Mike s TEAM and other mentors will meet to renew their relationships, reflect on their experiences and celebrate their accomplishments. 3
Program description: BGCDE staff identified youth that struggle in a large group format, either by having chronic poor behavior due to lack of social skills or by failing to complete homework due to insufficient help. Each of the non-profits in this proposed program brings an element of mentoring that is key for positive youth development. MCLF: Harnessing the local high schools community service requirements to complete between 50 and 75 hours of community service; Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware, in partnership with the MCLF, developed the Mike s TEAM, mentoring program to meet these challenges. MCLF provides the training and ongoing support in a partnership between Wilmington Friends School (WFS) and Tatnall School to secure a large pool of caring, high school volunteer mentors to assist Club kids in building social skills and completing homework. BGCDE s volunteer coordinator will provide support by coordinating mentor needs with Institutions of Higher Education; other non-profits and corporations. Research shows that community connectedness is an indicator of success in adulthood. Dream Chasers will engage youth in a series of workshops that reinforce positive behavior and discuss community concerns. Youth participate in facilitated discussions designed to address common occurrences in their day to day life such as substance abuse, confrontation, disagreement, violence, and the reactions they have in addressing these challenges. Sessions include role playing, speakers and critical discussions such as the recent case involving the death of Trayvon Martin and the Baltimore Riots. Sessions focus on values clarification and are designed to help young people develop critical thinking skills that keep them from an immediate response of drug abuse, violence, anger or self-destructive behavior. Benefit to the community: Research indicates that mentoring works. The 2013 study The Role of Risk: Mentoring Experiences and Outcomes for Youth with Varying Risk Profiles, examined mentoring program relationships, experiences and benefits for higher-risk youth, and among the findings determined: The strongest program benefit, and most consistent across risk groups, was a reduction in depressive symptoms a particularly noteworthy finding given that almost one in four youth reported worrisome levels of these symptoms at baseline. Findings also suggested gains in social acceptance, academic attitudes and grades. In addition to benefits in specific domains, mentored youth also experienced gains in a greater number of outcomes than youth in the comparison group. The anticipated benefit to the community of TEAM UP! Is that the program participants are equipped with 21 st century skills and ability to apply academic and enrichment skills gained through mentoring and collaboration to become productive adults responding to community needs. This will lead to a better workforce, future leaders and entrepreneurs contributing to the well-being of the community. 4
2. Define the target population your project is intended to reach. (Include number and ages of people.) TEAM Up! Will engage 250 youth ages 5-18 at two high need locations namely H. Fletcher Brown and New Castle B&GC. The Mike s TEAM WFS Chapter at the H. Fletcher Brown Club serves 100 Club members, ages 5 to 12, and 36 Wilmington Friends School student mentors, ages 14 to 18. The Mike s TEAM Tatnall School Chapter at the New Castle Club will serve 75 Club members, ages 5 to 12, and 27 Tatnall School student mentors. Dream Chasers will engage an additional 30 youth ages 12-18 through workshops and Delmarva STEM Club will engage another 45 youth ages 8-12 in curriculum based program sessions. The Brown Club serves school age youth. These youth are 83% are African American, 2% Hispanic, 13% Caucasian and 2% Other. At the Brown Club, 68% of our youth come from low income families, 65% are from single family households, and 80% receive free or reduced lunch. The New Castle Club also serves school age youth. Of these youth, 91% are African American, 7% Caucasian and 2% Hispanic. According to the OJP SMART System, the Community Disadvantage Index is 10 and reveals that 30% of the community s children are in poverty. 3. List the non-profit organizations with whom you ll be collaborating. What role will these organizations play? Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware: Incorporated in 1931, is the largest youth serving agency in the State. BGCDE will be the lead agency in this collaborative providing grant program and budget oversight. In addition, BGCDE will implement Delmarva STEM Club and coordinate volunteer pool from University of Delaware; DuPont, Bloom Energy, and Delmarva Power. Mike Clark Legacy Foundation (MCLF) founded in 2008, is a non- profit focused on developing youth through mentoring and technology education programs. MCLF will implement the highly successful Mike s TEAM mentoring program at the two program locations. Dream Chasers: Since the mid-nineties, the Dream Chasers program (formerly known as the McLaughlin Future Stars) has been providing academic resources for deserving economically and educationally disadvantaged students in the City of Wilmington and New Castle County. The program presently works with approximately 100 youth, predominately minority students from low-income families, helping them to achieve academically and develop their self-esteem, with the ultimate goal that they will take an educational step beyond high school and grow up to be productive, caring and responsible citizens. Dream Chasers will conduct a series of four workshops designed to address common occurrences in their day to day life such as substance abuse, confrontation, disagreement, violence, and the reactions they have in addressing these challenges. Other partners for mentors and workshop facilitators include: Wilmington Friends School Tatnall School University of Delaware Delmarva Power University of Delaware DuPont 5
Bloom Industries Police Athletic League West Center City Community Center Red Clay School District Christiana School District St. Elizabeth School Duffy s Hope 4. How will you evaluate the success of your collaboration? TEAM UP! program will evaluate the success of the collaboration through output tracking, surveys, case studies, testimonials, and pictures. Club member participation, student mentor participation, and volunteer hours will be tracked. BGCDE will hire a part time grant coordinator BGCDE and MCLF will hire and train two dedicated program advisors for implementing MIKE s TEAM and Delmarva STEM Club Provide four, eight week MIKE s TEAM sessions twice a week at two locations Provide one, eight week Delmarva STEM Club session once a week at two locations Dream Chasers will conduct four facilitator directed workshops during the grant period at two locations BGCDE, MCLF & Dream Chasers will coordinate and implement one graduation event to recognize program participants and mentors. As a result, BGCDE, MCLF and Dream Chasers have identified the following outcomes as indicators of success for TEAM UP! Program 200 youth ages 5-18 teens successfully completing one eight week twice a week MIKE S TEAM mentoring session 40 youth ages 8-12 successfully complete one eight week Delmarva STEM Club program 80% of participating student mentors will complete their community service hours 80% of Delmarva STEM Club participants will show increase in knowledge in STEM areas as measured by pre and post surveys 40 youth ages 12-18 will participate in Dream Chasers workshops 80% of Dream Chasers Workshop participants will show improvement in knowledge in topics discussed: Substance abuse; violence; responding to community concerns etc. 5. How will DCF funds be used? The DCF funds will be used for staffing, program materials, and events. (Please see the attached budget.) 6
FUNDING SOURCES: 6. Specify opportunities for leveraging or matching grants (include fees and government income): We have received OJP Mentoring program funds, a pass thru from via Boys & Girls Clubs of America. We will apply again next year. We have received funds to implement teen programs at both locations from DSAMH and we will apply again next year. List requests to other sources and dollar amount requested: BGCDE: Private donations requests: $5,000 Mike s TEAM WFS Chapter: Allen Hilles Fund - $5,000 (Request submitted, but not yet awarded.) Dream Chasers: Private Donations - $2,500 List other funding received for this project: BGCDE: Individual donations: $4,300 BGCDE/Delmarva STEM Club: $5,000 for Brown and New Castle Clubs Mike s TEAM Wilmington Friends School Chapter: Private Donations - $6,000 Student Fundraiser - $220 Mike s TEAM Tatnall School Chapter: Student Fundraiser - $1,520 Dream Chasers: $3,575 Specify the impact if DCF funding is denied: Without DCF funds, the TEAM UP! Program will have limited sessions and will not be able to serve the projected 200+ youth. Specify the impact of partial DCF funding: Partial funding will be helpful in meeting the needs of the part of the program. We will implement the program at one location instead of two locations as stated. We will be able to mentor only 100 youth. 7
REQUIRED ATTACHMENTS (LEAD AGENCY): x 501(c) 3 Determination Letter x Agency Budget x Board of Directors List (Name, Affiliation) x Program Budget (one page) REQUIRED SIGNATURES (LEAD AGENCY): Applicant organization does not discriminate in staffing or services on the basis of race, religion, gender, age, disability, national origin, or sexual orientation. Executive Director/President / (George Krupanski) Board Chairman / (Joseph Purzycki) 8
TEAM UP! Program Budget Item Description DCF Request BGCDE Contribution MCLF Contribution Dream Chasers BGCDE Grant Coordinator 2 full time Program coordinators to deliver MIKE S TEAM and Delmarva STEM Club sessions at two locations Dream Chasers Workshops Other Employment Costs Program Materials at Graduation programs Overhead Part time salary to oversee program, budget, data collection and reporting $15/hrx6 hrs/wkx52 weeks=$4680.00 Two full time program coordinators at $28,000 per annum each 4 Dream chasers workshops at $1,926.5 each : to cover Facilitator fees, materials, incentives FICA, Unemployment, Workers Comp @ 17% at $400 each session for 8 MIKE s TEAM sessions and 2 Delmarva STEM Club sessions 4 MIKE S TEAM graduation events at each of the two locations ;2 Delmarva STEM Club and one grand end of the program year for all TEAM UP participants General Operating Expenses at 10% $4,680.00 $0 $0 $0 $56,000 $0 $3,800 $3,500 $7,706 $0 $0 $10, 315 $2,300 $1,240 $765 $4,000 $8,000 $5000 $500 $500 $9,299 $2,000 $680 $330 Total Expenses $100,000 $9,300 $6,220 $5,095 Grand Total $120,615 9