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Invited to Submit 2014 Kpcf Full Proposals GATHERING OF ORGANIZATIONS INVITED TO SUBMIT 2014 KPCF FULL PROPOSALS 11:30 AM – 4:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014 NORTHWEST NATURAL HOSPITALITY ROOM (ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE NWHF OFFICES) 220 NORTHWEST 2ND AVENUE PORTLAND, OR 97209 Thank you in advance to all those attending next week’s gathering for the 2014 Kaiser Permanente Community Fund at the Northwest Health Foundation. We are excited about engaging our potential partners in a great conversation about how all of our work in involved in a larger landscape of social change. Below, you will find the following documents: • Agenda • Starting Points for Alignment • List of organizations participating • Speaker bios Before the event, we ask all of our participants to read the Starting Points for Alignment document and the initiatives related to their focus area (links are included in the document). Additionally, we ask each participant to begin thinking of all the actors, individuals, efforts, and initiatives that impact the work your organizations are doing. This will help you prepare for next week’s activity and dialogue. Don’t hesitate to contact a NWHF staff if you have any questions. Thank you and we look forward to meeting with you all next week. GATHERING OF ORGANIZATIONS INVITED TO SUBMIT 2014 KPCF FULL PROPOSALS 11:30 AM – 4:00 PM 4:00-4:45 OPTIONAL NETWORKING WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014 NORTHWEST NATURAL (GAS COMPANY—ACROSS THE STREET FROM NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION) 220 NW 2ND AVE. PORTLAND, OREGON 97209 The purpose of the gathering is to build a shared understanding of the issues and focus-area landscape. The emphasis is on exploring the context of our work—we believe this shared understanding is important for all of us in building a broader movement for health in the long run, as well as supporting the submission and review of full proposals in the short term. Topic/Item Purpose/ Who Supporting Time Outcome materials Arrive and check-in Check-in,grab lunch, All 11:00- be prepared to start at 11:20 11:30 in focus area groups Mapping the issue Build common • Lead • Participant 11:30 – landscape understanding by creating facilitators: lists/project 12:35 (one version of) a SWOT Michael Reyes, descriptions (on analysis of the issue Jen Matheson website) landscape and Amy • Starting Points Parkhurst for Alignment (on website) • Addt’l NWHF • 3 walls/sets of staff support: butcher paper, Fannie Black, markers, large Jesse Beason, post-it notes, Suk Rhee masking tape • SWOT grid • Invited Full Proposal Orgs Getting started (in • Welcome, review All 11:30- focus area groups) agenda, explain 11:40 purpose and format (10 • Intro’s min) Id actors and efforts • Review impact All • Add brainstorm 11:40- statement items to wall of 11:50 • Brainstorm: who are the paper that (10 players (actors and already has min) efforts) seeking to KPCF invited address the issue? orgs id’d • HOMEWORK item: who are actors and efforts in the focus area? Create a map of • Cluster similar efforts or All • Capture insights 11:50- identified efforts players graphically on on the SWOT 12:30 the wall grid (40 • Reflect on the min) Surface system brainstorm and dialogue perspectives on these questions (SWOT): • What are strengths exhibited • Challenges and gaps • Opportunities and synergies • Threats and concerns Wrap up • Final thoughts All 12:30- 12:35 (5 min) BREAK • Break, network and re- All 12:35- gather as the full group 1:00 at 1:00 pm (25 min) Welcome and • Welcome attendants and Sue Hennessy 1:00 – Remarks introduce speakers 1:10 Build common • Each speaker will • Bob Stewart – Polling devices 1:10 – understanding of present their work Gladstone SD 2:30 larger context related to fund’s focus • Serena (80 areas: Developmental Stoudamire – min) Origins, 40-40-20, OR OEIB Prosperity Initiative • Cylvia Hayes – First Lady, Office of the Governor BREAK 2:30 – 2:45pm Evaluation • Share and solicit Ronda Zackocs 2:45 – feedback on the design 3:45 of an evaluation framework Adjourn • 2 or 3 quick polling Sue Hennessy 3:45 – questions to get 4:00 feedback of the day Informal All 4:00 – Networking 4:45 STARTING POINTS FOR FOCUS-AREA ALIGNMENT There are regional transformation efforts and national conversations in each of the Fund’s three focus areas. These initiatives provide context and a starting point for the Advisors’ exploration of the Fund’s 2019 vision and desired impact. Healthy Beginnings Educational Attainment Economic Opportunity Source Center on the Developing Child, Oregon Education Investment Board & Oregon Business Plan: Harvard University 40-40-20 A Path to Prosperity Vision A framework for re-conceptualizing A unified public education system in Oregon Reduce Oregon’s poverty rate to early childhood policies and programs that meets the diverse learning needs of our 10% by 2020 to strengthen lifelong health youngest Oregonians through post-secondary • The biology of health student, and provides boundless • The foundations of health opportunities that support success. • Caregiver and community capacities Ensure 100% high school graduation by 2025 • Public and private sector policies and that Oregon students are college and and programs career ready. Specifically, by 2025: • 40% completing 2-year degree • 40% completing 4-year degree • 20% career ready Healthy Beginnings Educational Attainment Economic Opportunity Goals • Strengthen the foundations of • More children ready for school • Create 25,000 jobs per year health in the prenatal and early • More 3rd graders read at or above grade through 2020 Page 1 of 2 childhood periods. Level • Raise Oregon’s personal income • Decrease the number and severity • More 9th graders finish on track with levels above the national average of adverse experiences that credits, strong attendance by 2020 threaten the wellbeing of young • High school graduation and college • Reduce Oregon’s poverty rate to children and strengthen the completion rates increase 10% by 2020 protective relationships that • More Oregonians earn certificates and mitigate the harmful effects of degrees that lead to rewarding jobs toxic stress. Strategies • Augment adult-focused Design and implement high impact, cost- Recognize poverty’s diverse approaches by addressing the effective initiatives that improve achievement demography and geography and early childhood origins of lifelong of all students customize programs to meet the illness and disability • Initiatives that directly affect student range of needs • Ensure foundations of health: a learning in all of P-20: early learning and • Focus on teens as an early stable and responsive environment literacy; diverse professional corps of leverage point with of relationships; safe and educators; connecting to work; post- immediate payoff supportive physical, chemical and secondary aspirations • Start early for long-term built environments; sound and • Shift systems and cultures to address success (early childhood appropriate nutrition equity and result in learning environments education) • Strengthen caregiver and that address needs of all learners. community capacities: • Determine and implement process of Steer education and workforce • Time and commitment support and accountability initiatives to provide skills needed • Financial, psychological and for family-wage jobs institutional resources Work to build an informed, motivated and engaged public • Skills and knowledge Build an economy that offers more Two-way communication channels with • Public and private sector policies • paths out of poverty and programs major stakeholders • Achievement Compacts to establish • Legislative and administrative Provide adequate support for those regional collaborations and community actions in need and make work pay • Supportive workplace policies commitment • Support learning organizations in creating strategies, tools and practices to engage communities Page 2 of 2 Company: First Name: Last Name: Focus Area: 211info Dan Herman Economic Opportunity 211info Deborah Willoughby Economic Opportunity APANO Duncan Hwang Educational Attainment Black Parent Initiative Kelly Mohr Early Life Boys and girls club of Albany Michelle Davis Educational Attainment Breastfeeding Coalition of Oregon Marion Rice Early Life CAPACES Leadership Institute Rose Barker Educational Attainment Catholic Community Services Maureen Casey Early Life Catholic Community Services Joyce Dean Early Life Central City Concern Clay Cooper Economic Opportunity Central City Concern Matthew Hisel Economic Opportunity Children's Center Lisa Brown Early Life Children's Center Barbara Peschiera Early Life Groundwork Portland Faduma Ahmed-Ali Economic Opportunity Groundwork Portland Cassie Cohen Economic Opportunity Hacienda CDC Courtney Trezise Early Life Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber Gale Castillo Economic Opportunity Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber Jonath Colon Economic Opportunity Janus Youth Programs, Inc. Amber Baker Economic Opportunity Janus Youth Programs, Inc. Rosalie Karp Economic Opportunity Job growers Jennifer Senner Economic Opportunity Job growers Katie Stubble!eld Economic Opportunity KairosPDX Kali Ladd Educational Attainment Latina Breastfeeding Coalition/BCO Glenda Quezada Early Life MCHD/Future Generations Collaborative Heather Heater Early Life Multnomah County Health Department Laurel Moses Early Life Multnomah Youth Commission Marc Fernandes Educational Attainment Muslim Educational Trust Rania Ayoub Educational Attainment Muslim Educational Trust Jawad Khan Educational Attainment Muslim Educational Trust Wajdi Said Educational Attainment Native American Youth
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