Definition:
The Eleanor Roosevelt Center’s Community Partnership Program is:
• A network, convener, catalyst, incubator, and communications agent
•  that brings together the public and private sectors
• to create greater opportunity and diversity in education and employment
• to realize the basic human rights of all people and promote the larger community interest.

Components:
Community Partnerships embraces three, integrated programs with three
consolidated committees that also meets as a committee of the whole:

• Youth Development: Improving scholastic achievement, promoting career
development, providing mentor-based business internships, and increasing access to
higher education and/or a good job.
• Employment Opportunity: Shaping government policies and regulations,publicizing job access supports and services, and partnering to develop employment pathways for
low-income families and people moving from welfare to work and re-entering the workforce.
• Diversity Coalition: Promoting diversity awareness and training in the workplace,
creating a network, conducting seminars and workshops, and providing consulting for businesses to advance inclusiveness.

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II. COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS GOALS FOR 2004

Overall:

• Become financially self-sustaining, energized by scaled-up and consolidated program
 framework and hiring of program administration grants-writer.
• Continue to inform and grow public-private partnership network.
•Consolidate existing operations to implement new framework; upgrade administrative and         financial systems in concert with new institution-wide Administration and Finance divisions.
• Consolidate existing committees to implement new framework.
• Conceptualize and implement strategic plan and operations for three, integrated programs.
• Develop indicators and implement annual monitoring and evaluation/impact tracking
system as part of new institution-wide program administration.
• Develop public relations function and revise marketing materials (e.g., website, brochures)
with new institution-wide Marketing and Communications division.

Youth Development:

• Integrate access to higher education initiative into CPSB program.
• Solidify whole CPSB partnership collaboration between five schools, five community
service organizations, and participating businesses.
• Strengthen program approach and explore “best practices” with added
  technical/professional expertise.
• Explore feasibility for replication of CPSB program in other mid-Hudson Valley
  Communities and throughout the country
• Strengthen operations with additional support.
• Develop career education curriculum with partners.
• Integrate career development components of the Department of Labor “Emerging Workers
  Partnership” grant
• Explore BOCES collaboration to institutionalize CPSB program and determine
   feasibility of shared state funding
•  Explore consulting relationships with area school districts

Employment Opportunity:

• Continue welfare reform monitoring role and introduce ‘consumer satisfaction form’ for
   recipients and former recipients.
• Complete final edit of welfare reform booklet.
• Define targets for outreach and develop informational handouts about supports and
  services.
• Scale-up current untapped labor force initiative; integrate welfare-to-work
  constituencies; design and formalize operation with part time staff.
• Identify successful welfare-to-work and untapped labor force job holders; create
  speaker’s bureau for community outreach; provide training (for speakers) and;
  garner media attention.
•  Develop and advertise website for employment opportunities; consolidate relevant job
   postings from all government agencies and community service organizations
   (provide links as appropriate); integrate Diversity Coalition as additional potential source.
• Partner with non-profit and government agencies to advocate for skills assessment,
  mentoring, and “placement” clearing-house to anchor job seekers and reduce risk for
  employers. Document successful placements.
• Explore partnering with Marist College and Mid-Hudson Pattern for Progress “GET”
  (Gateway to Entrepreneurial Tomorrow) program to promote entrepreneurship/small
  business start-up.

Diversity Coalition:

• Expand Diversity Coalition membership establishing hierarchy of targets, networking and increased public relations.
• Develop comprehensive member orientation kit and presentation.
• Continue to provide informational workshops and networking events.
• Develop diversity training capacity for Coalition members.
• Develop on-going corporate consulting capacity to work with Coalition members.
• Research corporate diversity program “best practices” and make available to
  Coalition members.
• Develop password protected website for Coalition members.