Creighton Community Foundation

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“Compensation of executive director is reviewed by board of directors.”

“Governing documents made available to the public upon request.”

“Creighton community foundation's (ccf) core program "community works" leverages neighborhood schools to support vibrant communities in the poorest parts of urban phoenix, where neighborhoods suffer from poverty- driven disadvantage and disengagement. In these neighborhoods, today's children will spend 91% of their lives between 0 and 18 years of age outside school hallways. Vibrant supportive communities today have a determinative influence on child outcomes, and tomorrow's neighborhoods. What does it take to change an isolated, disengaged community into one filled with adult supportive relationships and a community of hope and inspiration? We leverage best practices in community transformation, centered around relocation, redistribution, and reconciliation by embedding a school-connected worker in our poorest neighborhoods, living 7x24 in residence, working in child and community relationship, and building bridges with key community partners and resources. The change is here already.”

“Feeding phoenix feeding phoenix is a covid-19 responsive hunger relief partnership program, led by creighton community foundation, and supported by numerous non-profit food agencies and partners, and over 340 volunteers who support the distribution of over 15 tons of nutritionally well rounded food to low income, food insecure community members weekly. Started in april of 2020, feeding phoenix is expected to remain a core program of the foundation for the foreseeable future, as it continues to support a significant amount of the food need in our community - approximately 1,700 community families. Feeding phoenix through the gracious support of many individual, grassroots, and other donors works beyond the limits of many food banking programs with its focus upon nutrition, and consistently optimizes the nutritional content of food bank available foods through direct food procurement and sourcing from unique food producers. During covid-19, and the crisis level need emergent from the pandemic, feeding phoenix has been a core program operated by the foundation and has become a primary venue for youth service programs as well as a "hub" program that draws community participants into other food and community building activities of the foundation.”

“Fresh in the neighborhood indirectly connected to food insecurity, and deeply connected to issues of food inequity and open space inequity in our low income communities of focus, fresh in the neighborhood focuses on developing outdoor, food rich community spaces that can draw people together while enhancing healthy lives and the perceived and real vibrancy of neighborhoods. Working often, but not solely, in school partnerships, fresh in the neighborhood seeks underutilized open spaces in our communities and through community engagement turns these open spaces into recreational and/or food production spaces. Moreover, fresh in the neighborhood focuses on a spectrum of community open space and food production activities that pickup where hunger relief crisis work ends, and focuses on moving families into increasing food and financial security with improved nutrition through connection with food and open space projects. This includes activities like supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap) education, outreach and enrollment, and through the use of snap benefits move families into more intentional food activities and local onsite farmer's market shopping that will support sustainable operation of local food producing sites, and open doors to improved low income community member food access in food desert communities. When connected to school sites, the program also utilizes student-family connections to draw youth into food growing educational experiences, and through youth draw in family members, and comprehensively educate families in evidence-based programming for health- impacting nutrition pattern change. In the future, program activities will likely broaden to focus on financial stabilization elements and workforce readiness and development, around food-centric activities. The foundation envisions fresh in the neighborhood as a multi-site, often school partnered, phoenix grand canalscape centered program that connects multiple neighborhoods, provides youth-activated spaces that draw in community members into increased adult supportive relationships for youth, and builds a community identity with economic activity around the food, food production, and culinary arts. Our anchor site for much of this work today is at a food activity hub on david crockett elementary school campus.”

“Community works community works remains our core, broader program of activating low income innercity disadvantaged neighborhoods to build stronger networks of adult supportive relationships that help shape improved youth outcomes, life opportunity attainment, and cross generational improvements in community vibrancy and the lives of all within neighborhoods. Youth centered, community works includes a resident practitioner actively engaged in building relationships and adding to the capacity of a neighborhood, who simultaneously leads middle school youth in a structured set of school day evidence based character development work that includes trauma-informed and social emotional learning content, and a focus on collaboration and community. The program then works with youth after school, and with partnered civic groups (e.g. Rotary international) to form service clubs that bring youth into action in their community. The consequent accomplishments have been quite notable, with youth independently distributing hundreds of tons of fresh food, forming neighborhood associations, and building up communities through all manner of household service, beautification, and neighborhood cleanup projects. Such work often involves summer and out of town opportunities for youth - often the single out of town experience they will have, features various seminars and events throughout the school year (such as an asu servant leadership workshop) and provides a number of leadership, scholarship, and other opportunities through partnership with civic organization partners. With a neighborhood by neighborhood and school-centered focus, we look at community works as the core service of the foundation in our school partnerships - the backbone structure around which all other work takes place and is integrated. Community works was subject to significant disruption during covid-19, and shifted to a number of digital outreach and involvement programs for youth. The foundation furnished youth with a number of digital devices to enhance access to activities, and developed online custom minecraft hosted worlds with various instructional components including streaming voice audio that would allow for direct interactive teaching/presentation within the world. Elsewhere, the foundation utilized vr headsets and hotspots to provide small group youth work, and keep kids interactively engaged. The foundation preserved most core youth activities - with significant effort to adapt - including moving the annual asu servant leadership workshop into a virtual event hosted on webex with over 270 student attendees and 21 breakout rooms. Throughout covid-19, both feeding phoenix and fresh in the neighborhood provided a key backdrop of youth service, with a socially distanced, outdoor, masked service activity that drew significant youth into continued community service where they provided food box preparation, customer service and data collection, chicken raising and chicken coop launch at david crockett, garden support, and numerous other activities.”

“Direct support of creighton school district-as a supporting foundation to creighton school district we also periodically assist in funding and supporting various programs. This year included lauching a model for providing support services to parent teacher organizations who often struggle with governance and sustainability across leadership transitions, as well as support for various district extracurricular and education needs, including district youth and leadership events including band field trips, weekend out of town trips for youth, and various sports related events, t-shirts and uniform support for youth events, and support of the junior ambassador program. As always,we maintained partnership with public school arizona tax credit fundraising, and invested in the reach and visibility of creighton school district.”

“Food distribution & delivery 527,808 0 0 grant and contract expense 15,532 318 11,125 hardware 10,884 -120 0 total 554,224 198 11,125”

“In kind expenses -114,785”

“Foundation received an audited set of financial statements and therefore changed to the accrual method.”