Community Spoke

“Expenses advertising and promotion 209 office 941 travel 961 conferences/meetings 566 insurance 1,388 outside contract services 2,604 community events 483 misc expense 4,363 meals 255 total 11,770”

“Accounts payable and accrued expenses 0 1,669”

“The mission of community spoke is to enhance the quality of life for all ottawa county residents through a strategic, coordinated, and systemic response to human services needs. Some of the broader health and human service focus areas include poverty, housing, food insecurity, mental health, general health, education, and workforce development.”

“Community spoke was created out of a partnership between the lakeshore nonprofit alliance (lna) and the ottawa county human services coordinating council (ochscc). The ochscc is an unincorporated coordinating body made up of ottawa county entities that focus primarily on health & human services (a few members of the council include the department of human services. Public health department, community mental health, sheriff's department, workforce development agency, county administration, circuit court, etc) for 20 years, the ochscc has brought these entities together on a regular basis to better coordinate delivery of governmental health & human services. The lna is an incorporated nonprofit in the state of michigan that serves roughly 100 nonprofit members in ottawa county and provides resources, training, and support to help strengthen the local nonprofit sector. The partnership between lna and ochscc was created primarily to strengthen the level of collaboration between county government and nonprofit organizations as well as to avoid duplication of efforts. The leadership of both groups determined that a new entity should be created to better represent the collaborations that were coming out of this partnership and the result was "community spoke."”