Wyoming Community Foundation

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

May 14, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$12,955,428

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Wyoming after school alliance fund (wyaa) the wyaa has five primary objectives: 1. Creating program standards and assessment tools based on proven models that are effective in increasing acdemic performance and decreaseing negative behaviors, particularly in low-income youth. 2. Promoting training and professional development aopportunities for all program providers and afterschool workforce in the state of wyoming. 3. Providing opportunities for all wyomng youth and their families to take advantage of low or no-cost afterschool programs that benefeit the child and family. 4. Educating families, communities and organizations with respect to the necessity and value of afterschool programs in wyoming. 5. Working to create additioanl resources, sustainable funding, and policies that protect, strengthen and expand school-based and school-linked afterschool programs. To complement ongoing research and assessment processes, wyaa has successfully implemented the use of the afterschool prpogram assessment tool (apas), which includes the survey of afterschool youth outcomes (sayo) and the assessing afterschool program practices tool (apt). A cadre of 25 pilot coordinators who have been trained as "quality advisors" to provide coaching and support to the programs during each school year. Wyaa has collected pre-post date for teh school year 2011/2012, and are now collecting pre-post date for the school year 2012/2013. This information collected over two consecutive school years will provide wyaa the date necessary to determine the effetiveness of this training and the assessment of their expectations of increased student outcomes. We anticipate that the data will sugggest increaseed student outcomes based on their first year of data collection. Concurrently, wyaa has worked with cypherworx, an organization focused on the nonprofit sector to provide e-learning solutions, to test and evaluate a series of online learning modules developed and cross-walked with the naa coreknowledge and competencies for afterschool and youth develpment professionals through an online professional learning community called "collabornation". Wyaa also held a two-day professional development conference for 180 "out of school time program providers" in october 2012.

Activity 3

Wyoming women's foundation fund (wywf) the wywf has granted dollars to non-profits in wyoming since 2000. Grants are made to organizations in the state that fit within the mission: "creating opportunities for economic self-sufficiency for women--primarily through education and training--and providing opportunities for girls." wywf's granting partners are situated across the state of wyoming and represent the efforts being made to create diverse career options for women in a state where the job-market is dominated by male-trades. Wywf is responsive to the issues that affect all wyoming women in their ability to economically succeed through both granting (as mentioned above) and advocacy work. This is a large area including, but not limited to, health care, transportation, safety, housing and a job that pays a livable wage. This large body of work is encompassed by the wywf motto-"when women and girls prosper-communities thrive" wywf launched wage training programs in 2008 and continues these today to help women recognize the wage gap given that wyoming has the largest one in the u.s. The objective of these programs is to help women learn to benchmark a wage or salary in a specific geographic location, to make a realistic budget and to negotiate for a competitive wage. Wywf also continued its leap into leadership program to encourage women to participate in civic and community leadership in the state expanding the events to various cities around the state in 2012.

Filer

EIN

83-0287513