Format

Individual Presentation

First Presenter's Institution

Rutgers University

First Presenter’s Email Address

kenneth@rutgers.edu

First Presenter's Brief Biography

Kenneth M. Karamichael boasts twenty years of experience serving disconnected youth. Having served as the Director of the Office of Continuing and Professional Education and Associate Director for Rutgers Cooperative Extension, Ken has effectively developed programs that address critical issues in the urban youth community, including the Youth Education and Employment Success (YE2S) Centers of New Jersey. In Newark and Camden, the cross-systems, multidisciplinary YE2S Centers have engaged more than 8,000 students since 2007. Ken has served on numerous municipal youth policy boards and consortiums to address youth reengagement and college/career development. A former member of the Board of Trustees for the Senator Wynona Lipman Child Advocacy Center, Ken was recognized for his work to recruit and support diverse youth populations as the recipient of the Rutgers Cooperative Extension, Mary Jane Willis - 2013 Diversity Leadership Award. His dedication to youth development has recently grown to include a new international component, as he led a Rutgers team cooperating with partners across the globe to recruit and train Greek youth in productive economic activity in the food and agricultural sectors in Greece. Ken holds Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Exercise Science, a Master’s degree in Education, and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Higher Education - all from Rutgers University. He is a proud Eagle Scout from New York City, and can be found outside of the office competing in the Professional Bowlers Association or enjoying a round of golf. He is married to the lovely Monica McLaughlin, an acclaimed Horticulturist and fellow Rutgers University graduate.

Second Presenter's Institution

Rutgers University

Second Presenter’s Email Address

redwards43@gmail.com

Second Presenter's Brief Biography

Dr. Richard L. Edwards is Chancellor Emeritus of Rutgers University-New Brunswick and University Professor. Dr. Edwards served as Chancellor of Rutgers–New Brunswick from 2014 to 2017, a pivotal moment in the university’s history, with its entrance into the Big Ten and Big Ten Academic Alliance, the integration of the former University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and the university’s historic 250th anniversary. Prior to his appointment as Chancellor, Dr. Richards served as Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs from 2011 to 2014. Among the hallmarks of his administration is a commitment to improving the student experience, both in and out of the classroom. He enacted several task forces and committees to review and make recommendations for enhancing various aspects of the campus experience, ranging from broadening conversations about inclusion and racial climate on campus to exploring ways to improve the experiences of first-year, transfer, and non-traditional students. Edwards, who came to Rutgers in 2005 as dean of the School of Social Work, is a scholar, educator, and administrator in social work education and professional practice. Over a four-decade career, he has held deanships at Case Western Reserve University’s Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is past president of the National Association of Social Workers and has written extensively on issues related to social work education and nonprofit and public management. Edwards served as interim president of Rutgers from July 1 to August 31, 2012. As a scholar, Edwards has studied the management and organizational effectiveness of public-sector and nonprofit organizations. He has been a visiting professor at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, and served as a consultant for the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute on the development of gerontology education for professionals in 18 central and eastern European countries. In 2008, Edwards spent several weeks at Ben Gurion University in Israel as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Edwards is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and served as editor-in-chief of the 19th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work, published in 1996. He serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals and served for several years as associate editor for North America for Social Work Education: The International Journal. He has been honored as a distinguished alumnus by the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, where he received his master's degree, and the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany, where he earned his doctorate. He holds a bachelor's degree from Augustana College in Illinois.

Location

Session Seven Breakouts

Strand #1

Home: Family & Community Engagement

Strand #2

Head: Academic Achievement & Leadership

Relevance

“Collective Impact” will discuss the emerging trend among funders towards a results-oriented and collaborative approach to service delivery among community organizations, and the innovative ways in which community organizations can make this approach better work for them. This workshop will highlight successful work within the Rutgers University network and numerous community-based partners. Successful initiatives in collective impact include Rutgers T.E.E.M. Gateway’s Youth Success Centers, and the Project Rise evidence-based program in high school equivalency and work readiness training. This session will address effective strategies for pursuing diverse funding streams, developing and maintaining healthy partnerships, and utilizing tools in data collection, school enrollment, student retention, administration and program evaluation which best support the work of promoting academic engagement among urban youth.

Brief Program Description

Collective Impact: The Strategies and Realities Community Engagement and Securing Funding will discuss the emerging trend among funders towards a results-oriented and collaborative approach to service delivery among community organizations, and the innovative ways in which community organizations can make this approach better work for them. This workshop will highlight successful work within the Rutgers University network, with emphasis on engaging one of America’s largest but under-recognized networks of community outreach and service provision: University Cooperative Extension. As experienced facilitators of youth programming, and effective leaders in community collaboration, funding, and reporting, the workshop presenters will share over seven decades of collective insights. Successful initiatives in collective impact include Rutgers T.E.E.M. Gateway’s Youth Success Centers, and the Project Rise evidence-based program in high school equivalency and work readiness training. More importantly, this session will address effective strategies for pursuing diverse funding streams, developing and maintaining healthy partnerships, and utilizing tools in data collection, administration, and program evaluation that best support the work of promoting academic engagement among urban youth.

Summary

Ken Karamichael, Founder of Rutgers Transitional Education and Employment Management (T.E.E.M.) Gateway, together with Richard L Edwards, Ph.D., Chancellor-Emeritus, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, propose to present “Collective Impact: The Strategies and Realities of Securing Funding" This workshop will demonstrate innovative approaches to partnership and funding models in urban youth programming. The emerging trend of collective impact funding initiatives by grant-making organizations moves towards results-oriented and collaborative approaches to service delivery among community organizations. For service providers in education and employment initiatives, a funding focus on collective impact necessitates new tools as well as new means of utilizing existing tools for cooperation among cities, schools, community organizations, and their stakeholders. “Collective Impact,” the presentation, will present a number of tools and concepts in serving urban youth that relates to effective community collaboration and the implementation of evidence-based educational programs - resulting in public/private funding support. The workshop will highlight the successful work of Rutgers T.E.E.M. Gateway, Rutgers Future Scholars, and others within the Rutgers University network of community-based partners.

Evidence

A part of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and the youth development arm of the Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education, Rutgers Transitional Education and Employment Management (T.E.E.M.) Gateway is dedicated to helping the youth of New Jersey improve their quality of life and become productive members of the workforce and society. To this end, education and employment assistance is provided, as well as family and support services, for out-of-school, drop-out, and court-involved youth in New Jersey’s urban areas.

Rutgers T.E.E.M. Gateway is an experienced facilitator of programming for urban youth populations and an effective leader in community collaboration. Rutgers T.E.E.M. Gateway is uniquely positioned to encourage community collaboration and the implementation of best practices in serving young people because of its role as lead facilitator of the Youth Education and Employment Success Centers in multiple urban areas of New Jersey, currently including Newark and Camden. The Youth Success Centers were named a Model Program for serving disconnected youth by the National Dropout Prevention Center, and Rutgers T.E.E.M. Gateway has administered several evidence-based, targeted programs for young people. These programs include a Social Innovation Fund Project RISE pilot program during the past five years, which maintained one of the highest graduation rates for young adults earning their high school diploma equivalencies among funded programs across the country, and the curriculum, “Towards No Drug Abuse and No Violence,” sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and replicated across the country. Rutgers T.E.E.M. Gateway is currently an awarded part of the Newark Youth Opportunity Network, launched by the Office of the Mayor and Superintendent to provide educational and support services to our most vulnerable youth.

The impact of Rutgers T.E.E.M. Gateway has been acknowledged by the White House three times since 2010, and delegations from Northern Ireland, Denmark, Brazil, Tchad-Africa, Japan, Greece, and China have also consulted the YE2S Center. The White House Council for Community Solutions held the final stop of their national ‘Youth Listening Tour’ at the YE2S Center in Newark, as they developed their national report – ‘Community Solutions for Opportunity Youth’ – a process that has become the foundation for the creation of President Obama’s ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Initiative and Task Force to Expand Opportunity.

Learning Objective 1

Participants will learn effective strategies for developing meaningful community engagement partnerships.

Learning Objective 2

Participants will be able to acquire new skills for attracting and securing funding.

Learning Objective 3

Participants will be able to learn new marketing and reporting methods to amplify positive youth development (and agency) activities to diverse audiences.

Keyword Descriptors

Collective Impact, Funding, Non-Profit Management, Grant Writing, Community Engagement, Marketing, Donor Relations

Presentation Year

2022

Start Date

3-8-2022 2:45 PM

End Date

3-8-2022 4:00 PM

Download

Share

COinS
 
Mar 8th, 2:45 PM Mar 8th, 4:00 PM

Collective Impact: The Strategies and Realities Community Engagement and Securing Funding

Session Seven Breakouts

Collective Impact: The Strategies and Realities Community Engagement and Securing Funding will discuss the emerging trend among funders towards a results-oriented and collaborative approach to service delivery among community organizations, and the innovative ways in which community organizations can make this approach better work for them. This workshop will highlight successful work within the Rutgers University network, with emphasis on engaging one of America’s largest but under-recognized networks of community outreach and service provision: University Cooperative Extension. As experienced facilitators of youth programming, and effective leaders in community collaboration, funding, and reporting, the workshop presenters will share over seven decades of collective insights. Successful initiatives in collective impact include Rutgers T.E.E.M. Gateway’s Youth Success Centers, and the Project Rise evidence-based program in high school equivalency and work readiness training. More importantly, this session will address effective strategies for pursuing diverse funding streams, developing and maintaining healthy partnerships, and utilizing tools in data collection, administration, and program evaluation that best support the work of promoting academic engagement among urban youth.