HomeMy WebLinkAboutCSD-10-069 - Tier 3 Community Grants Innovation Investment FundREPORT
REPORT TO:
Community Services Committee
DATE OF MEETING:
November 8, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:
Pauline Houston, General Manager, Community Services
PREPARED BY:
Cheryl York, Arts/Culture Co-ordinator (ext.3381)
Ingrid Pregel, Manager Cultural Development (ext. 3383)
WARD(S) INVOLVED:
All
DATE OF REPORT: October 13, 2010
REPORT NO.: CSD-10-069
SUBJECT:
TIER 3 COMMUNITY GRANTS INNOVATION INVESTMENT
FUND 2010 ALLOCATION
RECOMMENDATION:
That a Tier 3 (Community Grants Innovation Investment Fund) grant in the amount of
$10,260 be approved from the 2010 Community Grants budget to support expanding the
YMCA Cross Cultural Services Mentoring Program to include professional newcomer
artists in our community.
BACKGROUND:
2009 Tier 3 Approved Grant: Waterloo Region Resiliency Initiative
In November 2009 Council approved report CSD-09-067 which recommended a $10,000 grant
be provided from the 2009 Community Grants budget for the Waterloo Region Resiliency
Initiative (WRRI). Supported by 10 local funding bodies including the City of Kitchener, the
WRRI has provided education on components of resiliency, training in specific resiliency tools
(financial budgeting, analysis and reporting and service and client group alignment) and
mentoring in financial literacy. A second workshop held in October 2010 focused on ways
organizations can collaborate and share services to build resiliency. Over 50 representatives
from arts organizations, community groups and other not for profit organizations attended the
workshop. Work in 2011 will focus on a few specific grants to support building system
resiliency. The appendix to this report provides a summary of the program.
2010 Recommended Grant: Newcomer Artists Mentoring Program
On March 16, 2010, the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee facilitated a multicultural
discussion in response to the following Culture Plan II recommendation:
CPII recommendation # 24: “Mentor/host program for newcomer/multicultural artists—
database of artists willing to volunteer as supporters and mentors to newcomer artists.”
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Over the next 6 months, staff met with representatives from the YMCA, Waterloo Region
Immigrant Employment Network (WRIEN), MT Space, Multicultural Centre, Multicultural Cinema
need for
Club, Waterloo Regional Arts Council (WRAC), and Neruda Productions to look at the
feasibility of
and creating a mentor program for newcomer artists.
Using statistics available from Statistics Canada and Hill Strategies Research, the group found:
Immigrants accounted for 26,400 of the 130,700 artists in Canada in 2001, or about
20%.
The number of artists in Waterloo region was 1,700 in 2001. Immigrant artists
364
represented 21.4% of this number, or about .
Given the rate at which the area’s population is growing through immigration, we may
reasonably expect to also see an increase in the number of immigrant arts practitioners.
The group discovered that the YMCA’s Cross Cultural Services already had a mentor program
in place. In 2009-2010 fiscal year, the YMCA recorded 142 matches, 100 trained mentors and
189 trained mentees. Mentors are volunteers from over 50 local businesses that provide health,
retail, financial, educational, engineering and technology services in our community.
However, the program’s services did not include mentors for newcomer artists who had trained
and practiced in their countries of origin.
2011 Plans
Subject to funding in 2011, Community Services plans to work with colleagues in other
departments and funding partners to build on the successes to date and extend the reach of this
innovative funding to other community based initiatives in areas such as environmental
sustainability, youth leadership development and diversity and inclusion.
REPORT:
Cross Cultural and Immigration Services
Cross Cultural and Immigration Services is a sustainable arm of the YMCA:
Funded through Citizenship and Immigration Canada;
Partnerships with WRIEN, Region of Waterloo, United Way and the Ontario Ministry of
Citizenship and Immigration;
A proven mentor program structure including recruitment, screening, orientation,
matching and evaluation.
In October 2010, city staff and management staff at Cross Cultural Services discussed the
potential for the Mentor Program’s expansion to include professional artists. Artists function in
many disciplines such as music, the visual arts, theatre and film. Therefore, a mentor program
would need to recruit a variety of successful professional artists in these disciplines.
A goal for an expansion of the existing mentor program would be ten new matches during 2011.
Matches cost approximately $1,000 each to administer. At the end of the year, an evaluation of
the viability of the program would help to determine its future. With a proven result during 2011,
increased on-going funding could be available from Cross Cultural Services’ principal funder,
Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
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The Arts and Culture Advisory Committee is very eager to see funding provided to support
integration of new comer artists to our community and within their professional field.
Tier 3 Funding Mechanism
Tier 3 is the Community Grants Innovation Investment Fund.
One-time funding to support programs and projects in partnership with other funders.
Responds to a recognized and identified new or emerging community need.
Provides new and innovative services to the community.
Tier 3 funding makes it possible for the city to join other YMCA funders and service agencies to
deal with unmet community needs. This opportunity to expand a proven mentor program is
timely as our region’s population continues to grow through immigration.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS:
Funding in the amount of $10,260 is available in the approved 2010 Community Grants budget.
ACKNOWLEDGED BY:
Pauline Houston, General Manager, Community Services
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2010
OCTOBER
As Canada struggles to recover from an economic downturn, demands for services provided by
the nonprofit sector are increasing at a time when the granting capacity of local funders is
significantly reduced for 2010 and beyond. Nonprofit organizations are already weakened due
to years of under funding of core operations. Systemic policy changes have added to the stress
on nonprofits. This mix of factors has contributed to an urgent situation for organizations,
networks, systems and the entire sector. Complex times call for original approaches and
collaborative leadership. With these challenges acting as a catalyst, the recently formed
WRRI
(WRRI) is responding. Created by ten funding
ATERLOO EGIONESILIENCYNITIATIVE
organizations within Waterloo Region, the goal is to support and enhance the resiliency of the
nonprofit sector through new forms of collaboration, innovation and resourcing.
Educational Workshops
that have been offered by WRRI this year include:
February 2010 - Betty Ferreira’s Enabling Resiliency: How to Restructure and Revitalize
your Non-Profit Organization focused on tools and analysis for strengthening an
organization’s financial status.
June 2010 - Betty Ferreira coached experienced, local non-profit leaders who volunteered to
be part of a Peer Mentoring program launched by Capacity Waterloo Region.
October 2010 - John Baker of Aperio Consulting (www.aperio.ca ) provided a workshop
entitled:Enabling Resiliency : Partnerships in Practice which explored a continuum of
strategic partnerships for a healthy nonprofit sector.
Project Funding
In addition to the coaching and educational workshops, a small number of organizational or
systemic projects will be selected to be part of this resiliency learning initiative and will receive a
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range of supports made available through the collaborative resources of the
ATERLOO EGION
RI
.
ESILIENCYNITIATIVE
Waterloo Region Resiliency Initiative Partners
Lyle S. Hallman Foundation; United Way of Kitchener Waterloo and Area; United Way of
Cambridge and North Dumfries; The Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation;
Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation; The Robert and Judith Astley Family
Foundation; The Corporation of the City of Kitchener; Region of Waterloo (Social Services);
Ontario Trillium Foundation; City of Waterloo
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