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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBack-Up DocumentsCity of Miami Anti -Poverty Initiative Program Funding Request Form CONTACT INFORMATION: Contact Person: Joseph King Title: Vice President of Operations Phone number: 305.446.1543 Email Address: jking@tghimiami.org Name of Person completing this form: Joseph King Legal Name of Organization: Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, Inc. (TGHI) Address (Street, City, State, Zip Code): 3640 Grand Avenue Miami, FL 33133 Executive Director of Organization: Merline J. Barton Executive Director email: mbarton@tghimiami.org Executive Director Contact Phone Number: 305.446.1543 The organization is a registered and active State of Florida Corporation (select one): EI z EI EI EI EI For -profit organization Not -for profit organization {501(3)(c)} Local governmental unit State governmental unit Educational and academic institution City of Miami department, office of elected official, agency or board Page 1 of 5 Return this form to: mtrevino@miamigov.com (Last Revised May 15, 2020) City of Miami Anti -Poverty Initiative Program Funding Request Form ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM/PROJECT INFORMATION Organization History and Background Information: Since 2000, 1 CHI as been fighting the effects of poverty by addressing drug dependency, HIV, delinquency fin pregnanry, gang time eM hopelessness with programs to help families with education, teen violence, and social and life skills. We have been wanking in this impoverished & underserved areas ofMami helping low-income res rvnil soluti., sire gthe f dies complete job training&find employment and Musing. Our program isdcsigned for our client to reduce stressimprovc health, mental health and enhance foundational skills and tools necessary resolve crises and avoid future hardships through impmvcd family thnetioning, improved employability and Musing. y and Musing. By taking a community approach to change, we off an array ofscrvicesto complement our community, providing comprehensive resmrrcus for our clients... Changing Behaviors and Changing Lives Is your program/project providing direct services to residents of the City of Miami? Yes ✓❑No❑ Number of residents your entity will serve: Frequency of Service: Age Group Served: 23 Monthly 16-99 Is your program/project impacting one of Miami's disadvantaged communities? Yes ❑✓ No n Geographic Area Served (specific to this project/program) District Served (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Citywide) District 2 Neighborhood/Community being served: Coconut Grove Program/Project Priority area (Select one): El Educational Programs for children, youth and adults Crime Prevention Elderly meals, transportation, recreational and health/wellness related activities At -risk youth or youth summer job programs Transportation services and programs Job development, retention and training programs Homeless Services Food Distribution Essential supplies, during a State of Emergency, natural disaster, or economic crisis rage 2 of 5 Return this form to: mtrevino@miamigov.com (Last Revised May 15, 2020) City of Miami Anti -Poverty Initiative Program - Funding Request Form Program/Project Title: TGHI Pathway to Jobs through Hospitality and Culture To expand on Miami's rich African American and Bahamian history and culture presented to the Project/Program Description: public by expanding the footprint of historical, contemporary and urban -focused education, culture. and tourism. By highlighting the Bahamian, African and Caribbean American diasporas who helped establish Miami's oldest community by creating a tourism hub and training/hiring 23 residents/participants for this project. Program Start Date: January 1, 2023 Program End Date: December 31, 2023 Please describe how this program/project and funding will alleviate poverty within the City of Miami? The tenets of focus are: Economic Development Focusing on Income, Employability Skills and Job Training by working with entities such as Miami Dade College, Taste of Coco Bahamas. TGHI will be working with these entities to create local jobs utilizing training, certification and placement opportunities. Regrading Community and Business Development Focusing on Art, Culture and Tourism, we wil be creating a visitor hub at the 3locatious; 3648 Grand Ave/3646 Grand Ave/3642 Grand Ave. The Grand Avenue locations will utilize the updated 3,000 sq. ft. space to be Little Bahamas of Coconut Grove visitor, tourism and information center. This food, art and culture center hub will compliment the recent community enhancement goals we have set out for this and create jobs. IMPACT AND PERFORMANCE: Describe overall expected outcomes and performance measures for this project/program: -23 OF 2123 WILL COMPLLI L THL PROGRAM AND LNHANCL INCOML OPPOR I L N I FITS THROUGHLMPLOYABILI IY SKILLS TRAINING, LN [RLPRLNLURSHIP AND JOB CRLA DON FOR LNHANCLD QUALITY OF LIEL, AS FOLLOWS: - 9 OF 9 YOUTH WILL BE ENROLLED IN TGHI ENTREPRENEURIAL PROGRAM AND COMPLETE TRAINING - 9 OF 9 ADULTS WILL BE ENROLLED IN TGHI ENTREPRENEURIAL PROGRAM AND COMPLETE TRAINING - 5 OF 5 ADULTS WILL BE TRAINED ALTERNATELY TO WORK IN THE VISITOR, TOURISM, MARKET AND SHOP AND WILL ALSO COMPLETE TGHI SCREENING AND TRAINING SERVICES. Please attach additional pages to the back of this packet, if the space above is not sufficient. Return this form to: mtrevino@miamigov.com (Last Revised May 15, 2020) City of Miami Anti -Poverty Initiative Program - Funding Request Form FUNDING REQUEST INFORMATION: Amount Requested: $150,000 Explain how the City of Miami Anti -Poverty funding will be utilized: MU! will open a Tourism Service Space and Market Service Space to employ 23 reside., consisting of9 youth (kfi-k%), 9 adults (19+) for dm Market Entepreneugal/Job Training and an additional particpaots for Vlsltorard Tourism Program (23 total). TCF3k has a thriving youth program and we will memitand enroll 9 (nine ages pu d authorized by summer wode/labor laws in Florida, as well as the parent program will we will enlist the additional9 adult par*cipams for total of 1 S. This funding will support creating and facilitating, a) Visitor and Tourism Services, b) Market Services, c) Straw Market/Entrepreneurship Spaces. Finally, 5 additional participants will be hired to oversee the Visitor and Tourism Center. These participants will be provided; a) food service job training orb) cotrepreneurial classes a and learn how to manage and navigate how to ran a summer space selling approved material and items under this funding. The additional 5 (five) will provide Visitor and Tourism Center Program (23 tots)). Itemize API funding related to expenditures below: Personnel Salaries & Wages: $96,720 Personnel Benefits $0 Space Rental: $36,000 Utilities (Electricity, Phone, Internet): $0 Supplies: $9,000 Marketing: $2,500 Transportation (Participants): $750 Meals (Participants): $750 Professional Services (List each): Other (please describe): 4,280 (2.85%) Indirect Other (please describe): Other (please describe): Return this form to: mtrevino@miamigov.com (Last Revised May 15, 2020) City of Miami Anti -Poverty Initiative Program Funding Request Form To be completed by the Entity/Recipient By signing below you agree to the guidelines and stipulate that the information provided on this form is accurate and complete. Completed by (Print & Sign): 7°SephKing Date: 11/17/22 SOSEPH KING [SIGNED VIA ADOBE DOCIISIGN 11.17.22] Additional Comments: 23 PARTICIPANTS WITH A FUNDING BASE OF $150,000 = $6,521.74 PER PARTICIPANT To be completed by District Commissioner/Mayor's Office Recommended for funding: YesO No® Funding Recommendation: Commission Meeting Date: Additional Comments: Completed by (Print & Sign): Date: /6/1 — l To be completed by the Department /1/- V / ! h1 Received by (Print & Sign): 11/18/22 Date: Additional Comments: This item has been reviewed and is approved to process. Page5of5 Return this form to: mtrevino@miamigov.com (Last Revised May 15, 2020) Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, Inc. City of Miami, District 2 API Request TGHI Pathway to Jobs through Hospitality and Culture Helping Residents Improve Income Opportunities Through Employability Skills Training, Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in Little Bahamas of Coconut Grove Helping low-income residents of West Coconut Grove become healthy, productive & sell -sufficient Ives �i a�k'I� Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, Inc. Agency Name: Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, Inc. Mailing Address: 3640 Grand Avenue City, State, Zip: Miami, FI, 33133 Telephone Number: (305) 446-1543 Email Address: jking@tghimiami.org Name/Title: Joseph King, Vice President of Operations Website Address: www.tghimiami.org Employer Identification Number (EIN): 45-2835389 Funding Request: $150,000 AGENCY MISSION Reducing barriers for low-income residents, ensuring proactive behaviors, better health and ultimately improving quality of life and the ability to live, work, socialize, and prosper Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, Inc. TGHI Pathway to Jobs through Hospitality and Culture ABOUT TGHI Our program is designed for our clients to reduce stress, improve health, mental health and enhance foundational skills and tools necessary to resolve crises and avoid future hardships through improved family functioning, improved employability, and housing. At no cost to our clients, we have developed a comprehensive model which focuses on strengthening the family and community. Our organization has developed a comprehensive service model which focuses on stabilization and health, job and hosing support services in order to ensure economic improvement. TGHI PASSPORT TO HEALTH TGHI teaches participants how to develop and maintain good health. This component focuses on nutrition, budgeting and addressing food insecurities and we assist and teach clients ways to avoid illness and injury, how to access affordable health care, dental care and health insurance. TGHI PASSPORT TO EMPLOYABILITY AND JOBS TGHI's Job Training program at our Canteen Training Restaurant, 3646 Grand Ave, teaches both "employability" skills and specific job skills geared toward the food service industry, followed by potential job placement locally in Coconut Grove and Miami -Dade County. Soft training in financial literacy, computer skills, and reading and math is coordinated with our partners and graduates. TGHI PASSPORT TO LIVING SOLUTIONS TGHI's West Coconut Grove residents are finding fewer affordable housing options as land values rise. More affordable housing is needed in good condition and located near jobs and transportation. Many low-income households are 'rent -burdened', paying more than 50% of their income for rent. Our agency has acquired and partnered to project nearly one acre of development opportunity for future client housing. ABOUT OUR NAMESAKE Thelma Vernell Anderson Gibson was born in Coconut Grove, Florida. As a Miami native, Mrs. Gibson had a prolific career in nursing for over 33 years and is a sponsor of the Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, Inc. Mrs. Gibson graduated from George Washington Carver High School in 1944. She continued on to Saint Agnes School of Nursing in Raleigh, North Carolina, through August of 1947. Shortly after, Mrs. Gibson became a registered nurse specializing in operating techniques and took courses at the University of Miami and FAMU. Later, Mrs. Gibson attended Catholic University in Washington, DC and later graduated from Teachers College at Columbia University in New York with a Bachelors Degree in Nursing. For more than fifty years, she has been a trailblazer in education, mental and physical health, community and professional leadership, volunteerism and community service throughout Miami Dade County. In 1984, founded Miami -Dade County's first Women's Chamber of Commerce of Dade County and in 1997, she was appointed as Interim City Commissioner for the City of Miami. Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, Inc. TGHI Pathway to Jobs through Hospitality and Culture PROJECT MISSION To expand on Miami's rich African American and Bahamian history and culture presented to the public by expanding the footprint of historical, contemporary and urban -focused education, culture. And tourism. By highlighting the Bahamian, African and Caribbean American diasporas who helped establish Miami's oldest community, we can better understand how these pioneers helped build one of south Florida's most attractive, dynamic and independent -minded communities. It is critical that we shine a light on what can only be viewed as a struggling community with massive potential based on our history by leveraging 'live to work' job opportunities with our residents, partners and with an overriding goal of attracting visitors, tourism and expanding on the urban development and equity opportunities we have in the naming of Little Bahamas of Coconut Grove. This funding will serve as the anchor for the newly developing historic preservation of this Bahamian settler community. ABOUT THIS PROJECT Thelma Gibson Health Initiative (TGHI) is a nonprofit community revitalization and capacity building organization whose mission is to work with impoverished residents and various business entities to plan for a better community and neighborhood, coordinate and execute revitalization projects and increase business and employment opportunities in City of Miami, District 2. TGHI focuses its services on a section of Miami, in Cocoanut (Coconut) Grove, there is a small sliver which at one point was referred to as "Colored Town" and was largely built by Bahamian, Caribbean and African American settlers, all who came to Florida to better their lives. The tenets of focus are: 1. Economic Development Focusing on Income, Employability Skills and Job Training — By working with partners such as Miami Dade College, Taste of Coco Bahamas and numerous local restaurant partners in Center Grove, TGHI will be working with these entities to create local jobs utilizing training, certification and placement opportunities. TGHI will also be opening a 3,000 sq. ft. training space to potentially feature local food, music, art, shopping, and tourism opportunities. 2. Community and Business Development Focusing on Art, Culture and Tourism — By working with partners such as Coconut Grove Art Festival, Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, Miami -Dade Chamber of Commerce, TGHI will be utilizing the 3,000 sq. ft. space to be Little Bahamas of Coconut Grove visitor, tourism and information hub. This food, art and culture hub will create jobs and compliment the recent community enhancement goals. Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, Inc. 4-gHi TGHI Pathway to Jobs through Hospitality and Culture BASIC OVERVIEW TGHI will recruit and enlist 23 or more City of Miami, District 2 residents of all ages living in the range of the Federal Guidelines for Poverty. Annual targeted outreach of minority residents averaging (from all populations); African American (estimated 65%), Hispanic (estimated 30%) and Caucasian/Other (estimated 5%). Area/zip code focus - Coconut Grove (33133). SERVICE AND FUNDING OUTLINE PHASE 1: TGHI will redesign the service delivery space(es) located next door to TGHI offices at 3640 Grand Avenue. The spaces will be updated to facilitate a) Visitor and Tourism Services, b) Market Services, c) Straw Market/Entrepreneurship Spaces. Estimated Timeline: 120 days Space Updates - $20,000 Contracting Services/Permitting - $10,000 Operating Material/Space Design and Set -Up for Vendors/Visitor - $15,000 PHASE 2: TGHI has a thriving parent and youth program and we will recruit and enroll 9 (nine) teens, ages pursuant and authorized by summer work/labor laws in Florida. These youth will be provided a) food service job training or b) entrepreneurial classes and learn how to manage and navigate how to run a summer space selling approved material and items under this funding. Once certified, graduates will earn a stipend and the award will be utilized for summer market spaces to earn summer wages while school is out. Intake and assessment will be based on school attendance, teacher feedback, parent feedback and need. Options for placement are; a) Visitor and Tourism Services, b) Market Services, c) Straw Market/Entrepreneurship Spaces Estimated Timeline: 90 days Entrepreneurial Certification Classes (9 youth x $250 per youth) - $ 2,250 Staff Services (2 part time staff x 28 hours per week - $22.00) - $15,000 Graduation Costs/Required Material(s) for Placement (9 youth x $500) - $ 4,500 Participant Materials and Meals for Coursework - $ 500 PHASE 3: TGHI will work with community partners and entities to create and facilitate; a) Visitor and Tourism Services, b) Market Services, c) Straw Market/Entrepreneurship Spaces. Estimated Timeline: 120 days Community Marketing and Events to Promote Space: - $ 2,500 Staff Services (1 full time or 2 part time staff x 40 hours per week - $20.00) - $40,000 Operating Costs/Spaces - $18,000 PHASE 4: TGHI has a thriving community program and we will recruit and enroll 9 (nine) adults. These participants will be provided; a) food service job training or b) entrepreneurial classes and learn how to manage and navigate how to run a summer space selling approved material and items under this funding. Once certified, graduates will earn a stipend and the award will be utilized for summer market spaces to earn summer wages while school is out. Intake and assessment will be based on school attendance, teacher feedback, parent feedback and need. Options for placement are; a) Visitor and Tourism Services, b) Market Services, c) Straw Market/Entrepreneurship Spaces Estimated Timeline: 90 days Entrepreneurial Classes (9 adults x $250 per adult) - $ 2,250 Staff Services (2 part time staff x 28 hours per week - $22.00) - $15,000 Graduation Stipend/Incentive for Placement (9 adult x $500) - $ 4,500 Participant Materials and Meals for Coursework - $ 500 Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, Inc. TGHI Pathway to Jobs through Hospitality and Culture OUTCOMES AND FIDELITY - 23 OF *23 PARTICIPANTS COMPLETE TGHI SCREENING, ASSESSMENT AND INTAKE/APPLICATION *OF THESE 23 PARTICIPANTS, 9 ARE YOUTH, 9 ARE ADULTS AND 3 WILL BE HIRED TO WORK ALTERNATELY - 9 OF 9 YOUTH WILL BE ENROLLED IN TGHI ENTREPRENEURIAL PROGRAM AND COMPLETE TRAINING - 9 OF 9 ADULTS WILL BE ENROLLED IN TGHI ENTREPRENEURIAL PROGRAM AND COMPLETE TRAINING - 5 OF 5 ADULTS WILL BE TRAINED ALTERNATELY TO WORK IN THE VISITOR, TOURISM, MARKET AND SHOP AND WILL ALSO COMPLETE TGHI SCREENING AND TRAINING SERVICES - 23 OF **23 WILL COMPLETE THE PROGRAM AND ENHANCE INCOME OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS TRAINING, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND JOB CREATION FOR ENHANCED QUALITY OF LIFE **A pre/post and follow up will be conducted by our case management staff ONE YEAR PROGRAM BREAKDOWN 23 PARTICIPANTS WITH A FUNDING BASE OF $150,000 = $6,521.74 PER PARTICIPANT leglslatIvc Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, Inc.