FREE Capacity Building Services

Executive Service Corps of Chicago
25 East Washington St. Suite 1500
Chicago, Illinois 60602
312.580.1840
info@esc-chicago.org

October, 2007
We wanted to let you know of a continuing opportunity through which your agency could benefit from high quality technical assistance and organizational development consulting services at no cost.

Local organizations providing HIV-related programs directed toward minority communities are eligible to apply for services that will help enhance programs, build stronger infrastructure, and build for the future. All of this work will be funded by a special grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health awarded to Howard Brown Health Center and Executive Service Corps of Chicago (ESC).

The purpose of this grant is to provide FREE technical assistance and capacity development (TA/CD) services to allow organizations like yours to build their capacity to provide effective HIV/AIDS services. Each participating agency’s individual project will be specifically tailored to their needs

Howard Brown staff will assist participating agencies to improve their HIV programming in areas such as program design, evaluations, messaging, staff training, and skill-building.
ESC’s teams of highly-trained and experienced consultants will work with participants to improve and sustain their management and organizational effectiveness. ESC’s services to nonprofits range from board and staff leadership development, human resource policy reviews and strategic planning to financial management, fund development, succession planning, marketing/publicity plans, and more.

If your organization feels it could benefit by receiving some of these services, please fill out the self-assessment/
application form and submit it as directed on the form. While these services are being completely underwritten by a federal grant, all details about the relationship between agencies and Howard Brown/ESC and the work undertaken will remain confidential.

Applications are now being accepted for the current grant year (now through summer 2008). Applicants that appear likely to benefit will be notified and scheduled for a no-obligation on-site assessment to discuss how the TA/CD project might best address the issues or challenges your agency faces. Participating agencies will be selected based on their ability to benefit from the funded services and the potential for expanding their impact on
the minority populations they serve.

If you have any questions, please contact:

· Beau Gratzer at Howard Brown at beaug@howardbrown.org or 773/388-8864, or

· Nancy Fuhrman at ESC at nancy.Fuhrman@esc-chicago.org or 312/580-1840 X324.

Detailed information about the Howard Brown Health Center is at www.howardbrown.org and about the Executive Service Corps is at www.esc-chicago.org.

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