Helping Nonprofit Organizations Realize Their Full Potential The Nonprofit Improvement Project is a unique program designed to help nonprofit organizations realize their full potential.
The Nonprofit Improvement Project works closely with nonprofit organizations to increase their capacity to effectively plan and manage operations and resources and maintain good business practices.
The Project works on two levels - with nonprofit staff to increase or enhance their management capabilities; and with the systems and processes organizations use to achieve their missions. By working at both levels Project staff members are able to assess needs and tailor solutions to the unique needs of those they serve. This dual approach is a highly effective way to achieve long-lasting success.
The Nonprofit Improvement Project is a multi-year effort to strengthen organizations in Arkansas. It is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service and other government and private sources.
Winrock Wins Phase VII Grant Senator Blanche Lincoln and Tammye Trevino, Administrator for Housing and Community Facilities Programs at USDA, Rural Development announced training funded for the Winrock International Nonprofit Improvement Program.
"This funding will help our rural communities embrace new economic development opportunities, create jobs and improve local economies," Lincoln said.
"Since 2004, this program has worked with more than 45 rural Arkansas communities or nonprofits that have brought home more than $20 million in federal, state and private funding," Annett Pagan, Director of US Programs at Winrock said.
This funding will extend the Nonprofit Improvement Program into Phase VII allowing Winrock to continue to offer technical assistance to communities and nonprofits across Arkansas.
Options, Inc. Wins Grant Options, Inc., a battered women's shelter in Monticello, Arkansas and a WINIP recipient since 2008, was recently awarded a $650,000 Rural Grant from the US Department of Justice.
Options will use this much-needed funding to open outreach offices in all of the counties located in the 10th Judicial District and will place advocates in each county to assist clients throughout court procedures.
"Sometimes it is very hard to get into an area to provide a service, especially a service to victims of domestic and sexual violence, it is important to have contacts," Brenda Noble, Executive Director of Options, Inc said. "Your agency has made that possible."
This grant award brings the total grant funds raised by WINIP recipients to $20.1 million.
