Evaluating the Impact

Measuring the efficacy-and success--- of community-based services, organizing and capacity building is essential to continually improving the base of community development as well as providing insights into future areas of exploration and need. Recognizing this, FIC works with leaders in the field of community service, organizing, health and education to accurately examine what community building approaches and models produce the most positive outcomes and opportunities for community change from the bottom up. This may take the form of simple focus groups or a customized needs assessment for an individual organization or be as broad as a cross-site evaluation that spans multiple counties in California . Regardless of technique a continuing goal of FIC is to identify and document successful community building strategies and report on RESULTS. Harnessing Technologies Technology has opened new opportunities for communities to share knowledge and information in all areas. FIC has made providing quality and most importantly — useful tools and services — using management information systems, creative software and hardware solutions and other cutting edge technology, a key priority. Toward that end, FIC plans to offer extensive resources such as websites, and list serves both at regional and national levels. In addition, FIC offers linkages to a range of computer classes and job training in information technology and computer systems.

Our Mission
To provide technical assistance and training to local organizations and their leaders in order to:

• Increase their overall capacity to transition from where they are to where they want to be;

• Increase their ability to identify reliable community need;

• Strengthen their ability to provide culturally relevant community-based services; and

• Facilitate faith and health collaboration to reduce health disparities among minorities.


Partners and Affiliates:
SSG Main Page
AAAOD
Re-Entry Maintenance Organization
Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches
Regional Organizations and Neighborhood Organizations
Community Assessment Service Center
Public Counsel
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

Management: Unifying Management, Education and Advocacy to Transform Communities.

We engage non-profit and faith-based organizations on three levels, Policy, Capacity Building and intermediary services for FBOs and CBOs, Education and Outreach.

Cultivating Systems Change
Over the past 50 years, the problems facing low and very low income families are deeply rooted in racism, social and health injustices and economic inequities. One of the primary roles of FIC is to ensure that institutional and other systems best serve the needs and interests of low and very low income persons.

Communicating Promising Practices
Disseminating easy to understand information, low-cost publications and promising practices from the field is an important part of our work. Each year, FIC in collaboration with Regional Congregations and Neighborhood
Organizations Training Center (RCNO) host an Annual National Leadership Training for faith-based organizations. RCNO has trained over 8,000 persons in California since 1995 and over 15,000 nationally. Together FIC and RCNO has trained over 300 persons in Los Angeles County.



FIC strives to keep pace with the latest academic research, evaluation and community organizing models and translates these findings into understandable information and tools practitioners and community leaders can use. The insights are distributed through workshops and intimate talks, community college education courses, specialized publications, skills-building seminars, conferences and online learning opportunities by which FIC helps strengthen the capabilities, capacity and competencies of nonprofits and their leaders.

Addressing Organizational Capacity and Leadership Development
The question we aim to answer is:Why don't we all have one million dollar annual budgets?

We use a comprehensive adult education and skill building interactive model.