Deadline: 21-Dec-22
The CDC Foundation seeks to co-create a scalable model of Power-Building Partnerships for Community Violence Prevention, alongside community-based organizations and local health departments.
Through the development of this scalable model, there will be a shared understanding of health equity and community power-building strategies as well as how best to center the voices and experiences of the communities that are most impacted by community violence. This Request for Proposals (RFP) is for a partner to conduct a landscape assessment, lead 4 community convenings, and develop a scalable model for Power-Building Partnerships for Community Violence Prevention and seeks applications from organizations with expertise in conducting landscape assessments or environmental scans, facilitating listening sessions and convenings for community organizations and health departments, and has interest and capacity to develop a scalable Power-Building Partnerships for Community Violence Prevention Model based on findings from the landscape assessment and community convenings.
The partners identified for the Power-Building Partnerships for Community Violence Prevention project will serve three distinct roles:
- Power-Building Partnerships Model Partner: The CDC Foundation will award a single organization to provide training and guidance to partners on the Power-Building Partnerships for Health Model.
- Landscape Assessment, Community Convenings, and Scalable Model Partner: The CDC Foundation will award a single organization to conduct a landscape assessment, facilitate four convenings, and develop a scalable model for Power-Building Partnerships for community violence prevention organizations.
- Meeting Facilities Partner: The CDC Foundation will award a single award to one partner to coordinate the meeting facilities, audio/visual, parking, food and beverage supplies for at least four convenings.
Funding Information
CDC Foundation intends to make one (1) award of $200,000 for the Landscape Assessment, Community Convenings, and Scalable Model Partner to complete activities listed above. The final award amount is contingent on submission of a detailed and reasonable budget to be approved by the CDC Foundation.
Activities & Deliverables
- Attend kick-off meeting to discuss project scope, coordination of logistics, and communications with CDC and CDC Foundation staff. Discuss the initial proposal details, staffing, partnerships, and reach.
- Communications and project management plan developed.
- Programmatic and financial monitoring.
- Progress reports on program and partnership activities, implementation status of project in a format as requested by the CDC Foundation.
- Financial report and invoices in a format requested by CDC Foundation.
- Conduct a landscape assessment of current community violence prevention organizations, community violence prevention strategies, their partnership with local public health, and existing successful models that integrate community voice into violence prevention.
- With the project partners, CDC, and CDC Foundation, identify four geographic locations to focus the landscape assessment on and to host the convenings. Locations should include communities that are impacted by community violence.
- Conduct a landscape assessment/environmental scan of community violence prevention organizations, community violence prevention strategies, their partnership with local public health, and existing successful models that integrate community voice into violence prevention in each of the four selected communities.
- Provide an executive summary and presentation slides of the results of the landscape assessment to the project partners.
- Facilitate four regional convenings to provide an opportunity to listen and learn from community violence prevention organizations, community-based organizations, community partners, voices of those who are most impacted by community violence, and local health departments about readiness, capacity, and fit for applying a power-building partnerships model to community violence prevention.
- Attendee recruitment and engagement plan for each location.
- Meeting facilitation plan/approach, facilitators agendas, participant agendas and participant lists for each of the four convenings.
- Notetaking plan for each of the convenings and transcripts.
- Executive summary and presentation slides outlining community input findings that includes major themes, differences, barriers, opportunities, alignment, capacity, and readiness for applying Power-Building Partnerships to Community Violence Prevention strategies and Programs.
- Develop a scalable PowerBuilding Partnerships Model for Community Violence Prevention based on the landscape assessment and community input findings.
- Scalable model.
- Suite of communications materials that includes a social media and partner toolkit to share about the model (including PowerPoint presentation slides and customizable templates).
- Final programmatic and financial closeout.
- Final programmatic progress in a format as requested by the CDC Foundation.
- Final financial report and invoice in a format requested by the CDC Foundation.
Outcomes
The following results or changes are expected to be realized related to this program’s intervention:
- Improved capacity to establish and maintain partnerships within and across sectors to create a shared vision of health.
- Increased knowledge of how community-based organizations successfully build/share power and link to local public health.
- Use data to inform public health action.
- Increase support to community-based organizations to leverage their power and experience to advance community violence prevention from a public health perspective,
- Deeper trust and understanding between community violence prevention organizations and local public health departments.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must meet all the following eligibility criteria:
- Currently prioritize working within the areas reflected in this request and within the areas proposed for project activities,
- Be recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code,
- Be in good financial standing and have sustainable operations,
- Be an equal opportunity employer with all-inclusive membership that does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, country of national origin or nationality, age, religion, intellectual or physical disabilities and military or veteran status in its activities or operations, and
- Availability to provide services from January 2023 to July 2023.
For more information, visit CDC Foundation.