|
Please click here for LAPA's
Client Reference list.
QSAC-- Quality Services for the Autism Community
Quality Services for the Autism Community (QSAC) is an award-winning nonprofit organization founded in 1978 by a group of parents confronting inappropriate and limited service options for their children with autism. For over three decades, QSAC has been guided by the principle that every child and adult with autism deserves the highest quality of treatment and care that enables them to live meaningful and fulfilled lives in our society. Today nearly 1,000 QSAC employees join together at 21 facilities in Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, and Nassau County to provide educational, residential, therapeutic and family support services to over 2,700 people each year, including 1,100 individuals who receive direct services. LAPA is identifying and responding to Government RFP's, managing the application process for private grants and exploring the advancement of individual giving. For more information, please see www.qsac.com
The Shore Line Trolley Museum of East Haven
Founded in 1945 at the twilight of the trolley era, the Shore Line Trolley Museum serves to preserve that era through a collection of 100 vintage vehicles from around the country and Canada, including the New Orleans “Streetcar Named Desire” immortalized by Tennessee Williams. Visitors can not only see and touch the cars, they can also take rides in them. The Shore Line Trolley Museum operates the oldest continuously operating suburban trolley line in the U.S., a National Historic Site. In addition, the museum has preserved 30,000 photographic images of trolleys, 4,000 books and documents, and 1,000 artifacts such as tokens, and trolley-man hats, badges, and ticket punches. LAPA is conducting a $2 million capital campaign for the museum and is working with the Museum’s Campaign Steering committee members, Wayne Sandford, Jeff Hakner, Dana Bowers and Bobby Ryan. For more information on Shore Line Trolley, please see www.shorelinetrolley.org
Newark Emergency Services For Families
Newark Emergency Services For Families, under the leadership of Executive Director Damyn Kelly, provides emergency food, clothing, shelter, utilities, rent, and other basic necessities to Newark families facing a crisis. NESF clients include homeless men and women, the working poor, seniors, individuals with HIV/AIDS, as well as people affected by fire, eviction, or domestic violence. The organization has a proud 30-year track record of providing these important services, with compassion, dignity, and respect, to those who need them. We are working with NESF on government grants and major gift research. For more information on NESFNJ see www.nesfnj.org
CAMBA
CAMBA is a non-profit agency that provides services that connect people with opportunities to enhance their quality of life. CAMBA is based in Brooklyn and serves over 30,000 individuals each year. CAMBA is a Brooklyn-based non profit organization with programs throughout the diverse neighborhoods of Brooklyn. CAMBA was founded as a merchants association in 1977, but in direct response to the emerging needs of the Brooklyn community, has steadily expanded its services. CAMBA has grown into a full-service, community-based organization providing a continuum of employment, education, health-related, housing, legal, social, business development and youth services to approximately 30,000 individuals each year. LAPA provides six government grant writers (on average) per year to complete about a dozen complex government grants. CAMBA's scope of services allows them to accomplish their dual mission of: (1) enabling low income individuals and families to become economically and socially self sufficient; and (2) stabilizing and expanding the economy of Brooklyn by working with local merchants and entrepreneurs and encouraging economic development. See www.camba.org
| "My experience
working with LAPA has been great. Since 2001, Harlem
United has outsourced its private grants to LAPA and
has seen excellent performance. Our funding from foundations
and corporate givers increased markedly. LAPA has generated
over four times more money than the cost of their contract.
Outsourcing has made perfect sense for us. With LAPA
I get a higher level of performance at a lower cost
than with an in-house development team. Their consultants
really understand our programs, and this allows grant
proposal development to unfold smoothly." |
| — Patrick
McGovern, Executive Director, Harlem United |
|
Harlem United: Community AIDS Center With a mission of providing 100% access to care and creating zero disparity in health outcomes caused by racial and economic barriers, Harlem United is immersed in the challenges of reducing harms from HIV/AIDS in Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx. Harlem United has created and implemented compassionate, concrete, and culturally sensitive HIV/AIDS services in response to the needs of the agency's clients - persons living with HIV/AIDS whose diagnosis often is complicated by homelessness, mental illness, and substance use. Harlem United is a long-time client of LAPA; we provide grant writing as well as technical assistance for the organization. For more information, please see www.harlemunited.org
Miracle House
Founded in 1990, Miracle House serves both individuals and their caregivers who are visiting New York City to receive crucial medical attention for diseases such as AIDS, cancer, and other conditions that only doctors in New York City can best treat. Miracle House offers subsidized short and long-term housing with rates determined on a sliding need-based scale, as well as supportive programming designed to alleviate the particular psychological burdens experienced by patients and caregivers. Miracle House enables doctors and hospitals to reach patients who most need their specialized care, and also serves Manhattan itself by offering a truly “only in New York” service that demonstrates the city’s unique capability for hospitality and bolsters its reputation across the world. The real miracle performed by Miracle House is to put a caring, human face on a place regarded by some as a callous, unwelcoming environment. LAPA is designing and implementing a non-traditional fundraising plan for Miracle House. For more information, please see www.miraclehouse.org.
| "Contracting with
LAPA allowed our small Church to generate the revenue
we needed for our outreach programs. That was eight
years ago, and the relationship is still going strong.
LAPA's guidance and assistance allowed us to expand
our outreach in ways we never would have imagined. In
order to make our grants stronger, we asked LAPA to
conduct a community needs assessment to see if our programming
was still viable. They conducted client focus groups,
talked to community leaders, and conducted a half-day
board retreat outlining the findings. The result was
a plan of action that has lasted for many years. Their
sensitivity to the language of faith and social ministry
has been an added benefit." |
| — The Rev.
Donna Dambrot, The Church of St. Luke in The Fields |
|
Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan
Trinity Lutheran Church is a direct service provider in Manhattan Valley, a pocket of poverty in the shadow of New York City’s prosperous Upper West Side. Trinity was one of the first churches in New York to address the AIDS crisis, working with physicians and community activists to provide care when the epidemic was recognized in the early 1980s. Trinity was also the first church to respond when, in the winter of 2005-06, the Empire State Pride Coalition called upon houses of worship to provide temporary shelters for homeless LGBTQ youth. The “pilot” shelter became permanent six months later and now hosts 10 youth per night. The congregation considers no one a stranger and sponsors programs to serve those who are becoming increasingly marginalized, specifically those who are poor, lower income, undocumented, and/or homeless. In addition to an emergency youth shelter, Trinity also operates a support and leadership group for struggling Hispanic women, and afterschool and summer programs for disadvantaged children. LAPA manages Trinity’s grants program. For more information, please see www.trinitylutheranNYC.org.
Greater Life
Greater Life is a non-sectarian nonprofit that has been serving the youth of Newark’s troubled South Ward since 1986. Greater Life provides crucial social services to over 1,500 youth from ages 7 to 19 each year, impoverished children from unstable families who are at risk of being influenced by gangs and the drug culture. The agency’s expert staff of professionals and volunteers knows Newark well because they live there, and they have perfected a variety of programs designed to promote improved grades and behavior, physical health, social skills, family and community involvement, and entrepreneurial and leadership skills. At this moment in the organization’s history, Greater Life has committed to extensively widening the scope of its services by preparing to purchase a new facility. LAPA has been brought on board to perform campaign and grants management services. For more information, please see www.greaterlifenewark.org.
|
