Service Canada National Homeless Initiative - Building on Organizational Capacity to Address Homelessness Among Youth (2007)

With funding support from Service Canada, Horizons worked with the Red Door and the Emergency Teen Shelter, two youth-serving organizations in the Annapolis Valley, to build organizational capacity to address youth homelessness. The contract focused on addressing organizational sustainability. We supported both of these partner organizations developing business plans, which included: preparing the actual business plans themselves; developing and/or updating board and committee terms of reference; developing and/or updating policies and procedures manuals and volunteer manuals; contracting and supervising a consultant to prepare a feasibility study for a multi-service youth centre in the area; developing/updating communications plans; developing/updating board and staff job descriptions; and creating fund development plans. We also used our Measuring Community Capacity Resource Kit to help the Board of each organization assess its capacity along several dimensions, and determine where to best focus its efforts to strengthen the organizations.

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