A permanent resource to support the core costs of NOKP’s “Collective Impact” work, including staff, operations and working group projects.
Leader
Beth Reniff
Location
2640 Canal Street New Orleans, LA 70119
New Orleans Kids Partnership (NOKP) is a voluntary membership organization that brings together 40+ multi-sector youth service and program providers “to expand access to high quality services for children, youth and families in Greater New Orleans through collaboration and collective impact.” “Collective Impact” work is an innovative approach that goes beyond scaling up or replicating the work of a single organization or program to commit multi-sector organizations to a holistic agenda for solving New Orleans’ complex problems of social disconnection, poor health, low literacy and poverty.
The success of Collective Impact requires a central organization, known as a “Backbone Support Organization,” to provide a platform to facilitate dialogue, manage technology and communications, collect and report data, and handle logistical and administrative details. NOKP is the “Backbone Support Organization” that provides the specific skills, resources and infrastructure needed for the partner organizations and community to achieve their common goal – enhanced outcomes for youth.
When you support NOKP,
The goal of the Backbone Fund is to develop and diversify our funding streams so we can continue with the work of the organization. Our four Working Groups will continue expanding and implementing current projects and the GRoW network will transition to other neighborhoods, with NOKP as the Backbone organization coordinating their work.