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,

1. Your investment is matched by hundreds of thousands of dollars in staff time, cash matches and other resources contributed by the NOKP partners.
2. You support the only comprehensive planning, implementation and evaluation process of its kind for youth and family services in the Greater New Orleans Area.
3. You provide leadership around issues of citywide collaboration, access, quality and system development.
4. Your investment has the long-term effect of ensuring maximum positive impact of existing and future resources on the needs of all children, youth and families in Greater New Orleans.