Civic Centre Competitors

Urban Alliance is a nonprofit that connects young adults with paid work experiences, professional development, dedicated mentoring, and networking opportunities to help them achieve economic mobility. We are building a diverse next-generation workforce. Since 1996, Urban Alliance has reached over 30, 000 young adults, ages 16-24. Of that number 6000 young people have been served through our flagship High School Internship Program across the greater Washington, DC area (including Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, and Northern Virginia), Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit.

Missouri Community Action Network (Missouri CAN) is the statewide association for Missouri's 19 Community Action Agencies, Allies and Supporters united to end poverty. Community Action helps people and changes lives in all 114 Missouri counties and the City of St. Louis. Community Action serves more than 250,000 low-income Missourians annually in each county through local, community-based solutions. As the statewide association, Missouri CAN strengthens the Community Action Network through education, training and advocacy for low-income families they serve. Missouri CAN is a nonpartisan, nongovernmental, nonprofit organization.

Community Capacity Building Initiative (CCBI) programming focuses on providing communities with knowledge, skills and resources to enable them to develop, and to improve their standard of living by having better health, increased income, enhanced social status, and a cleaner environment through sustainable programs. CCBI provides training to CBOs, women groups, FBOs, youth groups, cooperatives and societies for the purpose of strengthening their capacity to effectively participate in health programmes. CCBI builds community capacity in the following areas: Mobilization and advocacy on HIV/AIDS and malaria programmes and interventions, family planning, support to vulnerable groups, adolescent reproductive health and nutrition and food security Empowerment of care givers of orphans and vulnerable children with knowledge and skills to provide effective and efficient care to children under their care Conducting baseline studies, monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment of community programmes in health, agriculture and the environment, including cash transfer programmes, water, sanitation and hygiene, and food security Interpretation, dissemination and utilization of research results for strengthening community programmes in health, agriculture, and science and environment Establishment, strengthening and implementation of referral system among Community Health Extension Workers and Community Health Workers Provision of communities with knowledge and skills in water and sanitation and prevention of water-borne infections at community level Conducting Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Participatory Learning and Action (PLA); project design; Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP) of communities; Community Needs Assessments; and strategic planning for community programmes, and participatory methodologies on effective natural resources management Evaluation of cultural issues and values in health, nutrition and the environment, and their impact on projects Designing and preparation of project proposals ...