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Meet Our Member: Mission Federal Credit Union

Mission Federal Credit Union (Mission Fed) is honored to serve as the largest member-owned, not-for-profit, full-service financial institution exclusively serving San Diego County.

Success is measured by results. We measure our success based on a double bottom line of both financial performance and social purpose.

Mission Fed is committed to enhancing the lives of all of our stakeholders including our 270,000 member owners, 600 employees, and our larger extended community throughout the county, by focusing intently on financial education and financial inclusion to provide the essential resources and skills to help every San Diegan experience financial wellbeing.

In 2020 we were humbled to be recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in San Diego, but what we’re most proud of is the fact that just simply by banking with Mission Fed you are automagically doing good for San Diego. In the last year alone, our employees, members, and community stepped up and raised over $680K for local nonprofit organizations, including the San Diego Food Bank, the San Diego Rescue Mission and the Salvation Army among many others to support our most disaffected brothers and sisters in San Diego in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mission Fed’s focus is hyperlocal and intentionally supports our local communities throughout San Diego County by investing our time, treasure and talent to help hundreds of nonprofits and critical causes in our region. We purposefully build deep relationships with our valued community partners to maximize impact and change lives for the better. You can see some of our collaboration at www.missionfed.com/community-relations.

Our Mission Fed ecosystem is keenly focused on three key areas:

  • Health and Well Being:Food Scarcity and Feeding People, Health Related Causes, Homelessness, and Pet & Animal Needs
  • Serving the Underserved:Including our large local Hispanic Community, but extending deeply into Diverse Communities throughout the county
  • Values-Based Community Organizations:Local Emerging Nonprofits, and Values-Aligned and Capacity-Building companies/organizations that are making a difference locally

Financial Literacy and Financial Inclusion are a through line in all that we do. We also remain attentive to preserving and protecting our cherished San Diego environment and activate volunteer opportunities to support this important cause.

If you’re looking for a like-spirited partner, or have an upcoming event that aligns with our vision and values, don’t hesitate to contact any member of the small-but-mighty Mission Fed team including:

To learn more our organization, please visit www.MissionFed.com. We are federally insured by NCUA and are an Equal Housing Lender.

Meet Our Member: Boys & Girls Club of Vista

The Boys & Girls Club of Vista (BGCV) empowers every Club member, through safe and impactful experiences to:

  • Graduate high school with a plan for college or a career
  • Contribute to their community
  • Live a healthy life

BGCV was founded in 1963 to serve youth that needed a safe place to go outside of school hours. With a focus on three priority outcomes: Academic Success, Healthy Lifestyles, and Character/Leadership Development, BGCV is providing youth with the opportunity to build the skills needed to succeed in today’s globally competitive workforce.  Club programs at five sites help kids ages 5-18 build healthy habits and provide opportunities for them to become resilient leaders through mentorship, accountability and modeling good behavior. In 2018, we embarked on a new five-year strategic plan that includes goals to double the impact of the programs we offer the community.

BGCV understands that sustainability is an important part of meeting our community’s needs. We plan for sustainability from the beginning of every project by securing community support, partnering with other organizations and businesses in the area and developing a plan to solicit ongoing financial support. We sustain all of our programs with philanthropic support from our community, including an annual gala and poker tournament, grants, individual giving as well as a separate 501c3 Foundation built by planned gifts.

Learn more about how you can get involved with our programs and make an impact at bgcvista.org.

Premier Members Making a Difference: Neighborhood Healthcare

What do you offer to the community?

Neighborhood Healthcare offers quality healthcare for every member of our community. Community health is about more than just vaccines and checkups. It’s about giving people the resources they need to live their best lives. The services we provide include General Medicine (for all ages), Dental, Behavioral Health, Prenatal & Women’s Health, and Specialty Care (Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Podiatry, and Diabetic Retinal Screening.) These services are of the highest quality paired with Compassion and Whole-Person Care which includes unique programs and resources that help patients stay healthy.

 

What is your Mission?

The Mission of Neighborhood Healthcare is to improve the health and happiness of the communities we serve by providing quality care to all, regardless of situation or circumstance.

 

What do you benefit most from being a member of NCPC?

Being a member of NCPC has benefitted Neighborhood with relevant educational resources, as well as access to like-minded professionals with a wealth of knowledge and understanding of the fundraising, specific to the North County area.

 

What was your organization/company’s biggest accomplishment in the past six months – one year?

Our biggest accomplishment this year has been our response to COVID-19. Not only have we given over 52,051 COVID-19 vaccination doses to patients and community members, Neighborhood also launched a fleet of three Mobile Health Units fully equipped with lab equipment and a Mobile Medical Assistant. These three mobile units travel to the homes of our highest-risk patients to draw labs, take vitals, and virtually connect the patient to their provider via an iPad. Our Operations and Clinical teams constantly evaluate the best care models for our patients, relying on innovation and rapid process improvement to ensure patients have continued access to quality care.

 

What event/program or campaign do you have coming up that you would like to share with our readers? 

Neighborhood’s Annual Fundraising Gala takes place at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Saturday, September 18! Funds raised this year will support the expansion of our Mobile Health Services, to include a NEW Unit to provide Mobile Behavioral Health services (Therapy, Psychiatry, Medication Management, etc.) at local high schools (for both staff and students), as well as with partnering community organizations who serve clients in need of Behavioral Health support.

 

We are in search of silent auction donations and bottles of wine and/or spirits. These items will be used during the fundraising gala to raise critical funds for the Mobile Health program and all donations will be recognized during the event and with a donation receipt.

 

What changes/opportunities have occurred due to COVID-19?

Neighborhood changed the way it has provided services to patients by launching the aforementioned Mobile Health program. In addition, we moved more than 90% of all patient visits to virtual telehealth visits (either via phone or video) within the first two weeks of COVID. Historically, Community Health Centers could only receive payment for providing services if the patient had a face to face visit with a provider within one of our health centers. COVID-19 and our continued advocacy at the State and Federal levels have drastically changed this model to allow for telehealth services to remain reimbursable, therefore expanding access to patients who may otherwise have barriers to care.

 

Have you made a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion within your organization/company and if so, how are you demonstrating it?

At Neighborhood we see diversity as more than policies, programs, procedures, or headcounts. We continue to focus on community health care that serves anyone in need of quality health care.

 

Our current employee demographics are representative of the populations that we serve, as is our Board of Directors, of which 51% must be patients of Neighborhood that represent the populations we serve. Neighborhood has implemented organizational culture questions when interviewing to support our equity-based values as an employer, ensuring our candidates reflect our internal culture of a community-based, diversity and inclusion-centered workplace. We have also introduced Panel Interviewing (Rather than a single interviewer) to ensure a cross section of managers to foster equity-based hiring. Neighborhood also provides Inclusion training during onboarding, and additional self-paced elective courses for diversity, inclusion, and culture trainings

 

We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture, making us better as a team and better as an organization. Diversity is having a seat at the table. Inclusion is having a voice. And belonging is having that voice be heard.

Premier Members Making a Difference: ProActive Leadership Group

What is your Mission?
As an executive coach and nonprofit specialist the mission of ProActive Leadership Group is to support individual leaders and nonprofit leadership teams to find a better way to grow personally and professionally and to support them to solve their greatest challenges. ProActive coaches clients to develop effective business strategies, scale their organizations and perform at a high level of success.
What do you offer to the community?
ProActive has worked for 30+ years in the nonprofit sector, 25 as a CEO. And through the years, they have developed methodologies and best practices that allowed the organization to function with efficiencies not only within the leadership team and staff, but with outreach and fundraising initiatives as well. But as you know, it’s really a labor of love that keeps the drive going. ProActive decided to transition into the role of executive coach and nonprofit strategist supporting nonprofit organizations.
Specific Areas of Expertise are:
  • 7 Attributes of Agile Growth
  • Strategic Planning – One Page Strategic Plan
  • Fundraising Plans
  • Nonprofit Business Practices & Strategy
  • Governance
  • Effective Growth
  • Organizational Alignment
  • Leadership Development
What do you benefit most from being a member of NCPC?
As a member of NCPC, ProActive values the opportunity to meet and network with nonprofit leaders, board members, volunteers and corporate and community supporters. It is such a dynamic group of professionals. ProActive is energized when learning about the wide array of nonprofits serving the community.
What event/program or campaign do you have coming up that you would like to share with our readers?
ProActive has a Webinar on The Highly Effective One Page Strategic Plan on Tuesday, September 21 at 10:00 am. ProActive searched for an effective strategic planning process that can be used on a regular basis in the organization and found it and will share this highly effective approach with registrants at the Webinar.
For more information contact Nancy Batterman at Nancy@ResultsImproved.com.

Meet Our Member: Scatena Daniels

Scatena Daniels was founded in 2009 by Denise Scatena and Arika Daniels, who desired to bring their knowledge of marketing and communications to companies and organizations that actively support their community and strive for real world change.

Scatena Daniels is honored to work with some of the biggest brands in philanthropy and corporate citizenship, such as Cox Communications, United Way of San Diego County, Mama’s Kitchen, UC San Diego Extension, Planned Parenthood, and many, many more. Most recently, Scatena Daniels had the honor of working on the U.S. Census with the Count Me 2020 Coalition helping to reach groups identified as the hardest to count in San Diego and Imperial Counties.

The Scatena Daniels’ team of senior level practitioners believe authenticity always wins and everyone deserves to be heard. And it is through this steadfast lens we help our clients amplify their voice, increase leads for future funding and collaborations, and most importantly, inspire action.

For more than a decade, established brands and innovators in philanthropy rely on Scatena Daniels to reach local and national audiences. For more information, visit www.scatenadaniels.com.

Meet Our Member: A Step Beyond

A Step Beyond is a Creative Youth Development organization serving youth and their families living at or below the poverty line with free after-school dance classes, academic support, and social services.

We make a ten-year commitment to support students and their families from 3rd grade to high school graduation and beyond in order to create deep, meaningful relationships that will ensure the artistic, academic, and social-emotional development of our participants.  Our holistic program ensures that our students have the resources and support they need to find success in all the areas in which they live, learn and grow.  A Step Beyond’s program goes beyond the child’s dance experience by strengthening their academic performance and providing family support services and resources.  In this way, we go beyond the child to serve families, neighborhoods, and the greater community.

Visit a-step-beyond.org to learn more.

Meet Our Member: The Innocent Justice Foundation

The Innocent Justice Foundation (TIJF) was founded in 2007 by a small passionate group of volunteers who wanted to make a difference by supporting the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Teams across the country.

In 2009, TIJF partnered with the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Commanders, and leading mental health experts in the child sexual abuse field to develop and provide one of the first comprehensive and foundational training programs in the United States for officer wellness, to address and mitigate vicarious trauma. We have continually served the 61 Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Teams across the nation with SHIFT – Supporting Heroes in Mental Health Foundational Training since it was created 12 years ago.

In 2019, taking what we have learned from SHIFT, we developed HART – Helping Advocates Rebound from Trauma, to provide mental health and wellness training and support for any professional exposed to traumatic events and materials, or victim stories. People who work in first-responder professions and victim services are encouraged to learn what vicarious trauma is and how to mitigate its effect in their lives.

Psycho-educational programs are crucial to helping exposed individuals learn how to recognize and cope with problems before they become severe or permanent. We help to keep highly trained people in their jobs. TIJF’s programs are here to help, because losing any professional to burn-out, severe depression, substance abuse or suicide is unnecessary, tragic, and preventable. To learn more about what we do please visit www.innocentjustice.org

Meet Our Member: The Foundation for Developmental Disabilities

The Foundation for Developmental Disabilities  is the only organization in San Diego and Imperial Counties whose sole focus is to provide funding for innovative and start up programs to enhance the lives of people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Since 1986, the Foundation has provided over $7,000,000 to fund programs for organizations including Options for All, Autism Society SD, Partnership with Industry, Home of Guiding Hands, Noah Homes and Special Olympics as well as over $2,000,000 to directly assist clients of the San Diego Regional Center in emergency situations to avoid homelessness and provide necessities such as water and electricity.

The priority funding areas for the Foundation are housing, employment, family support and transportation. To address the extreme housing crisis especially for low-income housing for people with developmental disabilities, a few years ago the Foundation Board of Directors provided a grant for $700,000 to the Southern California Housing Collaborative to complete the funding package for a twelve-unit affordable housing project for the developmentally disabled. Pacifica at Playa del Sol in Otay Mesa includes 42 affordable apartments for qualifying tenants with 12-units specifically for residents with developmental disabilities – all of who are now occupied. Last year the Foundation provided a grant of $300,000 to the Southern California Housing Collaborative to complete the funding package for a ten-unit affordable housing project for the developmentally disabled at Countryside II (Girasol) Affordable Housing Project in El Centro (Imperial Valley).

During these unprecedented times, the Foundation has quickly pivoted our focus to assist clients at the San Diego Regional Center through our emergency help fund. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unimaginable hardships for these families and in many cases the families have had to choose whether to pay their rent or put food on the table. Since June of 2020, the Foundation has provided over $225,000 in emergency assistance grants ranging from $500-$1000 per client to help pay their rent, cover medical costs and help improve the quality of life of people with developmental disabilities in San Diego and Imperial Counties.

The Foundation for Developmental Disabilities is run by a passionate volunteer Board, a part time COO and two recently hired full time staff members. The Foundation staff are passionate about reaching out to smaller organizations that would otherwise be unaware of funding options and assisting them in the grant writing process. The philosophy of the Foundation is to help programs that are innovative as well as making a difference in the community and give them the extra push that could propel their work to reach a larger audience. That is why the Foundation is proud to fund smaller programs with grants ranging in size for $1500 to $100,000. The Foundation for Developmental Disabilities is proud to fund programs for low-income individuals who otherwise would not have the opportunity to be a part of the communities in which they live.

Premier Members Making a Difference: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation

What do you benefit most from being a member of NCPC?
The partnerships with other community organizations. The RSF Foundation believes that collaboration and building upon each organization’s strengths is the best way to improve the community.

What is your Mission?
RSF Foundation’s mission is to connect donors with regional and global needs through visionary community leadership, personalized service and effective grantmaking.

What do you offer to the community?
RSF Foundation aims to be a comprehensive center for impactful philanthropy that inspires the joy of purposeful giving. RSF Foundation offers philanthropic funds including donor advised, endowed and non-endowed funds to individuals and nonprofit organizations. RSF Foundation looks to educate on current philanthropic trends and make connections between donors and community programs that match their interests.

What was your organization/company’s biggest accomplishment in the past six months – one year?
In March 2020, RSF Foundation came together with the Coastal Community Foundation and Leichtag Foundation to launch the North County COVID-19 Response Fund. We have all felt the lasting impact of the pandemic and it’s also demonstrated the need for nonprofit community support for at-risk community members already at the brink of not being able to make ends meet. The situation called for a coordinated, streamlined response. To date, the Fund has granted $750,000+ to 36 frontline nonprofits. You can learn more about the Fund on the RSF Foundation website.

What event/program or campaign do you have coming up that you would like to share with our readers? 
This year RSF Foundation is celebrating our 40th anniversary. RSF Foundation is looking back and celebrating the achievements and growth from the last 40 years on RSF Foundation website and blog. To read about the history of the RSF Foundation, visit the RSF Foundation website.

Premier Members Making a Difference: Davis Farr

What do you benefit most from being a member of NCPC? 
As a member of NCPC, we have developed strong relationships and networks within the North County nonprofit community. Our participation with NCPC has given us a deeper understanding of the current issues facing the nonprofit community.

What is your Mission? 

We are committed to excellence and delivering quality client service. We pride ourselves in building professional working relationships with our clients, which in turn provides a richer level of service.

What do you offer to the community? 

Davis Farr offers high-quality professional accounting, audit and tax services and a genuine care for the nonprofit agencies we service.

What was your organization/company’s biggest accomplishment in the past six months – one year? 

In the past year, we’ve been fortunate to continue our work with nonprofits and assist with the ever-changing landscape and challenges presented by COVID-19.  We saw nonprofit management do all they could to help their organizations survive this pandemic, including taking advantage of the U.S. SBA Paycheck Protection Program, Employee Retention Tax Credits and Small Business Loans.  With each of these opportunities came many challenges, including providing the appropriate documentation to qualify for the programs.  We were happy to assist our clients in navigating this complicated process by providing consultation, direction and up-to-date information from the governing authorities.

What changes/opportunities have occurred due to COVID-19?  

As a result of COVID-19, many companies have had to adjust and pivot the way they do business. Like many nonprofits in our area, we’ve had to transition to a remote work environment and allow more flexibility in work schedules to accommodate employees’ special needs such as childcare arrangements. These dynamic shifts have allowed our firm to see that we can operate successfully in a variety of ways and such changes may present opportunities for cost savings in the future as well as help our employees achieve a more desirable work-life balance.

More information visit: https://www.davisfarr.com/.

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