• Provided services to 3,166 individuals;
• Leveraged $697,120 in funding to provide programs and services;
• Employed 37 youth in summer employment to provide jobs skills.
• Provided summer camps for 182 children;
• Rehabilitated 10 homes;
• Counseled 1127 clients for homeownership;
• Provided infrastructure to build 26 single family homes;
• Due to our efforts to expand vocational training programs, 282 individuals have received vocational training, 37 of which have received scholarships from our organization to complete their training. In addition 185 students were enrolled in after school programs and 180 students received one on one tutoring
• Through partnerships with our local Economic Development Councils: 72 jobs have been retained with an average wage rate between $16,000 and $35,000 and 116 new business contacts have been made representing 1395 potential new jobs.
• Worked in collaboration with our partners on 9 different programs & projects;
• Between 1999 and 2004 the Empowerment Alliance has leveraged a total of $18 million in grants and loans into the Enterprise Community. The Empowerment Alliance of SW Florida (EASF) Community Development Corporation Board of Directors has also developed an outcome based management tool that is used to prioritize and budget for programs and activities of the organization. The Board worked diligently this year with the assistance of the Community Foundation of Collier County and the staff of the EASF to develop outcomes for our programs and the tools to measure if we are in fact achieving the desired outcomes or if changes or deletions were needed to the programs. The CDC Board of Directors applied to the Community Foundation of Collier County for a Planning and Evaluation Grant for our Summer Employment Program. Through this process we learned to evaluate all our programs based on the outcomes we are trying to achieve and how to measure if we are moving in the right direction. This has been helpful in making decisions on which areas should be pursued and which should be discontinued. It is also an invaluable tool for informing potential funders about the effectiveness of our programs.

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