C.H.E.F.® Receives Grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Train Nonprofits in Business Planning
Comprehensive Health Education Foundation (C.H.E.F.®), an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that developed the most widely-used prevention curricula in the United States, announced that it has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to launch an innovative training program for a diverse group of its grantees on how to build organizational capacity and long-term sustainability through business planning.
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) June 28, 2005 -- Comprehensive Health Education
Foundation (C.H.E.F.®), an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that developed
the most widely-used prevention curricula in the United States, announced that
it has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to launch an
innovative training program for a diverse group of its grantees on how to build
organizational capacity and long-term sustainability through business
planning.
Funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and developed
by C.H.E.F., this pilot program will span a period of three years and encompass
training, strategy development, technical assistance, implementation and
evaluation to help the health and human service nonprofit organizations acquire
the knowledge and skills necessary to build and improve their business capacity.
The premise of this program is that nonprofits will have a greater chance of
reaching their mission and financial bottom lines if they have a strong business
plan and diverse revenue base.
According to Larry Clark, President and
CEO of C.H.E.F., “We are thrilled to have been selected by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation to receive this grant, and are appreciative of their
commitment and dedication to helping other nonprofit organizations learn the
skills required for capacity-building and long-term sustainability. As a health
and prevention nonprofit organization that has operated for the past 30 years
with a successful social enterprise model, we are uniquely qualified to assist
other nonprofit organizations to strengthen their management and business
capabilities, retain their mission focus, and become more financially
self-sufficient.”
According to Jane Isaacs Lowe, PhD, Senior Program
Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, “In collaboration with C.H.E.F.,
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will focus on the importance of helping our
grantee organizations not only build their programs and organizations with the
grant funds that we provide, but also help to ensure that the proper social
enterprise discipline, tools, and skills are in place to allow those same
programs and organizations to grow and thrive in the long-term, even after the
grant funds have run out.”
About The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing
health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation's largest
philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all
Americans, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and
individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful, and
timely change. For more than 30 years the Foundation has brought experience,
commitment, and a rigorous, balanced approach to the problems that affect the
health and health care of those it serves. Helping Americans lead healthier
lives and get the care they need—the Foundation expects to make a difference in
our lifetime.
About Comprehensive Health Education Foundation
Founded
in 1974 and celebrating its 30th Anniversary year, Seattle-based Comprehensive
Health Education Foundation (C.H.E.F.®) is dedicated to promoting health and
quality of life through education, addressing such important topics as childhood
obesity and other unhealthy behaviors. As a nationally-known nonprofit
organization, C.H.E.F. develops a variety of health promotion and prevention
education programs and products targeted to the early childhood, school-aged
youth and healthy aging markets. For information about C.H.E.F.’s new FUEL™
series designed to fight childhood obesity, please visit http://fuel.chef.org. For
C.H.E.F.’s other products and programs, please visit www.chef.org or call
1.800.323.2433.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/6/prweb255992.htm