ERCEGI

This is What We Do.

Community Mobilizing Initiative:

Tangible deliverables: 

Community Assessment Survey (CAS) Findings and Recommendations, Comprehensive Community Profile, Comprehensive School Assessment Findings and Recommendations, Organization Capacity Building Toolkits, Family School & Community Partnership (FSCP) Implementation Toolkits, FSCP Action Plan, Basic Website Design and Hosting

Intangible deliverables: 

canvassing activities (participation in established community events, project-specific rallies, focus groups, field-based data gathering of visual impressions, GPS data gathering), workshops, onsite coaching, community website assistance

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As a Community Advocate, it will be our greatest venture to work with communities to assist them in bringing positive, sustainable change to their neighborhoods. We will work with the community members and organizations to provide opportunities to network and form partnerships to take ownership in the analysis, planning, executing, and sustainability of strategies. We will do all of this based on the premise that the WHOLE of any entity must be considered and addressed when charged with the task of improving its quality.

As such, we will conduct a Community Assessment Survey (CAS) and engage in community canvassing activities to evaluate a Community’s Wellbeing based on an analysis of key indicators and of the resources available to support the health of its members in seven basic areas:  intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, economical, physical, and environmental. The data collected will be presented as a Comprehensive Community Profile (CCP) that depicts the data geospatially through mapping as well as various other data tools as necessary. All data representations will be utilized to denote assets, resource deficits, and spatial inequalities. Through workshops and onsite coaching, we will communicate how to use this information to make decisions regarding effective strategies for change and resource development, as well as how to evaluate by tracking identified measures of change over time.

As ERCEGI holds to the premise that a the future of any community is only as great as the future citizens it nurtures, it will be a priority to work with the neighborhood schools and their leadership teams to conduct Comprehensive School Assessments (CSA) and to work to merge community and school assets in the pursuit of mutual goals and objectives. As such, we will work to solidify Family School & Community Partnerships (FSCP).

As a means for sustaining the Community Mobilizing Initiative, ERCEGI will work with the community to create an Action Plan and establish a network of school and community based teams charged with specific tasks including data collection and storage, in-house analysis and evaluation, public communication, etc. The primary means for the latter will be a website established for the purpose of the community to display and track data for continued monitoring of its community’s wellbeing.

Isolated Products / Services

Rather than engaging ERCEGI to oversee the entire Community Mobilizing Initiative, we will also serve in the following capacities to support community leadership and organizational effectiveness that revolves around the improvement of a community’s wellbeing.

Evaluation:

• External Evaluation and Assessment of Current Programs
• Validation of In-house Evaluation/Assessments

Research:

• Community Canvassing & GeoMapping (Data collection and analysis to determine root causes and/or establish baselines represented through Geospatial Mapping and Scientific Visualization—2D and 3D renditions)
• Community Assessment Survey (modular)
• Comprehensive School Assessment
• Middle/High School Youth Resilience Survey
• Elementary Child Resilience Survey
• School Personnel Reflective Toolkits
• Program Design including Career Academy Design and Implementation and both formal and informal learning environments

Communication:

• Workshops (Available programs include: Identifying and Harnessing the Human and Capital Resources to Be Effective; Using Geospatial Technology for Research, Design, and Evaluation; Building Solid and Sustainable School, Family, and Community Partnerships; The Art of Strategic Partnering and Web Networking)
• Website Launch & Hosting (Help in designing and maintaining a website to communicate and monitor a community’s wellbeing)

Engagement:

• Partnering and/or Web Networking Strategic Plan
• School, Family, and Community Partnerships Action Plan
• Grants Development

Geo-Data:

All data collected and partnerships established will be done so given the importance of geospatial analysis—looking at the data from the perspective of its spatial references

Intelligence:

All products and services rendered by ERCEGI, Inc. are so created to capture and present the best intel possible to design, implement, and evaluate strategies for improving a community’s wellbeing.