The Jordan Elizabeth Harris Foundation is Taking Hope on the Road

To raise awareness of suicide prevention, The Jordan Elizabeth Harris Foundation’s 2022 Light the Trail cycling event will include an 1800 mile journey down the Mississippi valley - from Lake Itasca, Minnesota to New Orleans, Louisiana.  Cyclists plan to blaze a new trail of hope and bring about conversations along the route that will educate, inspire, and encourage discussion.  To help further that effort, the leadership of The Jordan Elizabeth Harris Foundation (JEHF) reached out to Project Partners for help with the coordination of these “Let’s Talk” meet and greet outreach events. 

Using the outreach data collected to date, we will work to make connections in each desired location to identify a champion host and conversation-starter, plus set the logistics for the sites, allowing The JEHF staff and volunteer team to focus on the media relations, fundraising, and ride details.  This will be our third assignment with The JEHF, following the facilitation of a strategic planning board retreat and a staff work session which focused on team strengths and virtual office efficiencies.  

Too many of us have lost loved ones to suicide. The Jordan Elizabeth Harris Foundation provides suicide prevention training and education for children and adults, as well as depression research funding.   Please consider supporting their mission today!  

Camp Fire First Texas to Expand Early Education Apprenticeship Program (EEAP)

Camp Fire First Texas is expanding its pioneering Early Education Apprenticeship Program (EEAP), and has returned to Project Partners for continued program development.  We are thrilled to help carry forward this innovative educational/career pathway program, feeling a little like proud moms since we helped develop elements of the EEAP in 2019.  This year and next, we will be completing crosswalks of curricula/competencies/standards, determining options for the components like on-the-job learning, related instruction, program monitoring and assessment, milestone recognition and more, while working to align with three school districts leading the way with Camp Fire First Texas. 

Education and workforce development remains a specialty and we look forward to this thirteenth assignment with Camp Fire First Texas, a leader in youth development and early educator professional development since 1914.

2022-2023 Marks Twelve Years of Work Together with HEB ISD Education Foundation

HEB ISD Education Foundation board leadership has teamed with Project Partners for what will be a twelfth year of work together. This partnership all started in 2011 with a referral by our friend, Bill Lynch (now retired VP of Public Policy at the Arlington Chamber) to the executive director search committee, willing to consider a contracted solution. This proven model works so well for our clients, as we require no training, supervision, office space, equipment, or employee red tape – just an opportunity to join your team and get to work! Project Partners’ support to the 35+ member volunteer board of directors includes strategic planning, community relations and communications, fundraising, events management, program development, board and committee engagement, and nonprofit administration.

If your cause needs a voice and a hands-on project management team, you’ve come to a good place!