NTCF Announces 2023 ToolBox Grants Program

This year’s focus of the North Texas Community Foundation’s ToolBox Grants program is building nonprofit capacity to combat poverty through fundraising consulting and strategic planning consulting.

The 2023 cycle is now open.

To be eligible for support, interested nonprofits will need to attend a mandatory orientation session next week.

Please visit the RFP today to learn more and to register for an orientation.

Did you know that Project Partners’ services to extend your capacity for success can be funded by a ToolBox Grant? We do what’s good for you.

Happy New Year!

As we begin this 29th year of business, we thank you for your business, your referrals, your collaboration, your support, and your friendship.   We are so very grateful to keep our dream jobs of advancing community causes with you.  Happy New Year!

Operation Progress Fort Worth to Set Strategic Direction

Operation Progress Fort Worth (OPFW) empowers underserved youth to become educated, ethical, and productive adults who reach their full potential and positively contribute to society.   Their model, replicated from Operation Progress LA, partners with the Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD) and supports their Scholars from 3rd grade to college and/or career.  

A recipient of a Funding to Advance Racial Equity (FARE) grant from the North Texas Community Foundation (NTCF), OPFW Executive Director, Dr. Myeshia Smith, and her dedicated board will build on their success to date as we help them establish their first official strategic plan, with a special emphasis on the focus area of fundraising.    

Project Partners was founded in 1995 on Project C3: Classrooms-Corporations-Community and collaborative community programs serving children, youth, and families remain among our favorite causes to advance. It’s an honor to support Operation Progress Fort Worth.

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!