Imprints Cares
Nurturing Children. Strengthening Families. Building Community.
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Through a multi-generational model of programs, Imprints Cares promotes positive parenting, improves social determinants of health, enhances opportunities for children and their families, and helps break the cycle of poverty. Imprints Cares makes a difference by offering a comprehensive portfolio of evidence-based programs. Through partnerships across various sectors, Imprints Cares addresses the developing social, behavioral, and academic needs of children and evaluates the programmatic impact on families. We believe family and community engagement drive impact that is equitable, culturally responsive, and sustainable. We advance education campaigns to ensure our community is well-informed. We develop strategic partnerships and coalitions, collaborating with members of the community and other constituents dedicated to the promotion of positive early childhood development. We influence local, regional, and national policies and programs that support early childhood development.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Parents as Teachers
"The Parents as Teachers model is a unique combination of research, education and empowerment. In practice, our methods are proven to help caregivers connect with their child’s early development and build a lifetime foundation for academic success."
Where we work
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of administrators and staff who plan and experience professional development activities together
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Impact: Expand or core services delivery
Innovate: Raise profile of Imprints Cares as a thought leader and innovator in child/ parent development in our community and nationally.
Grow Community Engagement: Increase community engagement by attracting new individual and philanthropic donors and soliciting corporate partners.
Position: Imprints Cares stands ready for future expansion opportunities.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Raise profile of Imprints Cares as a thought leader and innovator in child/ parent development in our community and nationally by:
Expanding core services
Growing community and awareness
Being thought leaders
Embracing innovation and change
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Nurturing children for lifelong success by guiding sustainable development and capacity building.
Maintaining the financial integrity of the organization by seeking new funding diversification and ensuring sound fiscal stewardship of existing projects.
Increase donor base, secure funding for new physical location, and cultivate corporate partnerships.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
The Center for Thriving Families will open in September 2024
Increasing brand awareness through bilingual messaging
Supporting Directors in becoming and maintaining evidence-based programming
Creating an agency savings plan that ensures at least 3-6 months of expenses are secure
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Imprints Cares
Board of directorsas of 08/23/2024
Elizabeth Dampier
Shon Gilmore
Israel Suarez
Elizabeth Dampier
Mary Bolton
Claudia Barrett
Kami Chavis
Tricia McManus
S. Margaret Pike
Tonya Monteiro
Quentin Gunter
Lynn Segal
Jennifer Hudson
Laurie Albertini
Joe Carroll
Lee McDonald
Rebecca McNealy
Bill Oakes
MacRae Robinson
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
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Disability
Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.