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Greenville County First Steps

Ensuring all children enter school on track and ready to succeed

aka First Steps of Greenville   |   Greenville, SC   |  www.greenvillefirststeps.org

Mission

First Steps provides support and coordinated services to meet the developmental needs of children from birth to age five. We work in partnership with parents, caregivers, childcare providers and other community stakeholders and focus on serving families whose children are at risk of school failure.

Ruling year info

2000

Executive Director, CFRE

Derek Lewis

Co Principal Officer

Beth Jamieson

Main address

700 N Pleasantburg Drive

Greenville, SC 29607 USA

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EIN

57-1097814

NTEE code info

Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (B01)

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Programs and results

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Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Positive Parenting Program

Home visits every other week for modeling of positive parenting practices and weekly, group meetings focused on early literacy (fun and educational).

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Working poor
Low-income people

Increase access to high quality childcare services, through training, professional development, and resources/supports

Population(s) Served

Where we work

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of students showing improvement in test scores

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Children, Infants and toddlers

Related Program

Positive Parenting Program

Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Greenville Schools reports KRA (Kindergarten Readiness Assessment) data for all rising 5K students. Priority zip codes 29669, 29690, and 29611 show an average of 30% of tested "on track: in 2019

Number of children served

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

Greenville First Steps works to improve education outcomes for children by supporting early literacy and parenting programs, and supporting quality improvement efforts within the childcare community. Greenville First Steps will focus energies on 29611, 29690, and 29669 zip codes for 2021-2025 school years- with an emphasis on measurably improving social and emotional development and literacy outcomes for children.

1. Improve access to high quality, evidenced based literacy programs- including Reach Out and Read, Raising a Reader, Dolly Parton Imagination Library, and a partnership with Christ Church Greenville to build and expand the Book Distribution Warehouse
2. Improve social and emotional development of children, through support of evidenced based parenting programs including Nurse Family Partnership, Positive Parenting Program, and Countdown to Kindergarten
3. Work to ensure families have access to high quality, sustainable childcare settings.

Greenville First Steps works as a funder of early childhood evidenced based strategies within Greenville County. In FY21 Greenville First steps invested $5.2 million in early childhood strategies including parenting programs, early literacy efforts, and child care quality improvement efforts.

2021 Goals:
Goal 1: Identify 3 priority zip codes: 29611, 29669, 29690 (complete)
Goal 2: Identify benchmark school readiness measures (complete)
Goal 3: Identify 10 community partners to increase access to early literacy activities (in progress)
Goal 4: develop and distribute monthly postcards to parents in three priority zip codes (in progress)
Goal 5: Launch annual community assessment to measure impact of programs and interventions (launch Sept 2021)

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.
  • 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 inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Greenville County First Steps

Board of directors
as of 03/28/2023
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Dr. Jeremy Watts

Anderson university

Term: 2021 - 2022

Jeremy watts

Anderson University

Eric Hassman

Carbyne

Karen Andrews

Greenville Schools

Gina Blohm

Community Foundation

Tommy FLinn

First Citizens bank

Rhonda Hipp

SC DHEC

Jonatahn Cote

Milliken

Stacy Burr

USC Upstate

Cal Hurst

Southern First

Jennifer James

SC DSS

Corey McDowell

YMCA

Grady Patterson

Leg Appointee

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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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

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 6/22/2021

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
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Male, Not transgender
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or Straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

The organization's co-leader identifies as:

Gender identity
Female

Race & ethnicity

No data

Gender identity

No data

Transgender Identity

No data

Sexual orientation

No data

Disability

No data

Equity strategies

Last updated: 06/22/2021

GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more

Data
  • 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 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.
Policies and processes
  • 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.