Changing Lane's Foundation, Inc.

Don't Get Stuck In Life, Just Change Lanes

aka Changing Lane's Foundation, Inc.   |   LAWRENCEVILLE, GA   |  www.changinglanesfoundation.org
This organization's exempt status was automatically revoked by the IRS for failure to file a Form 990, 990-EZ, 990-N, or 990-PF for 3 consecutive years. Further investigation and due diligence are warranted.

Mission

Changing Lane's Foundation, Inc goal is to provide a dynamic work environment where we serve the Cancer community grass roots style, neighbor to neighbor. We provide programs in the communitty, Our Village- Our Community where neighbors can support each other with meal planning, rideshare, house cleaning, as well as household replacement items. Changing Lane's Foundation Inc., advocates for Cancer Patients/Survivors and families in house financial resources, work with outside charities via referrals, provide health and wellness opportunities, referrals for qualified trips/retreats, scholarship opportunities for qualified applicants upon submission to various agencies/charities if qualify, coordinate rehoming qualifying familiy.

Ruling year info

2018

Founder-Executive Director

Deborah Ann Jenkins

Main address

35 PATTERSON ROAD Suite -464188

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30042 USA

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EIN

81-4778829

NTEE code info

Personal Social Services (P50)

Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (T12)

Breast Cancer Research (H32)

IRS filing requirement

This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.

Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Changing Lane's Foundation services a diverse demographic group for women of color, catorizied as highest risk factor (Hispanic and African American women) diagnosed at an alarming rate of 80 percentile, limited/no health insurance, do no return for follow-up to diagnosis or seek medical assistance, aware of family risk factors for Breast Cancer. Provide transportation in underprivileged areas, intense follow-up. We provide addtl classes to engage individuals to participate in their care, encourage family involvement campaign for early diagnosis, aggressive media campaign/ hispanic women age 23-43. In addition, provide classes young patients engage, learn, cancer types, stages, surgery options, and various types of chemo. Provide mutillanguage interperters Our volunteers are survivors or had family/friend impacted by cancer, via chemo treatment/death and has great compassion, willingness to learn. We train our dedicated Youth Intern Group 100 hours of volunteer work.

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?

Our Village -Our Community

Financial assistance: rent/mortgage, utility, medication, gas cards, school supply's, cooked meals (during chemo), transportation to/from chemo.

Events/Training and Deverlopmemnt: Patients, Survivors, Caretakers, Support Group for women of colo ( Dance In to The New You Support Group).

New Life Program: Yoga, Mediation, Massage, Stress Managerment.

Educational/Career opportunities,, Health & Wellness Programs, Housing Resources Information.

Certificate classes taught in-house by experienced educatiors;

Student Volunteer Programs: Certificate upon completion of programs.
Human Resource Best Practice
Time Management Training
Strategic Managermernt-Implementation goal setting
Career Action Plans -College Bound
SWOT Analysis-Strenth, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats-College Bound

Population(s) Served

Support Group for women of color, retrain, return to school, update or learn new trade, build a buddy, coordinate weekly activities, Breathe into survivorship, Dance, and love one another. Share travels, health and wellness options, take on leadership roles that enhances their positive energy, independence, and responsibility.

Population(s) Served

Train youth volunteers (100 hours) on leadership and development & skills assessment, time management skills, social networking, Business Markerting and Management skills. financial literacy, building and managing credit and savings and investment portfolio.

Population(s) Served

Where we work

Awards

Cancer Survivor of Year 2019

Charge Up Campaign

Affiliations & memberships

International Association Women 2017

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 educators who have opportunities to attend programs offered by professional organizations

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Our Village -Our Community

Type of Metric

Input - describing resources we use

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Teachers, Managers, College and Highschool graduates, patients, survivors, caretake, professioal student participating in advocacy certification programs, Business certificate, or anyone online .

Number of new website visitors

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Our Village -Our Community

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Google SEO now tracks daily visitors to our Website .

Number of Facebook followers

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Our Village -Our Community

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Our members, patients, survivors, family, friends, doctor's, lawyers, groups, healthcare professionals, business partners, and many more.

Total dollars received in contributions

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Our Village -Our Community

Type of Metric

Input - describing resources we use

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Number of regular donors@22

Total number of volunteer hours contributed to the organization

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Our Village -Our Community

Type of Metric

Input - describing resources we use

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Youth intern group design special projects thru-out year, I.e., children seniors and or survivors

Number of meals delivered

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Our Village -Our Community

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Hot meals , groceries, gas cards, special request delivered to families, Cancer infusion centers, medical staff, church, highschools ,surgeons, patients/clients.

Number of website pageviews

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Our Village -Our Community

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Google SEO tracking

Number of families served

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Our Village -Our Community

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Families that received financial assistance

Number of volunteers who become donors

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Our Village -Our Community

Type of Metric

Input - describing resources we use

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Volunteers /familes/communities assisting families in need based on personal experience

Number of people on the organization's email list

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Our Village -Our Community

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Organization email list is crossed referenced by several social media accounts./volunteers/family

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.

Changing Lane's Foundation, Inc, incorporate programs with insurance coverage for transport, massages, alternative treatments upon exhausting medical, agressive follow-up day-1 diagnosed/treatment plan 10-14 days diagnosis for all Breast Cancer patients, women of color impacted at higher rate, reeducation to family/community.

Train, retrain, educate, design, devise, programs with input from patient/family and community, pre-post-mental health check-up. More research, funding for genetic disposation/type cancer. Options for alternative treatment before end-stage.

We are providing more bilingual speakers, French, English to accommodate the growing number of families/ new an returning clients.

We are committed to providing more advocates in the Hispanic, and African American communities, provide needed technolgy to allow familes to connect to local businesses/hospitals, online learning, Webinars, and access YouTube video's.

Partner with community restaurants to utilize resources for familes, meet-up weekly/monthly for family night, provide/register for Wellness Check-ups, Mamagrams, Primary Care Doctors, and information on role of caregivers, Cross connection of family/bussiness/community.

Utilize Tracking Modula -Strategy Execution Plan
1. Analysis and/or assessment
2. Strategy Formulation-Basic strategic plan formulated form top/down to bottom/up approach
3. Strastergy Execution-Top down -operational approach for planning and actions formula (line items)
4. Evaluate/Sustainability-Manage community residents, businesses for progress/growth via statistical analysis
5. Evaluation of performance, culture and communications-utilize data mining on management phase,ongoing refinement visa resuts of
strategic management issues.

Coordinate health and wellness programs for families, family Group Programs-Exercise, Diet, Mental, Exercise, peer- review/research literature, provide a Q & A for next doctor appointment, options for reeducation-teach a cooking class via sykpe (Dietitician), family -time engement-homework, buddy pass for doctor visit (Carpoole), provide literture/video of financial success opportunities, hare resources to support groups, mental health counseling options .

Utilize financial resources local and long distance charities, design webinars to educate client/familes, provide in-kind donations, computers, furniture, clothing, household items to familes with income loss home/apt/revenues to rebuild emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically.

Changing Lane's Foundation, Inc are doing a test pilot with local merchants/restaurants requesting one night a month for access to facilities for a 2 hour seminar/conference to provide healthcare professionals to meet with the community, in exchange promote family night to the community to purchase a meal, thru social media marketing for the restaurant/business providing the space.

In addition, teach classes via sykpe, webinar, or conference calls in comfort of patients homes, provide computers on a case by case need basis. Align programs for measurability, evaluation and tracking to determine its success and benefits to patients/families.

Invite entire families to participant in the Dance Into The New You Support Group , encourage members to participe in CLF first community garden benefiting cancer community, inviter local nurtitionsit at farm to engage with families.

Engage patients, survivors, caretakers an family to volunteer programs, unpacking, restocking and inventory at the CLF retail shop "Dance Into The New You" that will be providing familes with daily necessities on a scheduled basis per household- plan managed and tracked by in-house data mining program .

Todate, we have been able to help families with medication, rent/mortgage, transportation, hot meals (chemo patients), utility assistance, burial assistance, grocery, hospital visits, advocacy, all expense paid trips (terminal patients), clothing, furniture, resources to insurance, back to school supplies for children (lost parent) and we still connect with the families who lost a love one to Breast Cancer.

Our team are all invested in getting certified as advocates, CPR training, attend seminars for marketing, fundraising, conferences and classes to become more knowledgeable about cancer, specifically; Breast Cancer.

CLF taught and provided completion certificate for 100 hours to several Youth Interns (several high school graduates) on time management skills, Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership and Development, Training topdown/bottomup approach, taught reseach enhanced skills on fellowship, scholarship and grants for highschool graduates/college students.

Financials

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Operations

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Changing Lane's Foundation, Inc.

Board of directors
as of 02/11/2022
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Troy Grant

Omega Phi Psy Corporate

Term: 2018 - 2021

Millie Rodriquez

Secretary

Austin Jenkins

Treasurer

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? Not applicable

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 8/11/2019

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
Black/African American
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender

Race & ethnicity

No data

Gender identity

No data

Transgender Identity

No data

Sexual orientation

No data

Disability

No data

Equity strategies

Last updated: 08/11/2019

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 review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
  • We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
  • 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 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 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 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.