Programs and results
What we aim to solve
UPLIFT serves to accelerate community transformation and lift vulnerable populations to their full potential through free services to low income students & people experiencing homelessness
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Student Services - Kids At Heart Tutoring
Kids at Heart provides free one-to-one tutoring advancing academic achievement and accelerating literacy skills to lift low income students above their circumstances.
Student Services - Swimming Upstream
Swimming Upstream young adult mentoring offers leadership training and life skills through multi-week speaker sessions and group activities to help navigate the rough waters of modern teen life.
Homeless Services - The Home Team
The Home Team steps up to fill gaps and move obstacles in the flow to housing for people experiencing homelessness with Volunteer Advocates assisting professional Case Managers & Client with added supports moving through the housing placement process.
Homeless Services - Triple Cross
Triple Cross unlocks housing options for homeless neighbors by providing free application assistance and transportation to the DMV for CA ID’s, the essential document for all homeless services access.
Where we work
Accreditations
San Diego County Live Well Partner 2018
Affiliations & memberships
Assessment or Accreditation Year Actions San Diego Chamber of Commerce 2021
Association of Fundraising Professionals 2021
San Diego Council on Literacy 2021
Downtown San Diego Partnership 2021
San Diego Regional Task force on the Homeless 2021
Downtown Fellowship 2021
Urban Landuse Insitute 2021
San Diego Chamber of Commerce 2021
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Our Sustainable Development Goals
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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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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
UPLIFT serves San Diego's most vulnerable populations, offering free sercives to help house our homeless neighbors and academically advance low income students.
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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Follow-up phone calls,
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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 inform the development of new programs/projects, 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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What significant change resulted from feedback?
Expanding services for current Clients: Now filling clothing requests for homeless Clients at Convention Center & connecting Tutoring Student families to rental assistance
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
The people we serve, Our staff, Our board,
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How has asking for feedback from the people you serve changed your relationship?
We seek to be responsive to emerging needs revealed through current programs.
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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 engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, 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, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, This part of capacity building currently in progress!,
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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UPLIFT
Board of directorsas of 06/06/2022
Monica Ball
UPLIFT
Term: 2021 - 2023
Robert Annett
Retired General Electric
Genny Crane
Executive Director Rebuilding Green
Bob Link
COO, CNN Modular Structures
Jan Magot
Retired Realtor
Tommie Morrow
Founder Blue Wagon Ministry
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? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Race & ethnicity
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Disability
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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 employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- 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 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.