Mission
The LIME Foundation provides educational resources, mentorship, and career exploration in order to develop sustainable empowerment among our diverse communities. Those served by The LIME Foundation will learn life-changing skills to harness their potential in music, performing arts, construction careers, technology, and health, encouraging all individuals to inspire their communities.
Ruling year
2015
President
Letitia Hanke
Main address
1400 Petaluma Hill Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95404 USA
EIN
47-2046585
NTEE code
Community, Neighborhood Development, Improvement (S20)
Housing Development, Construction, Management (L20)
Youth Development Programs (O50)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The LIME Foundation aims to serve three areas of community benefit: workforce development for youth ages 16-24; arts and music development for youth 12-18; senior health and activity for people ages 55 and up.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Roofing & Construction Vocational Program (NextGen Trades Academy)
LIME’s Signature Program, the NextGen Trades Academy, sponsors low-income youth ages 16-24 and offers career exploration, education, training, and job placement in construction and related trades. The program runs eight, three week sessions throughout the year during after school hours. Local trades subject matter experts and employers hold interactive sessions with program participants and students learn about a wide variety of trades including plumbing, electrical, roofing, green building, architecture, engineering, and many more. In response to the toll the pandemic has taken on our youth, we are increasing the content we offer around mental health wellbeing. The class format combines presentations, interactive activities, field trips, CalOSHA safety certification and a graduation ceremony complete with certificates, hard hats and a starter toolbox.
Turner Arts Initiative (TAI)
This program is designed to bring positive, structured activities to disadvantaged youth, while preventing or reducing negative influences that afflict young people (e.g., substance abuse, teen pregnancy, truancy, loneliness, obesity, bullying, exclusion, etc.) These youth will learn new technology, instruments but most of all, use music and dance as a means of expression. This program will feature a summer and after school program which will include mentoring, tutoring and an activity center.
Senior Activities Program (SAP)
This program is designed to provide a venue for seniors to remain active, while creating new friends. This program is designed to promote healthy eating, exercise through dance, bowling, hiking and many other activities in order to prevent or reverse heart disease, arthritis, diabetes and obesity.
NextGen Auto Academy
NextGen Auto Academy is designed to offer career exploration, safety certification, and job placement in automotive careers. Potential careers range from sales to mechanical work and service advising. The program serves the underprivileged community of students ages 16-24 who are not necessarily college-bound.
LIMElight in The Bahamas
LIMElight is a solar program aimed at educating and empowering young adult students in The Bahamas. Participants in LIMElight learn how to build solar kits in order to provide lighting and electronics operability in areas with sparse or inconsistent electricity. Every year, The LIME Foundation selects two of its brightest students from the NextGen Trades Academy to assist in teaching the program. The program is held with students of CTI, the Centre for Training and Innovation, located in Eleuthera.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of participants who gain employment
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Roofing & Construction Vocational Program (NextGen Trades Academy)
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Number of NextGen Trades Academy graduates directly referred to new jobs, per calendar (not program) year.
Average hourly wage of clients who became employed after job skills training
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Roofing & Construction Vocational Program (NextGen Trades Academy)
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Average new job salary for a NextGen Trades Academy student is $17-23.
Hours of programing delivered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Roofing & Construction Vocational Program (NextGen Trades Academy)
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of clients who complete job skills training
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of clients still enrolled after the first week of training
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Roofing & Construction Vocational Program (NextGen Trades Academy)
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The LIME Foundation provides community impact programming with the goal of advancing disadvantaged youth; providing vocational education and work opportunities; increasing wages for the underemployed; increasing wellness and satisfaction in life by decreasing teen drug use, suicides, teen pregnancy, etc ; and, improving nutrition and mobility for seniors.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The LIME Foundation provides the NextGen Trades Academy, an online-hybrid class for youth ages 16-24 who wish to start careers in the construction trades. At the end of the class, youth are provided interview opportunities with local contractors with the opportunity for hire at living wages ranging from $17-24 per hour. The Turner Arts Initiative (TAI) will operate a year-round program during after school hours and in the summer months by providing a multi-component arts program that includes life skills training, the link between art and employment, and practical experiences in the workforce that will develop and/or strengthen the positive bonds of youth to their families, schools, and communities. TAI will incorporate life skill building, group activities, and exposure to mentors, seniors and established artist working in various mediums. Our Senior Activities Program (SAP) consists of a 6-week, 12-hour series of classes for seniors ages 55 and up. The classes incorporate healthy eating; eating on a budget; brain health; gentle stretching and chair yoga; food demonstrations. Classes are delivered at local senior centers and senior living facilities in order to maximize reach.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The LIME Foundation has 5 staff members and contracts with instructors to deliver classes. Letitia Hanke, the founder of The LIME Foundation, maintains a vast network of construction professionals with whom we partner as she has been in construction for 23 years. We raise funds through individual donations, private philanthropy, and grants in order to pay for our costs.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
LIME has served 150 students through the NextGen Trades Academy; nearly 100 participants through the Senior Activities Program; and, five scholarship recipients through the Turner Arts Initiative. We are expanding our NextGen Trades Academy to include the NextGen Auto Academy, providing career pathways in both construction and automotive work. Geographically, we are seeking funding to expand our programs to Lake County, where economic mobility and health are of special concern.
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Lime Foundation
Board of directorsas of 12/27/2022
Marco Guerra
Fairway Mortgage
Term: 2022 -
Gloria Turner
Adventist Health
Tina Chavez
AJ's Tuxedos
Letitia Hanke
ARS Roofing
Lisa Fait
Jeff Kelly
Jeff Kelly Consulting
Jennifer Guerra
Fairway Mortgage
Karen Grotte
Karen Grotte Realty
Malia Anderson
Style by Malia
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
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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? Not applicable -
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
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- 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 use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- 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 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.
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