SDA Ederley Care Referral Service Inc
Connecting people with needs where everyone who needs a home, will get a home, and feel at home.
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SDA Ederley Care Referral Service Inc
EIN: 83-2776107
as of September 2024
as of September 09, 2024
Programs and results
Reports and documents
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Many low-income seniors, disabled, and veterans are facing homelessness due to the high cost of housing. We have many low-income seniors, disabled, and veterans that are in need of funding for rental assistance, move-in fees, and security deposits. We work with over 500 housing providers that are willing to provide rental from $500 to $600 to include utilities. Funds or grants are needed for administration cost to cover employee salaries, insurance, we also need more volunteers. We would like to get self-service computers for low-income housing searches and larger office space to provide our services.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
The Shared Housing Program/Project
Under our shared housing program, we provide clients with immediate/emergency housing placements into homes that have private rooms. Rentals start as low as $600.00 monthly to include utilities. Our clients can place their names on the "low-income housing waiting list" we provide. While waiting for low-income and/or subsidized apartments to be housed in, clients are able to avoid homeless shelters and rent a furnished room that is ready for immediate occupancy with support/wraparound services, referrals, and soon an incorporated disaster assistance program reflecting a "one-stop-shop" methodology/approach to homeless and economically disadvantaged person(s). *** This program has been operating in phases based on a minimalized annual budget of under $50,000 annually for the past few years which has not allowed the program to operate at its full capacity. ***
The Star Referral Program/Project
We have networked with many community service groups/alliances and social workers for our referral sources. We have partnered social workers and associated providers that include but are not limited to, over 400 social workers, adult protective service workers, senior resource alliance, managed care insurances, assisted living facilities, partnered providers to help with applying for social security income benefits, food stamps/snap benefits, lifeline products and services, apprenticeship, hospitals, doctors visits, home care services and related transportation services, clinic rides, and many other provider network services that collaborate with us to provide key wraparound services as a one-stop-shop from referrals to and/or from SDAEC. Waivers for services such as transportation, nutritional products, rental, down payment, educational services, and or utility assistance, telecommunication service, and other essential services would be supported from this program budget which is key.
The Sunshine Buildings Project/Program
With the focus of being a Community Housing Development Organization developer, the potential successful implementation of this program will allow us to personally maintain and manage the development and construction of new and/or repurpose buildings for more low-to-moderate/affordable income housing within Central Florida. This program will allow us to serve all persons regardless of gender, religion, sexual orientation, and race through strategic implementation and unique partnerships with government agencies, housing developers, and private foundations/investors to help meet the needs of an ever-growing national affordable housing and homelessness crisis.
Where we work
Awards
Certificate of Participation - "Empowering Good" 2022
Crummer | Rollins Edyth Bush Institute for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership
Affiliations & memberships
Crummer | Rollins Edyth Bush Institute for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership 2019
Senior Resource Alliance 2021
Charity & Love 2021
UCF Center for Public and Nonprofit Management 2021
AARP Foundation - Central Florida 2021
Heart of Florida United Way 2021
Florida Department of Children and Families 2021
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Our results
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Average number of service recipients per month
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Retired people, Ethnic and racial groups, Veterans
Related Program
The Star Referral Program/Project
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Impacting many lives.
Number of applications for housing received from targeted population
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Seniors, Veterans, People with disabilities
Related Program
The Star Referral Program/Project
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Decreasing
Context Notes
We transition from an LLC to Nonprofit as of 1/1/2019. We network with over 200 social services as a referral source to our affordable housing and care for seniors, disabled and veterans.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our ultimate goal is intended to impact the lives of seniors and reduce the homeless burden in the state of Florida. The groups we aim to assist are The United Way, Social Services Networks, Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Senior Resource Alliance, and Homeless Coalition. We want to make our name known in the communities we serve. We aim to assist with the housing crisis. Our work ethics address the homeless crisis needs of the community. The expected outcome will be to house low-income seniors, disabled, and veterans rapidly through our affordable shared housing project. We examined how our goals for the next three to five years and how it will fit within our overall plan to contribute to lasting and meaningful change through our low-income rapid-hared housing program.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Section 8 low-income housing/offers affordable housing with a waiting list that can last up to five years or more. SDA Elderly Care Referral Service offers real solutions to this problem. We provide immediate housing placement under our shared housing programs which starts as low as $500.00 monthly to include utilities. Seniors may also place their names on the waiting list we provide for the low-income apartments to avoid being homeless while waiting for low-income apartments and are able to avoid homeless shelters. Over the past 4 years, we have proof that community-based housing has been proven to work. Our strengths are the ability to house and to impact the lives of our seniors, veterans and disabled facing homeless. As a new nonprofit organization, we are still learning about reaching out to donors. Our weaknesses are building new relationships with nonprofit donors/funders. Our long-term goal is to reach even more counties. Our board supports our housing project campaign and believes the methods used will benefit our target audience. By adding more housing providers to our network will serve as important building-blocks to our future successes. These elements will strengthen our organization's strategic approach. We are capable of providing low-income homes through our network of over 400 housing providers in our database. Our housing providers may have 1-7 rooms for rent per household. We network with many community services and social workers to refer clients in need of housing. Our referral source provides to include but not limited to over 60 social workers, senior resource alliance, managed care insurances, assisted living facilities, hospitals, doctor offices providers network that has collaborated with us to provide services and referrals.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
pastingWe are capable of providing low-income homes through our network of over 500 housing providers listed in our database and is continuing to grow. Our housing providers may have anywhere between 1-7 rooms for rent per household. We also network with social service networks to referral seniors/disabled in need of housing/care. Our social service provides include but not limited to over 100 social workers, senior resource alliance, managed care insurances, assisted living facilities, hospitals, doctor offices, providers network and much more that have collaborated with us to provide services and referrals. Our future resources and tools needed to strengthen our work include but not limited to our donations and grants.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Our social service provides include over 180 social workers, senior resource alliance, managed care insurances, ALF, hospitals, doctor offices, providers network and much more that have collaborated with us to provide services and referrals. Our future resources and tools needed to strengthen our work include but not limited to our donations and grants. So far, we haven’t accomplished raising funder nor donors. We are in the process of getting a new advisory board that will be qualified in funding, accountant, mentor for nonprofit and community-based housing. We have housed hundreds of seniors, disabled and homeless over the years. Our network is continuing to grow as we make an impact on our communities by providing affordable to low-income housing and providing affordable care homes. In addition to the shared housing project, we also provide a listing of over 400 community-based low-income housing that includes 55 plus subsidized housing with a shorter waiting list to those needing an affordable apartment. We have over 400 housing providers (and growing,) in our database. We network with rapid re-housing providers to provide housing for those in need and we hope to expand our services to other areas. We will continue to place our seniors, daily, weekly or monthly. We haven't connected with Funders/donors yet. We need funds for office space and a customer service representative to make an ultimate impact. Donors contribute will increase our efforts to reach our long-term housing goals. Our services have grown beyond the output of working from our homes. Workspace is needed for our success. We network to with agencies to refer seniors, disabled and veterans. Many individuals have stated they heard out our services and was referred to us through unknown agents/social workers. We provide a complete one-stop shop from A to Z to meet the needs of seniors. We now realized how far our name has gone out into the communities. We receive calls from many counties asking for our services. We have learned there is a shortage of affordable housing. The long housing waiting list does not work for those who are homeless waiting 3 to 5 years to receive their own apartment or for someone who is displaced due to housing rental increases and are forced to leave their home. Risks and obstacles exist for our housing providers when they take in strangers without doing a background check or not having renter’s insurance. We provide housing to seniors at no cost. Some of our housing providers pay us per referral. We email Provider’s Welcome Packets which includes the house rules agreement, Florida rental agreement, referral fee, background check/3 referrals, and a joint venture agreement. Objectives along the way may include providers not willing to join our network due to referral fees and at times when no other home is available, we will suffer losses placing seniors, if this is the only placement available in a particular specified area.
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 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 tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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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, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve
Financials
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SDA Ederley Care Referral Service Inc
Revenue & expensesFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
SDA Ederley Care Referral Service Inc
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
Executive Director
Lecia Othlee Marr-Bromley
As the CEO/Executive Director, I have several years of network building and providing low-income community-based rapid re-housing programs/projects experience. Our organization has served the Central Florida Community as a "one-stop-shop" over the past three plus years as a nonprofit. Being in alinement with the nature of our community-oriented services, I dissolved my LLC and reincorporated it into a 501c3 nonprofit organization to better service our ever-growing homeless population. I now have an organization with more ability to house those in need of low-income/affordable housing and community-based wraparound care/services. I am highly committed to providing our high impact services to the communities we serve. We have built trust with the people we serve and our partner network by ensuring and promoting transparency, good communication, program efficiency, and accountability. I am glad to be serving the people and having my organization help make a change in the housing crisis.
SDA Ederley Care Referral Service Inc
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
There are no highest paid employees recorded for this organization.
SDA Ederley Care Referral Service Inc
Board of directorsas of 06/26/2023
Board of directors data
Angela Lomacang
Acting Board Chair
Term: 2021 - 2023
Ronald Lynch
Medical Doctor/Community Volunteer
Glen Marr
Community Service/Leader Volunteer
Angela Lomacang
Board Chair
Almaria Griffin
Realtor
Daniel Smith
Business Development Administrator/Volunteer
John Lomacang
Pastoral/IT Assistant
Luiggi Reno
Client Services/Volunteer
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 ? No -
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
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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 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.