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Created: 01/18/2018 • Last updated: 01/23/2018 General information Organization American Red Cross Contact First name Barbara Contact Last name Carey Contact e-mail barbara.carey@redcross.org Contact phone number 6023476508 Address Street 4747 N 22nd St, Suite 100 City Phoenix State AZ ZIP Code 85016 From what tribe is the Gila River Indian Community organization requesting the grant? Total grant amount request 375,000.00 1 / 2 The Gila River Indian Community offers multi-year awards. If your organization is requesting a multi-year grant for this project or program from the Gila River Indian Community, enter the amount to be requested each year. Amount Year 1 (Gila River Indian 187,500.00 Community Grants Only) Year 2 (Gila River Indian 187,500.00 Community Grants Only) Year 3 (Gila River Indian Community Grants Only) Year 4 (Gila River Indian Community Grants Only) Year 5 (Gila River Indian Community Grants Only) 2 / 2 Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 Cover Sheet Municipality Information 1. Date of Application: 2/27/2018 (NOTE: Click or use up/down arrow keys to move among fields) 2. Name of City, Town or County: Maricopa County 3. Mayor (City or Town) or Board of Supervisor’s Chairman (County): Steve Chucri 4. Mailing Address: 301 W Jefferson Avenue, Suite 960 5. City: Phoenix State: Arizona Zip Code: 85003 6. Acknowledgement of Submission by Authorized Municipality Representative: Typed Name/Title: Zachary Wolfe, Finance Department Signature: Applicant Information 7. Department/Organization Name: American Red Cross of Greater Phoenix 8. Is this a 501c non-profit Organization? No Yes If yes, attach IRS Determination Letter 9. Application Contact Person: Barbara Carey Title: Grants Manager 10. Phone Number: 602-347-6508 11. Mailing Address: 4747 N 22nd St, Suite 100 12. City: Phoenix State: Arizona Zip Code: 85016 13. Email Address: Barbara.carey@redcross.org Website Address: redcross.org/local/az-nm-el-paso Project Information 14. Project Name: American Red Cross Humanitarian Services 15. Purpose of Grant: We respectfully request your support to fund the purchase of a new Bloodmobile to serve the state of Arizona, primarily Maricopa and Pinal counties. 16. Priority Funding Area Healthcare 17. Annual amount requested $187,500.00 18. Number of years that funding is 2 requested 19. Total amount requested (annual $375,000.00 amount x number of years) 20. Has your organization received past 2015 - $175,000 funding from GRIC? If yes, list each year 2017 - $100,000 and amount 21. Geographic area served State of Arizona For Office Use Only: Data Entry Receipt Evaluation Outcome A Approval Recommended/Amount $ A Denial Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 Narrative Please structure your proposal to provide the following information in the order indicated. Provide the narrative in paragraph form in the text field provided. Please be thorough but strive for brevity. 1. Briefly describe the organization’s history, mission and goals. For over 100 years, the American Red Cross in Arizona proudly has delivered on our mission, helping people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies. Arizona is home to three Red Cross Chapters (Northern Arizona, Greater Phoenix, and Southern Arizona) serving all 15 Arizona counties and part of the American Red Cross Arizona-New Mexico-El Paso Region. Services are provided in accordance with our mission: The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors, furthering our vision to partner with the people of Arizona to develop and foster safer families, neighborhoods and worksites … to promote a system of community self-sufficiency and compassionate response when emergencies arise. American Red Cross volunteers and employees are committed to improving the quality of human life and enhancing self-reliance by providing disaster response and recovery, emergency family services, and preparedness and safety training. During FY 2017, your Red Cross in Arizona provided vital services to families and individuals in crisis while preparing our community members with life-saving skills. Our accomplishments included: • Responded to 777 local disasters, of which approximately 95% involved home fires • Assisted 1,103 families / 3,246 individuals who suffered disaster incidents • Provided over $668,000 in direct financial assistance for food/groceries and clothing; emergency shelter and rent; bedding and household items; and replacement of prescription drugs, eyeglasses, medical supplies and health-related items • Installed 5,058 free smoke alarms, serving 6,547 individuals through the Home Fire Campaign • Trained 43,391 individuals in CPR, first aid, AED, Babysitting and Family Caregiving, Aquatics, community disaster education and other life-saving classes, a figure which grows to 4,936,046 when we include those who have downloaded our Red Cross apps and accessed various components of our electronic and “Digital Reach” aspects of our Health and Safety information and training • Offered Service to the Armed Forces assistance to over 7,500 service members and their families, including outreach services and pre-deployment briefings, emergency message relays, casework services, and financial aid casework management • Worked with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent societies to link families separated by armed conflict, natural disaster or civil unrest in their home countries, and offered International Humanitarian Law classes • Collected and distributed donations of over 56,000 units of blood through the Red Cross Arizona Blood Services Region, a subdivision of the single largest supplier of blood in the US, and conducted approximately 2000 mobile blood drives Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 From mining towns to metropolitan areas, deserts to shining seas, nearly every second of every day, someone is assisted by the American Red Cross. Every two seconds, someone in America needs blood. Every eight minutes, the Red Cross responds to a disaster in the community. We are proud to uphold our pledge to the American people: when the Red Cross is notified of a disaster, the Red Cross responds, 100% of the time. 2. If the applying organization is non-municipal or a non-profit 501c, please describe your relationship with Arizona municipalities including past and present support, whether through partnerships, collaborations, in-kind contributions, grants, tax-based funding or other. Describe the supporting municipality’s role in this project. If the applying organization is a municipality governmental sub-division please enter the text “Not applicable.” The Red Cross worked with Maricopa County in 2015 and 2017 for funding from the Gila River Indian Community. Our Disaster Cycle Services staff work in partnership with county emergency services staff and first responders throughout Arizona in the context of disaster relief operations. 3. Describe the proposed project and planned goals and activities. Every two seconds, someone in America needs lifesaving blood. Whether it is someone recovering from an accident, a woman giving birth or a child with a blood disorder, each person who needs blood trusts that it will be there quickly and safely. With generous support from volunteer blood donors, the American Red Cross answers this call in Arizona and across the country. We are privileged to provide about 40% of the US blood supply, making us the single largest supplier of blood and blood products in the country. As the only nationwide blood system, we serve as the country’s preeminent supplier of red cells, platelets and plasma, and we help ensure that these lifesaving products are available whenever and wherever they are needed. To fulfill this mission, we rely on our bloodmobiles, the backbone of our blood services fleet, to collect and deliver lifesaving blood. The project we propose to the Gila River Indian Community – American Red Cross Humanitarian Services – is our request that you partner with us in support of Red Cross Blood Services through the purchase of a new bloodmobile to serve Arizona, with the primary focus in Maricopa and Pinal counties. To make giving blood as convenient as possible, bloodmobiles – specially fitted buses containing equipment, beds and supplies – are vital to reaching today’s busy donors near their homes, workplaces, schools and other community-based locations. They enable us to collect blood at space-constrained facilities and in hard-to-reach communities. Today about 85% of all blood donations are made at mobile or organization-hosted blood drives, making bloodmobiles ever more vital to our collection efforts. Here in Phoenix, the Red Cross has only one bloodmobile and, unfortunately, this vehicle is definitely showing its age. Thanks to your adoption of this bloodmobile in 2015, you helped to extend its life, for which we and countless blood donors and blood recipients are very grateful. But a vehicle which averages 1200 miles per Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 month and has far exceeded its projected usable life of 10 years reaches a point when replacement is the only reasonable option. With a new bloodmobile, we can sustain our efforts so that the essential activities – blood drives at businesses, community organizations, churches and other facilities – can continue 24/7/365, serving quite literally as the foundation of our efforts in blood services in Maricopa and Pinal counties. We hope you will join us in the mission to deliver lifesaving blood to patients in need, ensuring we can keep our promise to be there, with lifesaving blood when help can’t wait. With your generous support, Arizona will be home to a new bloodmobile that more efficiently and effectively serves our communities. 4. Describe how the proposed project satisfies one or more of the priority funding areas identified by the Gila River Indian Community. Seen through the lens of the priority areas identified by the Gila River Indian Community, our request for funding to support the purchase of a new bloodmobile relates most directly to health care. Trusted, reliable and always ready, the Red Cross serves as a critical supplier of blood here in Arizona and for the entire nation. This means that when hospitals and cancer treatment centers are in need, they know they can turn to the Red Cross. For our children, parents, grandparents and friends, the Red Cross can mean the difference between life and death. 5. Identify the needs/problems to be addressed, target population and number of people to be served by the project. In the broadest terms, the need which we address is identified in the opening words of our mission statement: The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies. The American Red Cross of Greater Phoenix serves everyone in Maricopa and Pinal Counties. Considering our three chapters (Greater Phoenix, Southern Arizona and Northern Arizona), we serve everyone in Arizona. Last year, we collected and distributed donations of over 56,000 units of blood and conducted approximately 2000 mobile blood drives – an ambitious and challenging schedule to maintain under the best of circumstances, but we could be doing more. The current state of our aging Phoenix bloodmobile causes many problems: • Because the bloodmobile breaks down frequently, it must be removed to be serviced, and subsequently blood drives have to be canceled. • Due to its age, the vehicle overheats easily. During the summer months, we cannot schedule blood drives involving the bloodmobile later than a 9 a.m. start time because the air conditioner will not be able to keep up with the heat, which represents a safety issue for donors and staff. • The bloodmobile takes in exhaust fumes, causing donors and staff at several drives to get sick, necessitating cancellation of the drives. Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 Patients in need of blood look to the Red Cross as an unwavering source of help, and we depend on our bloodmobiles to provide steadfast service. The new, state-of-the-art bloodmobiles present several features/benefits that help to solve the above problems. • New bloodmobiles are fully equipped for blood collection, including three health history booths where donors’ eligibility screenings are conducted and five beds where blood is drawn. • Maintenance costs are reduced. • Vehicles are vastly more reliable, increasing the number of possible mobile blood drives and enabling access to new and harder-to-reach communities in order to collect the blood types most needed. The Red Cross bloodmobile serves as a visual reminder to our communities that the Red Cross is at work maintaining the blood supply. We hope you will join us in delivering help and hope throughout the state of Arizona by underwriting the purchase, customization and transportation of a new bloodmobile. We would be pleased to recognize your generosity and, with your permission, would be proud to co-brand the new bloodmobile with the seal of the Gila River Indian Community. 6. Define the project as a new or continuing program. This is a new project in the sense that it involves the purchase of a new bloodmobile. However, Red Cross Blood Services is an existing and continuing program here in Arizona. 7. Provide a brief timeline including start and finish dates. Indicate if the timeline is flexible. We have designed this application on a two-year timeline, commencing at the beginning of the upcoming fiscal year (July 1, 2018) and, for funding purposes, continuing through the end of the subsequent fiscal year (June 30, 2020). This schedule is flexible. We anticipate the lifespan of a new bloodmobile to be 10 years. 8. Identify other organizations, partners or funders participating in the project and their roles. We have not requested funding for a new bloodmobile from any other funders. We do partner with businesses, community organizations and churches in sponsoring blood drives, and we supply blood throughout Arizona. 9. Would you be able to implement the proposed plan if your organization received partial funding for this project? The cost of a new bloodmobile is $375,000. We are submitting this proposal as a two-year request because we realize that $375,000 is a large amount at one time, in particular considering all of the requests you receive from so many community organizations. Under the Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 funding policies of the Red Cross, if we receive half of the funding ($187,500) in the first year with a pledge for the rest of the funding in the second year, we will be able to order the new bloodmobile immediately. Of course we are open to the possibility of receiving the entire amount ($375,000) in one year. 10. Describe your plan for project financial sustainability beyond the grant period. If this is a program/project previously funded by the Gila River Indian Community describe efforts made towards the previously described sustainability plan. Humanitarian Services, including Blood Services, speak to the heart and soul of the American Red Cross nationwide and here in Arizona, part of the core services of the Red Cross, and will require on-going funding. We will continue to seek such funding through various corporate and foundation partners and United Way. The American Red Cross is not a government agency. All Red Cross disaster assistance is free; our appeals to the compassion and generosity of Arizona residents, foundations and businesses enable us to provide these vital services and will be on-going. 11. Describe your plan to document progress and results. We will be proud to share with you on a regular basis a detailed accounting of the activities associated with “your” bloodmobile: number of miles traveled, number of blood drives held, number of donors served, number of units of blood collected. We would be honored to conduct blood drives at location(s) of your choice on the Gila River Indian Community, including at your casinos, providing maximum visibility and opportunities for visitors and residents to participate. 12. Indicate any application to and/or awards made by a tribe other than the Gila River Indian Community for state shared revenues for this and any other project for the past five (5) years. If this information is included in a separate attachment, please indicate that here. The American Red Cross Greater Phoenix Chapter received funding in the past from the Salt River Pima- Maricopa Indian Community in support of Disaster Cycle Services, most specifically helping to underwrite the direct financial assistance provided to disaster clients in Maricopa County. We have applied for funding from the Ft. McDowell Yavapai Nation in support of Humanitarian Services. That application was not funded. The American Red Cross Southern Arizona Chapter has received funding from the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in support of Disaster Relief and Service to the Armed Forces. They applied for funding from the Tohono O’odham Nation, but the application was not funded. Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 Project Budget Budget Period: July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2020 For each budget item listed here please provide a narrative description on the following Project Budget Detail page. Proposed Budget Expense Amount Amount In Kind Total Budget (list each budget item) requested from requested or contributions GRIC secured from other funders 1. One Bloodmobile $355,000 $0 $0 $355,000 2. Supplies/Equipment: $ 600 $0 $0 $ 600 Under-counter refrigerator 3. 18-foot manual awning $ 2,000 $0 $0 $ 2,000 4. Endura/Mora rubber flooring $ 3,300 $0 $0 $ 3,300 5. Rear-access storage area $ 2,500 $0 $0 $ 2,500 6. Double red cell inserts/flip-up $ 475 $0 $0 $ 475 top 7. Overhead cabinets in history $ 250 $0 $0 $ 250 booth 8. Aisle window in 3rd history booth $ 100 $0 $0 $ 100 9. 5 fans (6 ft.) at foot of donor bed $ 475 $0 $0 $ 475 10. Steering wheel table top $ 300 $0 $0 $ 300 11. Red Cross-approved graphics $ 10,000 $0 $0 $ 10,000 wrap ILOS 12. Click here to enter text. $0 $0 $0 $0 13. Click here to enter text. $0 $0 $0 $0 14. Click here to enter text. $0 $0 $0 $0 15. Click here to enter text. $0 $0 $0 $0 16. Click here to enter text. $0 $0 $0 $0 17. 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