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Last updated: 02/27/2018 General information Organization ICM Food & Clothing Bank Contact First name Beth Contact Last name Fiorenza Contact e-mail beth@icmaz.org Contact phone number 602-254-7450 Address Street PO Box 2225 City Phoenix State AZ ZIP Code 85002 From what tribe is the Gila River Indian Community organization requesting the grant? Total grant amount request 60000 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 20000 Community Grants Only) Year 2 (Gila River Indian 20000 Community Grants Only) Year 3 (Gila River Indian 20000 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: 2/28/2018 (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 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: ICM Food & Clothing Bank 8. Is this a 501c non-profit Organization? No Yes If yes, attach IRS Determination Letter 9. Application Contact Person: Beth Fiorenza Title: Executive Director 10. Phone Number: 602-254-7450 11. Mailing Address: PO Box 2225 12. City: Phoenix State: Arizona Zip Code: 85002 13. Email Address: beth@icmaz.org Website Address: icmaz.org Project Information 14. Project Name: Children’s Nutrition Program 15. Purpose of Grant: ICM Food and Clothing Bank’s Children’s Nutrition Program will provide a needed snack for each child coming into Love Corner while parents are getting services. 16. Priority Funding Area Healthcare 17. Annual amount requested $20,000 18. Number of years that funding is 3 requested 19. Total amount requested (annual $60,000 amount x number of years) 20. Has your organization received past $25,000 – 2014, $20,000 – 2015, $15,000 - 2016 funding from GRIC? If yes, list each year and amount 21. Geographic area served Maricopa County 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. ICM Food & Clothing Bank was created as a grassroots movement among religious congregations. It has been an integral part of the community since 1983, with the mission of providing an immediate response to basic human needs for the working poor, elderly, families, children, nearly homeless and disabled in Central Phoenix. We offer services of emergency food and clothing, toiletries, medical services and resource referrals that focus on helping those in need to become self-sufficient and prevent homelessness. 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.” In 2008, the City of Glendale gave ICM $7,000 for food purchase for residents of Glendale. In 2010, the City of Phoenix created a 2 cents sales tax on food, and critics said this tax would punish the poor; in response, the City Council developed a fund for competition among food banks. ICM received $67,500 from the City each year between 2010 – 2015 to purchase food for residents of Phoenix. Additonally ICM received support from City of Phoenix in 2017 for the Second Bag Program. In addition, ICM has a relationship with Maricopa County around some employees. A number of employees, including the County Manager, donate money to ICM. 3. Describe the proposed project and planned goals and activities. In 2014, thanks to the help of the Gilla River Indian Community, ICM Food and Clothing Bank (ICM) has made an immediate impact on childhood hunger. ICM’s Nutrition Program was created to provide a snack for each child coming into Love Corner while parents are getting services from volunteers. Going forward if this application is funded, each snack will be a nutritious food, based on consultations with a nutritionist from ASU, and pediatric nurses working in our medical clinics. As parents pick up their food in our pantry, they will also receive a snack bag for the young child(ren). Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 Included in the snack bag will be an information sheet on what kinds of foods are important for children and what constitutes one serving of the food, etc. According the USDA, a well-balanced breakfast offers an important nutritional foundation for a productive and healthy day, at any age. Though many children come to ICM without eating first thing in the morning. They also might not have received food before bedtime the night before. They are irritable and hungry, and might cry, have a tantrum or act very sleepy while in our care center, Love Corner. This program not only staving off the immediate hunger but educating the children and parents about making healthy choices within their limited budget. ICM needs continued funding for this program as the need has grown. Last year, ICM’s client services grew 9% in 2017 to 148,000 individuals. The food distribution grew by 411,000 pounds. Number of children closely parallels that growth, and according to our projections, ICM are on target for first 4 months of this year to grow another 15% in 2018. To ensure children’s health and stability, ICM purchases the food for the 2nd food box (per month) to ensure our families and their children in the community are happy, few and healthy. This allows the most vulnerable families to receive a second food box and not worry about where their next meal will come from. These food purchases will also focus the next year on more healthy food options for our families and children. A recent survey of clients in December 2016 shows the vast majority of families’ income is still less than $12,000 a year. This is severe poverty that is not improving - people are not finding work, and minimum wage increase meant reduced hours for many. This program is one way to start with the youngest clients to the food bank and change their daily lives for the better. In helping family of young children, the Nutrition Program works break the cycle of poverty by teaching better eating habits and nurturing children’s early brain development. According to the Undersecretary of Food, Nutrition, and Comsumer Services, students who eat breakfast do better on standardized tests, pay attention and behave better in class, and are less frequently tardy, absent or sent to the nurse’s office. ICM can’t make sure each child has breakfast, but they can guarantee each child that visits ICM receives instantanteous relief to their hunger and the tools to healthy choices on a budget. 4. Describe how the proposed project satisfies one or more of the priority funding areas identified by the Gila River Indian Community. Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 ICM feels the Children’s Nutrition Program fits three of the Gila River Indian Community priority areas: Health Care Services, Economic Development, and Education. Children and their working poor families need food to survive; ICM provides the basic needs of the whole family and this new program targets the children. Having access to food is a basic step to caring for the health of an individual. Helping the working poor stave off homelessness aids the whole economy. The clients can be productive members of society and stretch the budgets to cover other basic needs like rent. Educating children and their families how to eat better even on a small budget is one of the primary goals of this program. Plus, children can’t learn when they are hungry. 5. Identify the needs/problems to be addressed, target population and number of people to be served by the project. There are no full-service grocery stores within five miles of ICM, a food desert. For families with transportation problems on top of their poverty issues, the lack of a store creates nutrition problems. They are trapped into finding food they need at a convenience store, or hoping to car pool once in a while to a grocery store. These families might go for days or weeks without produce, fresh dairy products or affordable nutritent-rich food of any kind. But the nutritional crisis for our families is hardest on the children we see. Approximately half of the individuals who were served at ICM in 2017 were younger than 18. Those children are at special risk for health problems because of hunger. According to Sandra G. Hassink, MD, FAAP, President, American Academy of Pediatrics, today’s children and their families are experiencing an unprecedented nutritional crisis resulting from the triple threat of obesity, food insecurity and malnutrition. Nearly 1 in 3 school-age children and adolescents has overweight and obesity, and only half of all children ages 2 to 17 meet federal diet quality standards. Children with obesity are at increased risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, asthma, joint problems, and social and psychological problems, among other ailments. The challenge for low-income families in today’s modern food environment may not be obtaining enough food, but rather having dependable access to high-quality food. Families with children are more likely to be food insecure, and being food insecure makes families especially vulnerable to obesity due to the additional risk factors associated with poverty, including limited resources, lack of access to healthy, affordable foods, and limited access to health care. Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 Being hungry affects a young child’s ability to play and learn. Developmental gaps between food insecure infants and toddlers and their food “secure” peers are present long before they start kindergarten. Young children from low-income families are put at increased risk for cognitive, motor and behavioral problems. The Dairy Council of California reports that a healthy breakfast results in improved attention, less errors and better concentration at preschool in the morning. Developmental risk can also be “invisible.” Underweight infants and toddlers are 166% more likely to be at developmental risk as compared to normal weight babies and toddlers. They also might suffer from stunted growth of bones and muscle. Poor nutrition is due in part to poor eating habits, which includes eating the wrong food and skipping meals. Obesity in low income children, seen at ICM Food & Clothing Bank, seems an odd consequence of being poor, but these children are eating more junk food than other children because of what food is available to them. Young children eating fast food, donuts, muffins, crackers and sweets face the complication of heart disease and dental problems later in life. The most easily remedied factor jeopardizing children’s health, development and school readiness is food insecurity. Research shows that programs such as food stamps, WIC and nutrition assistance programs like food banks, reduce children’s hospitalization costs. Nutrition assistance programs also reduce poor child health and developmental delays, potentially decreasing health care and remedial education costs. NUMBER OF PEOPLE SERVED: ICM Food & Clothing Bank is committed to raising the nutrition status of the low income people that we serve impacting 148,000 individuals in 2017. That is a 9% increase from the previous year. The Love Corner will serve the health snack food to 30 children (infants and toddlers) per day per month totaling 9,360 empty bellies each year. 6. Define the project as a new or continuing program. Thanks to seed money for the program from Gila River Indian Community in 2014, this program continues to grow. Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 7. Provide a brief timeline including start and finish dates. Indicate if the timeline is flexible. Each day, on average 180-200 families visit ICM from 9-11am. As the families enter the building (501 S 9th Ave), they can have the child care giver in the Love Corner watch their children. At that time, the children receive a healthy snack and information about what kinds of foods are important for children and what constitutes one serving of the food. 8. Identify other organizations, partners or funders participating in the project and their roles. Each snack will be a nutritious food, based on consultations with a nutritionist from ASU College of Nursing, and pediatric nurses working in our medical clinic, ICM/CHS Well Life Clinic, a seven year old collaboration between Cathedral Health Services and ICM to provide free medical screening to the low income population. 9. Would you be able to implement the proposed plan if your organization received partial funding for this project? If full funding is not secured from multiple sources, the program will still take place but the amount of snack items will decrease. 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. FUNDING RESOURCES: ICM’s overall budget's revenues are diversified including 43% from individual contributions, 35% from corporations or foundations, 12% from government funding, 8% from congregational contributions, and 26% from other income. In addition, each year ICM generates a total of nearly $3,000,000 in in-kind donations of food and clothing goods. SUSTAINABILITY: The Children’s Nutrition Program is a desirable project to fund based on the funding priorities of corporation and foundations researched. Additionally, the focus of children is appropriate for individual donors as well. 11. Describe your plan to document progress and results. Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 The success of our project is determined through a quantitative and qualitative outcome-based measurement system. Staff and volunteers reporting in ICM’s Data Management system, track daily the numbers of individuals and families served, demographics and requested needs of clients. Qualitative information is gleaned from observation and verbal feedback from clients and volunteers. Outcome measurements offer findings that we use to adapt and improve, in order to become more effective. The Executive Director and the Director of Volunteers meet monthly to review program strengths and areas in need of improvement in order to be more effective in our service delivery. Progress summaries are shared with the board of directors, staff, volunteers and funders as needed. 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. Fort McDowell Yavapai supported ICM in 2013 with $5,000 for general support of the food bank. ICM has not prosued funding from any other tribes since then. Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 Project Budget Budget Period: October 1, 2018 to September 31, 2018 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. Executive Director $0 $6,500 $0 $6,500 2. Director of Operations $1,200 $2,800 $0 $4,000 3. Childcare Giver $6,000 $6,000 $0 $12,000 4. Warehouse Manager $2,800 $0 $0 $2,800 5. Benefits $0 $2,530 $0 $2,530 6. Educational Materials $0 $8,000 $0 $8,000 7. Food & Bags $10,000 $14,000 $0 $24,000 8. Click here to enter text. $0 $0 $0 $0 9. Click here to enter text. $0 $0 $0 $0 10. Click here to enter text. $0 $0 $0 $0 11. Click here to enter text. $0 $0 $0 $0 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. Click here to enter text. $0 $0 $0 $0 Total Budget $20,000 $39,830 $0 $59,830 Gila River Indian Community Grant Application Grant Cycle 2018 Project Budget Detail Please provide a narrative description for each of the project budget items listed on the previous page. Include the dollar figure and how it was derived. 1. $6,500 = .1 FTE to supervise the program 2. $4,000 = .1 FTE to coordinate purchase and preparation of snacks 3. $12,000 = 1 PTE to distribute the snacks and educational materials 4. $2,800 = 3 hours per week to store and move snacks 5. $2,530 = 10% of salaries covers the benefits 6. $8,000 = Items to hand out to parents 7. $24,000 = Nutrition snacks packed in ziplock bags 8. Click here to enter text. 9. Click here to enter text. 10. Click here to enter text. 11. Click here to enter text. 12. Click here to enter text. 13. Click here to enter text. 14. Click here to enter text. 15. Click here to enter text. 16. Click here to enter text. 17. Click here to enter text. Other explanation: Click here to enter text.