Strategic Plan Snapshot
July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008Integrate technology, marketing and community outreach to address the infant mortality crisis:
- Mainstream & ethnic print media unduplicated distribution (151,039).
- Electronic news unduplicated distribution (24,000).
- Flyer unduplicated distribution (600).
- Conferences & public speaking (4,155).
- Broadcast & cable interviews* (distribution unknown).
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- Partnered with USC Center for Premature Infant Health and Development.
- Supervised student service learning projects with PCC, UCLA, UCSB and USC.
- Established West Adams Health Collaborative.
- Strengthened capacity-building with the Center for Civic Partnerships.
- Engaged in peer learning with Flintridge Operating Foundation.
- Direct outreach to 327 participants.
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Train community advocates and leaders through the Black Infant Mortality Prevention Institute:
- Graduated 8 new women in 2007 Sister Friend Leadership Academy.
- Offered peer learning for 35 health and social service professionals.
- Involved 5 seasoned Sister Friends as peer facilitators.
- Secured Huntington Hospital as Pasadena training campus.
- Recognized by State Assembly Member Anthony Portantino and City of Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard.
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| Launch quarterly advisory team model: - Leveraged capacity-building with 14 organizational coaches and executives on loan.
- Integrated 5 student consultants through participatory evaluation and program planning
- Hosted 2008 Strategic Planning & Working Getaway with 10 key stakeholders.
- Celebrated 10th anniversary strategic planning team at UCSB.
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Implement individual donor giving strategies:
- Introduced Champions to Eliminate the Black Infant Mortality Crisis at USC/PBP dialogue with special guest, Dr. James Ammons, President of Florida A&M University.
- Raised $2,855 from spring 2008 donor campaign.
- Gained 20 new individual donors.
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Click here to download a PDF copy of this document. Celebrating the 10th Anniversary Strategic Planning Team
- In August 2003, Wenonah Valentine teamed up with Los Angeles‐based filmmakers, Gregory Everett and David Valentine and served as an executive producer of Black Infant Mortality: Your Generation at Risk, a multimedia project that launched the Pasadena Birthing Project forward into strategic planning for our 10th anniversary in FY2005.
| | - Over 12 months, PBP’s clinical and community board crafted an audacious strategic plan. Our new vision – Dream for 2025: building a community with greater compassion – defined our mission to address racial and ethnic disparities in African American health and examine critical solutions to the black infant mortality crisis in Los Angeles County.
| | - With funding by the California Endowment’s Local Opportunities Fund, PBP introduced five strategic directives through FY2008. We shifted community outreach to raising public awareness by hosting community dialogues and focus groups
| | - In 2007, PBP received the Pasadena Community Foundation’s Great Idea Award for the Distinguished Lecture Series on Black Infant Mortality co‐hosted with USC Center for Premature Infant Health and Development.
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Click here to download a PDF copy of this document. Sisters Doin’ Good in the Hood
| Inspired by the pressing need to improve the quality of life for working women of color in Greater Los Angeles, three nonprofit executives launched the West Adams Health Collaborative: Sisters Doin’ Good in the Hood. They brought together 55 years experience and positioned their strengths in entrepreneurship, community building and technical assistance for sustainable growth and comprehensive planning.
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Toni Laudermilk, CEO of the Center for LifeLong Learners, serves as the lead collaborator. The Center, a 39-year-old after school program, offers homework assistance and math and science tutoring for underperforming students enrolled in public and parochial schools. They also partner with Scripps College and offer a competitive S.A.T. preparation course for high school juniors. Located in Historic West Adams, the Center is three miles west of University Park and 15 minutes from Downtown Los Angeles. The 5,000 square foot facility serves as the home office for the Pasadena Birthing Project and Life Long: Sisters Staying Healthy, both projects of Community Partners®. In addition, the Center rents meeting space for community groups and trainings. | | Wenonah Valentine, Executive Director of the Pasadena Birthing Project, expanded the volunteer health network into a learning organization that prepares champions to eliminate the black infant mortality crisis. PBP-West Adams operates as the regional headquarters for academic and health partnerships with Huntington Hospital Community Outreach, Pasadena City College Early Child Development, UC Santa Barbara Department of Black Studies and USC Center for Premature Infant Health and Development. In addition, it houses the Sister Friend Leadership Academy’s training and resource libraries including a non-circulating collection on early literacy, parenting, racial disparities and women’s health. |
| Eleanor Brown, Founder and Director of Life- Long: Sisters Staying Healthy, focuses on women of color in midlife, particularly African American, who experience the highest risk for chronic disease and poor health. Over seven years, the Sisters Staying Healthy Conference, emerged into a day-retreat of learning and, networking. Each year, the Purple Heart Awards luncheon recognizes women and men who overcame health and life challenges. | 
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We are the demographic of healthy aging women who practice healthy collaborations that impact our public and private lives. Our shared vision and mission recognizes the importance of balancing work and self-care. We provide mutual support and protection. We engage in work with diverse populations. And we’re committed to personal growth. We are Sisters Doin’ Good in the Hood. Pictured above: Wenonah Valentine, Toni Laudermilk and Eleanor Brown support the 2007 Sister Friend Leadership Academy graduation. Pictured below: Eleanor Brown, Wenonah Valentine, Dr. Gerda Govine-Ituarte and Sheila Moore pose together as faculty presenters at the 2008 National Conference on Aging in Washington, DC. |
Click here to download a PDF copy of this document. Speaker Series UCSB Black Studies 40th Anniversary The Department of Black Studies Presents THE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI SPEAKER SERIES April 23, 2008 12-2 pm MultiCultural Center Theater Wenonah Valentine “Forming Community, Student, and Faculty Relationships to Eliminate the Black Infant Mortality Crisis” Wenonah Valentine is a champion in the effort to eliminate the Black infant mortality crisis. Wenonah earned a BA degree with double majors in Black Studies and Economics from UCSB, a MBA degree from Azusa Pacific University, and she received a certificate in early child development administration from Pasadena City College. Wenonah has served for 12 years as Executive Director of the Pasadena Birthing Project, a local volunteer health network that brings together emerging grassroots leaders, policymakers and scholars to examine critical solutions to this persistent public health problem. She is a national public speaker and consultant. Wenonah has received numerous awards and recognition including the Pasadena Community Foundation’s 2007 Great Idea Award for launching the Distinguished Lecture Series on Black Infant Mortality in collaboration with USC’s Keck School of Medicine. Maya Rupert “The Race and Gender Cards: Identity politics after the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries.” Maya Rupert earned a BA degree with double majors in Political Science and Philosophy from UCSB and graduated from UC Berkeley’s School of Law (Boalt Hall) in May 2006. While at Boalt, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice. Following graduation, she served as a law clerk on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to the Honorable Judge Eric L. Clay and is currently an associate with Sidley Austin in Los Angeles. Additionally, she will serve as an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School starting this Fall teaching a course entitled “Street Law.” She has contributed an entry on the African Slave Trade to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Sex, Love, and Culture. She has also written two op-eds for the San Francisco Chronicle: “The Working Wounded: Most women don't have a choice to stay home with kids” and “A Black Woman's Electoral Ambivalence.” Black Studies Reception to follow
2-3:30 pm
MultiCultural Center Lounge - Refreshments provided
Meet Black Studies majors, minors, faculty and staff, learn about career and mentor opportunities,community needs and learn about the Black Studies Major and Minor.
Events sponsored by
The Department of Black Studies and The Black Student Union
For more information please contact
Assistant Professor Clyde Woods
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