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The City of Miami, Mayor’s Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives has been awarded a three year Compassion Capital Fund (CCF) Demonstration Program Grant by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The Compassion Capital Fund, created in 2002, is a key component of President Bush’s faith-based and community initiative. Recipients of CCF grants provide training, technical assistance, and sub-awards to a diverse range of faith-based and community organizations seeking to increase their ability to provide social services to those in need. Technical assistance activities are offered free of charge and focus on strategic planning, financial management, board development, fundraising, and outcome measurement. The City of Miami is the first municipality to receive a CCF grant.

This grant, which is administered by the Mayor’s Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives, represents a unique collaboration among the City of Miami, Center on Nonprofit Effectiveness (C-One) Powered by Hands on Miami, Miami-Dade County, The Children’s Trust, Alliance for Human Services, Family and Children’s Faith Coalition of South Dade, and United Way of Miami-Dade. The City and its partners will operate this grant under the name of Miami NICE: Network for Integration, Compassion and Empowerment.

The Miami NICE partnership will offer various training and technical assistance workshops/seminars throughout the county. Competitive sub-awards, ranging from $5,000 to $20,000, will be available to eligible organizations that provide services in one or more CCF priority areas: children and youth; ex-offender re-entry; elders in need; homelessness; rehabilitation services to addicts and/or prisoners; families transitioning from welfare to work; and healthy marriage initiatives. Sub-awards will fund capacity building activities that produce measurable impact resulting in more sustainable organizations.

“Miami-Dade County has some of the most innovative and effective faith and community-based groups in the country and I am honored to be able to provide an opportunity for them to receive free training and technical assistance and to select a few, sub-awards, to sustain and build their organizations so that they may continue their invaluable work.”

- Mayor Diaz 

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