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The partnerships we have established for this SIF project will greatly enhance our capabilities to execute both components of our strategies. NPI, NGA, NLC, and NACo not only provide us with sustainable, high quality access to their constituencies for recruiting and dissemination, they also bring us a cadre of experts in governmental structure and the SIF priority program issue areas. This staff, along with evaluation and programmatic experts from Abt, will work alongside TSCP staff in delivering TA, thus not only benefiting to our Sub-Recipients, but also building our partners' capacity to bring PFS expertise to their much wider audience of governmental leaders and the hundreds of federal grantees who receive TA on evaluation and evidence-based practice. In a similar vein, we intend to engage leading associations in the philanthropic field, including the Council on Foundations ("CoF"), United Way chapters, and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations ("GEO"), as well as other federal intermediaries and contractors (including NPI) who provide TA to promising programs.
In summary, our proposed approach is deliberately designed to give CNCS/SIF the broad umbrella under which its ambitions for advancing the PFS field can be realized. We have endeavored to: create a process that will be open to all of the key stakeholders in the PFS field; provide TA to large enough cohorts to be able to generate generalizable learnings; and catalyze a robust pipeline of diverse future PFS projects with increasingly better chances of success. Many outstanding organizations have already expressed interest in joining us in this endeavor. We look forward to a partnership with them and the Corporation in this vital initiative. |