Causes: Human Services
Mission: To advance collaboration to create community-wide solutions for thriving nonprofits, neighborhoods, and families.
Results:
•Ministries equipped to meet the increase in the demand for services
•Funding increased and diversified
•Number of volunteers increased and new partnerships developed
•Personnel and volunteer management programs enhanced
•Board and executive director leadership strengthened
•Technology infrastructure improved, resulting in better data tracking and management
•Long-term strategies developed
Target demographics: The working poor, families and individuals at high risk of homelessness and the homeless.
Direct beneficiaries per year: ACAM's 14 partners serve more than 200,000 individuals with 147 distinct services
Geographic areas served: Greater Houston Region: Harris, Galveston, Fort Bend, Montgomery and Brazoria counties.
Programs: ACAM leverages the assets of community service providers and buildscross-sector partnerships toward collective impact, creatingcommunity-wide solutions for thriving nonprofits, neighborhoods, and families. ACAM conducts research, measures outcomes, and designs programs encompassing best practices, doing so at a level at which direct-service nonprofits rarely have the resources. In turn, through ACAM, the network is increasing collaboration, promoting each other’s development, raising service standards, innovating programs, and making a greater impact in the lives of low-income families across the region. The ACAM Network fights homelessness, hunger, and hopelessness with a strong commitment to helping clients build independence and resiliency. For families living in poverty or experiencing hardship, neighborhood-based assistance ministries can be the difference between a hungry belly and a stocked pantry, or eviction and housing stability. Solving the depths of poverty in Houston’s neighborhoods requires a holistic approach implemented through trusted relationships fostered in those neighborhoods. ACAM honors the unique relationship partnerorganizations have with the communities they serve and helps them pursue community transformation asthey transform themselves. As a result, ACAM’s ministry partners are highly engaged in building capacity for their own organizations, while also contributing significant time and energy to strengthening the network and helping more families gain tools to succeed. Each partner organization employs culturally sensitive strategies tailored to their respective communitiesto help families gain stability and leave poverty behind. They recognize that success takes persistence, education, and coordination, and joining the ACAM Network is one way they demonstrate their commitment to excellence and growth.
Mission: To advance collaboration to create community-wide solutions for thriving nonprofits, neighborhoods, and families.
Results:
•Ministries equipped to meet the increase in the demand for services
•Funding increased and diversified
•Number of volunteers increased and new partnerships developed
•Personnel and volunteer management programs enhanced
•Board and executive director leadership strengthened
•Technology infrastructure improved, resulting in better data tracking and management
•Long-term strategies developed
Target demographics: The working poor, families and individuals at high risk of homelessness and the homeless.
Direct beneficiaries per year: ACAM's 14 partners serve more than 200,000 individuals with 147 distinct services
Geographic areas served: Greater Houston Region: Harris, Galveston, Fort Bend, Montgomery and Brazoria counties.
Programs: ACAM leverages the assets of community service providers and buildscross-sector partnerships toward collective impact, creatingcommunity-wide solutions for thriving nonprofits, neighborhoods, and families. ACAM conducts research, measures outcomes, and designs programs encompassing best practices, doing so at a level at which direct-service nonprofits rarely have the resources. In turn, through ACAM, the network is increasing collaboration, promoting each other’s development, raising service standards, innovating programs, and making a greater impact in the lives of low-income families across the region. The ACAM Network fights homelessness, hunger, and hopelessness with a strong commitment to helping clients build independence and resiliency. For families living in poverty or experiencing hardship, neighborhood-based assistance ministries can be the difference between a hungry belly and a stocked pantry, or eviction and housing stability. Solving the depths of poverty in Houston’s neighborhoods requires a holistic approach implemented through trusted relationships fostered in those neighborhoods. ACAM honors the unique relationship partnerorganizations have with the communities they serve and helps them pursue community transformation asthey transform themselves. As a result, ACAM’s ministry partners are highly engaged in building capacity for their own organizations, while also contributing significant time and energy to strengthening the network and helping more families gain tools to succeed. Each partner organization employs culturally sensitive strategies tailored to their respective communitiesto help families gain stability and leave poverty behind. They recognize that success takes persistence, education, and coordination, and joining the ACAM Network is one way they demonstrate their commitment to excellence and growth.
710 North Post Oak Road Suite 210, Houston, TX 77024
713-640-5192
Human Services
Houston
