CORETZ FAMILY FOUNDATION

2024 Summary/Findings

The Coretz Family Foundation is grateful to the inaugural cohort of collaboration partners and their commitment to learn and grow together.

2024 Partners included:

  • Tulsa Changemakers
  • Urban Coders Guild
  • Reading Partners Tulsa
  • Youth Medical Mentorship
  • Still She Rises
  • Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation
  • Oklahoma Policy Institute
  • Mental Health Association of Oklahoma
  • Act House, Inc.
  • Build in Tulsa
  • The Uma Center of Tulsa
  • Black Wall Street Chamber of Commerce

Throughout the past two years, CFF, in partnership with Leadership Tulsa, collected data and feedback on the effectiveness of CFF’s collaboration grant process. Over several convenings, we collected feedback that highlighted the successes and challenges that partners are facing. We are committed to leveraging the feedback to guide the CFF grant strategy moving forward.

The data and trends collected highlight key wins in our efforts, while also revealing areas where we need to push forward to ensure sustained progress and drive future success.

Key Successes of the inaugural cohort:

  1. CFF created intentional time and space for partners to collaborate across sectors.With the set aside time, partners prioritized collaboration.
  2. Organizations gained access to experts in data, program evaluation, and storytelling.This built organizational capacity and effectiveness.
  3. Collaboration allowed organizations to elevate collective efforts and impact.

Areas of Growth for the Coretz Family Foundation:

  1. There is a need for greater transparency in grant applications, timelines, and processes.
  2. There is a need for shared data at the community level.

Evaluation for Funds Granted

1. In your original request to CFF, you listed primary objectives you wanted to achieve with support for the project. Describe efforts underway to achieve these objectives . Have your objectives changed? Briefly describe short-term and long-term outcomes you want to achieve with this program.

2. Describe your organization’s greatest strengths in terms of your capacity to achieve those intended outcomes .

3. What lessons have you learned from previous projects I campaigns in order to prepare? What lessons have you learned from the current project?

4. Describe the basis for your approach to this project I campaign . What evidence-based practices did you rely upon to devise an approach?

5. How are you evaluating your program I campaign? What tools do you have in place?

6. What significant challenges, if any, have inhibited your ability to achieve your intended outcomes?

7. How many additional unduplicated clients were you able to serve during the term of this gift (if applicable)?

8. What is the plan for ongoing evaluation for this project I campaign? What needed resources are allocated for evaluation in the project I campaign budget?

9. How would you describe the health and balance of your funding mix? Is it diversified enough? Which areas, if any, do you seek to change or improve?

10. What are your concerns, if any, about your fundraising picture?

*Please also forward via email: 1) current program I campaign budget; 2) updated organizational budget;
3) updated list of donors and funds raised to date 4) updated construction timeline, if applicable to: Amanda Morrall at: amanda @coretz.org .

Evaluation for Funds Granted

1. In your original request to CFF, you listed primary objectives you wanted to achieve with support for the project. Describe efforts underway to achieve these objectives . Have your objectives changed? Briefly describe short-term and long-term outcomes you want to achieve with this program.

2. Describe your organization’s greatest strengths in terms of your capacity to achieve those intended outcomes .

3. What lessons have you learned from previous projects I campaigns in order to prepare? What lessons have you learned from the current project?

4. Describe the basis for your approach to this project I campaign . What evidence-based practices did you rely upon to devise an approach?

5. How are you evaluating your program I campaign? What tools do you have in place?

6. What significant challenges, if any, have inhibited your ability to achieve your intended outcomes?

7. How many additional unduplicated clients were you able to serve during the term of this gift (if applicable)?

8. What is the plan for ongoing evaluation for this project I campaign? What needed resources are allocated for evaluation in the project I campaign budget?

9. How would you describe the health and balance of your funding mix? Is it diversified enough? Which areas, if any, do you seek to change or improve?

10. What are your concerns, if any, about your fundraising picture?

*Please also forward via email: 1) current program I campaign budget; 2) updated organizational budget; 3) updated list of donors and funds raised to date 4) updated construction timeline, if applicable to: Amanda Morrall at: amanda @coretz.org .