Hispanic Capacity Project
Just as Hispanic residents and families go underserved, so too do faith- and community-based organizations that struggle to simply gain access to basic information about public funds, much less win awards from public sources to assist and help empower the people they serve.
In response to these needs, and with grants from both the Department of Health and Human Services through the Compassion Capital Fund Demonstration Program, and the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, Esperanza started the Hispanic Capacity Project (HCP). This project provides capacity-building support to faith- and community-based organizations working to meet the overwhelming needs currently unmet by traditional and existing agencies and structures.
Through this project, Esperanza provides training and technical assistance to 40 organizations in Florida, and an additional 30 in Pennsylvania. In essence we “come along side” these groups with the ultimate goal of helping them improve their management and leadership skills. This partnership enables them to better serve populations in need, which may include the homeless, the elderly, at-risk youth, families in transition from welfare to work and those needing intensive rehabilitation.
This approach has proven to make the future brighter for these organizations as well as the communities they serve. An earlier Esperanza Hispanic Capacity Project earned a reputation for success by providing similar services to 180 faith- and community-based Hispanic organizations across America.
The Hispanic Capacity Project has proven successful in
• accurately assessing organizational capacity through an innovative tool
designed by Esperanza, which concentrates on five critical developmental areas;
• strengthening the organizational capacity, strategic thinking, and program
development skills necessary to ensure the sustainability of current and future
programs;
• improving service by helping the leadership to skillfully design and manage
viable, effective, and sustainable programs that respond to the immediate and
long-term needs of poor and low-income families in targeted Latino communities;
• securing needed funding by assisting leadership in the development and
implementation of a sustainable resource development strategy;
• helping the organizations successfully pursue funding and other resources from
public and private sources;
• providing an innovative process designed to strengthen and improve their
organization and programs to a level of competency and effectiveness where
their mission, goals, and objectives can be realized through an appropriate
organizational infrastructure, strategic planning process, operational and project
management systems, and a sustainable resource development and
management strategy.
Additionally, we award small grants to Latino organizations in each participating region. These grants are tied to each group’s progress and achievement.
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