The Strategy
An alliance is not an organization to join, it is a cause to back. The model is simple: partner organizations, agencies, businesses and individuals who share a common cause, commit together to finding tangible ways to materially improve conditions surrounding that cause or if possible eradicating the problem altogether.
When a foster child goes without proper support, this is what the future holds for them.
Human Trafficking
70% of human trafficking victims in the U.S. spent time in foster care
Incarceration
In several states, 65% of inmates aged out of foster care
Homelessness
Within 18 month of emancipation, 40-50% of foster children become homeless
Pregnancy Within 1 Year
71% of young women become pregnant within one year of aging out of foster care
Launching the Alliance
As we launch this alliance for Foster Care and Adoption in the Tampa Bay area, we will begin a process of listening to local partner agencies in order to uncover the key metric(s) that the alliance can address, and set a total goal. Stretching us to think about eradication and/or total coverage.
Once identified, a cross organizational advisory council of experts will convene to work on an agreed course of action that could conceivably reach that goal. This plan will then be broken down into phases and requests for proposals (RFP) released for each corresponding phase of the plan.
In turn, funders would back both the phases of the plan and the work of collaboration contributing not just financial investment but expertise as they manage the Donor Advised Fund (DAF) allocating funding to the best possible execution of the plan.
Because the alliance is not an organization, but a funding mechanism to support both the cause and the collective impact of collaboration, every reputable and interested party can do their part and significant change is possible.