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East Hawai'i Fund • Hawai'i Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations (HANG) capacity building training and consulting services • Office of Hawaiian Affairs capacity building programs • Department of Hawaiian Homelands capacity building programs • Hawai'i Agricultural Leadership Foundation programs • Ulumau: The Hawai'i Island Leadership Series • Hawai'i Community College Not -for -Profit Management Certificate program • Kapi'olani Community College Nonprofit Management Certificate program. 2.3 Organizational models 2.3.1 North Kohala Community Resource Center The North Kohala Community Resource Center (NKCRC— http:Awww.nort ohala.org/) was incorporated as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization in 2002 to provide development support and fiscal sponsorship for projects that benefit the North Kohala community. More specifically, the NKCRC relieves community leaders of the administrative burden so that they can focus on the community work that needs doing. It does this by: • Helping project coordinators write good proposals for well-planned projects that will be successful in being funded; 160861 • Helping them find the right funders who will give them money; • Submitting their proposals to funders; • Give the money to the project; • Prepare reports to the funders. Since 2003, the NKCRC has submitted 226 proposals for projects and has been awarded 128 grants totaling over $5,900,000. 2.3.2 Great west evel ion The Greater Southwest Development Corporation (GSDC)3 is a place -based nonprofit neighborhood CDC working on the southwest side of Chicago. Since its founding in 1976, its goal has been to revitalize neighborhoods, including good schools, retail vitality, decent housing, safety, employment and entrepreneurship, nutritious food choices, and youth opportunities. It takes a "comprehensive community development (CCD)" approach, which recognizes that in a complex community environment, simultaneous and connected work in all of the disciplines and program areas important to a community's quality of life is critical. The GSDC identifies and creates a strategic set of program approaches planned by local leadership, to be carried out by an array of partners that yield results beyond what these programs can achieve by themselves. In other words, it facilitates network leadership while maintaining the organizational infrastructure to support a broad range of community initiatives. 3 http://www.sheIterforce.org/article/3344/can_successfuI_community_development_be_anything_but_comprehensive/ Community Action Guide: 2017 9