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rom lifting up African-American led and serving nonprofit organizations, to coordinating services for individuals dealing with traumatic brain injuries, The Dayton Foundation collaborated with community partners on several leadership initiatives in fiscal year 2023.
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The Dayton Foundation | 2022-23 Report to the Community
The Dayton Foundation adopted the Brain Health Collective as an initiative, awarding $450,000 over three years to this University of Dayton effort that helps coordinate care, education and community outreach for TBIs. In addition, work continued with the first cohort of the
Nonprofit Capacity-Building Partnership, a collaboration between the Mathile Family Foundation and The Dayton Foundation. Thirty-two individuals from 21 nonprofit organizations received professional development, networking opportunities and other resources to empower them to better address inequities for underserved populations in Greater Dayton. The Del Mar Encore Fellows Initiative, which utilizes the talents of skilled, older adults to address community needs, employed nine fellows to work on a wide variety of community issues, from researching alternative housing solutions for homeless persons with disabilities, to developing a think tank to address regional health inequities, such as black infant, child and maternal vitality. Del Mar Encore Fellows Saundra Collie and Jane McGee-Rafal worked with Learn to Earn Dayton to enhance early literacy programs for regional youth. Saundra supported a program for select TrotwoodMadison and Dayton Public Schools’ early learners who struggled with reading proficiency and attendance. Jane helped launch the Miami Valley Early Grade Literacy Collaborative, a countywide collective of