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Our Services: Case Studies: The Point

The Point

Services Provided:  Strategic Planning, Helped Produce an Organizational ‘Logic Model,’ Clarified Mission and Goals

Our Successes:

  • Helped The Point Community Development Corporation to further define its mission, revisit its history and think about where it wants to be headed, as an organization, in the future.
  • Produced a one-page ‘Logic Model’ to serve as an action plan and reference
  • Helped provide The Point the language to articulate for funders, partners, volunteers and anyone else interested in the organization what they were all about in a single sentence.

Like humans, nonprofits also have life cycles. As The Point Community Development Corporation turned 15 this year, like any adolescent, it needed some help figuring out who they are and if they’re headed in the right direction.

Kellie Terry-Sepulveda, the Hunts Point-based nonprofit’s executive director, said Community Resource Exchange (CRE) was able to help ease their growing pains.

“I love CRE,” she said. “We worked with [our consultant] and she took our whole organization through a series of steps that really led us to further define our mission, that led us to revisit our history as an organization and that made us think about where we wanted to be in the future.”

“It was a really refreshing process and my whole staff loved it,” Terry-Sepulveda added.

Terry-Sepulveda said they turned to CRE and its 30 years of consulting experience looking for strategic planning services. The Point is dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. They are involved in a wide variety of offerings including afterschool programs, dance, theatre, a newsletter, a community radio station, a summer camping trip upstate, as well as advocacy on several local issues such as the environment, traffic, air pollution and maintaining community parks and gardens.

Terry-Sepulveda believes The Point is a trail-blazing “hybrid Community Development Corporation” and in the future will be a model that’s copied by other CDCs. But being so unique, there were few examples of similar organizations for The Point to use as a reference point when it came to strategic planning. That’s where CRE came in.

“[Our consultant] helped us produce a logic model. It sits on top of my computer, one page. I didn’t want a 20-page strategic plan that was going to sit on a shelf gathering dust. I wanted a one page action plan I could reference whenever I needed it,” Terry-Sepulveda says.

Another important project CRE helped The Point achieve, Terry-Sepulveda says, was to clarify for the funders, the partners, the volunteers and anyone else taking an interest in the organization, what The Point was all about.

“We weren’t equipped with the language to articulate our approach, our methodology,” Terry-Sepulveda says. “CRE was able to help us capture what we do in one sentence. ‘Our People In The Community Create The Community They Want To Live In.’ At the end of the day all of our work boils down to that goal and that’s what we’re striving to make happen.’”

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