Through Community & Sector Initiatives (CSI), CRE explores and pursues efforts that impact entire communities and the nonprofit sector generally. While CRE’s Consulting and Training Practice is about “one-to-one” work, CSI is about “one-to-many” efforts.
Over the years, CRE has developed a sophisticated knowledge base about the variety of issues facing community-based organizations. And in that time, CRE has also established an extensive, diverse clientele. This experience and network provide CRE with a comprehensive perspective of New York communities, which puts us in the perfect position to identify overarching problems and issues within our field.
Going forward, we can harness our experience and institutional wisdom to identify these problems proactively and implement the most efficient solutions through strategic partnerships from within our network. The primary aim is to have a broader impact. CSI, in short, is CRE's proactive agenda to encourage, support, and advance the work of communities and community groups throughout the City.
CSI’s most noteworthy achievement at this point is the Fundraising Institute at City University of New York (CUNY). In partnership with the CUNY, this project creates development capacity by training staff from youth-serving organizations in fundraising. Fellows receive professional development in fundraising, and the youth organizations get additional in-house help in fundraising. This initiative is generously supported by the Kellogg Foundation, with additional support from the New York Community Trust and the Altman Foundation.
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