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I would like to know how I can build a relationship with your organization? I am the founder of a non-profit helping abused Latina women, I am also working on my EdD and will be seeking funding for my dissertation project as well as for my non-profit. I look forward to your response and developing a relationship with your organization, blessings Ana Serrano
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Hi Ana,
 
Greetings from the Community Tool Box and Ask an Advisor, we're glad you're here and hope we can provide you with timely, useful, and directly applicable information to assist you in your important community work. Well, your question is both interesting and challenging because I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but let me give it a try, in two parts.
 
First, by virtue of the fact that you've engaged with us through Ask an Advisor we already have a relationship - muy excellenté! Let me give you a primer on the Community Tool Box I gleaned from the section entitled "About the Tool Box." As you probably already know The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change just like you're doing with Las Valientes, offering thousands of pages of tips and tools for taking action in communities. Under continuous development since 1994, the Community Tool Box is widely used in teaching, training, and technical support. The vision behind the Community Tool Box is that people — locally and globally — are better prepared to work together to change conditions that affect their lives. Our mission is to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas, and resources. With the belief that people can change their communities for the better, and informed by disciplines including applied behavior analysis, public health, and community psychology, partners at the University of Kansas and collaborating organizations developed the Community Tool Box as a public service. Our fervent hope is that these tools can make it easier for people to take action to assure healthier and more just communities throughout the world. So, Ana that gives you an idea of the type of relationship you can have with us; unfortunately it's not deeply personal, you know one-on-one, but we have a lot to offer if you take the time to look around. That's the first part of my reply to your question.
 
The second part of my reply to your question involves your search for funding to keep Las Valientes a viable organization. Regarding funding your dissertation research, your school should be able to provide you with a whole host of resources to help you in your search and perhaps in the writing of the actual funding proposal; that's the place I suggest you start, usually in the financial aid office, your department's office, or somewhere within student services (sorry, a bit vague, but without knowing your institution's organizational structure it's hard to know in which direction to guide you). That said, regarding funding for Las Valientes, we have resources here in the Community Tool Box which can help you, not actually provide you with funding per se, rather provide you with the tools to get the funding needed to sustain Las Valientes into the future. After a little rooting around here is the path that will take you to our resources on funding: begin on our home page, click on the "Help Taking Action" button, click on the "Troubleshooting Guide" button, and then click on 13 - Not enough money to sustain the program or initiative. Therein you will find pretty much everything you need to tackle the funding issue; every non-profit organization in the world faces this same issue so you're not alone. There are a lot of organizations and the people who run them who have the best of intentions, but don't think carefully about financial viability and sustainability. Fortunately, the Community Tool Box takes you through the entirety of the process, gets you to ask yourself the "hard questions," and helps you answer them - how great is that?
 
With that Ana, I hope we've provided you with a suitable response; if not, please feel free to seek further advice and we'll work together to come up with a viable, appropriate solution. Remember, you're not alone. Be well, take care, do good work!
 
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Question Date: سبت, 05/21/2016