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We were already "cloud" based and turned our focus to providing peace of mind to our beneficiaries and ended up allocating our annual awards sooner in the year.

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Gabby Settembre, Rebuilding Together Valley of the Sun 

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Gabby Settembre, Rebuilding Together Valley of the Sun 

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We had everyone work from home, and slowed services down to keep our clients safe, but now we are fully up and running again taking all safety precautions. Masks are required and temperature have to be taken when coming to the office.

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We had to put our creative hats on, while still ensuring safety, ethical and legal concerns in providing a counseling, medical, psychiatry and outreach services. We continue to provide all the services we did prior to COVID but under a "hybrid" type workflow now that includes in-person (following CDC social distancing guidelines), telephonic and/or telehealth.

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Julie Ford, Junior Achievement of Arizona

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Julie Ford, Junior Achievement of Arizona

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The pandemic allows us to show students firsthand how economic stability and having an emergency fund is critical.  We hope that students that receive our programs will be better prepared when they manage their own economic success in the future.

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When the Pandemic hit our organization, we used Zoom to continue our learning virtually.  During this time, and the summer, we served lunches to our community and beyond when everything was closed down.  Before everything started opening back up, we served 100-200+ children per day.  As of now, the students have returned to campus and we have been following specific guidelines as best as we can.  We continue to socially distance across campus, we offer virtual learning, we require students and staff (and anyone who comes into Ridgeline) to wear masks, and so on.

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Open Hearts Family Wellness has seen more food insecurity with our families than ever before. We are providing food cards, food boxes, gas cards, technology fir kids and lots more. Mental health is still a big issue but families have to be at first!

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Alessandra Cebreros from ASU OCHER: Team is mostly virtual now, but are still going out in the community to give out resources safely and planning to implement our programs via zoom. 

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Alessandra Cebreros from ASU OCHER: Team is mostly virtual now, but are still going out in the community to give out resources safely and planning to implement our programs via zoom. 

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The impact has been hardest on the individuals we support (individuals with disabilities).  Due  to their high risk medical conditions they have become more isolated and many lost their jobs.  We continue to adapt and modify programs to ensure safety/health and meet each individual's unique needs.

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Lynn Rubicam for McDowell Sonoran Conservancy

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Lynn Rubicam for McDowell Sonoran Conservancy

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Transforming hands-on STEM lessons for elementary students to an interactive online computer game.

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Maryn Belling, United Fund of Globe-Miami, Inc.

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Maryn Belling, United Fund of Globe-Miami, Inc.

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During COVID-19, United Fund is partnering with community donors in providing:
1. food security for 1100 more families per month through the Gila Community Food Bank.
2. fresh produce & community garden through Nalwoodi Denzhoni
3. computers for distance learning for disadvantaged kids through Miami Unified School District.
4. no-cost childcare when schools were closed from March 17 through academic year end through Cobre Valley Youth Club.

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We have had to reinvent our outreach model to help Arizona's approx. 500,000 health and income challenged elderly access affordable health care. Prior to Covid-19 we connected with clients and caregivers via live events. With that off the table, we focused on fully utilizing our Google Ads grant ($120,000). Our outreach has increased dramatically. Leveraging a Google Ads grant is a tremendous opportunity.
Would like to share more . . . contact me at director@accessmed.org.

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We have moved our entrepreneurship programs and training classes to an entirely virtual format.

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We have worked to make our programs virtual, expanding our reach geographically and allowing for students to still connect with mentors in STEM from their computer screens.

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David Martinez III, Vitalyst Health Foundation

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David Martinez III, Vitalyst Health Foundation

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Vitalyst has bolstered our efforts to support Policy, Systems, & Environmental (PSE) Changes as well as Health Equity because of COVID19. We also continue to provide technical assistance.

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Current Initiatives

TAPAZ

Sometimes good people are doing great work together but don't have a legal entity to stand behind them. Just as often, when a group of existing nonprofit organizations work together, some of the partners may feel uncomfortable leading the way from a legal standpoint. Additionally, a group of people may simply agree to work together, but there is no way for them to secure funding without a legal structure. This TAP Tool offers crucial fiscal management support and helps build organizational capacity.
Fiscal Sponsorship:
This tool allows TAPAZ to accept and disburse funds for a project's activities, providing a faster way for groups to establish a legal framework for operating without having to start a 501(c)3 organization from scratch. This allows nonprofits to focus on carrying out their mission.
Technical Assistance:
TAPAZ provides a broad range of consultative, administrative, and "back office" functions. This allows projects to focus on their community passion and not be bogged down with administrative requirements. For more information about TAPAZ partnerships, please review these FAQ's.

TAP Talks

Offered each year as professional development sessions, participants gain knowledge, skills, and practices in an interactive workshop format about timely issues facing the non-profit community. Attendees meet colleagues with common challenges and successes, and they are able to build relationships with one another for support. Each TAP Talk includes a presentation on a key topic impacting organizations where attendees are encouraged to share their experiences. To learn more, click here.

TAP Team

To support the development of dynamic and healthy communities, Vitalyst intentionally builds relationships with consultants who are interested in aiding non-profit capacity building. Vitalyst is committed to growing a Team of consultants in and for rural Arizona, and a Team of emerging consultants of color who reflect the community-based partners we work with. If you are interested an Arizona-based contractor looking to join the TAP Team, please complete this intake form.

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Community Capacity Building - Vitalyst Health

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Current Initiatives Sometimes good people are doing great work together but don't have a legal entity to stand behind them. Just as often, when a group of existing nonprofit organizations work together, some of the partners may feel uncomfortable leading the way from a legal standpoint.

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Nicole Weitzman Opportunity Tree, Creative Arts Coordinator

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Nicole Weitzman Opportunity Tree, Creative Arts Coordinator

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Unable to have in person art classes. Responsible to create an arts curriculum that is pre-recorded and sustainable for years to come. My life revolves around the use of a computer and cameras...unable to do any in person meetings with members. Difficult as a deaf person with masks...most people don't understand they need to remove their mask while I keep mine on for communication needs or refuse to write things down and talk through their masks

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We pivoted to more virtual STEM education opportunities and have been able to serve audiences across the state.

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We are a nonprofit lender for established nonprofits. We haven't changed that focus and we have available funds to help orgs get through this.

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changed membership plans, developed at home art kits for youth and adults, able to serve adults across the state with online classes.

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Savannah - Desert Financial Credit Union

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Savannah - Desert Financial Credit Union

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We provided over $1M in aid to our members, employees, and to the community!

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Laura Elek at Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

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Laura Elek at Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

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Pivoting our engagements with multiple constituencies including donors, educators, and the public into virtual formats and social media contacts

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reinventing services and identifying new needs

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Dena Kidd JA Arizona We have pivoted from in-classroom learning to online learning. We have been able to partner with some great partners to serve new audiences through virtual learning. Check out our resources at www.jaaz.org/learning through the pandemic

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Dena Kidd JA Arizona We have pivoted from in-classroom learning to online learning. We have been able to partner with some great partners to serve new audiences through virtual learning. Check out our resources at www.jaaz.org/learning through the pandemic

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Emergency gen op grants and consulting support

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Ariel Baber, Boys and Girls Clubs of the Valley (Public Allies AZ) -- Program Training Liaison

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Ariel Baber, Boys and Girls Clubs of the Valley (Public Allies AZ) -- Program Training Liaison

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We kept multiple locations open, extended hours of operation, provided spaces for distance learning, etc.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of The Valley

We've been open for distance learning, providing families a safe and healthy place for youth and teens.

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Change in access to our members has pushed us to find more interactive ways to communicate and teach them virtually.

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CJ Anderson Animals and Humans in Disaster.

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CJ Anderson Animals and Humans in Disaster.

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Mar 7th. Recognized the train bearing down on Arizona would have 2 immediate effects. 1) The supply chains that affected us nonprofits would be broken Fry's Grocery Purina etc and there would be NO place to replace them because for the first time, every state would be affected. 2) our volunteers were 80% seniors and disabled/medically frail and corporate, church, community groups were forbidden. Volunteers are notorious for ignoring safety protocols (45 years doing national disaster response). We down sized immediately from statewide to 8 locations in the valley of the sun to support with your partner human food banks with pet food. When the last supply chain broke May 14 (Amazon stopped all donations to non-profits). We went from house to house and small business donation sites.  Also ,in partnership with Midwest food Bank and Happy Tails Service dogs, we added emergency food boxes to the pet food donations that we gave those clients with service dogs to keep them from standing in lines of 110 degree heat.
Now we have $5,000award from FEMA to do a neighbor helping neighbor program for Nov to Dec (and beyond.) working with the app next door, Facebook Groups and Petsmart, who has 54 corporate sites in Arizona to offer donations sites from.
Animalsandhumansindsaster.org

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Animals & Humans in Disaster.  Huge affect on our organization as a lot of our activity was event based, just a few events have re-started.

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Pivoting to provide more emergency services (food, utility/rent assistance) for the communities we serve.

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Alter our engagements and offer resources to our community in a virtual format.

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Terros Health is a whole health company, providing primary care, mental health, and substance use treatment services in Maricopa and Pima County. We also provide mobile crisis services in Maricopa, Yavapai, Coconino, and Mohave counties.
Early on during the pandemic, we had to stand up telehealth services for the majority of our lines of service. Our teams did quick research on the best platforms to be able to provide HIPAA secure telemedicine for primary care, psychiatry, and counseling.
We offer group services, so our amazing Directors came up with a "hybrid" group concept to allow patients who had the the technology to use video to dial in, while allowing our patients who needed to come in for face to face services to be able to continue to do so, while following physical distancing/CDC guidelines.

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We have moved our engagement to a virtual setting. Our team has delved headfirst into live and recorded offerings to members and the public.

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Becca Allpow - Arizona Community Foundation

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Becca Allpow - Arizona Community Foundation

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small business grants

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SAS had to limit # of people served because of distancing
CASS received helpful COVID funding
The Five Star and NAC accredited Child Development Program at our Vista Colina Emergency Family Shelter had low attendance and staff were repositioned until attendance was better. PS we are looking for a Toddler 2s teacher if anyone knows someone who might be interested:)
We continued to provide the best service possible to our clients even with staff changes and required health precautions. VC has not had a COVID case (knocking on wood) as of this date.

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Suzanne Pfister, Vitalyst Health Foundation

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Suzanne Pfister, Vitalyst Health Foundation

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Our board approved an extra $1M to distribute for COVID related programs

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Mary Beth Gregory, YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix

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Mary Beth Gregory, YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix

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Our Senior Nutrition Program has grown by 60% ensuring our homebound seniors in Glendale get the nutritious food they need, our courses and workshops have moved into the digital space, and we've been convening (virtual) conversations around The Dual Pandemics - COVID-19 and Racial Injustice.

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In the past, we have always delivered programming in-person. Once the pandemic hit Arizona, we had to throw out everything we knew how to do & completely restrategize how to deliver programming to our athletes. Through this process, we developed SOAZconnected - a digital strategy designed to promote the physical,
emotional, and social well-being of our athletes, their families, and all
members of our community through interactive, virtual engagement
opportunities in health & wellness, sports & fitness, arts, and education.

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Arizona Council on Economic Education - Kathy Pondy

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Arizona Council on Economic Education - Kathy Pondy

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When schools went into virtual learning mode in mid-to-late March the Arizona Council quickly pivoted to take our student programs online.  We held a state wide personal finance competition virtually just three weeks later for over 350 students.  We continued throughout the summer months and into this school year to provide valuable professional development and economic and financial literacy program to students and teachers across AZ.  We are proud to say we have increased our reach by 50% compared to this time last year.  We are sure the remote format has something to do with that. Additionally, we have made parent resources related to personal finance available to parents to support them as they assist their children with remote learning

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We've been wanting to start our non profit for the past 6 years.  Finally taking the leap...during a pandemic!

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We have moved to virtual programming and discussions with communities all across the state (and even the country and the world). Most of the discussions have been about helping communities to plot a path forward through the challenges.

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We expanded our service area to offer financial assistance to tribal nations which were particularly hard hit by COVID-19

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We've been distributing free PPE to physicians in private practice and guiding them through the jungle of telehealth options to serve patients throughout the valley. We also provide access to paid PPE through ActionPPE. MCMS shares a lot of timely info about COVID, flu vaccines, scientific advances, and policy changes from county, state, and federal health officials. It's been a lot. - John McElligott

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Emergency Child Services (i.e. our Children's Shelters) have continued to provide services as usual(but with heightened and intentional safety procedures) while all other programs stopped providing direct-care services and either switched to virtual services and/or a shift in staff responsibilities to include daily food prep & distribution to families in need within our community and back-up with Shelter support.

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Jordyn Walhof, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley

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Jordyn Walhof, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley

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We still have our Club sites open, and we have throughout the entirety of the pandemic. We moved our volunteering to a virtual platform, the Clubs were used as distance learning sites with computer and WiFi access for our kids, and we are now open on our after school schedule with regular programming.

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We are adapting our in-person experiential educational programming to a virtual format and expanding options for format and engagement. We shifted more emphasis on fundraising as a funding source while  programs transition. Doing more promotion than the past. Also, leaning into what becomes possible under these conditions, such as expanded access to programs for people who could not before.

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We have paused our single ticket sales operations and have focused on engaging our subscribers this season.  We are also engaging in digital streaming, engagement, and community-building programs.  Still attempting to work with students and schools on the community engagement side (this was our biggest area of community engagement preCovid), but restrictions on teachers/school programming/time has made it more difficult.  Community engagement is shifting more toward engaging the general public and making sure people feel connected to us and each other.

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meet people where they are on their leadership journey: going virtual, talking specifically about Covid, and building up what we can do together to emerge in a better place for the long-run.