Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form<\/p>\n
Organization Name: Higher Ground a Resource Center
\nLegal Name (if Different):
\nAlso Known As:
\nMailing Address: P.O. Box 27883
\nCity: Tucson
\nState: AZ
\nPostal Code: 85726
\nMain Phone: (520) 981-5872
\nMain Fax:
\nOrganization Website: https:\/\/www.higherground.me\/
\nEmployer ID Number: 27-3585869
\nOrganization Tax Status: 501(c)(3)<\/p>\n
Proposal Information<\/p>\n
Today’s Date: 03\/19\/2024
\nRequested Amount: $10,000<\/p>\n
Project Title: Restart SMART – General Operating
\nProject Description:<\/p>\n
Higher Ground, a non-profit organization, is dedicated to facilitating connections between students, families, and community resources, providing support systems to develop skills, and offering assistance as needed. Through its adaptation of the community schools model called Restart SMART, Higher Ground enhances existing efforts around non-academic needs in Southern Arizona. Restart SMART, emphasizing Strategic, Mindful, Agile and Aware, Resilient, and Trauma-Responsive approaches, operates in eight schools, seven in Tucson and one in Chandler, selected based on high-risk factors like chronic absenteeism and poverty rates.<\/p>\n
Each school hosts an in-person team comprising a Site Director, Family Support Specialist, and Student Support Specialist, integrating life skill development, trauma-responsive practices, and executive function support. Collaborating with community organizations, these teams provide resources to students and families, enabling teachers and principals to focus on education quality.<\/p>\n
Higher Ground\u2019s mission is empowering one life at a time to Reach, Transform, and Elevate their community through love and character-building. Restart SMART addresses pandemic-induced challenges and deep-seated inequities by deploying specialized teams trained in research-backed methods. These teams build relationships within school communities, employing Data-Powered Strategic Coaching to track progress and identify needs, collaborating with local resources to address gaps.<\/p>\n
The Data-Powered Strategic Coaching Method tracks student progress, sets goals, provides services, and informs improvement strategies. Restart SMART operates on four pillars: integrated student support, collaborative leadership, active family and student engagement, and extended learning opportunities. Through these strategies, Higher Ground achieves academic success, community involvement, student health and support, family engagement, improved attendance, reduced discipline incidents, enrollment stability, and enhanced professional development and collaboration within communities.<\/p>\n
Total Project Budget: $2,334,118.56<\/p>\n
Other Funding
\nSources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Pending submissions with federal, state, and municipal entities that may include this amount.<\/p>\n
Project Duration: 2024-2025 School Year
\nGeographical Area Served: South Tucson, AZ & Chandler, AZ
\nAge Group To Be Served: Elementary School and Middle School<\/p>\n
Contact Information<\/p>\n
Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Ms.
\nContact First Name: Rachel
\nContact Last Name: Joseph
\nContact Title: Grant Writer
\nContact Phone: 5206471150
\nContact Email: racheljoseph@higherground.me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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