BLACK MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE OF GREATER BOSTON INC

Programs: The community partnerships initiative is a program of the bma in which it provides administrative "back office" services for qualified nonprofit organizations. The purpose is to provide a method for smaller nonprofit community-based organizations and faith-based organizations (fcbos) to obtain high quality administrative services in a way that is cost effective. Also, fpi allows the bma to provide critical organizational strengths to smaller fcbos in order to help them grow in effectiveness

education has been one of the earliest programmatic functions of the bma. This makes ample sense since education remains a major lever for moving people out of poverty. For the bma, the education programmatic area consists of the victory generation out of school time program (vg) and support of the boston education collaborative (bec). Vg provides technical assistance and program support to churches that wish to start an after school program. Its goal is to provide improved academic performance and social/emotional supports to ensure that students engage in their educational processes "ready to learn. "

programs and initiatives are designed to engage organizations, churches, schools and government agencies to collaboratively address the needs of youth at high risk. The high risk youth network is a network of 60+ agencies, churches, and community based organizations to work together to provide supports to high risk youth and to provide them resources to remove themselves from high risk status. Teen cafs and summer jobs is an initiative designed to provide safe spaces, especially during high violence periods, where teens can gather and be safe and engage in developmental activities with caring adults. The girls' initiative is a collaboration of organizations that serve girls and young women who are involved in the justice system. Together, these organizations advocate for gender- responsive programming to provide these girls and young women with the services proven most effective for helping them reorder their lives.

capacity building the capacity institute (ci) provides an intensive two year program to help community based organizations produce meaningful and measurable changes in the lives of their service population. Using performance management and outcomes measurement, successful "graduates" of ci can produce, measure, and improve the impact they are having on the lives of their constituents.