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PROPOSED INTERAGENCY AGREEMENT
Department(s): Office of the President and Justice Advisory Council
Other Part(ies): United Way of Metro Chicago, 333 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60604
Request: Authorization to negotiate and enter into a one-time agreement with the United Way Metro Chicago (“UWMC”) an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, as the host organization of the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities (“PSPC”), to facilitate and fund the evaluation of work conducted by the Government Alliance for Safe Communities (“GASC”) partners.
Good(s) or Service(s): UWMC through PSPC and other funding partners will facilitate and fund the evaluation of GASC work which is performed by the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science (“CORNERS”).
Agreement period: One-time Agreement
Fiscal Impact: $250,000.00
Accounts: 11287.1205.39001.520830.00000.00000
Agreement Number(s): NA
Summary/Notes: The Government Alliance for Safe Communities (“GASC”) represents an intergovernmental collaboration between the City of Chicago, OOP, JAC, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (“ICJIA”), and the Illinois Department of Human Services (“IDHS”) to support community-based approaches to building safe communities across the City of Chicago, Cook County and Greater Illinois. GASC works closely with hundreds of community-based organizations and a broad range of diverse stakeholders to sustain violence prevention and community-based violence intervention investments to meet the ongoing need in communities and connect those at-risk to resources. GASC also works to streamline grant funding, unify data collection, and increase capacity-building support for local community-based organizations. UWMC through PSPC has worked to coordinate and manage the evaluation of the GASC work and impact in the community violence intervention (“CVI”) space and review the impact of intentional investments from government resources in CVI. UWMC through PSPC has been facilitating the funding and engagement of Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science (“CORNERS”) to evaluate the GASC work and complete the final evaluation of the GASC work. CORNERS is the established research partner that PSPC has funded to evaluate CVI including the aligned work of GASC. PSPC is seeking funds in the amount of $1,000,000.00 to fund the ongoing process evaluation, and impact evaluations to determine neighborhood-level effects of GASC on safety and violence. Resolution 24-5299 includes funding for Equity Fund priorities and OOP and JAC desires to allocate $250,000.00 to support UWMC and PSPC’s efforts to fund and engage the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science (“CORNERS”) a third-party researcher and validator to focus on ongoing process evaluation, conducting impact evaluations to determine neighborhood-level effects of GASC on safety and violence. This governmental contribution of $250,000.00 to PSPC’s continued investment in CORNERS supports deeper and continued research on CVI as specifically driven by the GASC.
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