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Bobby Byars Foundation, Inc
6605 S 102nd St Omaha, NE 68127
P.O, Box 27524 Omaha, NE 68127
www.BobbyByarsFoundation.org
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Sheila Fields
Founder and CEO
sbfields@bobbybyarsfoundation.org
+1 (402) 885-9349
Yes
Sheila Fields - CEO , Entrepreneur, Exec Board - Royce Smith - Professor, Elder Frank Parker - Pastor, Phyllis Brown - Retired Air Force, Min Derrick Quinn - Entrepreneur, Latricia Harris - Manager, Entrepreneur ,Lonnie Gauldin - Entrepreneur, community Activist,
Org chart related to Project Work will include Executive Director to oversee daily process, Admin Assistant, Program Director who will oversee all programs for BBF. Project Manager(s) for adult Project Work/Small business collaboration and Project Manager for Project Work - Teen Challenge for mentoring program.
Scholarships - 50,000 as of 2022 Community Safety Day - Provided over 700 safety kits to families in North Omaha. Project Work 2022 - Partnered with Hayes Cares and Bfields Solutions to develop program Melodies from Heaven - Arts program which has provided tuition to children in arts and dance studios (I Am Dance, I heartbeat Dance, and Peartree performing Arts) Endowments - JanetByars Nursing endowment with Metro Comm College for students in 68111, 68110, 68104 Bobby Byars Trade scholarship with Metro Comm College reentry program to buy tools.
Project Work - Winning with Opportunities, Resources, and Knowledge
1123000.0
1123000.0
Combination of capital project and service/program
BBF Project Work will positively impact North Omaha QCTs by providing internships for small businesses, employment readiness, reduce crime, and provide raise income for families. This transformative project will succeed by collaborative engagement with small business owners in qualified census tracts. Project work will address business and personal development and support. This partnership will also provide an opportunity for business owners to invest in the community but serving as coaches and mentors for project work participants and interns. Business owners will also inspire and provide examples to our teen work participants. Property location 5224 n 24th street Omaha, NE 68110. All participants will take part in the 2023 Community Safety Day as Project Work will train on service to our local community. Project work impacts the North Omaha community in multiple ways. The one-year program takes participants and mentors through a curriculum strengthening job readiness skills, life skills, technical skills, financial literacy, and topics on behavioral health and community service. The program designed to help increase the economic stability of participants by allowing them to prepare for technical certifications and gain assessments tied to behaviors and team building. Business owners will benefit from each intern as a free resource whose internship supported by the BBF – Project Work. Basis for Project Work and Teen Challenge: Black unemployment rate is typically more than double that of whites. Barriers (Biases, criminal record, under educated, transportation, job skills, confidence). Black people with degrees have salaries two-thirds of white high school dropouts. In 2014, 63.4 percent of white-owned employer firms indicated that they were profitable, compared to 57.7 percent of Hispanic-owned firms and 45.6 percent of African American-owned firms. Minority businesses have less access to capital and limited resources as well as access to current business training. Potential participants are in transitional locations that limit or prohibit getting to high income jobs. Employment reduces chances of recidivism and homelessness. Small minority businesses need support to reduce operating cost and gain additional resources. Youth have an increased potential for success with mentors and successful mirrors of themselves.
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Fundamental Change (i.e., a proposal that will continue to elevate North or South Omaha's presence and perception within the region, significantly improving the lives of area residents through physical development) Long-Lasting Economic Growth (i.e., a proposal that will foster gainful employment opportunities and financial investment in the area, leading to the creation of generational wealth and widespread economic vitality in North and South Omaha) Transformational (i.e., a proposal that will help energize, recharge, or spur significant and favorable advancements in North or South Omaha's function or appearance)
Policy (i.e., develop or improve context-sensitive education, finance, health, training, zoning, etc.) Quality of Life (i.e., create or enhance natural spaces, mixed uses, parks, safety, etc.) Sustainable Community (i.e., create or enhance housing, services, education, civic uses, recreation, etc.)
This proposal is meant to support small businesses, develop jobs, increase job skills, reduce crime, eliminate poverty, and increase income by providing job skills for high end salaries.
Specific gaps addressed are job skills, businesses within our community.
It aligns with goals for transformative change, job skills, skills development.
Increased jobs, small business success, increased skilled workforce.
10 per years.
60K plus with fccuses on technology
Jobs, Income growth
Yes
KLH Brown Byrd, LLC BFoields solutions.
No
24th and Fort (see summary)
Within one or more QCTs
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
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1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
Additional Location Documents (see application for list) Organizational Chart Proposal Budget/Sources and Uses Schedule