Neighborhood Outreach Connection (NOC)
Together we will build a stronger neighborhood by empowering people.
                                   P.O. Box 23558, Hilton Head, SC 29925 -  843.681-4100          Español

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Neighborhood Outreach Connection (NOC) will focus on low-income families, low-wage workers, and needy women – from all major ethnic groups. 

Our plan is based on a new organizational model, one that takes assistance directly to neighborhoods that are in distress and creates solutions in partnership with other not-for-profit organizations and local government agencies. 

We will:

1.      Empower people by creating economic opportunities through access to vocational training, finance, and language training;

2.      Help people through referral services and facilitate access to health care, personal finance, affordable housing and legal services;

3.      Encourage voter registration among low-income American citizens to promote their participation in the political process;

4.      Build bridges and foster better understanding among ethnic groups in each neighborhood to build stronger communities.

We will organize volunteers from our entire community to work with individuals from lower-income neighborhoods to solve problems and strengthen our entire community.

 
We have identified a number of neighborhoods on Hilton Head Island and in greater Bluffton, three of which will be our focus in 2008.  For each neighborhood a “spearhead team” will be formed, consisting of five to seven members - including volunteers and paid investigators under the leadership of the Outreach Director.  The team will develop neighborhood profiles based on available socioeconomic and census data, conduct a needs assessment based on focus group discussions, and develop subprojects in education, referral services, micro-finance and entrepreneurship, and voter registration.  For each neighborhood a number of “neighborhood associates” will be identified to mobilize people, develop solutions for the neighborhood, and monitor results.  Three part-time coordinators will be hired to assist during implementation under the supervision of the Executive Director.  A part-time consultant will be hired to help with monitoring and evaluation of results.  A volunteer consultant with extensive development experience will train the Outreach Director, the “spearhead team,” and the three coordinators.

Our medium and long term goal is to identify needy neighborhoods in Beaufort, Jasper, Colleton and Hampton Counties in the Low Country. 
 

This new business model:


We will work closely with the following organizations to elicit support for various subprojects: 

Results will be monitored continuously.  The focus will be on both outputs and outcomes.  Outcomes in terms of income and employment benefits and improvement of quality of life will be monitored after the 12- month project implementation period since these benefits materialize over an extended period of time.  Outputs will be monitored on a continuous basis: (a) number of courses and workshops and number of participants (by age and gender) by programs outlined in the project; (b) program evaluation by participants, and (c) direct feedback from participants and the neighborhood community

 

 

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