Culver City-based Westside Infant-Family Network (WIN) has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 2011 Collaboration Prize and has the chance to win up to $150,000. The prize was created by The Lodestar Foundation for successful collaborations of two or more nonprofit organizations.
WIN, a free provider of in-home mental health care to families with young children – in partnership with Westside Children’s Center, Venice Family Clinic and St. Joseph’s Center – was selected as one of 20 semi-finalists out of over 800 submissions.
“As a young collaboration, we’re especially honored to be selected as a semifinalist for the 2011 Collaboration Prize,” said Anna Henderson, Executive Director of WIN.
“The semifinalists, who successfully leveraged human and financial resources to achieve greater impact, will now serve as models of collaboration for others in the nonprofit sector – showcasing how working together can bring about extraordinary results,” said The Lodestar Foundation Chairman Jerry Hirsch.
WIN and the other semi-finalists will be judged on their demonstration to improve effectiveness in achieving social good, more effectively use human and financial resources, represent an innovative response to a specific challenge or opportunity, and exhibit characteristics that would demonstrate that the collaboration is a model for the field, sector or community.
Eight finalists will receive $12,500 and the grand prize winner will receive an additional $150,000. The finalists will be announced in early February and the grand prize winner in April. More information about the competition, semi-finalists, and the panel can be found at thecollaborationprize.org.
Henderson says, “We hope that the network of care for families with young children that we’ve forged among WIN and our three agency partners encourages other nonprofits to work together to more effectively and efficiently make sustainable, systematic change.”
Westside Infant-Family Network is located at 5721 W. Slauson Ave., suite 200, Culver City. For more information, go to winla.org.
