To honor the dignity, restore hope, and create lasting change for those experiencing homelessness or housing instability in the greater Green Bay community.

Through a spirit of familiarity, rapport and trust, each person will leave better than they came.

Source: Nonprofit submitted responses

Goal One: Accelerate Green Bay’s progress in improving outcomes for those experiencing homelessness or facing housing instability through values-based programming and innovation, rooted in research and data.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Goal Two: Strengthen and support the organizational model to maximize the use of financial and human capital (using measures of success)

Goal Type: Invest in the capacity of our organization (financial, management, technical, etc.).

Goal Three: Review, evaluate, and enhance all internal programs and processes ensuring each point of contact offers a client-centered, forward-moving approach focused on partnerships and collaboration.

Goal Type: Focus on core programs to achieve mission and scale back on programs not seen as core.

Describe an investment in leadership

St. John's board approved a fiscal budget that has $18,546 designated for leadership development, identifying it as a priority. Each year-round staff, regardless of title, creates a leadership development plan with their direct supervisor. This commitment to development across all levels of the organization strengthens the organizational model, enhances culture and morale, and provides a positive experience for shelter guests. Quarterly team training and team building activities further enhance this. In addition to the professional development plans, St. John's has created a Director of Organizational Development role. This position focuses solely on staff development, value drivers, and culture. RREA's (roles, responsibilities, expectations, and authorities) are created for each position within the organization. In addition to training and professional development, St. John's seeks opportunities to learn from others. An emphasis on research and site visits are further investments.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

• Policy Advocacy

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

St. John's is a member of the Brown County Homeless and Housing Coalition and the Homeless Outreach Team. In addition, St. John's has strong partnerships with the other area shelters and nonprofits, local law enforcement, city officials, and area businesses. St. John's is part of a homeless advocacy campaign raising awareness for the challenges experienced by those facing homelessness. Leadership staff are often called upon to present at businesses, churches, and conferences as experts in field. In addition, St. John's Executive Director has testified at the state capital and met with senators on Capital Hill in Washington DC to advocate for legislative change. Her doctoral research and capstone has been shared with local leaders, leading to the development of an innovative model for housing that addresses affordable housing and social connection. Once implemented, it is shown to be financially self-sustaining and scalable. This will address affordable housing throughout the region.

As discussed throughout this profile, St. John's responded to COVID by having multiple shelter locations to socially distance since March 2020. While set up to respond to the global pandemic, this change allowed us to identify the need for gender-specific services. This change will continue. Nearly three-quarters of female guests disclose they are the victims of domestic violence or sexual assault at the point of intake. Statistically, we know this will often be an underreported number. In 2018, St. John's acquired Wellspring, a women's specific daytime resource center in the community. While women have had a gender-specific location to go during the day, they have resided in a co-ed shelter at St. John's. In the past year we began construction on a women's specific site. This location will house our current Wellspring program, but will provide three times the square footage for their programming. In addition, the south side of this same building will house a new, 55 bed women's specific shelter. This allows women and men alike to receive gender-specific programming to move forward and is a tremendous step for St. John's. In addition to women's site, St. John's has begun a capital campaign to raise funds for Socially Inclusive Housing (SIH). SIH combines the need for affordable housing with the need for social connection through an innovative housing model downtown. At its core, SIH brings workers to where the jobs are, offering accessibility to affordable housing in the downtown district. It provides on-site services to bridge the gap between housing instability and self-sufficiency, with the presence of a FT Community Resource Advocate and a Resident Investment savings program. Once operational, this model will be financially self-sustaining and scalable, allowing St. John's to expand this model around town. This will increase the affordable housing inventory, stabilizing cost of living in the region.