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Fostering Emerging Institutes Project

FEIP 2009 Matching Grant Program Workshop

NNPHI held a workshop for grantees of the FEIP Matching Grant Program on May 6th, 2009 to continue collective learning in order to accelerate and deepen emerging institute capacity for impact and sustainability. NNPHI shared it’s view of the future through the learnings of the Public Health Institute Assessment Project and NNPHI Board strategic planning sessions. A brainstorming session on ideas for action going forward individually and collectively was held. A working session on applying “Communiciations for Sustainability” encouraged emerging institutes to brainstorm a communications issue or situation that they wanted advice on. Several communications experts from estabilished public health institutes attended the session and shared their expertise. The session concluded with an activity which helped each of the emerging institutes craft an “elevator speech” or communication messaging for their institute.

Guest Communications Experts included:

  • Dina Baker- Public Health Management Corporation
  • Paul Quinn- Health Policy Institute of Ohio
  • Hollis Cohen- Public Health Solutions

Keys to Success: Entrepreneurial Leadership

Entrepreneurial Leadership has been identified through the Fostering Emerging Institutes Project as an important component to the success of an institute. The ability to take risks, work between boundaries and leverage resources are all valuable tools for leaders in the creation of a public health institute. To view a definition and the characteristics of social entrepreneurs, please click here

Sustainability Curriculum: 2007-2009

A series of webinars was created for the grantees of the Matching Grant Program, April 2007- March 2009.  This series was based on the Georgia Health Policy Center’s recommendations for a sustainability curriculum that would promote sound organizational development among emerging institutes.  Topics included Foundation Funding, Emotional Intelligence, Evaluation Tied to Return on Investment, Communication for Multiple Stakeholders, among others. Click here to access the materials, such as summaries, MP3 recordings and the Power Point slides for these webinars.

About FEIP

NNPHI’s Fostering Emerging Institutes Project is designed to help emerging public health institutes operate with heightened efficiency and direction, benefiting from lessons learned by the existing members of NNPHI. NNPHI provides technical assistance and offers a mentoring network to staff and boards of emerging public health institutes so that they are able to carry out their roles with greater skills and confidence.

Primary areas of work include:

  • strategic planning
  • board development
  • the 501©3 application process
  • resource development and budgets
  • program development

NNPHI provides technical assistance to emerging public health institutes through a number of venues, including:

  • comprehensive needs assessments conducted via telephone interviews
  • educational sessions at the NNPHI annual conference
  • educational group teleconferences
  • individual consulting and referrals
  • Guide for Emerging Public Health Institutes (published in Fall, 2004)
  • pairing with mentors from established public health institutes
  • facilitating site visits to established public health institutes

This project is funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Please contact Erin Marziale(emarziale@nnphi.org or 504-301-9823) for more information.