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The three largest expenses we incur are:1. Covid-19 response & recovery fund/bridge fund cash grants: in 2022, we continued our covid-19 response & recovery grants for our nonprofit partners. The application process for nonprofit partners to apply for funding was inspired by trust-based philanthropy practices. Youth inc continues to receive support from our corporate partners and individual donors for this initiative enabling us to issue a third round of grants totaling over $549,000. Youth inc also issued $164,000 of bridge fund cash grants. Program expenses totaled $801,000 including grants of $713,000. Continued on schedule o2. Prosperity collective: in partnership with revjen, we provided the prosperity collective, which includes two programs, r-squared and fuel series. The fuel series program provided a six-month program of workshops and customized coaching to help organizations establish an intentional revenue model, strategy, organizational design, resource allocation, and revenue culture to support their revenue goals. R-squared provided peer nonprofit leaders with monthly group coaching opportunities. Program expenses totaled $634,000 including grants of $38,000. 3. Impact evaluation: Youth inc's metrics program helps organizations measure and maximize the impact of their programs on the Youth they serve. The program combines in-person workshops, one-on-one coaching, technical assistance, and peer learning designed to build their evaluative capacity. Using hello insight tools, our nonprofit partners capture program impact on program beneficiaries in key areas of social-emotional learning, and data on staff competence and confidence to deliver research-based positive Youth development practices. Youth inc coaches organizations to incorporate culturally responsive pedagogy, research-based positive Youth development practices, and better use program data to intentionally design and deliver their programs for greater impact on Youth served. To support the metrics program team and provide easier access to a wider range of nonprofit partner staff, we began to design our online learning platform. We spent the second part of 2022 learning, building, and designing asynchronous content for our nonprofit partners to utilize and share across their organizations. Program expenses totaled $610,000 including grants of $24,000.throughout 2022, we also worked in partnership with hello insight, which owns the tool we use to measure sel impact, to host elevating Youth development , four national community forums highlighting the stories and experiences of young people, Youth workers, executive leaders, and funders across the Youth development ecosystem. This participatory process started with Youth speak out, where Youth led the conversation at the intersection of race, dei, and mental health within out-of-school time programs. The forums expanded the ecosystem to understand the scope and scale of these issues and to develop recommendations and solutions that were culturally relevant and spoke to the needs of the moment. All other program services: 4. Rise academy for leaders of color: rise academy is a leadership development program to strengthen the pipeline, and build greater access, for individuals of color to advance and succeed in nonprofit leadership. In partnership with the center for nonprofit leadership at adelphi university's leading in community program, this unique opportunity pairs personal leadership development, nonprofit management, community leadership skills, mental health strategies and a mentor program in an 18-month experience for emerging leaders. At the conclusion, each leader receives a certificate in organizational and community leadership from adelphi. In addition, represented organizations receive training and coaching for executive directors and direct reporting managers to explore culturally responsive management practices that can retain, and sustain, leaders of color along with a completion grant for participation at the end of each cohort. Program expenses totaled $602,500 including grants of $225,000.5. Partner network engagement: Youth inc deeply values its community of 75 nonprofit partners and creates peer-to-peer learning opportunities for all of our partners to strengthen their best practices through partner network-wide events and our online social platform, 'the community'. Program expenses totaled $567,500 including grants of $35,000.6. Governance capacity building: the board advancement and board dynamics programs strengthen nonprofit board performance through curated learning experiences including workshops, strategy sessions, custom coaching, and technical assistance from board development professionals to increase board engagement and enhance board outcomes. The get on board program offers a broad array of companies the opportunity to train their employees on the foundations of nonprofit board governance and participate in a bespoke matching process to identify a nonprofit that needs their expertise and meets their interest. By becoming a board member and utilizing their relevant skills, these individuals are able to give back to the community and further develop their leadership skills and board governance experience. Program expenses totaled $351,000.7. Pilot programs: in 2022, pilot programs included new offerings from our strategy and operational effectiveness team and the continued roll out of our pre-boarding program. The six-month pre-boarding program engaged new nonprofit partners in a series of professional development workshops that encompassed key capacity-building topics for nonprofit leaders including; board & governance, fundraising, impact & evaluation, and change management. In 2022, Youth inc introduced and launched a series of programmatic offerings focused on nonprofit operations, infrastructure, and operations staff leadership development called the pulse series. This program is a 4- session workshop series for emerging operations leaders focused on key critical areas within nonprofit operations. The 2022 pulse series engaged 25 of our nonprofit partners with a focus on building effective people & culture practices and addressing common organizational culture needs occurring in nonprofits. The operations collective, a month-long cohort-based learning series, focused on building a collective approach to solving a common operational challenge identified by each organization. The 2022 operations collective engaged 9 of our nonprofit partners in monthly learning and coaching sessions. Program expenses totaled $252,000.8. Strategic planning: agile strategy planning lab: in 2022, Youth inc continued the implementation of our agile strategy planning lab, an intensive 10-week process of small, cohort-based learning and individualized coaching, using a newly developed strategic planning blueprint as a guide throughout the process. The blueprint is a simplified strategic plan that focuses on the most critical aspects of strategic planning: establishing direction, detailing action, accountability, feasibility, and ensuring implementation. Program expenses totaled $187,500 including grants of $4,000.9. The legacy leadership program (formerly succession planning program) works with the executive director/ceo, board, and senior leaders to engage in critical conversations and action steps to improve organizational culture, leadership development, and succession planning practices at their organization. The program increases intentionality around leadership practices across the organization to increase long-term sustainability through transition periods. Program expenses totaled $158,000.10. Corporate partnerships: Youth inc delivers significant capacity-building programming through pro bono relationships with other key corporate partners, including morgan stanley as well as corporate volunteer engagement opportunities that match our nonprofit partners with corporate volunteers for project and skills-based volunteering directly with the organizations and their staff. Program expenses totaled $77,000.