BUSINESS PLAN
Updated: March 21, 2005
The Hughes-Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
Statement of Purpose
The purpose of the Langston Hughes Center for Community Enrichment will be to provide the Lawrence Community and surrounding area with unique opportunities to encourage learning and literacy.
The proposal to transform and use the Carnegie Library Building invites the City of Lawrence to engage in a new venture. With the Lawrence Public Library to the north, the Lawrence Arts Center to the east, and the Watkins Community Museum of History to the south, the Langston Hughes Center creates an important public and cultural space in the heart of the city.
Table of Contents
I. The Business
A. Mission
B. Vision
C. Location
II. Organization Summary
A. Director
B. Program Coordinator
C. Board of Directors
D. Advisory Board
III. Services
IV. Space
V. Financial Plan
A. City of Lawrence
B. Funding
C. 501c3 Status
D. Grants
VI. Partners
I. The Business
A. Mission: The mission of the Hughes-Carnegie Center for Community Enrichment will be to encourage learning and literacy for people of all generations and cultural traditions. The Center will also provide learning experiences related to the history and rich diversity of our community and will serve as a link and commitment for the vision of Langston Hughes to embrace and support a multicultural society for all Lawrence citizens.
B. Vision: The Hughes-Carnegie Center will provide opportunities for all members of our community--from new arrivals to life-long residents--to learn about ourselves, our families, and our neighbors in relation to our diverse heritages and our rapidly hanging society. We believe that this knowledge builds strong foundations for the people of Lawrence and Douglas County to act wisely and to aspire to make tomorrow as bright as Langston Hughes imagined.
C. Location: The Hughes-Carnegie Center will be located in the former Carnegie Library.
II. Organization Summary
A. Director: A director for the Center will initially be appointed by the City and will begin immediately to secure funding through application for the 501c3 status. The director will organize applications for national and regional grants.
B. Program Coordinator: A Program Coordinator of the Center will immediately begin to arrange programs.
C. Board of Directors: A Board of Directors will be appointed by the City Commission and the transition team to hire and supervise director and program coordinator.
D. Advisory Board: An Advisory Board will be appointed in the future by the Board of Directors of the Langston Hughes Center for Community Enrichment.
III. Services
The Hughes-Carnegie Center will provide the following services:
* Develop programs, lectures, classes, book clubs, and other opportunities to encourage verbal, visual, economic, scientific, technological, and cultural literacies.
* Coordinate programming with the Lawrence Public Library, in particular, as
well as with other partnering organizations in Lawrence.
* Develop enrichment and remedial classes in reading and writing.
* Conduct after-school and Saturday cultural literacy and tutoring programs.
* Provide performance and exhibition space for new creative work.
* Coordinate and encourage diverse oral history initiatives.
* Highlight the significance of Langston Hughes and his family to Lawrence citizenry in a variety of ways (e.g., displays in the Center’s vestibule, mural art, and passages from his writing created by students throughout the building’s interior).
* Serve as a municipal literacy clearinghouse
* House the National Heritage Area office.
IV. Space
Considering the management of space in the Carnegie Building and desiring to maintain the historic character of the building the following is a list of possible uses:
*Office (east, 1st floor)
*Multipurpose creative space (north, 1 st floor, former performance area)
*Large meeting room (west, 1 st floor, former exhibition area)
*Classrooms small meeting rooms, and tutorial rooms (basement)
*Electronic wiring creating virtual technology capabilities throughout the building
V. Financial Plan
A. City of Lawrence
1 . The City will provide initial funding for a director and program coordinator. Salary and fringe benefits will be determined by the City.
2. The City will commit to salary and fringe benefit financial support for the director and program coordinator for 5 years.
3 . The City will provide financial assistance for equipment such as furnishings and computers.
B. Potential Funding Sources
1 . Fees from workshops and class programs.
2. Friends of the Langston Hughes Center for Community Enrichment
3 . Rent from Lawrence Degree Completion Program
4. Local and state foundations, such as
Douglas County Community Foundation
5. Local businesses, such as Target
6. Grants—see V.D.
7. United Way (after two years of operation)
C. 501c3 Status
The City of Lawrence will give assistance to the Board of Trustees for the application of 501c3 status and incorporation papers.
D. Grants – Potential funding sources:
Carnegie Corporation
W. W. Kellogg Foundation
J. P. Morgan Chase Foundation (financial literacy)
Microsoft
SBS Excelerator Grant
NPower and AT&T Wireless
Hasbro Children’ s Foundation
AMA (health literacy)
Calvin K. Kazanijian Economic Foundation (economic literacy)
Starbucks Foundation
U.S. Department of Education
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
Kansas Children's Cabinet and Trust Fund
Kansas Health Foundation
Wal-Mart Literacy Foundation
Hallmark Foundation
Home Depot Foundation
Weststar Energy Foundation
Sunderland Foundation
Paul Ross Charitable Foundation
Rice Foundation
Douglas County Community Foundation
Payless ShoeSource Foundation
Fred and Mary Koch Foundation
Intrust Bank Charitable Trust
Capitol Federal Foundation
Louis and Dolpha Baehr Foundation
Sprint Foundation
VI. Community stakeholders who expressed interest in “partnering ” with the Center
Van Go Mobile Arts
Lawrence Memorial Hospital (Douglas County Safe Kids Coalition)
Elizabeth Ballard Community Center (Children’ s Service Program
Kaw Valley Council
Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts of America
Lawrence Partnership for Youth (Success by 6)
Watkins Community Museum of History
Pelathe Community Resources Center
Small World
MAPOP-KU Multicultural Affairs Project Outreach
Roger Hill Volunteer Center
Douglas County Child Development Association
KU Beach Center on Families & Disabilities
HALO Hispanic American Leadership Organization of KI
Big Brother/Big Sister
Douglas County Historical Society
City of Lawrence Parks and Recreation
Catholic Community Services of Lawrence
Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence
Cottonwood
Haskell Indian Nations University
Independence, Inc.
Brook Creek Learning Center
FNSA-First Nations Student Association of KU
Black Student Union of KU
Lawrence Diploma Completion Program & Douglas County Jail Learning Lab
Douglas County CASA
Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center
Brandon Woods Retirement Center
Presbyterian Manor of Lawrence
Drury Place at Alvamar
Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority (Babcock Place & Vermont Towers)
Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community
Senior Citizen Center of Lawrence
USD 497 School District
KU Continuing Education
Lawrence Arts Center
KU Service Learning Projects
Arts Commons (LACAVA)
Americana Music Academy
Douglas County 4-H
Endacott Society of KU (Retirees)
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence National Heritage Committee
Lawrence Drop-In Center