TY 2021 GeneralExplanationAttachment
Name:
Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust
EIN:
86-6247076
Software ID:
21014044
Software Version:
2021v4.2
Identifier Return Reference Explanation
#1: EARLY LITERACY AND READ ON ARIZONA Form 990-PF, Part VIII-A Read On Arizona is the state's third-grade reading initiative committed to building an early literacy system that improves language and literacy outcomes for Arizona's children, birth through age eight. Piper Trust is a founding member of this collective impact that works to accelerate progress towards school readiness and K-3 reading proficiency. The Trust supports the Arizona Literacy Director who works in partnership through a collective impact approach with the Arizona Department of Education, Head Start State Collaboration Office, First Things First, and myriad agencies, philanthropies, and community partners; partners work in coordination sharing data and maximizing investments to improve early childhood literacy and drive large-scale change.
#2: VISION SCREENING Form 990-PF, Part VIII-A Eyes On Learning is a partner coalition that strengthens, expands, and advances children's vision health. The effort works to help ensure all children have early and effective vision screening and the appropriate follow-up services that are essential to good health and learning success. The Trust established and supports the Eyes On Learning Director who works in partnership with Read On Arizona and other state, local, and national organizations dedicated to vision health and learning success for all Arizona children.
#3: STRENGTHENING THE PHILANTHROPIC SECTOR - ATLAS Form 990-PF, Part VIII-A ATLAS is a Piper Trust program designed to increase the operational capacity and organizational resilience of select nonprofit grantees in Maricopa County. The Trust designed the program in partnership with Dr. Susan Kenny Stevens, founder of the Nonprofit Lifecycles Institute (NLI). ATLAS is a stage-based approach to building capacity and developing organizational resilience. The ATLAS framework considers that organizations at various stages of development have different capacity needs - this is known as the "life-cycle approach" to capacity building. ATLAS assesses organizational operating capacity, addresses current critical challenges, and facilitates development of a plan to move forward.
#4: PIPER FELLOWS Form 990-PF, Part VIII-A The Piper Fellows Program is an opportunity for nonprofit leaders to develop a self-designed, professional development "sabbatical" and participate in transformational activities such as renowned educational programs and best practice site visits. Through an application/selection committee process, Piper Trust typically awards up to six Piper Fellows annually with stipends of up to $30,000 (each) that support the respective self-designed Fellowship activities. A Fellowship provides additional support for the Fellow's organization including: a $10,000 staff and board development grant and, the opportunity to apply for an Organizational Enhancement Award (a grant of up to $50,000) to implement learnings from the Fellowship.