What People Are Saying

Our technical assistance has helped organizations grow their programs and become more sustainable.  Read these success stories: 

Success Stories

What facilitators are saying:

“I believe (NFI went) beyond what we could have ever expected...the technical assistance and availability of technical assistance is really outstanding.”
Roy DeLyon, Maui Family Support Services (Maui, HI)

“It] focused us much more in the kinds of things we need to do. It’s really given us the opportunity to take a step back and take a look at where we need to go and to pretty much focus.”
Tom Weber, The Parenting Network (Milwaukee, WI)

“We’re starting to become recognized as an organization [that serves fathers]. Though we’re small, we have the capacity to provide input to help effect change in other organizations, which is exactly what we want to do.”
Renee Thompson, Family Comes First (Columbus, OH)

"The staff has been trained in how to be father friendly...which has increased the numbers [of fathers] that we saw. Because before that, they weren’t even asking [fathers] whether they had children, whether they were a father or not. So they weren’t even addressing the need.”
Keith Sears, CTE (Stamford, CT)

“It seems as though we’ve written several more grants and have been funded [by] several grants since receiving the award from the fatherhood capacity building program.”

David Goodson, Family & Children’s Council of Blackhawk County (Waterloo, IA)

"We now have one full-time gentleman [who raises] the funds, and he is the fatherhood specialist. We’ve also written a request, a federal grant, for the Second Chance Act, requesting $300,000 to assist us in implementing these various stages and to recruit volunteers to surround dads that will be released from incarceration and returning to communities.”
Tracy Killings, Great Beginnings for Black Babies (Inglewood, CA)

Evaluation & Research

Research shows that NFI's Technical Asssistance:

• Increases organization's capacity to serve fathers and helps organizations sustain these programs
  
• Can increase capacity by over 20%
  

View the research:

Inspiration to Implementation (June 2010)
This report evaluates the effectiveness and impact of the National Responsible Fatherhood Capacity Building Initiative.