- Letter of Submittal, including signed Certifications and Assurances (Exhibit A to this RFP)
Question A: Name, address, principal place of business, telephone number, and e-mail address of legal entity or individual with whom a contract would be written.
Answer A:
Dirk van Velzen
CEO, Prison Scholar Fund
1752 NW Market St. #953
Seattle, WA 98107
Tel: 206.734.5425
Question B: Name, address, and telephone number of each principal officer (President, Vice President, Treasurer, Chairperson of the Board of Directors, etc.) and Letter of Determination confirming 501(c)(3) status of the organization and the year the entity was organized.
Answer B:
1) Sai Nimmagadda, Chairperson
Seattle, WA
Tel: 425.686.4084
2) Barry Pailet, Treasurer
Boston, MA
Tel: 617.233.8202
3) Caroline Garry, Secretary
Seattle, WA
Tel: 512.659.4342
4)Dirk Van Velzen, CEO
Seattle, WA
Tel: 206.734.5425
Question C: Federal Employer Tax Identification number or Social Security number and the Washington Uniform Business Identification (UBI) number issued by the state of Washington Department of Revenue.
Answer C:
EIN: 41-2175677
UBI: 602-604-708
Question D: Location from which the Proposer will operate
Answer D:
Prison Scholar Fund
1752 NW Market St #953
Seattle, WA 98360
Question E: Identification of the specific county and communities where services will be provided.
Answer E:
| County | 2021 | Urban | Rural |
| Adams | 15 | 0 | 2 |
| Asotin | 28 | 0 | 3 |
| Benton | 249 | 25 | 0 |
| Chelan | 91 | 0 | 9 |
| Clallam | 58 | 0 | 6 |
| Columbia | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Cowlitz | 237 | 0 | 24 |
| Douglas | 29 | 0 | 3 |
| Ferry | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Franklin | 62 | 0 | 6 |
| Garfield | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Grant | 101 | 0 | 10 |
| Grays Harbor | 166 | 0 | 17 |
| Island | 28 | 0 | 3 |
| Jefferson | 11 | 0 | 1 |
| King | 1,253 | 125 | 0 |
| Kitsap | 298 | 30 | 0 |
| Kittitas | 24 | 0 | 2 |
| Klickitat | 11 | 0 | 1 |
| Lewis | 192 | 0 | 19 |
| Lincoln | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Mason | 72 | 0 | 7 |
| Okanogan | 39 | 0 | 4 |
| Pacific | 24 | 0 | 2 |
| Pend Oreille | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| Pierce | 904 | 90 | 0 |
| San Juan | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Skagit | 126 | 0 | 13 |
| Skamania | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Snohomish | 462 | 56 | 0 |
| Spokane | 662 | 66 | 0 |
| Stevens | 40 | 0 | 4 |
| Thurston | 248 | 25 | 0 |
| Wahkiakum | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Walla Walla | 42 | 0 | 4 |
| Whatcom | 208 | 21 | 1 |
| Whitman | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| Yakima | 371 | 0 | 37 |
| Annual | 6,601 | 480 | 186 |
| Six Months | 240 | 93 |
Question F: Identity of any state employees or former state employees employed or on the firm’s governing board as of the date of the proposal. Include their position and responsibilities within the Proposer’s organization. If following a review of this information, it is determined by COMMERCE that a conflict of interest exists, the Proposer may be disqualified from further consideration.
Answer F: N/A
Question G: Briefly explain how your organization meets the minimum qualifications in section 1.3 above.
Answer G:
- The Prison Scholar Fund (PSF) is a Washington Nonprofit Corporation.
- The PSF serves both rural (72.7%) and urban (27.8%) communities in Washington State, see 1(E).
- The PSF Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 501(c)(3) determination letter, dated 2/22/2006, is attached.
- PSF’s mission is to provide education and employment assistance to help formerly incarcerated people succeed and thrive in society while avoiding homelessness and the revolving door of reincarceration. Our food security, post-secondary education, and digital literacy work focuses on supporting people who are returning to their communities by connecting them with resources and opportunities to ensure positive outcomes from both individual and community.
- Founded in 2006, PSF has supported the education of 138 incarcerated, postsecondary students demonstrating a 4% recidivism rate. The entire PSF is powered by formerly incarcerated people, who understand the struggles of reentry and whose work at PSF to help others transition as successfully as he was able to, based on education and community support. PSF works closely with justice-involved persons to provide education and reentry support. In the past year, PSF launched its computer coding bootcamp in partnership with Coding Dojo leading to full-time employment for three program participants with regional technology firms at living wages. We also provide nutrition security to a population that is largely formerly incarcerated (or their family members) — a community we are deeply connected to in Washington State. PSF launched its food security program in 2020 touching most counties on the Western side of Washington and providing nearly $1 million in food to serving 1,224 clients.
- Technical Proposal
Question 2A: Project Approach/Methodology:
PSF is a 501(c)(3) organization that serves the educational, nutrition, and other transition needs of individuals returning to their communities after a period of incarceration. Our mission is to improve educational opportunities, provide access to training and credentials, and support justice-involved individuals and their families by providing basic food and other fundamental assistance with the goal of reducing rates of re-offense and reincarceration and laying the groundwork for a strong, post incarceration future through a culturally-responsive and community-oriented program design organization. We create meaningful change for directly-impacted communities by centering the voices of people who have lived experience of incarceration and belong to the communities we serve.
One of our principal methods of outreach to the justice-impacted community is our Food Security Program (FSP) that currently provides fresh, healthy food products to over 1,200 people and families on the Western side of the State of Washington, about 65 percent of whom live in rural and other underserved communities. A majority of those served through our Food Security program are people who have been directly or indirectly impacted by incarceration.
The purpose of the funds requested in this grant is to provide “on-ramp” technology education to supplement our Coding Dojo training partnership. This Culturally Literate Digital Navigator service will provide introductory digital skills education to persons in Washington State communities who have been impacted by incarceration, or currently reentering society from incarceration, to equip them with important general technology skills and to determine interest in longer-term technology training with Coding Dojo.
PROGRAMS
Prison Scholar Fund is seeking resources for six specific programs to serve the unique needs of the returning citizen population in Washington State:
- Digital Navigation — Wrap-around services to provide people returning home to our communities after incarceration with the core skills necessary to successfully navigate a society that has shifted increasingly into digital spaces.
- Digital Empowerment — Focused on digitally empowering formerly incarcerated people returning to our communities by providing them with internet-enabled mobile and laptop devices as well as broadband service to connect clients to the medium through which our society operates in the 21st Century.
- Employment Clinic — Training clients reentering the employment market after a period of incarceration in the skills necessary to successfully navigate the job search process. Including one-on-one case management with a formerly incarcerated staff member deeply knowledgeable in the trauma and unique obstacles faced by people living with an historical conviction record who will support the re-entering job seeker with placement services in their geographical region.
- Systems and Social Navigation — Improve coordination of support to services to ensure that all critical participant needs are adequately addressed as they begin their reentry journey. Clients will be paired with experienced staff members who are themselves system-impacted and able to provide both expertise and an empathetic response to participants. Resource connection support will focus on continuing education (GED or higher education), obtaining healthcare coverage and accessing services, reconnecting and reintegrating with loved ones,
- Computer Programming Basics — A two-day introductory training designed to help students gain the skills necessary to be comfortable working in the fast-paced learning environment of a coding bootcamp. During this course, students learn basic computer literacy skills, such as how to install and navigate basic programming tools. Students apply algorithmic thinking to make predictions of common programming skills, such as variables, arrays, conditionals, functions, and loops.
- Coding Bootcamp — An intensive 14- or 28-week (either full-time or part-time) coding bootcamp focused on equipping students with core marketable skills in web development as a program engineer. Students receive wrap-around support (including living expenses) to participate in the Coding Dojo certificate program and emerge with the concrete front and back end tools they will need to create their own web application from start to finish.
BACKGROUND
In the early stages of the COVID-19, food distribution to socially isolated populations, including the formerly incarcerated, emerged as a serious challenge. Northwest Harvest approached PSF to support its efforts to expand and improve deliveries of food to justice-impacted individuals who faced especially high transition hurdles caused by business closures, limited access to government services, and high levels of unemployment. Over the past two years, PSF has been a key partner to Food Lifeline, Emergency Food Network, and other nutrition-focused nonprofits in providing food to the justice system impacted individuals and their families, serving hundreds of families on a weekly basis with fresh, healthy food products. (PSF’s 2020 Food Security Report is attached.)
Our Food Security program is a vital existing service that meets basic nutritional needs of justice impacted individuals while simultaneously helping to stabilize them during the initial period following release. Food assistance helps to lighten the often-heavy load of tasks (e.g., finding housing, re-establishing basic documentation and certifications needed for life activities such as driver’s licenses, and reconnecting with their family and community.) Providing food means “one less thing” to worry about as program participants struggle to reorient to life outside prison and reestablish their lives.
Digital Security is becoming increasingly integral to a person’s success in our society as basic nutrition. The internet is now the lifeblood of our society, yet formerly incarcerated people are often cut off from access to the digital sphere due to lack of access to internet service or internet-enabled devices. PSF’s Digital Empowerment Project will provide touchscreen smartphones and laptop computers to justice involved people returning to the community who are at or below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, along with internet service for those devices. When possible, the mobile phone will serve as a hotspot for the laptop. In rural communities where cell phone coverage (and data, either 3G, 4G, or 5G connectivity) are unreliable, we will provide a home internet subscription. PSF intends to leverage the Federal “Affordable Connectivity Program” (ACP) to supplement the cost of this effort. We estimate that approximately 4 out of 5 of our clients qualify for the ACP and we will provide staff to work with the formerly incarcerated person to secure access to these resources through facilitating enrollment and navigating the process.
Bridge to Technology Employment
Long-term self-sufficiency for our clients and their families, however, requires more than nutritional assistance alone. Consistent with our focus on education, it is critical that PSF create accessible and realistic opportunities for training, career guidance, and digital navigation services that will help those who have been isolated from digital technology build competency and ultimately create opportunity pathways to sustainable, living-wage jobs and careers. The funding requested in this proposal will be used to connect our reentry clients to basic and advanced technology skills and foster employment opportunities in Washington State’s vibrant technology sector. PSF will leverage the relationships and trust we have built with the justice-involved community in Washington State — along with our status as a credible messenger based on the lived experience of our staff — to help people returning to their communities after a period of incarceration to successfully access and navigate the digital world in 2023.
Under the leadership of our Founder and CEO, Dirk van Velzen, the resources we are requesting will allow us to hire an Employment Navigator who will work alongside our Director of Food Security to engage clients in technology literacy and computer coding language training. Our coding program is provided in partnership with Coding Dojo, a major provider of computer science and programming training with ties to a wide array of U.S. technology companies.
Through PSF’s ongoing, weekly contact with Food Security clients, the Employment Navigator will engage clients with two levels of potential training, Culturally Literate Digital Navigation and a Computer Coding Bootcamp.
Digital Navigation Training
This training intended to provide at least 333 food security and other formerly incarcerated participants with training on software programs that are essential in most or all business environments (e.g., Google searches, Gmail, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and are basic prerequisites for many employment opportunities.)
Computer Programming Basics
Among those with interest and ability, additional training will be available for up to 50 participants to learn Programming Basics through our Coding Dojo partnership. Students will learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and VS.
Coding Bootcamp
We anticipate that 25 of those participating in the Programming Basics program will continue to the full computer coding bootcamp delivered in partnership with Coding Dojo. The bootcamp, valued at $16,000, will be provided at no cost to participants. Bootcamp participants will receive either 14-weeks (full-time) or 28-weeks (part-time) instruction in three “full stacks” from a curriculum that covers more front-end and back-end technologies than any other online coding program. Individuals in the bootcamp will also benefit from a cash stipend and equipment provided through Coding Dojo and by other key partners including the Murdock Foundation, which has provided 30, high-performance laptop computers and internet access vouchers. Languages covered may include (students have agency of course of study): APIs, AJAX, Bootstrap, jQuery, Python, MySQL, Flask, Scrum, MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js, Advanced JS, NPM, Socket.IO, Java 8, JSP, Spring MVC, MySQL, Hibernate, Juniy, Thyme Leaf, Tomcat, and JVM.
Employment Navigation
As part of PSF’s program to support employment transitions, the Employment Navigator will also have responsibilities in job development and coordination with Washington’s public workforce system. The Employment Navigator will recruit high technology and other employers who are willing to consider coding bootcamp graduates for employment opportunities. This is a labor-intensive job. Recent experience shows that we need to reach out to 378 potential tech companies to find two that are truly Second Chance employers.
The Employment Navigator will develop partnerships with employers in Washington State to provide Second Chances for justice involved individuals. The Employment Navigator will also help coordinate access to other workforce development services (e.g., job search, training programs, resume development) and social and human services supports (e.g., housing, transportation, childcare) that are often necessary for finding and retaining employment.
Question 2B. Work Plan:
The PSF work plan includes six areas of service across various levels of opportunity and need to support formerly incarcerated people in reentering their communities. These approaches are designed to address the core needs of returning citizens who have been disconnected from resources and opportunities. Our approach centers on the “Credible Messenger” model of providing persons with lived experience whose backgrounds and culture resonate with the client to help them acquire skills necessary to their successful reintegration into society.
Digital Navigation
This program offers wrap-around services to provide people returning home to our communities after incarceration with the core skills necessary to successfully navigate a society that has shifted increasingly into digital spaces.
We work closely with clients to help them understand the vocabulary of digital literacy. Participants will work on an individual basis with a formerly incarcerated staff person to develop basic functional computer skills (e.g., shutdown and restart button, mouse use, keyboarding including command keys, and website navigation). They will have the opportunity — many of them for the first time since their incarceration — to explore and learn about the more widely available internet-enabled products for personal and work use like Chromebooks, iPads, tablets, surface, and smart phones. We will introduce them to software programs like Microsoft Office and Google docs to help them become familiar with using these essential tools. We will focus on email etiquette and some foundational skills for self-sufficiency such as setting up Gmail accounts, sending and replying to emails, and cc’ing and bcc’ing. A key skill set in this development program is how to navigate the internet for personal use, with an emphasis on seeking employment using online tools. We will cover how to use search engines to look for jobs and to acquire information for employment purposes, finding directions, exploring educational opportunities, transportation, news, and connecting to social services.
Key takeaways in this program include:
- Critical thinking
- Job readiness skills
- Digital communication skills
- Fluency in navigating digital spaces and tool
- Accessing community resources
Digital Empowerment
Focused on digitally empowering formerly incarcerated people returning to our communities by providing them with internet-enabled mobile and laptop devices as well as broadband service to connect clients to the medium through which our society operates in the 21st Century. The Internet is recognized as a human right by the United Nations, yet many formerly incarcerated people are effectively cut off from access to this basic resource in our society. Our Digital Empowerment program will equip directly impacted people with laptops and smartphones. We will also provide them with internet service plans for those devices free of charge for a period of 1-year to help them get back on their feet while enabling them to access the resources that will help make them successful contributing members of our society again. We believe that in the spirit of the “housing first” model, people returning to their communities first need to have their basic needs met if they will be able to prosper. Access to the digital world through internet-enabled devices along with internet service will allow formerly incarcerated people to more easily reconnect with loved ones, rebuild ties to their communities, connect with social services and educational resources, and ultimately secure stable employment — which also makes our communities safer.
The goal of this effort is to connect a population that has historically been challenged with technology with an onramp onto the information highway. From a practical standpoint, we will purchase modern, functional laptops and touchscreen smartphones with hotspot functionality that helps connect clients to the digital world. In some rural areas without reliable cellular coverage, internet subscription service may be provided.
Employment Clinic
Training clients reentering the employment market after a period of incarceration in the skills necessary to successfully navigate the job search process. Including one-on-one case management with a formerly incarcerated staff member deeply knowledgeable in the trauma and unique obstacles faced by people living with an historical conviction record who will support the re entering job seeker with placement services in their geographical region.
Participants will learn how to use technology to find and secure employment, understanding best practices and gaining experience using online platforms like LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster, and Ladder. These tools might be entirely foreign to some formerly incarcerated people. We will rely on staff with lived experience of incarceration to help our clients understand the advantages of using these tools and best practices for navigating the digital employment search.
Key takeaways include:
- Critical thinking
- Job readiness skills
- Digital communication skills
- Navigating
- Accessing community resources
Systems and Social Navigation
PSF aims to improve coordination of support to services to ensure that all critical participant needs are adequately addressed as they begin their reentry journey. Clients will be paired with experienced staff members who are themselves system-impacted and able to provide both expertise and an empathetic response to participants. Resource connection support will focus on continuing education (GED or higher education), obtaining healthcare coverage and accessing services, reconnecting and reintegrating with loved ones in a community structure, and other activities related to rebuilding one’s life after a period of incarceration. We recognize that incarceration traumatizes whole families, not just the individual who was held in a carceral setting. Because of this, we focus on including the families in recovering from the pain of dislocation and supporting the person coming home with the resources and guidance they need to heal and reform as a productive member of the community.
The leadership development curriculum contains frameworks for our clients to learn how to live and work well together in teams and process how to build and restore relationships relying on skills such as conflict management. Due to their environments, many formerly incarcerated people have not had the opportunity to observe positive role models for building problem solving skills as an active member of a team and as a leader of a team. Clients will emerge able to utilize frameworks to work collaboratively to develop creative solutions in a collaborative way.
Computer Programming Basics
A two-day introductory training designed to help students gain the skills necessary to be comfortable working in the fast-paced learning environment of a coding bootcamp. During this course, students learn basic computer literacy skills from culturally sensitive formerly incarcerated ambassadors who understand the experience of reintegration after a period of incarceration through lived experience. They instructed students on a one-on-one basis in skills such as how to install and navigate basic programming tools. Students will learn to apply algorithmic thinking to make predictions of common programming skills, such as variables, arrays, conditionals, functions, and loops.
Students experience the rigor and intensity of the bootcamp in the next phase, strengthening their cognitive processing stamina, resiliency, and other behavioral skills necessary for a bootcamp. By the end of the course, students will walk away with the basic computer literacy, algorithmic foundations, and learning stamina needed to find success in a bootcamp and later in a professional setting
Key goals include:
- Complete basic computer tasks, such as zipping a file, installing software, joining an online meeting, etc.
- Make outcome predictions that use the following programming concepts: conditionals, functions, loops
- Use best practices for coding, such as indention and t-diagramming
- Explain the most common data concepts in programming, such as variables and arrays • Explain the most common HTML elements such as tags, lists, divs, and forms • Explain the basic concepts of CSS, such as its relation to HTML, selectors, and properties • Apply learning skills to improve learning capabilities.
Coding Bootcamp
Coding Dojo teaches three stacks in the coding bootcamp because they have found that very few companies use only one language, but also because learning to learn is an essential skill for a developer. A Full Stack is made up of the front-end, the back-end, and the database. The front-end is what you see when you go onto the internet: the colors, the buttons, the content, etc. Each full stack uses different tools, frameworks, and technologies. So, when we say we teach a “full-stack”, we mean we will teach students the language as well as the associated front and back-end tools they will need to create their own application from start to finish.
Self-efficacy is a core deliverable of the Coding Bootcamp. According to a survey of over 100,000 developers by HackerRank published in 2020, 60 percent of full-stack developers were required to learn a completely new framework in the last year—more than any other role polled. Full-stack developers also have to learn the most languages: 45 percent reported that they had to pick up a new one within the last year. In addition, a survey by Stack Overflow of 65,000 developers said 75 percent of respondents noted that they learn a new technology at least every year. By learning three stacks now, students will feel confident learning new technologies going forward. PSF believes that learning is a lifelong process, and this program equips formerly incarcerated students with a mindset to continue learning and problem solving as members of the tech industry.
The Coding Dojo program has an extremely positive success rate with 83.8 percent of their graduates in 2020 (during the height of the pandemic) securing jobs in relevant fields within 6 months and 91.1 percent in field-specific employment within a year of graduation.
Question 2C: Project Schedule: Include a project schedule indicating when the elements of the work will be completed. Project schedule must ensure that any deliverables requested are met.
Answer 2C:
| Step | Step Description | Responsible group | Date
done |
| 1 | Hire Matthew Russell, Director of Digital Navigation | Digital Equity Group | 12/20/22 |
| 2 | Finalize and post job description for Employment Navigator | PSF Executive Team | 12/20/22 |
| 3 | Launch outreach to students to register in class | Digital Equity Group | 12/23/22 |
| 4 | Launch recruitment drive for volunteer technology tutors. Volunteer Program | Digital Equity Group | 12/26/22 |
| 5 | Finalize vendor selection for refurbished laptops & cellphones | Digital Equity Group | 12/28/22 |
| 6 | Hire Employment Navigator | PSF Executive Team | 01/05/22 |
| 7 | Develop onboarding process | Digital Equity Group | 01/07/22 |
| 8 | Finalize foundational digital literacy curriculum and workshops that can be adopted and expanded based on adult learner needs | Digital Equity Group | 01/12/22 |
| 9 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 01/16/22 |
| 10 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 01/17/22 |
| 11 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 01/18/22 |
| 12 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 01/19/22 |
| 13 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 01/23/22 |
| 14 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 01/24/22 |
| 15 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 01/25/22 |
| 16 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 01/26/22 |
| 17 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 01/30/22 |
| 18 | Employment Navigator review | PSF Executive Team | 01/30/22 |
| 19 | Onboard students with aptitude for Programming Basics | Digital Equity Group | 01/31/22 |
| 20 | 360 Evaluation, Digital and Social Navigation | PSF Executive Team | 01/31/22 |
| 21 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 01/31/22 |
| 22 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 02/01/22 |
| 23 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 02/02/22 |
| 24 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 02/06/22 |
| 25 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 02/07/22 |
| 26 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 02/08/22 |
| 27 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 02/09/22 |
| 28 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 02/13/22 |
| 29 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 02/14/22 |
| 30 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 02/15/22 |
| 31 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 02/16/22 |
| 32 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 02/20/22 |
| 34 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 02/22/22 |
| 35 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 02/23/22 |
| 36 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 02/27/22 |
| 37 | Employment Navigator review | PSF Executive Team | 02/28/22 |
| 38 | Onboard students with aptitude for Programming Basics | Digital Equity Group | 02/28/22 |
| 39 | Award Coding Dojo full-time bootcamp scholarship | PSF Executive Team, Digital Equity Group | 02/28/22 |
| 40 | 360 Evaluation, Digital and Social Navigation | PSF Executive Team | 02/28/22 |
| 41 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 02/28/22 |
| 42 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 03/01/22 |
| 43 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 03/02/22 |
| 44 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 03/06/22 |
| 45 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 03/07/22 |
| 46 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 03/08/22 |
| 47 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 03/09/22 |
| 48 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 03/13/22 |
| 49 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 03/14/22 |
| 50 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 03/15/22 |
| 51 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 03/16/22 |
| 52 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 03/20/22 |
| 53 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 03/21/22 |
| 54 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 03/22/22 |
| 55 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 03/23/22 |
| 56 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 03/27/22 |
| 57 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 03/28/22 |
| 58 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 03/29/22 |
| 59 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 03/30/22 |
| 60 | Employment Navigator review | PSF Executive Team | 03/31/22 |
| 61 | Onboard students with aptitude for Programming Basics | Digital Equity Group | 03/31/22 |
| 62 | Award Coding Dojo full-time bootcamp scholarship | PSF Executive Team, Digital Equity Group | 03/31/22 |
| 63 | 360 Evaluation, Digital and Social Navigation | PSF Executive Team | 03/31/22 |
| 64 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 04/03/22 |
| 65 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 04/04/22 |
| 66 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 04/05/22 |
| 67 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 04/06/22 |
| 68 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 04/10/22 |
| 69 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation | Remote Digital Equity Group | 04/11/22 |
| 70 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 04/12/22 |
| 71 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 04/13/22 |
| 72 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 04/17/22 |
| 73 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 04/18/22 |
| 74 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 04/19/22 |
| 75 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 04/20/22 |
| 76 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 04/24/22 |
| 77 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 04/25/22 |
| 78 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 04/26/22 |
| 79 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 04/27/22 |
| 78 | Employment Navigator review | PSF Executive Team | 04/30/22 |
| 79 | Onboard students with aptitude for Programming Basics | Digital Equity Group | 04/30/22 |
| 80 | Award Coding Dojo full-time bootcamp scholarship | PSF Executive Team, Digital Equity Group | 04/30/22 |
| 81 | 360 Evaluation, Digital and Social Navigation | PSF Executive Team | 04/30/22 |
| 82 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 05/01/22 |
| 83 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 05/02/22 |
| 84 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 05/03/22 |
| 85 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 05/04/22 |
| 86 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 05/08/22 |
| 87 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 05/09/22 |
| 88 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 05/10/22 |
| 89 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 05/11/22 |
| 90 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 05/15/22 |
| 91 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 05/16/22 |
| 92 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 05/17/22 |
| 93 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 05/18/22 |
| 94 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 05/22/22 |
| 95 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 05/23/22 |
| 96 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 05/24/22 |
| 97 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 05/25/22 |
| 98 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 05/29/22 |
| 99 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 05/30/22 |
| 100 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 05/31/22 |
| 101 | Employment Navigator review | PSF Executive Team | 05/31/22 |
| 102 | Onboard students with aptitude for Programming Basics | Digital Equity Group | 05/31/22 |
| 103 | Award Coding Dojo full-time bootcamp scholarship | PSF Executive Team, Digital Equity Group | 05/31/22 |
| 104 | 360 Evaluation, Digital and Social Navigation | PSF Executive Team | 05/31/22 |
| 105 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 06/01/22 |
| 106 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 06/05/22 |
| 107 | Culturally Literate Digital Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 06/06/22 |
| 108 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – AWS Seattle | Digital Equity Group | 06/07/22 |
| 109 | Digital Navigation, Leadership, and Social Navigation – Remote | Digital Equity Group | 06/08/22 |
| 110 | Onboard students with aptitude for Programming Basics | Digital Equity Group | 06/19/22 |
| 111 | Award Coding Dojo full-time bootcamp scholarship | PSF Executive Team, Digital Equity Group | 06/19/22 |
| 112 | 360 Evaluation, Digital and Social Navigation | PSF Executive Team | 06/30/22 |
| 113 | Employment Navigator review | PSF Executive Team | 06/30/22 |
Question 2C: Outcomes and Performance Measurement: Describe the impacts and outcomes to be achieved as a result of the delivery of these services including how these outcomes would be monitored, measured and reported to COMMERCE.
Answer 2C:
| Project Activities & Outcomes 1 | |
| Activity | Digital Navigation |
| Target Audience | System impacted/BIPOC community members transitioning from incarceration. |
| Number to be Served | 333 |
| Tech Skills Taught | Understanding vocabulary of digital literacy, developing functional skills (shutdown and restart button, mouse use, keyboarding including command keys, and website navigation), exploring and learning various hardware compatible to their comfortability and what is available (Chromebooks, iPads, tablets, surface, smart phones), learning software programs (Microsoft Office, Google docs, etc.), email etiquette (setting up Gmail accounts, sending and replying, cc’ing and bcc’ing), internet (using search engines for jobs, directions, education, transportation, news, and social services). |
| Life/Civic Skills Taught | Critical thinking, job readiness skills, digital
communication skills, navigating and accessing community resources |
| Expected Outcomes | Increased digital literacy skills of students, intellectual growth and fostering of lifelong learning habits both within and outside the classroom, greater community engagement and participatory citizenship, stronger foundation for transition to other post-secondary programs, community college programs leading to family supporting jobs. |
| Project Activities & Outcomes 2 | |
| Activity | Distributing internet enabled devices |
| Target Audience | System impacted/BIPOC community members, transitioning from incarceration. |
| Number to be Served | 333 |
| Tech Skills Taught | Modern and functional laptops and cell phones with hotspot functionality to help connect clients to the internet. In areas without cell coverage, internet subscription service may be provided. |
| Life/Civic Skills Taught | Importance of digital technology to life and employment; universal access to information as a human right, as per the United Nations (2011). |
| Expected Outcomes | Connecting a population that has historically been challenged with technology with an onramp onto the information highway. |
| Project Activities & Outcomes 3 | |
| Activity | Workforce Development |
| Target Audience | System impacted/BIPOC community members, transitioning from incarceration. |
| Number to be Served | 333 |
| Tech Skills Taught | Participants will learn how to use technology to find and secure employment, understanding of and experience using LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster, and Ladder. |
| Life/Civic Skills Taught | Critical thinking, job readiness skills, digital
communication skills, navigating and accessing community resources |
| Expected Outcomes | An increase in jobs application, call backs, and offers of employment |
| Project Activities & Outcomes 4 | |
| Activity | Systems and Social Navigation |
| Target Audience | System impacted and BIPOC community members, many of whom are transitioning from incarceration. |
| Number to be Served | 333 |
| Tech Skills Taught | Leadership development curriculum, contains researched and tested frameworks to guide attendees on their personal leadership journey as leaders (soft skills) and gain life skills to live and work well together where they live, work, and play. An example, learn a proven process to build and restore relationships such as conflict management, problem solving. |
| Life/Civic Skills Taught | Critical thinking, job readiness skills, digital
communication skills, navigating and accessing community resources, and conflict management skills and strategies. |
| Expected Outcomes | Build ability to problem solve as an active member of a team and as a leader of a team. Utilize frameworks to work collaboratively to develop creative solutions in a collaborative way. |
| Project Activities & Outcomes 5 | |
| Activity | Computer Programming Basics |
| Target Audience | System impacted/BIPOC community members, transitioning from incarceration. |
| Number to be Served | 50 |
| Tech Skills Taught | The Programming Basics will help students gain the skills necessary to be comfortable working in the fast-
paced learning environment. During this course, students learn basic computer literacy skills, such as how to install and navigate basic programming tools. Students apply algorithmic thinking to use common programming skills, such as variables, arrays, conditionals, functions, and loops. |
| Life/Civic Skills Taught | Students experience the rigor and intensity of the bootcamp in the next phase, strengthening their cognitive processing stamina, resiliency, and other behavioral skills needed for learning and work. By the end of the course, students will have basic computer literacy, algorithmic foundations, and learning stamina needed to find success in a bootcamp. |
| Expected Outcomes |
| Project Activities & Outcomes 6 | |
| Activity | Coding Bootcamp |
| Target Audience | System impacted/BIPOC community members, transitioning from incarceration. |
| Number to be Served | 25 |
| Tech Skills Taught | Coding Dojo teaches three stacks in the coding bootcamp because they have found that very few companies use only one language, but also because learning to learn is an essential skill for a developer. A Full Stack is made up of the front-end, the back-end, and the database. The front-end is what you see when you go onto the internet: the colors, the buttons, and the content. Each full stack uses different tools, frameworks, and technologies. |
| Tech Skills Taught | Coding Dojo teaches three stacks in the coding
bootcamp because they have found that very few companies use only one language, but also because Learning to learn is an essential skill for a developer. A Full Stack is made up of the front-end, the back-end, and the database. The front-end is what you see when you go onto the internet: the colors, the buttons, and the content. Each full stack uses different tools, frameworks, and technologies. |
| Life/Civic Skills Taught | Self-efficacy. According to a survey of over 100,000
developers by HackerRank published in 2020, 60% of full-stack developers were required to learn a completely new framework in the previous year. Full-stack developers must also learn the most languages. In addition, a survey by Stack Overflow of 65,000 developers said 75% of respondents noted that they learn a new technology at least every few months or once a year. By learning three stacks now, students will feel confident learning new technologies going forward. |
| Expected Outcomes | PSF expects that 20 of the 25 participants will find a
relevant job in the tech industry within 180 days of graduation; Coding Dojo celebrates that 91.1% of 2020 Graduates found a relevant job within 1 Year of graduation. |
Question 2E: Risks: Identify potential risks significant to the success of the project. Describe how the risks would be monitored and managed, including reporting of risks to the COMMERCE contract manager.
Answer 2E: The biggest risk reentry and education/training programs face is participant persistence. To mitigate that risk, we are building a training pipeline that meets clients where they are and then gradually increases the complexity and skill level. In addition, we have structures in place to help participants access the supportive services (e.g., health care, transportation, housing) that are often barriers to completing training programs.
Question 2F: Deliverables: Fully describe deliverables to be submitted under the proposed contract. Deliverables must support the requirements set forth in Section 1.2, Objectives and Scope of Work.
Answer 2F: See Section B & Section D.
2.3 Management Proposal:
Question 2.3 A: Project Team Structure and Internal Controls: Provide a description of the proposed project team structure and internal controls to be used during the course of the project, including any subcontractors. Provide an organizational chart of your organization indicating lines of authority for personnel involved in performance of this potential contract and relationships of this staff to other programs or functions of the firm. This chart must also show lines of authority to the next senior level of management. Include who within the organization will have prime responsibility and final authority for the work.
Answer 2.3 A: PSF Organization Chart: (INSERT CHART)
Question 2.3 A1: Staff Qualifications and Experience: Identify staff, including subcontractors, who will be assigned to the potential contract, indicating the responsibilities and qualifications of such personnel, and include the amount of time each will be assigned to the project. Provide resumes for the named staff, which include information on the individual’s particular skills related to this project, education, experience, significant accomplishments and any other pertinent information. The Proposer must commit that staff identified in its proposal will actually perform the assigned work. Any staff substitution must have the prior approval of COMMERCE.
Answer 2.3 A2: Matthew Russell
Director of Digital Navigation (New hire per this contract)
Matthew has been impacted by the criminal justice system much of his life. Incarcerated for over 18 years, Matthew has been a true story of Redemption. Once a detriment to his community, he has positively impacted over a 1,000 youths’ lives, promoting prosocial behavior in an attempt to break generational curses that he himself once helped to perpetuate. Matthew is an extraordinary example of resilience, and of the hard work that it really takes to overcome such adversity; something that is often overlooked. PSF is honored to partner with people like Matthew who make incredible, positive impacts with every project they are involved in.
Matthew is a voracious learner and trusted leader, starting or participating in a host of activities during his incarceration.
- School of Business, University of Washington Bothell: 4-year degree with a concentration in management, 2019
- Restorative Justice Facilitator, 2018-2019
- Career Bridge…Instructor (Urban League of Metropolitan of Seattle), 2017-2019 • Edmonds Community College: undergraduate degree Business Management, 2017 • AbetterMe consulting services, 2017-2020
- Credible Messenger Certified, 2017
- Youth 180 juvenile prevention participant (Group Facilitator & Speaker), 2017 • Step Up, Youth violence prevention, 2016
- Toastmasters International, 2016
- Ready 4 Release…Instructor, 2013-2015
- A Better Me Fitness…Cardio instructor/fitness, 2013-2016
- Redemption Facilitator (21-week self-awareness program), 2010-2016
- GED tutor for Edmonds Community College, 2013-2015
- GED tutor for Grays Harbor Community College, 2009-2013
- Ohio University: undergraduate degree with a major in Social Sciences, 2012
Employment Navigator
New Hire
PSF will hire a formerly incarcerated person for this position.
Question 2.3 B: Experience of the Proposer (SCORED)
Indicate the experience the Proposer and any subcontractors have in the following areas; if no
experience in this area, please provide a detailed startup plan that addresses the following:
PSF contract:
- Emergency Food and Shelter Program
Contract #: 889000-046
Period of performance: 10/16/2020 to current
Contact person: Wayne Wilson – Community Impact Manager, Homelessness and Housing
Community Services Team, United Way of King County
Tel: (206) 461-5001
Email: wwilson@uwkc.org
PSF partnerships and collaborations include:
- Amazon
- Amazon Fresh
- Amazon Web Services
- Beardslee Public House Restaurant
- Coding Dojo
- Department of Corrections
- Emergency Food Network
- Filipino Community Center
- Food Lifeline
- King County Courts
- King County Metro Access
- Mamnoon Restaurant
- Microsoft
- Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center
- NW Harvest
- Pecado Bueno Restaurant
- Pioneer Human Services
- Salare Restaurant
- Serious Takeout Restaurant
- South Kitsap Helpline
- Surrell Restaurant
- Tillicum Community Center
- United Way of King County
- World Central Kitchen
Indicate other relevant experience (including lived experience with incarceration or the criminal justice system) that indicates the qualifications of the Proposer, and any subcontractors, for the performance of the potential contract.
All individuals employed and any contractors utilized will have been directly, and significantly,
impacted by the criminal justice system:
Dirk van Velzen
CEO, PSF
Dirk was released from prison on May 7th, 2015. He had been incarcerated since 1999 for a series of commercial burglaries.
When Dirk arrived in prison, he quickly realized that the main ways to spend one’s time in prison were watching TV, doing push-ups, and playing pinochle. However, you can choose how to spend your time– something you’ve got plenty of. Incarceration, as strange as it sounds, offers a unique opportunity to focus on, and build, a new future. That’s exactly what Dirk did.
Watch Dirk’s 2015 winning Social Venture Partners pitch: bit.ly/PSF_SVP
Watch Dirk’s Unlocked Futures video made in partnership with John Legend: bit.ly/PSF_Unlocked
Dirk applied for the Federal Pell Grant, which is a federal needs-based financial aid program for low income Americans, of which prisoners would certainly qualify. Then he discovered that Pell Grants were discontinued by Congress in 1994 in the heyday of the war on drugs. It’s hard to fathom why Congress would eliminate programs that are designed to change behavior for the better by increasing labor market readiness.
Seeking other support, Dirk wrote 300 letters to churches seeking tuition support without success — he only received a single “No,” but was otherwise ignored. Likewise, 300 letters dispatched to charities and businesses were fruitless.
Luckily, Dirk was able to reconnect with his father, Ted, who stepped in to cover his college costs in 2001. He enrolled at Penn State through distance education, receiving an A.S. in Business Administration and a B.S. in Organizational Leadership, and earning a host of awards, including the President’s Freshman Award, the President Sparks Award, and the Evan Pugh Scholar Award by graduating in the upper 1/2 of one percent of his class. Additionally, Dirk was inducted into the Honor Societies of Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Sigma Lambda.
Shortly after Dirk’s release from prison, he received a certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Washington, won first place in the Social Venture Partners Fast Pitch business plan competition, and earned a coveted slot in the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship.
Dirk had discovered over the course of his journey that many other prisoners would walk a similar path if educational opportunities were available. Prison is full of hustlers: drug dealers, purveyors of stolen goods, con artists, etc. These people understand business: the cost of goods sold, finance, marketing, human resources, and customer acquisition and retention. With a formal business education and ethical introspection, many of those incarcerated could easily turn their self-taught skills into highly productive careers.
The idea of the Prison Scholar Fund was born around 2002, and Dirk explored funding strategies— marketing calendars produced from inmate artwork, for instance, to support operations. Although not all strategies worked, the Prison Scholar Fund received IRS 501(c)(3) recognition in 2006.
Dirk learned how to write grants, and enjoyed early success with support from the Annenberg and Bannerman Foundations. Over the next few years, he raised almost $60,000 and awarded 191 scholarships to inmates who were inspired to change their lives through education.
With his father’s assistance for the things he couldn’t do from behind bars (like open bank accounts and respond to email), Dirk did all of this from prison. Dirk and his father, Ted, were awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award from President Barack Obama for their tireless work with the PSF.
The PSF has achieved amazing success from prison, validated its operations with an audit from Watson & McDonnell, PLLC (also from prison), and is positioning itself to make an even broader impact. It is scaling up, opening access to college education for all incarcerated students in America.
Recently, Dirk was welcomed into musician John Legend’s “Unlocked Futures,” accelerator, in partnership with New Profit Foundation and Bank of America. Became a JustLeadershipUSA Fellow, Leading with Conviction Fellow. And was invited into the American Enterprise Institute’s Leadership Network, to help inform national policy.
Dirk was fortunate when his father paid his tuition, but most inmates are not so lucky. Dirk believes that education should not be limited to just the “lucky,” but be available to all currently and formerly incarcerated people so that they can exit prison with the skills to succeed. And Dirk’s father, Ted, the PSF’s co-founder couldn’t be happier to be a “Harvard Dad” with his son completing a Nonprofit Leadership program at the Harvard Kennedy School. The PSF is poised to make his vision a reality to all justice involved people, beginning in Washington State
Question 2.3 C: Related Information (MANDATORY)
Answer 2.3 C:
- N/A
- N/A
- N/A
- N/A
Question 2.3 D: References (MANDATORY)
- Luke Lappala
Director of Communications & Chief of Staff to CEO, Coding Dojo
The PSF’s partnership with Coding Dojo includes sourcing system impacted candidates to complete it’s 14-week coding bootcamp and building relationships with potential employers. 3600 136th PL SE #300 Bellevue, WA 98006
Tel: (206) 313-7520
- Byran Neal
Operations, Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center
The PSF’s partnership with the MCFHC includes providing access to nourishment that MCFHC distributes to the clients it serves and other transition facilities.
2021 S 19th St, Tacoma, WA 98405
Tel: 253.230.3835
- Michael Florez
Reentry Corps Advisor, King County Community Partnership for Transition Solutions The PSF’s partnership with the KCCPTS includes providing access to nourishment that KCCPTS distributes to the clients it serves and other transition facilities.
Tel: 509.900.7730
Question 2.3 E: OMWBE Certification (OPTIONAL AND NOT SCORED)
Include proof of certification issued by the Washington State Office of Minority and Women’s Business
Enterprises (OMWBE) if certified minority-, women-, or veteran-owned firm(s) will be participating on
this project. For more information please visit: http://www.omwbe.wa.gov.
- Cost Proposal
Question 4A: Identification of Costs (SCORED)
| Commerce | |
| Digital Navigation and Workforce Development | |
| RFP NO. WSBO 22-003 | |
| Salaries | Total |
| Payroll | |
| CEO | $ 52,500.00 |
| Director of Digital Equity | $ 47,500.00 |
| Employment Navigator | $ 37,500.00 |
| $ 137,500.00 | |
| Payroll Taxes, Benefits | $ 11,756.25 |
| Medical, Dental | $ 8,946.00 |
| $ 158,202.25 | |
| Hardware, Connectivity | |
| Laptops | $ 133,160.00 |
| Affordable Connectivity Program (80% assumption) | |
| Cell phone | $ – |
| Cell phone service, 1 year, 266 people | $ 38,350.08 |
| PSF Supported Phone/Service (20%) | |
| Cell phone, Android, 67 people | $ 13,316.00 |
| Cell phone service, 1 year, 67 people | $ 36,752.16 |
| Shipping: Rural | $ 2,251.25 |
| $ 223,829.49 | |
| Leadership Development | |
| Center for Ethical Leadership, Leadership Development (soft skills, team building) | $ 39,600.00 |
| Center for Ethical Leadership, Coaching Sessions | $ 18,000.00 |
| $ 57,600.00 | |
| Communication | |
| Marketing | $ 5,000.00 |
| Printing | $ 1,000.00 |
| Internet | $ 600.00 |
| $ 6,600.00 | |
| Operations | |
| Travel (Fed rate) | $ 1,350.00 |
| Snacks, PSF shirts, pens, mousepads | $ 2,000.00 |
| $ 3,350.00 | |
| Total | $ 449,581.74 |
| Research, Administration, Distribution (10%) | $ 49,953.53 |
| Total Program Expense | $ 499,535.27 |
Question 5. RFP EXHIBITS
Answer 5:
- Exhibit A Certifications and Assurances
- Exhibit B Diverse Business Inclusion Plan
- Exhibit C Workers’ Rights Certification
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