TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary, including any amendments, to enter into an agreement with FUSE Corps, a non-profit corporation of San Francisco, CA, to participate in the FUSE Corps Fellowship Program, in an amount not to exceed $435,000, for the period of October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019; and
Increase appropriations in the Special Grants Fund (SR 120) in the City Manager Department (CM) in the amount of $435,000, offset by a transfer of funds from participating departments. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The City of Long Beach (City) has participated as a FUSE Corps (FUSE) Fellowship Partner City since 2016. FUSE is a nonprofit organization that partners with civic leaders to identify pressing local challenges and recruits entrepreneurial, mid-career professionals to serve in fellowships to effectively address these challenges. FUSE Fellows are strategically placed within partner cities to augment local public service. The program is intended to help cities achieve transformative impact across areas such as education, health, poverty, economic development, and the environment. FUSE Fellows are paid by FUSE using a combination of grants from foundation partners and limited City funds.
In Fiscal Year 2018 (FY 18), the City partnered with FUSE to address two focus areas impacting the City with funding support from various local and regional private philanthropic sponsors, including the Senior Care Action Network (SCAN), and the California Community Foundation (CCF). The first project involved contracting a FUSE Executive Fellow to develop a plan to establish systems for an age-friendly City and establish an Office of Aging for the City. Since October, the FUSE Fellow has engaged with over 60 stakeholders, completed a thorough data analysis of senior services across multiple City departments, delivered a gap analysis of senior services throughout Long Beach, and completed an evaluation of four closed-...
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