32 Nonprofit Agencies Establish Alliance

The leaders of more than 30 San Fernando Valley-based nonprofit agencies have formed an organization aimed at increasing funding for their programs and improving a broad range of services for Valley residents.

After meeting informally for about two years, the founding members of the Valley Non-Profit Alliance decided recently to expand their collaborative efforts by inviting the participation of more organizations, officials said.

“We felt that there was no single entity that represented nonprofit human service agencies in the Valley,” said Roy Marshall, the executive director of the San Fernando Valley Child Guidance Clinic and the first chairman of VNPA.

“We wanted to come together as an industry to strengthen the delivery of human services to the residents of the Valley.”

Marshall said that by presenting governmental authorities and philanthropic organizations with a unified vision of the Valley’s needs, the alliance will help its individual agencies increase their fund-raising and expand their services.

Other goals of the alliance call for collaboration in the areas of community education, needs assessment and the delivery of services to clients, Marshall said.

Marshall said the VNPA’s 32 agencies represent a wide range of social services, including programs for children, the elderly, drug abusers, the homeless and people with AIDS.

For more information about the Alliance, call (818) 908-5150.