“I’m glad IFF was able to help tie those two things together so Synergy can get services to people who need them.” “This is a common problem for expanding nonprofits – they have the skills and experience to do something new, and they have funders who are willing to pay them, but sometimes the reality is it’s difficult to align the expense of building capacity with the timing of new revenue streams,” Desai-Ramirez said. IFF provided two bridge loans totaling $831,000: one to allow construction to continue while pledges were collected and another to bridge a gap in expected payments from states and county programs. The $3.5 million project was financed largely by donations and pledges. The Children’s Center even won a 2017 Capstone Award for Community Impact from the Kansas City Business Journal. It provides not only emergency shelter, but also a feeling of home with indoor and outdoor play areas, colorful bedrooms, floor-to-ceiling windows that look out onto gardens and nature walks, and even an art-therapy room. The 11,000-square-foot site, which opened in late 2016, doubled the capacity of Synergy’s child programming. Enter the organization’s new Synergy Children Center. The organization – now called Synergy Services – provided care to more than 5,500 people in 2016, but it was still turning away about 250 young people every year because it just didn’t have enough space. Nearly 50 years later, the nonprofit has expanded to provide a full continuum of care to assist both families and individuals of all ages who are in search of a safe and supportive environment to be free of violence. In 1971 western Missouri, there was only one safe place for runaway and homeless youth: Synergy House.
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