Cohort 2: Implementation Expansion and Modifications On February 5, 2020, LA County Probation Department extended its contract with Liberty Hill to add a second cohort of 29 grantees over an 18-month period. Liberty Hill and CCF selected the organizations from among those who applied in the first grantmaking round but were initially deferred. The grantees were selected with a focus on ensuring diversity across geography, service delivery, program type, and organizational capacity, as well as ensuring that organizations with budgets under $1 million were prioritized. All 29 organizations received site visits and were jointly selected by foundation partners. The following section covers the first six months of Cohort 2’s progress. Cohort 2 Program Structure Destiny is using the same four-step process outlined above for Cohort 2, which includes discovery/design, planning, implementation, and evaluation and reflection. Implementation for Cohort 2 includes assessment, convenings and coaching as with Cohort 1, but also adds tracked learning, which places grantees into subgroups. With tracked learning, organizations engage in deep learning on a particular capacity building area and develop learning collaboratives with like-minded organizations confronting the same challenges and opportunities. This overarching model still allows peer-convenings to focus on cohort-wide community building, peer learning and exploration of topics pertinent to the field that are often largely unaddressed, such as employee burnout, healing and racial justice, and restorative justice. Site Visits, Diagnostic Assessment, and Plan Development In May and June of 2020, all 29 grantees in Cohort 1 received both a virtual meet and greet coaching session and virtual site visits from the capacity building and evaluation consultants; and completed a diagnostic assessment with their coaches. The same assessment tool described above for Cohort 1 was used for Cohort 2, with the addition of a question about
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