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EXHIBIT A COMMUNITY BENEFIT AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PRACTICES PLAN Local Non-profit Support Hundred Flowers will support the following local non-profit and community organizations at a minimum rate of $1,000 a month each: • Orange County Head Start o OC Head Start is an organization located in Santa Ana that provides self - empowerment and self-improvement guidance to low-income youth through academic support, tutoring, school readiness across all academic subjects, as well as family support and parental guidance. OC Head Start assures youth from all backgrounds — foster care, homeless, racial, low-income — have access to educational resources to ensure their long-term life and career success. • Think Together o Think Together shares a similar mission as Orange County Head Start and overlaps in some of it program administration. This is because education is vital for breaking cycles of poverty and providing paths to stability and sustainability. Think Together provides four main programs to achieve this goal: early childhood learning support, afterschool activities, general academic and life support services, and support for schools and teachers in education implementation. • WisePlace o Like all Southern California cities, Santa Ana faces challenges in dealing with its homeless populations. There is no better place than WisePlace in dealing with all the needs of homeless individuals. WisePlace not only offers emergency shelter, but a total spectrum of services that get to the root causes of homelessness to correct them. This includes case management, counseling, job assistance, goal planning, financial management, housing transition, and health care. • Latino Health Access o Based in Santa Ana, Latino Health Access has a three -fold mission: 1. to reduce the burden of chronic disease amongst disadvantaged Latino groups; 2. to strengthen family mental and emotional health amongst Latino populations; and 3. to create healthier communities through a culturally competent and collaborative approach. Given that minority groups such as Latino are at much greater risk of negative health outcomes and the largest portion of Santa Ana's population is Latino, offering supporting to health services to ensure that the Latino community can thrive and not survive is incredibly important to us. • GoodLearning Academy o Part of Goodwill Orange County, a nationally known non-profit, the GoodLearning Academy is focused on providing job training services to residents in Santa Ana and beyond. Located of Fairview Ave., GoodLearning Academy provides training on the use of technology, effective interpersonal, communication skills, leadership development modules, and other hard and soft skill development classes.