Kingdom Assignment 2 | Medical Help For Two Individuals
Donations to 21 Organizations that Help the Poor and Needy
Boys and Girls Club of Ypsilanti
Your donation will be used toward our Power Hour Program (homework help) starting in the fall. School supplies such as pencils, colored pencils, pens, lined paper, construction paper, glue, scissors, rulers, floppy disk for our computers and incentives to complete their homework and projects. With your assistance we will continue to be the “Positive Place for Kids.”
The Breakfast at St. Andrew’s
For over 25 years, St. Andrew’s has served a free breakfast to anyone who comes to our door. Breakfast is available 365 days a year. As many as 150 people arrive between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. for oatmeal, juice, coffee, and fellowship. Some are homeless; many are not. Many hold low-paying jobs and cannot afford both rent and food. The Breakfast Program is hosted by St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, but it is self-supporting. Individual donors and businesses provide almost 100% of the funds.
Church World Service
Thanks to donors like you, we can provide food, shelter, health care, and clean water to refugees and others forced to flee their homes. With your help, we can also assist impoverished communities as they work to improve their farming techniques, develop reliable sources of safe water, and build a more sustainable future.
Corner Health Center
The Corner Health Center provides health care to uninsured and underinsured adolescents and their children who, without its services, might not have access to general medical care, prenatal care, nutritional programs or family planning. Because The Corner provides medical care as well as counseling, it takes advantage of its existing relationships with teens to provide other support services such as substance abuse prevention, education about risk reduction, STD and HIV counseling, crisis intervention, advocacy and referrals. Your support, enthusiasm for and belief in The Corner’s mission is very important to the young clients we serve. We have purchased and plan to renovate the building next door to our current facility, thereby doubling the number of exam rooms and counseling space. We are pleased to inform you that your gift will be applied towards the $250,000 Kresge Challenge Grant for this expansion that The Corner recently received.
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
With your support, MSF is responding faster to emergencies and improving the quality and effectiveness of the medical care we provide in nearly 60 countries around the world. Each and every day our field staff use their skills and commitment to bring medical care to those who desperately need it. Education Project for Homeless Youth (Washtenaw ISD) The $400 will be used to promote school stabilization and success among the more than 400 children and youth we serve who are homeless or in foster care. These are children living in homeless shelters, cars, motels and the couches of friends. In the past, our Student Need Fund has paid for graduation fees, prom tickets, senior photos, scientific calculators, specialized school supplies, field trips, credit recovery classes, as well as emergency transportation to school to ensure not even a day is missed due to couch surfing or other housing crisis.
Food Gathers
Food Gatherers exists to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes in our community by: Reducing food waste through the rescue and distribution of perishable and non-perishable food, coordinating with other hunger relief providers, educating the public about hunger and developing new food resources. As a food gatherer, I have never seen such demand for our services. Your support is a hopeful sign that we will gather enough food to nurture our community today and once again see it flourish.
Friends In Deed (FID)
Your $2,800 gift enabled FID to do the following: $1,400 was designated for our Capital Campaign to purchase, renovate and equip a building to enable FID to consolidate our operations, ensure a viable furniture program and upgrade facility space to meet increasing needs, $700 for operational support, and $700 to assist five clients with utility shut-offs. Your congregation has been a strong and faithful partner with FID throughout the years. We are truly grateful to have the opportunity to work together to serve those in need in our community. [Friends In Deed is an interfaith social services organization.]
Habitat for Humanity
Thank you for helping us work toward our mission of eliminating poverty housing and enriching our whole community through a legacy of affordable homeownership. Building simple, decent, safe, affordable housing is truly a matter of conscience and action! Thank you so much for your thoughtful gift...towards our 2008 Good News House project through your special fundraiser...We are looking at a period of significant growth for the future to meet the need here in Washtenaw County and your generosity helps us move forward and strengthen our work!
Haiti School Project
Since 2002, the Haiti School Project has built classrooms, a school kitchen, and flush toilets in poor areas of Haiti. It has assisted with teacher salaries and the hot lunch program. The Kingdom Assignment 2 funds have provided the opportunity to continue this work in Haiti by funding the completion of flush toilets at the John Wesley School in Jeremie in southwestern Haiti. Our VIM (Volunteers in Mission) team will be leaving November 6 to finish the construction and paint the building inside and out. Our thanks to the United Methodist Church family who has supported our project through their team participation, gifts and prayers.
Heifer International
Thank you for your support of Heifer International! We are grateful for each and every way you join us in our mission to end world hunger and poverty and care for the earth… Your donation went to the Heifer general fund where it will be able to provide healthy animals and training in their care in the places where they are needed most at the time. We have helped lift 9.2 million families out of poverty since 1944. Our goal is to help 10 million in the first decade of this century.
Hope Clinic
Your congregation’s Kingdom Assignment 2 matching gift program will help Hope Clinic to continue to serve those who come to us for help. The new satellite medical clinic in Wayne, MI will help to relieve the over-crowdedness at our Ypsilanti clinic and better serve the growing number of patients who live in western Wayne County. The dental clinic is busier than ever serving almost double the number of patients it was able to serve before the recent program expansion. We have expanded our Food Bank to provide emergency food on Saturdays to accommodate those who are unable to come on weekdays.
Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN at Alpha House)
The First United Methodist Church of Ypsilanti is an important part of the IHN community and we thank you for your donation...to help us provide a safe place for more than 100 children and adults--more than 45 families--this year. The effort and commitment of your congregation inspires us--and assures us that these programs for children and families experiencing homelessness are valued by the members of First United Methodist Church of Ypsilanti.
(Ypsilanti) Meals on Wheels
With generous support from friends like you, we will continue to meet the needs of the homebound elderly and other disabled persons in the community. Our program provides hot nutritious meals delivered right to each recipient’s door every Monday through Saturday. Meals on Wheels also offers important personal contact to those who might not otherwise see anyone all day. We appreciate your contribution as it will help to subsidize the ongoing costs of this program. We currently have a waitlist for service & these funds will allow us to provide a full course meal and a visit to a homebound individual for the next year.
Michigan Prisoner Re-entry Initiative (MPRI)
I wanted to respond to your request for a description of how these funds will be used to further our mission. We have almost completed planning for a new support group for women who have experienced incarceration. This pilot project will utilize an evidenced-based curriculum that focuses on the experience of trauma and its relationship to substance abuse, and has been used successfully with women involved in the criminal justice system. The group will be facilitated by a skilled counselor and will be open to all newly released women on parole, and homeless women at Delonis [a local shelter] who have been previously incarcerated. Our goal is to meet once a week for 16 weeks and then evaluate the results. We have now secured the funding needed to purchase the curriculum and workbooks, train the facilitator and compensate the facilitator. The donation from First United Methodist Church...will be used to provide refreshments each week for the 16 week pilot. Our experience with running groups has been that if refreshments are provided, attendance greatly increases!
RAAH (Religious Action for Affordable Housing)
We will let the individual donors know that their gifts were matched by the church and that the total...for the MPRI supportive housing project will be matched again by the JEHT Foundation. [RAAH is in the second year of a Pilot Project with the Michigan Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative and the JEHT Foundation to create housing and follow-up for 20 of the hardest to place mentally ill prisoners after their release.]
SafeHouse Center
SafeHouse Center provides comprehensive services to all survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Washtenaw County. These services include an emergency shelter, court accompaniment, counseling, information and referrals and a 24 hour response team. Your gift will be used to ensure that the needs of the survivors are met. Your donation truly makes a difference here, and it means a great deal to all of us here to know that you and your entire congregational family care about survivors of domestic and sexual violence and are helping them rebuild their lives. We are able to keep our doors open and our programs running in large part because of support from dedicated community members like you. Particularly in this time of diminishing federal and state grant money, our program survives donation by donation, gift by gift. Every contribution is another support for a survivor, another act of great compassion, another statement against domestic violence and sexual assault.
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army has served the whole of Washtenaw County for more than 100 years. Our essential services include a food pantry, soup kitchen, clothing, a family shelter, transitional housing and counseling for veterans, character building for youth, camp programs, emergency and disaster relief, utility assistance, and eviction prevention.
Shelter Association of Washtenaw County
The Shelter Association of Washtenaw County provides temporary shelter and supportive services in a safe and caring environment, and works with the community to allocate the necessary resources to meet the needs of individual adults who are homeless.
SOS Community Services
This generous donation comes at a critical time for the homeless children served by SOS. For the past decade, SOS has run Sunny Days, an eight-week summer enrichment program for children. We currently have enrolled 31 children in the five-day-per-week program. This wonderful program gives kids a chance to write in journals, do arts and crafts, swim, play outdoor games and take cultural field trips. In addition, Sunny Days provides homes children with two nutritious meals per day. But the reality is that the program isn’t fully-funded, Local funding for our children’s services has decreased by almost $100,000 during the past few years. For every dollar you gave to benefit Sunny Days, we receive $4 in funding from the federal government for programs that house families with children.
UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) - African Hunger Relief
One hundred percent of every gift designated for "All Africa Famine Relief, Advance #101250" will be used in the relief efforts. Countries currently listed on UMCOR’s website as being a part of these hunger relief efforts are Ethiopia, Angola, Mali, Sudan and the general region of Southern Africa. [FUMC Ypsilanti has a special interest in Zimbabwe, which is located in Southern Africa.]
Kingdom Assignment 2 | Medical Help For Two Individuals
