Abstinence
Education of Virginia (AEVA)
5034 Williamson Rd. NW
Roanoke, VA 24012
540-362-3007
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Abstinence Education of Virginia (AEVA)’s mission is to
promote healthy relationships and reduce sexual risk behaviors
among teenagers through intensive community education.
Project Description:
AEVA will use its grant to provide professional training for
staff and volunteers in the areas of marriage education theory
and practice; acquire financial management software; refine
its curriculum; develop and acquire materials such as films
and laptops for participants; and create presentation materials
to introduce the program to potential partners in the community.
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Alive Ministries,
Inc.
14070 Providence Ln.
Savage, MN 55378
612-879-3810
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Alive Ministries, Inc. is a nonprofit organization committed
to helping couples develop the skills, knowledge, and Alive
Ministries, Inc. is a nonprofit organization committed to helping
couples develop the skills, knowledge, and understanding of
what they need to build and maintain a healthy marriage.
Project Description:
Alive Ministries, Inc. will contract with the University of
Minnesota to develop a program evaluation and a performance
and outcome measurement system, and assist in determining the
training and development needs of the trainers, couples, and
other members of the community. Furthermore, this grant will
fund community engagement efforts, including community asset
mapping. To that end, the organization will hire a Community
Marriage Education Outreach Coordinator to assist in building
a resource network to better serve families. This individual
will also develop an outreach and public awareness forum and
establish a resource library and database of marriage education
materials.
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Alta Vista
Faith-Based Initiative Corporation
2405 E. Beltline Rd.
Carrollton, TX 75006
972-418-5320
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Alta Vista Faith-Based Initiative Corporation is a nonprofit
corporation made up of seventeen faith-based organizations in
the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Its mission is to serve the needs
of Hispanic children and families living in distressed communities.
Project Description:
Alta Vista will purchase the Spanish Active Relationships
curriculum and trainer packages to train four community leaders
at each location, with a goal of training a total of sixty-eight
community leaders. Alta Vista will design and implement an evaluation
outcome and measurement tool. Additionally, it will design strategies
to recruit volunteers through a Web site and newsletters, and
it will build a volunteer database.
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Bach Viet Association,
Inc.
5777 Madison Ave., #715
Sacramento, CA 95841
916-344-2197
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Bach Viet Association, Inc. is a nonprofit organization providing
the refugee community access to resources that allow for full
participation in the economic and civil life of Sacramento,
Calif.
Project Description:
Bach Viet will use the grant to build its capacity by contracting
services to train staff on the “Plan and Learning”
system, conduct the community’s needs assessment, and
customize technical assistance for training on fundraising.
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Beit Shalom,
Inc.
147-22 70th Rd.
Flushing, NY 11367
718-0575-1445
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Beit Shalom, Inc.’s mission is to teach couples relationship
skills to foster healthy marriages.
Project Description:
Beit Shalom will hire a planning and management consultant to
provide professional development in board planning and responsibilities,
volunteer recruitment, community fundraising, and board-based
marketing. Funds will also be used to train community members
to teach marriage education and to train staff and board members
how to cultivate and manage new funding sources.
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Boat People
SOS Community Development Corporation (BPSOS)—Alabama
13280 N. Wintzell Ave.
Bayou la Batre, AL 36509
703-538-2190
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Boat People SOS Community Development Corporation (BPSOS)—Alabama
was created to provide emergency relief to Hurricane Katrina
survivors. Their mission is to assist Vietnamese refugees and
immigrants in their search for a life with liberty and dignity
by empowering, organizing, and equipping individuals and communities
in their progress towards financial self-sufficiency and social
integration.
Project Description:
BPSOS will build its capacity for its newly established Bayou
la Batre, Louisiana, office in the areas of revenue development
strategies, program development, and community engagement. Specific
activities include training associates in healthy marriage education
and cultural issues, as well as working with Vietnamese Public
Radio and a local radio station to conduct outreach. In addition,
BPSOS will actively research funding sources, and develop a
master proposal to streamline the grant-writing process.
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Boat People
SOS, Inc. (BPSOS)—Massachusetts Branch Office
85 Oakland St., Ste. 1
Springfield, MA 01108
703-538-2190
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Boat People SOS, Inc. (BPSOS), Massachusetts’ mission
is to assist Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in their search
for a life with liberty and dignity by empowering, organizing,
and equipping individuals and communities in their progress
towards financial self-sufficiency and social integration.
Project Description:
BPSOS Massachusetts will build its capacity by hiring a part-time
development coordinator to manage funding, train its members
to assist with grant writing, and train staff in marriage enrichment.
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Cambodian
Family, The
1111 E. Wakeham Ave., Ste. E
Santa Ana, CA 92705
714-571-1966
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
The Cambodian Family is a nonprofit, community-based organization
that serves refugee families. Services include after-school
programs, job placement, health education, English classes,
and vocational training. The organization serves several immigrant
groups, including, but not limited to, Vietnamese, Iranian,
Russian, and Somali populations.
Project Description:
The Cambodian Family will convene focus groups of former clients
to enroll them as ambassadors to their communities and develop
ideas for new outreach strategies. The focus groups will also
provide information about cultural traditions within refugee
and immigrant communities, as these traditions pertain to marriage.
The grant will also fund staff trainings and curriculum enhancements
to broaden the organization’s approach to marriage education,
as well as to research and develop the program’s evaluation
component, including exploring existing marriage evaluation
tools that may be appropriate for refugee families.
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Celebrating
Real Family Life, Inc. (CRFL)
83 Highview Ave.
Staten Island, NY 10301
718-595-2116 or 718-981-3892
Award Amount: $49,037
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Celebrating Real Family Life (CRFL) promotes healthy marriages
and families in distressed communities on Staten Island.
Project Description:
CRFL will build its capacity by training board members to enhance
their leadership skills and hiring a professional business coach
to train the board in the area of governance. CFRL will also
hire a business trainer to assist staff in the use of presentation
and accounting software to create a centralized accounting system
for financial transactions and fiscal controls. CFRL will hire
a financial consultant/accountant to train staff and board members
in developing a permanent financial management system and a
legal consultant to draft legal documents, review agreements,
and assist in complying with fundraising and tax laws.
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Cincinnati
Beulah Missionary Baptist Church (BMBC), The
1834 Section Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45237
513-531-7283
Award Amount: $43,795
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
The Cincinnati Beulah Missionary Baptist Church (BMBC) has a
track record of addressing the needs of distressed communities
through the provision of social services.
Project Description:
BMBC plans to build capacity by developing a revenue strategy
that includes training key personnel in grant writing; developing
a stronger organization that has a key infrastructure for training
volunteers on healthy marriage principles and providing support
for cases of domestic violence and substance abuse; and purchasing
a projection package to train volunteers on healthy marriage
principles and what to do in cases of domestic violence and
substance abuse.
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Charity Group
of Good Affinity, Inc.
2101 James Madison Hwy.
Haymarket, VA 20169
571-261-2408
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Charity Group of Good Affinity, Inc. helps people find inner
peace, while also strengthening family values and helping needy
people overcome difficulty. The group endeavors to accomplish
its mission through the provision of various activities and
services, including exercise and meditation classes, family
counseling, transitional and self-development services for new
refugees and immigrants, and vocational workshops.
Project Description:
Charity Group of Good Affinity will build its capacity in the
areas of organizational development and revenue development
strategies. To that end, the organization will formalize the
documentation of its activities, thereby improving its ability
to measure outcomes and chart achievements. The group will also
develop formal accounting procedures and automate its bookkeeping
system to simplify reporting processes. The Executive Director
will receive training to become a certified Prevention and Relationship
Enhancement Specialist and use the knowledge to develop a curriculum
to enhance its program development. Fund development strategies
include developing a master proposal for the provision of healthy
marriage services and training two volunteers in grant writing.
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Church of
Glad Tidings
1179 Eager Rd.
Live Oak, CA 95953
530-671-3160
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
The Church of Glad Tidings provides marriage education resources
and support within Yuba and Sutter counties, and serves as a
replicable model for other rural areas wishing to provide community-based
support for marriages and families.
Project Description:
The Church of Glad Tidings will build capacity in the area of
organizational development by providing training to its board
to increase their leadership skills; training of facilitators
to lead marriage education programs; developing and enhancing
a community marriage resource center Web site; and a fundraising
plan.
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Clinebell
Institute, The
1325 N. College Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711-3199
909-447-6329
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
The Clinebell Institute’s mission is to improve the quality
of life by offering affordable counseling and community services.
Project Description:
The Clinebell Institute plans to build capacity by increasing
membership of the board of directors and training the board
in strategic planning; training staff in several counseling
programs; creating a fiscal-controls system and audit procedure;
training staff in grant writing; building a Web site and upgrading
computer technology; and creating newsletters to engage the
community and strengthen partnerships.
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Compassion
Connection, Inc.
2725 Bethel Church Rd.
Bethel Park, PA 15102
412-835-8900
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Compassion Connection, Inc. is a faith-based, nonprofit organization
that provides classes, workshops, and one-on-one counseling
to assist couples in developing the skills and knowledge to
sustain healthy marriages.
Project Description:
Compassion Connection will build its capacity by hiring a full-time
director to increase its leadership, and by developing a data-tracking
system to better track participant progress.
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CrossWalk
Church
6036 S. 27th Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85041
602-304-9926
Award Amount: $39,772
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
CrossWalk Church mentors and assists homeless families in obtaining
housing and financial aid. They also sponsor volunteer teams
to assist with feeding the homeless in the South Phoenix, Arizona,
area.
Project Description:
CrossWalk Church will build its capacity by hiring a consultant
with experience in the area of donor development and financial
sustainability to create a funding development plan, and by
purchasing a computer, supplies, and Internet services to write
grants.
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Dasi-Ziyad
Family Institute, The
3320 Beechwood Ave.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
216-321-0930
Award Amount: $49,893
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
The Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute is a community-based organization
that provides couples with marriage- and relationship-skills-building
services through workshops, seminars, retreats, and couple consultations.
Project Description:
The Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute will use this grant to enhance
its organizational development and revenue development efforts.
Specifically, the Institute will pursue 501(c)(3) status; acquire
professional liability insurance; purchase computers and software
to facilitate marketing and development activities; facilitate
the certification of two staff members to become Certified Family
Life Educators; hire a consultant to design and implement marketing
strategies to enhance service delivery; implement marketing
strategies to enhance service delivery and outreach activities;
hire a consultant/grant writer to train staff and hire an accountant
to set up a financial management system and train staff on its
use.
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Dwa Fanm
74-A 4th Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718-230-4027
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Dwa Fanm encourages healthy marriages among Caribbean women
in Brooklyn by striving to promote awareness of the value of
healthy marriages, increasing the percentage of women and their
children in homes that are free of violence, and teaching young
women the skills and knowledge necessary to make informed decisions
about developing healthy relationships.
Project Description:
Dwa Fanm will improve its capacity in two primary areas: organizational
development and revenue development strategies. Specifically,
this grant will enable Dwa Fanm to provide training to its board
on overall governance, as well as fiscal management training
to the executive director, accountant, and board of directors.
Funding will also support the design of a development strategy,
including training in donor development and grant writing.
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Eagles Nest
Ranch
743 Gold Hill Pl. #150
Woodland Park, CO 80863
775-828-5008
Award Amount: $49,992
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Eagles Nest Ranch supports healthy marriages through the provision
of educational coaching, care, and counseling services in a
family retreat setting.
Project Description:
Eagles Nest Ranch will enhance its capacity by enabling the
organization to develop a funding plan, with the goal of submitting
ten grant proposals. Additional activities include providing
leadership training to board members.
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Eastside Community
Development Corporation
2940 Corprew Ave.
Norfolk, VA 23504
757-609-1555 or 757-672-8462
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Eastside Community Development Corporation was founded to foster
healthy families and neighborhoods in low- to moderate-income
communities through social and economic development programs.
Project Description:
Eastside Community Development Corporation will create a donor
database and provide fundraising training for the staff and
board. Additionally, the funding will be used to strengthen
partnerships, develop a communication strategy, and host community
workshops to build family stability in the surrounding neighborhoods.
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Faith Unlimited
Institute, Inc.
229 Bristol St.
Springfield, VA 01109
413-250-9574
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Faith Unlimited Institute, Inc. is an organization that incorporates
volunteers, mentors, and VISTA volunteers to achieve the program
objectives of serving the reentry population of adult and youth
offenders with family support services, including mentoring
and services for cases involving substance abuse.
Project Description:
Faith Unlimited will build capacity by developing internal policies
and procedures to improve financial management; improving fiscal
oversight by developing an independent audit review board; increasing
fundraising capacity by conducting training with staff and volunteers;
and evaluating, updating, and improving the organization’s
fund development plan.
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Family Institute
for Creative Well-Being
1745 Birmingham St.
Maplewood, MN 55109
651-639-2527
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
The Family Institute for Creative Well-Being gives families
creative, non-threatening, and productive ways to reduce the
stress they experience as a result of caring for children with
disabilities and chronic illnesses.
Project Description:
The Family Institute for Creative Well-Being will enhance the
organizational structure via training staff and volunteers in
the areas of grant writing, volunteer management, and marriage
development, and through the development of evaluation tools
to determine program outcomes. They will develop donor strategies
and build a donor base by hiring a consultant. A program assistant
will be hired to effectively manage the Healthy Marriages and
Children’s Health Challenges Project and maintain records.
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Fuller Psychological
and Family Services (FPFS)
180 North Oakland Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91101
626-584-5501
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Fuller Psychological and Family Services (FPFS) is a faith-based,
nonprofit, 501(c)(3), non-sectarian mental health and family
services clinic located in downtown Pasadena, California.
Project Description:
FPFS will use funds to hire a consultant to develop video training,
enhance services with the Sustainable Clinical & Administrative
Staff Training Program, and purchase additional workstations
and filing cabinets for the staff room.
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Greater Houston
Healthy Marriage Coalition
3815 Montrose Blvd., Ste. 200
Houston, TX 77006
713-802-7854
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
The Greater Houston Healthy Marriage Coalition establishes a
collaborative framework to address the needs of individuals
and couples who choose marriage, and to help those couples develop
the skills and knowledge needed to form and sustain healthy
marriages. The coalition encompasses thirty faith-based and
community social service organizations as well as individuals
with an interest in promoting strong marriages.
Project Description:
Greater Houston Healthy Marriage Coalition will build its capacity
by securing a part-time executive director; strengthening culturally
focused initiatives; expanding community participation through
an outreach campaign; securing 501(c)(3) status; and developing
marketing materials, including brochures, stationery, and a
Web site.
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Healthy Visions
9990 Zig Zag Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45242
513-793-7268
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
The mission of Healthy Visions is to be a partner and catalyst
in developing support for couples in Southwest Ohio who choose
marriage.
Project Description:
Healthy Visions will build its capacity by establishing an effective
committee and board recruitment and training program; creating
a strategic plan by hiring a consultant to analyze the board
and conduct a board-led retreat and training; and designing
an organizational fundraising plan by hiring a development consultant.
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Helping Other
People Excel, Inc. (HOPE)
1025 Larson Rd.
Jackson, NJ 08527
732-928-9072
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Helping Other People Excel, Inc. (HOPE) is a 501(c)(3) entity
with the goal of helping families become economically self-sufficient
by positively affecting the social fabric of the community.
The organization also provides a mentoring program for the children
of the families it serves.
Project Description:
HOPE will build its capacity in the area of revenue development
strategies. This grant will support activities to initiate sustainable
fundraising approaches, including community outreach, corporate
giving, faith-community contributions, foundation giving, governmental
grants, and special events. Specific activities include identifying
local, state, and national agencies, as well as foundations,
that support HOPE’s goals; evaluating fundraising software
and other methods of donor tracking; implementing board development
and staff training for grant writing and grants-management capability.
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Hope Community
Services, Inc.
1538 N. Century Blvd.
Santa Ana, CA 92703
714-265-1181
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Hope Community Services, Inc. provides community services to
low-income Asian residents of Orange County, Calif.
Project Description:
Hope Community Services will build its capacity by improving
its financial management through the training of its fiscal
officer; developing a fund-development strategy, including the
development of a donor base; enhancing community outreach, including
the building of a Web site; and improved documentation of service
outcomes.
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John Engle
Christian Counseling Center (JECCC)
225 Ludlow St.
Hamilton, OH 45011
513-544-1031
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
John Engle Christian Counseling Center (JECCC) develops programs
devoted to preserving the family and the institution of marriage.
Project Description:
JECCC will build its capacity by purchasing and installing a
new phone system, developing and launching an organizational
Web site, developing a donor database, and hiring a director
of development.
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Kennedy Center
of Louisiana, LLC, The
6019 Fox Chase Tr.
Shreveport, LA 71129
318-675-0831
Award Amount: $49,945
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
The Kennedy Center of Louisiana, LLC’s mission is to provide
couples with the education, support, and guidance to create
and maintain healthy marriages and families.
Project Description:
The Center will use this grant to develop a policy, procedure,
and training manual for volunteers; implement a financial system
suitable for a nonprofit organization; create presentations
for prospective donors, partners, and volunteers; pursue grant-writing
training for project staff and volunteers; apply for 501(c)(3)
status; and purchase a computer and peripherals, as well as
a tabletop display to enhance presentations.
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Korean Churches
for Community Development
3550 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 922
Los Angeles, CA 90010
213-984-4243
Award Amount: $49,991
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Korean Churches for Community Development’s mission is
to improve marriages and family in the Asian and Pacific American
community.
Project Description:
Korean Churches for Community Development will increase its
capacity by supporting The Asian Pacific American Healthy Marriage
Network, a program of the organization’s Healthy Marriage
Initiative. Funding will be used to hire a consultant to design
a focus group to perform a community needs assessment and asset
mapping in the area of marriage education, pursue training for
staff to increase expertise in marriage education, and develop
a board of advisors for the network. The grant will also support
the development of a comprehensive resource guide, as well as
enhancements to the network’s Web site. In addition, funding
will be used to support various project positions, including
a Capacity Building Project Manager, a Focus Group Consultant,
and a Web Designer.
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Louisiana
Full Gospel Fellowship Baptist
7425 Green Wood Rd.
Shreveport, LA 71109
318-635-9820
Award Amount: $49,650
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Louisiana Full Gospel Fellowship Baptist’s mission is
to “Change a Generation” by combining factors, including
challenging denomination traditions, helping struggling churches,
addressing social needs, and providing a nurturing worship environment.
Project Description:
Louisiana Full Gospel Fellowship Baptist will build its capacity
by hiring and training staff and board members; diversifying
funding sources by implementing grant-writing training for board
members and staff; developing a program assessment; and upgrading
the organization’s computers and printer.
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Marriage and
Family Connections
2511 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Portland OR 97212
503-312-2485
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Marriage and Family Connections strives to connect Christian
congregations and organizations in the greater Portland metro
area to share and develop resources that enhance the relational
health of couples, families, and individuals.
Project Description:
Marriage and Family Connections will build its capacity in the
areas of revenue development, organizational development, and
community engagement. Funds will be used to purchase and install
computer systems for administrative purposes; obtain grant-writing
and donor-development training for volunteer staff; and develop
a Web site and other publication materials for local distribution,
including radio and television advertisements.
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Marriage and
Family Savers Ministries
229 Robinson Ave.
Newburgh, NY 12550
845-561-9498
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Marriage and Family Savers Ministries provides marriage seminars
and personal counseling for the purpose of preserving marriages
and families.
Project Description:
Marriage and Family Savers seeks to build the capacity of this
faith-based organization in order to implement a Newburgh marriage
initiative and develop a network of volunteers to provide marriage
education and preparation services for couples who choose marriage.
This will be achieved by reaching out to community leaders to
create a marriage-saving community; recruiting and training
marriage mentors and stepfamily support teams; recruiting and
training new board members and an advisory council; obtaining
501(c)(3) status; upgrading information technology and designing
a donor-development strategy; developing a seminar curriculum
and community-wide marriage policy; and receiving technical
assistance in grant writing.
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Marriage Savers
of Frederick County
10105 Kelly Rd.
Walkersville, MD 21793
301-898-8912
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Marriage Savers of Frederick County’s mission is to prepare,
strengthen, and reconcile marriages. It was created in partnership
with the national Marriage Savers organization, which works
principally through congregations and has created 202 marriage
education programs in forty-three states and three countries.
Project Description:
Marriage Savers of Frederick County will build its capacity
by training mentor couples and leaders to assist fragile families;
developing board operating procedures; training board and staff
to mentor couples; and developing a Web site and training staff
in its maintenance.
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New Beginnings
Worship Center
160 Hubbard Way, Ste. E
Reno, NV 89502
775-828-5008
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
New Beginnings Worship Center’s mission is to provide
premarital counseling and marriage-support counseling to couples
in their local distressed community.
Project Description:
New Beginnings Worship Center will enhance its capacity by hiring
a part-time counseling director; purchasing a computer and printer;
obtaining 501(c)(3) status; implementing a computerized accounting
system; creating a strategic fundraising plan; and creating
a Web site and training staff in its maintenance.
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North Stelton
Economic Development Corporation (NSEDC)
6 Ethel Rd.
Piscataway, NJ 08854
908-629-3561
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
North Stelton Economic Development Corporation (NSEDC)’s
mission is to create programs designed to enhance and inspire
sustainable community development. They seek to achieve these
ends through housing initiatives and family-strengthening services.
Project Description:
NSEDC intends to increase its capacity by contracting with a
consultant to provide technical assistance to faith-based and
community organizations for grant research, and templates for
grant writing; contracting with a consultant to asses staff-training
needs, develop a training plan, and assist staff in implementing
the expanded marriage-education program; improving its financial
management system by assessing the current system, recommending
and implementing improvements, and providing training for staff
on the new system; developing a Web site for community outreach
as well as program and organizational information; and providing
training for board members and staff on program evaluation.
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Oakland Berkeley
Initiative for Healthy Relationships
8 Commodore Dr., Ste. 457
Emeryville, CA 94608
510-595-1435
Award Amount: $44,800
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
The Oakland Berkeley Initiative for Healthy Relationships seeks
to provide marriage and relationship education and other services
to strengthen the marriages of low-income residents in Oakland
and Berkeley, Calif.
Project Description:
The Oakland Berkeley Initiative for Healthy Relationships will
use its grant to train new program leaders as certified program
leaders of the Simplified Relationship Enhancement Program;
train thirty faith-based and community organizations to lead
relationship-skills enhancement programs; promote the benefits
of marriage to the local community; add resources for relationship-skills
education to the Web site; initiate a fundraising strategy;
and evaluate the organization’s programs and services.
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Praise Temple
Full Gospel Baptist Cathedral
4125 Greenwood Rd.
Shreveport, LA 71109
318.631.5683
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Praise Temple Full Gospel Baptist Cathedral is an affiliated
church of the Louisiana Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship, with
program activities including marriage enrichment workshops and
support groups. The mission is to serve the needs of others.
Project Description:
Praise Temple Full Gospel Baptist Cathedral will build its capacity
by conducting leadership training and a volunteer succession
plan; conducting a community needs assessment; and developing
a five-year financial sustainability plan.
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Project Nehemiah
434 Forest Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45229
513-221-1685
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Project Nehemiah, originally known as the Church of the Living
God Marriage Counseling Program, is a nonprofit, faith-based
organization that provides access to premarital and marital
education to couples and those who work with couples, such as
clergy, mental health professionals, and mentor couples, of
all faiths and beliefs, who provide support and services to
strengthen marriages in their communities.
Project Description:
Project Nehemiah will build its capacity in the areas of organization
development, leadership development, and community engagement.
The grant will also support improvements to the project’s
staffing infrastructure by enabling the project to hire a marketing
and communications specialist to assist with marketing material,
as well as to support Web site development.
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Provident
Family Services (PFS)
230 N. Berkeley Ave.
Fullerton, CA 92831
Carole Reitsma
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Provident Family Services (PFS) provides training and development
in marriage preservation services to married couples in a low-income
community in Fullerton, Calif. Additional services include support
services for cases of substance abuse and domestic violence.
Project Description:
PFS will use this grant to strengthen its capacities in organizational
development and program development, primarily in the provision
of domestic-violence services. PFS will improve its fiscal controls
and accounting-management systems, and create an action plan
that determines a structure for growth over the next two to
five years.
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Revival Fires
Ministries, Inc.
631 W. Turner St.
Allentown, PA 18102
610-434-5545
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Revival Fires Ministries, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that
has established a daycare center, a publications company, and
an oversight entity for several other churches both nationwide
and abroad.
Project Description:
Revival Fires Ministries, Inc. will increase its capacity in
organizational development by forming Family Solutions, a separate
501(c)(3) organization that seeks to address the overall well-being
of the family. The grant will be used to hire a project director,
project manager, and project evaluations manager; train key
staff on organizational development and board governance; and
contract with a vendor to design a Web site and train staff
on its maintenance and requirements.
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Sandtown Baptist
Church
5450 Campbellton Rd. SW
Atlanta, GA 30331
678-492-3949
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Sandtown Baptist Church established Sandtown Community Outreach,
Resources, and Education (SCORE), a nonprofit organization that
operates the Mentoring Organizational Development Enhancing
Resources and Networks (MODERN) project. The project seeks to
benefit young, unmarried couples with children in the city of
Atlanta who wish to marry by helping them gain the skills necessary
to maintain healthy marital relationships.
Project Description:
Sandtown Baptist Church will use its grant to train staff and
volunteers in capacity building; recruit four new board members;
develop a comprehensive funding/resource plan, including a computerized
donor database; and conduct a comprehensive community needs
assessment.
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Solid Source
Relationship Education Center, Inc.
120 W. Main St., Ste. 405
Van Wert, OH 45886
419-238-0635
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Solid Source Relationship Education Center, Inc. is a nonprofit,
community-based education organization that helps low-income
youth and couples in rural Ohio who choose marriage to develop
the skills and knowledge they need to form and sustain healthy
relationships and healthy marriages.
Project Description:
Solid Source Relationship Education Center seeks to strengthen
its capacity by hiring a consultant to set up a program evaluation
system and train staff on its use; developing a strategic plan
and outcome measurement plan; developing a fundraising plan;
and recruiting and hiring a Volunteer Coordinator to recruit
volunteers to expand and enhance services.
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Stanislaus
County Healthy Marriage Coalition
744 Thompson Rd.
Modesto, CA 95351-4425
209-606-0772
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Stanislaus County Healthy Marriage Coalition’s mission
is to strengthen families and couples through education, collaboration,
and mobilization. This is achieved through partnerships with
faith-based and community organizations, as well as with individual
practitioners.
Project Description:
Stanislaus County Healthy Marriage Coalition will build capacity
by increasing the Director’s hours from part-time to full-time;
launching a community resource Web site; providing training
for board members, staff, and volunteers on capacity building;
and purchasing additional equipment and software to facilitate
the coalition’s ability to achieve and maintain 501(c)(3)
status.
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Teen Integrity,
Inc.
PO Box 400 San Juan Capistrano
Santa Ana, CA 92701
949-364-3939
Award Amount: $48,753
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Teen Integrity, Inc.’s mission is to offer high-quality,
abstinence-based education to teens to support them in making
healthy decisions that postpone sexual behavior, ultimately
leading to the likelihood of a sustainable marriage.
Project Description:
Teen Integrity, Inc. will build capacity in the areas of program
and organization development. Their goal is to develop an abstinence-until-marriage
education program that better serves the Hispanic community.
Funding will be used to contract with a consultant to install
software to track clients, outcomes, and correspondence; contract
with a consultant to educate the Director of Development on
funding opportunities; develop market and outreach materials
to reach underserved low-income and ethnic communities; and
purchase an abstinence curriculum and translate it into Spanish.
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Texas Healthy
Marriage and Relationship Initiative (THMRI)
PO Box 764274
Dallas, TX 75376
972-224-0834 / 972-214-213-7748
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Texas Healthy Marriage and Relationship Initiative (THMRI) is
designed to promote and strengthen families and provide premarital
and marriage education to those who choose marriage for themselves
in Dallas, Tex.
Project Description:
THMRI will use its grant to purchase new computer equipment
and supplies; hire a consultant to develop and implement an
internal operations plan, including financial accountability
guidelines; hire a project director to develop an organizational
assessment and a marriage curriculum; and train board members
on board development and responsibilities.
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Transforming,
Educating & Empowering Children and Humanity Foundation
(TEECH), The
100 East 96th St.
Chicago, IL 60628
773-928-3933
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
The Transforming, Educating & Empowering Children and Humanity
Foundation (TEECH) is a nonprofit education organization whose
mission is to uplift, transform, and empower youth and adults
through the vehicle of education.
Project Description:
TEECH plans to use its grant to send mediators to mediation/conflict-resolution
training at DePaul University; acquire membership with The Donors
Forum to gain access to the donor database; and train staff
in grant writing and donor development.
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True Life
Choices, Inc. (TLC)
3701 S. Calhoun St., Ste. D
Fort Wayne, IN 46807
260-436-1119
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
True Life Choices, Inc. (TLC)’s mission is to prepare
youth for vital life choices and promote sexual abstinence until
marriage. TLC seeks to equip youth with the skills to help them
develop positive character traits, set goals, make wise decisions,
resolve conflict, foster healthy relationships, and build self-esteem.
Project Description:
True Life Choices plans to build capacity in four critical areas.
Funding will be used to contract grant proposal supervision
and grant writing services; hire an Assistant Director to engage
in a variety of activities, such as identifying new grant opportunities;
recruiting volunteers and training and supervising instructors;
and securing a leadership mentor for the Executive Director,
with whom she will meet weekly.
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Urban League
of Pittsburgh, Inc.
One Smithfield St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2222
412-227-4152
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Urban League of Pittsburgh, Inc.’s mission is to enable
African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity,
power, and civil rights.
Project Description:
Urban League of Pittsburgh, Inc. will use its grant to conduct
ongoing marketing and outreach; pursue training opportunities
for coalition members; identify, develop, and review strategies
and resources relating to healthy marriages; complete one planning
retreat and two mini-retreats to develop the coalition’s
five-year strategic and sustainability plan; and complete a
comprehensive community needs assessment.
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Vietnamese
American Cultural & Educational Center, Inc.
201 Cooper Ave.
Woodlynne, NJ 08107
856-962-8610
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Vietnamese American Cultural & Educational Center, Inc.’s
mission is to aid all groups and genders within the Vietnamese
community through a variety of educational, cultural, social,
employment, legal, and medical-assistance programs.
Project Description:
Vietnamese American Cultural & Educational Center, Inc.
will enhance its capacity by training staff and volunteers in
grant-writing skills and in researching compatible funding sources;
developing a strategic plan; training its treasurer in nonprofit
financial management; developing a marketing strategy to target
donors and recruit volunteers and program participants; and
creating a Web site to publicize work and achievements.
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Vineyard Community
Church of Lynnwood
17712 15th St. NE
Shoreline, WA 98155
775-828-5008
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Vineyard Community Church of Lynnwood has a secular community-outreach
program called Turning Point. Their mission is to strengthen
families and individuals through education, coaching, and care
by partnering with the community to break the cycles of poverty.
Project Description:
Vineyard Community Church of Lynnwood will build capacity by
training new staff and certifying them as “Couple Communication”
facilitators to meet the increased need for services; finding
new collaborative partners to create a network with other community
services organizations; and developing and implementing written
fiscal-control policies.
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WinWin, Inc.
4924-C Reed Rd.
Columbus, OH 43220-3155
614-538-2898
Award Amount: $49,999
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
WinWin, Inc. serves incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men
and their families as they strengthen relationships and reunite
with family and community.
Project Description:
WinWin, Inc. will use its grant to hire six additional qualified
staff members; create a Web-based and direct mail marketing
strategy and the tools to support it; train staff in grant writing;
and hire an individual to act as a continuing grant-writing
resource to assist with future grant writing.
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Wiregrass
Hope Group, Inc.
171 Westgate Pkwy.
Dothan, Al 36303
334-793-5433
Award Amount: $50,000
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
New Hope Ministries, the marriage and family counseling division
of Wiregrass Hope Group, Inc., works with couples to restore
their marriage or to deal with the issues of a broken marriage.
Project Description:
Wiregrass Hope Group, Inc. will use funds to develop an integrated
marketing plan that will help the organization strengthen and
expand its donor base by identifying new funding streams and
recruiting new donors. Specific activities to be funded through
this grant include developing a public-relations campaign that
includes printed materials and radio, television, and outdoor
ads, and the purchase of donor-tracking software. Additionally,
staff will be trained in grant writing and donor development.
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Women's Resource
Center of Florida, Inc.
165 Avenue A, NW
Winter Haven, FL 33813
863-294-5378
Award Amount: $49,500
Award Year: 2006
Organizational Description:
Women's Resource Center of Florida, Inc. (WRC) is a nonprofit
agency that assists low-income women with children in Winter
Haven, Fla., to meet their basic needs for food, clothing, and
shelter.
Project Description:
WRC will enhance its capacity building by hiring a contractor
to provide training on nonprofit management and grants administration
to its Board of Directors and Executive Director; training staff
on financial development, fiscal controls, and grant-writing
skills; providing counseling on board development; developing
a communications plan; and evaluating the organization’s
progress toward project goals.
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