Diocese of NC UTO Grants History
DIOCESE OF NORTH CAROLINA
UNITED THANK OFFERING GRANT AWARDS
1995-2013
2013
St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church (Pittsboro): Circles Chatham: To equip financially insecure families and individuals with access to opportunities, education, and long-term supportive relationships that will enable them to achieve self-sufficiency. The focus of the program is in doing WITH rather than doing for those who want to make the journey out of poverty. It uses a one-stop-shop approach with the total community agreeing to draw on educational, workplace, financial, social service, non-profit, and faith-based resources to meet the needs and goals of the people served: $14,275.00
2011
St. Cyprian’s (Oxford): For a month-long summer day camp, the Reading and Writing Outreach Program for Underserved Children. Participants were kindergarteners through rising sixth graders from Granville County public schools, among the poorest and lowest performing in the state: $6,590.
2010
Church of the Holy Comforter (Charlotte): For shelving and large-capacity freezers in order to expand outreach ministries involving meals for the poor and homeless: $9,772.
2009
Chapel of Christ the King (Charlotte): Chapel of Christ the King Youth Program: To support increasing the capacity of outreach programs for children, youth, and families at this center city urban mission, which is located in an economically challenged neighborhood: $10,000.
2008
St. Andrew’s Church-Haw River HOPE Ministry: (Alamance County): To fund expansion of a parish-based support ministry so that elders living below the poverty level may, with the assistance of volunteer care givers, continue to live with dignity and safety in their own homes for as long as possible: $13,530.
2007
Regional AIDS Interfaith Network: Care Teams: (Charlotte): To expand the number of volunteers trained, the number of Care Teams established, and the number of persons served by pastoral staff in a ministry to those suffering from HIV/AIDS: $15,000.
2006
All Saints’ Episcopal Church Women: (Hamlet) Renovation of parish hall: To replace worn asbestos “health hazard” flooring to enable the facilities to be used for meeting space for All Saints’ and various community groups: $8,200.
2005
Student Action With Farmworkers (SAF): Farmworker Institute: Rural North Carolina: (SAF headquarters in Durham): To fund a speaker’s bureau and to develop curricula to advance the coordinated efforts of Student Action with Farmworkers and the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry: $2,150.
Chapel of Christ the King: Youth Programs: (Charlotte): To help expand a summer camp program to include 13-14 year old disadvantaged children. $5,000.
2004
Urban Ministries of Durham: Feed the Hungry: (Durham): To fund an expansion of this food pantry program so it can offer evening hours to serve the working poor: $2,000.
2003
Saint. Mark’s Church and La Guadalupa: La Casa de San Marcos/Saint Mark’s House: (Wilson): To help build a parish center adjacent to Saint Mark’s Church where an established African American congregation has invited a Hispanic congregation to share its facilities; both congregations minister to a troubled and depressed neighborhood: $30,000.
2001
Chapel of Christ the King: Youth Program: (Charlotte): Buy a fifteen passenger van to transport approximately sixty disadvantaged children to and from preschool and after-school programs daily: $24,000.
2000
Chapel of Christ the King Preschool: Darrow-Owens Guild: (Charlotte): To help design and install a new playground and to buy classroom equipment for a preschool program for economically disadvantaged children who have moved into a newly renovated facility in early 2000: $17,137.08.
1999
Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center: Parish Nurse Program: (Davidson): To buy equipment and library resources for health screenings and educational programs and to promote programs in an area with critical need for preventive care and wellness programs: $12,000.
Operation Spring Plant: Rural Farm Cooperative Initiative: (Oxford); To purchase a refrigerated truck and hire a driver to deliver vegetables thereby furnishing jobs and stabilizing the cooperative that serves farmers with limited resources: $12,000.
1998
Neighbors in Ministry: Neighborhood Organizing: (Forsyth County): To fund a neighborhood organizing program that aims to empower Latino immigrants to become full participants of the community, through a coalition of churches and civic organizations: $11,600.
1997
El Centro Episcopal: Episcopal Farm Workers Ministry: (Newton Grove): For site development costs where a community center will be build; then farm workers & their families can worship, access social services, take part in educational & recreational programs: $25,000.
1995
Building Bridges: North Carolina Council of Churches: (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill): To hire a coordinator to seek out and work with lay and clergy leaders of African American churches to develop culturally sensitive aids education programs & compassionate care teams: $14,000.