United Thank Offering Announces Grants
Episcopal News Service. July 14, 1988 [88160]
NEW YORK (DPS, July 14) -- Delegates to the Triennial Meeting of Women in Detroit approved a recommended grant list of 133 different projects around the world totaling $2,590,686.40.
A grant of $20,000 to St. Peter's Inn Street Outreach in Detroit, the Triennial host city, is aimed at developing alternatives for teenage prostitutes, and $63,000 to the Diocese of Mt. Central Kenya, the largest single grant, gives the Church opportunity to help young girls who come to the city for vocational training or employment and are without a Christian home or context.
Grant totals for domestic and foreign projects were evenly divided, according to Mark Jones, United Thank Offering committee member, who noted that domestic projects outnumbered overseas projects two-to-one.
The following is a list of domestic grants, in alphabetical order by diocese:
- Alabama: St. Andrew's, Birmingham, handicapped/disabled access, $12,420;
- Alaska: St. Brendan's, Mendenhall Valley, building project, $35,000;
- Albany: Hospice of Potsdam-Canton, Potsdam, $9,500;
- Arizona: Episcopal Community Services, Phoenix, medical screening clinic, $10,000;
- Arkansas: Partners Combating Ado Pregnancy, Little Rock, $6,240;
- Atlanta: Grant Park Family Health Center, Atlanta, $15,000;
- Bethlehem: New Bethany Ministries, employment for homeless and unemployed, Bethlehem, $12,475;
- California: St. Luke's Neighborhood Clinic, San Francisco, $15,000; Centro Hispano, van for Hispanic outreach, Brentwood, $10,000;
- Central New York: Courtland Loaves/Fishes, rural outreach, $10,000;
- Central Pennsylvania: St. Stephen's, Harrisburg, accessibility project, $4,000;
- Chicago: welcoming center for immigration ministry, $25,000;
- Colorado: La Junta Ministerial Association, Arkansas Valley Women's Resources for abused women, $7,500;
- Connecticut: state-wide AIDS ministries program, $25,000;
- Dallas: AIDS interfaith network, Fort Worth, $25,000;
- Delaware: St. Andrew's, Wilmington, ministry to homeless, $19,912;
- East Tennessee: Cumberland self-help program for economically disadvantaged, Crossville, $5,000;
- Eau Claire: volunteer learning center for Hmong community, La Crosse, $16,300;
- El Camino Real: Prison Ministries Commission, hospice for prisoners' families, Monterey, $15,000;
- Hawaii: St. Stephen's, Wahiawa, new mission in Mililani, $8,500; Kalihi-Palama Immigration Center, Honolulu, newcomer's program, $5,000;
- Idaho: St. Mark's, Idaho Falls, remodeling kitchen for feeding program, $15,331;
- Indianapolis: Women's Alternatives, Anderson, child advocacy parenting project, $15,000;
- Kansas: Project New Life for prison inmates, Lansing, $30,000;
- Lexington: Kentucky Mountain Housing Development, Manchester, $5,000;
- Los Angeles: St. Alban's Mission, Yucaipa, multi-purpose building, $10,000;
- Louisiana: New Orleans AIDS Task Force, HIV-positive client support, $20,700;
- Maine: St. Augustine's, Dover-Foxcroft, Happy Day Pre School, $25,000;
- Maryland: Episcopal Social Ministries, Baltimore, $15,000;
- Massachusetts: Old North Church, Boston, refugee immigration ministry, $10,000;
- Michigan: St. Peter's, Detroit, neighborhood outreach, $20,000;
- Milwaukee: St. Andrew's Women/Family Center, Milwaukee, for empowerment, education and awareness, $11,646; Transitional Housing, Inc., for homeless people, $10,000;
- Minnesota: Minnesota Committee on Indian Work, Urban Indian Jubilee Center, St. Paul, $30,192; Diocese of Minnesota, purchase for All Saints Church, $15,000;
- Mississippi: St. George's, helping hands tutorial, $3,400; Family Development Service, Vicksburg, $12,500;
- Missouri: Church of the Ascension, St. Louis, neighborhood school, $10,000;
- Nebraska: St. Luke's, Kearney, Jubilee center acquisition, $10,000;
- New Hampshire: Christ Church, North Conway, school for learning disabilities, $20,000;
- New Jersey: Caring Medical Day Services, for impaired and abused elderly persons, $15,000;
- New York: Hudson River Housing Inc., Poughkeepsie, special needs housing, $12,797;
- Newark: Church of the Incarnation, Jersey City, summer camp program, $16,000;
- North Carolina: Guilford Women's Center, Greensboro, children of female offenders, $20,000; Orange-Durham Coalition, Durham, shelter for battered women, $5,000;
- North Dakota: Commission on Indian Work, Fargo, rectory for Operation Rising Sun, $25,192; Diocese of North Dakota, ecumenical Indian ministry, $8,000;
- Northern Indiana: School for Faith and Ministry, South Bend, St. Margaret's House & Shelter, $25,000;
- Northwest Texas: St. John's Retirement Corp., Odessa, day care unit for ministry to aged, $11,000;
- Oklahoma: Norman Alcohol Information Center, Oklahoma City, prison counseling & visitation, $26,400;
- Olympia: MLK Ecumenical Center, Tacoma, employment farm for homeless & poor, $18,900;
- Oregon: St. Paul's Church, Powers, rural medical clinic, $6,000; Samaritan Counseling Center, Portland, training for crosscultural ministry, $5,000;
- Pennsylvania: Action AIDS, Inc., Philadelphia, case management for AIDS patients, $20,000;
- Pittsburgh: People Helping People, Monaca, equipment, $15,000; The Church Army, Beaver Falls, training officer stipend, $12,250;
- Rhode Island: Stopover Shelters of Newport, Portsmouth, ministry to troubled youths, $17,500;
- Rio Grande: St. Martin's Hospitality Center, Albuquerque, service center renovation, $15,000;
- San Joaquin: Episcopal Charities, Fresno, immigration refugee advocacy, $20,000;
- South Dakota: Diocese of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, increase ministry effectiveness in Native American area, $35,000;
- Southern Ohio: Holy Trinity Church, Cincinnati, purchase church school van; $10,000;
- Southern Virginia: Jackson-Field Episcopal Home, Jarratt, community re-entry for girls, $21,830;
- Southwest Florida: Resurrection House, St. Petersburg, center for the homeless, $15,000; Cornerstone Ministries, Tampa, operations for food/merchandise cooperative, $7,500;
- Southwest Virginia: Appalachian Peace Center, Abbington, conflict resolution curriculum, $10,000;
- Springfield: Dove, Inc., Decatur, domestic violence shelter, $22,000;
- Texas: El Buen Samaritano Episcopal, Austin, medical/dental referral center, $29,649;
- Vermont: Respite Care Residence Committee, South Burlington, care residence construction, $20,000;
- Virginia: Bloomfield, Inc., Ivy, apartment renovation, $20,000;
- Washington: Southern Maryland Area Self Help, Waldorf, substance abuse working group, $5,000; Prince George's County Interfaith, Prince George's County, interfaith organizing project, $5,000;
- West Missouri: St. Andrew's Church, Kansas City, urban youth work, $6,833;
- West Tennessee: Interfaith Sponsoring, Memphis, trained organizer for poverty injustice, $15,000;
- West Virginia: Manna Meal, Inc., Charleston, walk-in food freezer, $10,000;
- Western Massachusetts: Action Center Tutoring Services, Springfield, staff salary/tutorial services, $15,000;
- Western New York: Concerned Ecumenical Ministry, Buffalo, health care for elderly, $13,075;
- Children's Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., campaign to end child poverty, $14,000;
- Episcopal Church Center, New York City, overseas leadership training, $30,000;
- Episcopal Women's History Project, New York City, women's oral histories, $6,255;
- Servants in Faith and Technology, Wedowee, Ala., audio-visual education for poverty-stricken, $6,000;
- Farm Survival Project, Charlotte, N.C., rural advancement fund, $10,000;
- * UTO Committee, New York City, contingency fund, $17,000; discretionary fund for international programs, $20,400.