Episcopal Press and News

1966 UTO Grants Total $404,000

Diocesan Press Service. March 8, 1966 [41-18]

Grants totaling $404,000 were allocated from the United Thank Offering by the General Division of Women's Work at its February meeting.

Requests for UTO grants this year totaled $5 million, making the choice of grants difficult. Those projects selected are in several countries and engage in a variety of work.

Some of the projects outside the United States which will receive UTO funds are a YWCA community center in South Africa, a school (St. Peter's College) in Haiti, and a church and parish hall in Panama. This latter project will be at St. Paul's Church in downtown Panama City and will allow the congregation to build a new building which will help provide facilities for the parish to engage in community welfare work in the adjacent crowded area of the city.

In the United States, funds will go in part to endeavors in lay training, community organization, college work, narcotics rehabilitation and work with retarded women and girls. These projects include an ecumenical campus Christian center at Portland State College; Exodus House and Samaritan Halfway House, centers for the rehabilitation of narcotics addicts; the West End Community Council in Louisville, Ky. and the Community Organization Project in Rochester, two community organization projects through which local people attempt to deal with the problems of modern urban culture; St. Anne's Home in Western Massachusetts, the only Episcopal institution which provides a family-type program of life care for mentally retarded persons, and Turner House, where funds will help provide a group worker in a program of community service and research in a racially mixed, deprived community.