CHN Projects Receive Funds
Episcopal News Service. July 27, 1978 [78209]
NEW YORK, N. Y. -- Twenty-one projects which had won approval by the Episcopal Church Coalition for Human Needs at its May meeting have met all financial criteria and are receiving funding totaling over $200,000.
Those projects which have been funded are:
- Diversion of Female Offenders, Boston, Mass. -- $15,000 to expand services to superior court level with part-time help and purchase of services
- Alice Rouse Donaldson Center, Philadelphia, Penna. -- $10,000 to assist program and administrative costs of pre-school and child development center
- Office Skills Training Program, Washington, D.C. -- $7,300 to provide two instructors to train Spanish-speaking adults in marketable skills
- Hamilton Appalachian People's Service Organization, Hamilton, Ohio -- $10,000 plus $5,000 on a matching grant basis for a community organizer and program development among Appalachian people in urban settings
- Wisconsin People's Rights Organization, Menominee, Wisc. -- $3,850 to provide support services for county advocates in self-help and counseling program
- Centro Espanol Del Delta, Brentwood, Calif. -- $7,500 and up to $1,250 on a matching grant basis for a counselor and program expenses
- Choctaw Legal Defense Association of Philadelphia, Miss. -- $7,000 for administration expenses in developing Indian law and civil rights
- Barrio Communications/Social Justice Project of Notre Dame, Ind. -- $5,000 for program costs in social issues advocacy and communication effort
- Vehicle for Organizing Interactions among Citizens for Equality, Palmerton, Penna. -- $5,000 to expand ecumenical program which coordinates variety of concerns for local issues in eastern Pennsylvania.
- Uptown Peoples' Community Service Center, Chicago, Ill. -- $5,000 and up to $5,000 in matching grant for two staff people to train local volunteers in community advocacy
- Haitian Church Community Development Project of New York -- $7,500 and up to $2,500 in matching grant to assist continuation of youth services in education, counseling and recreation
- Ecumenical Coalition/Mahoning Valley, Youngstown, Ohio -- $22,000 to assist overall response to closing of steel mill and proposals to reopen it and combat general problems of plant closings
- California Rural Legal Assistance, San Francisco -- $7,500 plus up to $2,500 in matching grants for research and program in effort to combat effects of pesticides
- Good Shepherd Center for Independent Living, Los Angeles, Calif. -- $10,000 will be matched to funds from the city to generate $80,000 from the state to train and serve minority disabled poor people
- Absalom Jones Theological Institute, Atlanta, Ga. -- $18,000 to assist in developing seminars in urban skills training among both priests and laity
- Youth Area of Concern, APSO, Blacksburg, Va. -- $12,000 for two staff people to develop diocesan and ecumenical program
- Senior Resources, San Francisco, Calif. -- $10,000 plus up to $5,000 in matching funds to provide outreach worker for Grace Cathedral-based senior citizen program
- National Commission on Social and Specialized Ministries Family Life Conference, New York, N.Y. -- $10,000 to help underwrite costs of a major churchwide examination of family issues and ministries
- Inner City After School Care Program, Lynchburg, Va. -- $2,500 for care, recreation of 8-13 year-olds during after school hours
- Treme Community Improvement Association, New Orleans, La. -- $5,000 to conduct housing action seminars
- National Association for the Southern Poor, Petersburg, Va. -- $10,000 for technical assistance in community program development
The CHN also authorized two emergency grants at the meeting: $10,000 to the Good Shepherd Center in Los Angeles for purchase of a step van for which the Coalition will receive reimbursement and, $9,500 to Project Reach in Wayland, N. Y. as a seed money loan to develop rural rental housing.