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DIOCESE OF ATLANTA
United Thank Offering Charitable Bequests
1995
ATLANTA: A.B.L.E.: To support a
professional organizer who will build upon initial successes of an ecumenical
body that mobilized a broadly based citizens’ group to grapple with issues of
poverty and helplessness: $5,000
1995
ATLANTA: Project Venture Forth Prison
Ministries With Women, Inc: To help train women prisoners and ex-prisoners in
carpentry, electrical, plumbing, weatherization, heating/air conditioning
skills while helping provide housing for women like themselves: $15,000.00.
1996
ATLANTA,
GA: Rainbow Village
Transitional Housing Program: To support a parish based outreach program
through a period of rapid expansion while permanent funding is secured; the
program provides housing for homeless families as they develop self
sufficiency: $7,500.00
1997
ATLANTA, GA;
FOUR FRIENDS MARK 2:1-5: To purchase and install vertical platform lift to
make it easier for all to navigate, especially personal care home residents
who comprise about 75% of the congregation: $19,000.00.
1998
ST.
BARTHOLMEW’S: HISPANIC MINISTRY PARISH NURSE: To support parish in launch physical & spiritual outreach
ministry for the growing Hispanic population by purchase a 15 passenger
parish van and paying first year salary for a nurse; $23,000.00.
1999
ATLANTANS BUILDING LEADERSHIP FOR
EMPOWERMENT (ABLE) NEHEMIAH HOUSING STRATEGY: To pay salaries and operating
costs to organize metro area congregations to redevelop inner city neighborhoods
and to provide affordable housing for the working poor. $8,600.00
2000
Marietta, GA.
Instituro Solidaridad Hispana: Instituro Solidaridad Hispana Transportation
to buy a van to take Hispanic persons to English as a Second Language classes
and to worship at the church and other essential destinations; transport
within the county is a need of the rapidly growing Hispanic community
$27,866.00.
2001
Emmaus House: Atlanta: $27,000.00: Buy a fifteen
passenger van that will lead to a new after school program, increase the
number of senior citizens using services and activities to a summer program
and to transport more families for prison visits.
2002
St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal
Church: St. Mary’s Hispanic Ministry: To purchase a van to be used for
expansion of services to the Hispanic community, including after school
recreational programs for children and citizenship classes for adults:
$30,000.15.
2003
The Work of Our Hands, Inc: The
Work of Our Hands Program, Atlanta.
To expand an art program serving all ages in a disadvantaged neighborhood.
The funds will purchase computer equipment. $15,000.00.
2004
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church:
Church Hall: East Point, GA: To help build a parish hall for a Hispanic
congregation which has outgrown the available space? $70,000.00
2005
Homeless Kitchen Renovation *East
Point GA: To purchase new cabinets and appliances for a kitchen serving food
to the homeless, so they can provide healthier and more seasonal food choices
instead if relying entirely on packaged foods. $7,000.00
Wonderful Days Preschool*Marietta, GA:
To help purchase a bus or a church operated pre-school serving at risk children
from low income families. $15,000.00
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