2007 Poor and Needy Division Grants
This is a listing of Poor and Needy Division grants approved during the period from September 1, 2006 to March 31, 2008.
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| Organization Name | Amount | Term Months | Date | City | Project Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SELF RELIANCE: Education | |||||
| Crosby Scholars Community Partnership | $140,000 | over one year | Fall 2006 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide assistance for Crosby Scholars with financial need attending post-secondary education institutions |
| Crosby Scholars Community Partnership | $140,000 | over one year | Spring 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide financial assistance for needy Crosby Scholars attending post-secondary education institutions |
| Crosby Scholars Community Partnership | $154,000 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide assistance for financially needy Crosby Scholars attending post-secondary education institutions |
| Experiment in Self-Reliance, Inc. | $38,920 | over three years | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide financial education and training for low-income individuals enrolled in the New Century Individual Development Account program |
| The Winston-Salem Foundation | $128,000 | over one year | Spring 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide post-secondary scholarships for needy Forsyth County residents |
| The Winston-Salem Foundation | $128,000 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide post-secondary scholarships for needy Forsyth County residents |
| United Way of Forsyth County, Inc. | $740,391 | over one year | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for fiscal year 2008-09 for partner agencies whose missions fall within the objectives of the Trust |
| Winston-Salem State University Foundation, Inc. | $25,000 | over one year | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to establish the Nigel and Sarah Alston Scholarship Fund to provide support for low-income Forsyth County students, in honor of Nigel Alston's service on the Poor and Needy Division advisory board |
| Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education | $65,520 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Winston-Salem | Capital funds to purchase sustainable classroom tools to help improve the academic performance of low-income students at Forest Park Elementary School |
| SELF RELIANCE: Job Training | |||||
| Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County, Inc. | $250,374 | over three years | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to implement a career assessment, education, and job training and placement program for prospective and current homeowners |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, Inc. | $121,000 | over three years | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide additional staff for the Triad Community Kitchen which will increase food production and enhance job training |
| SELF RELIANCE: Supportive Housing | |||||
| Experiment in Self-Reliance, Inc. | $11,000 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide direct client assistance for chronically homeless individuals with mental disabilities |
| Fellowship Home of Winston-Salem, NC, Inc. | $198,000 | over three years | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide supportive housing for residents who have completed the residential substance abuse recovery program and are in after care |
| SELF RELIANCE: Not in Area of Emphasis | |||||
| Bethesda Center for the Homeless, Inc. | $83,341 | over one year | Spring 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide case management services for the homeless individuals served at the day shelter |
| Bethesda Center for the Homeless, Inc. | $91,675 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide case management services for the homeless individuals served at the day shelter |
| The Enrichment Center - An Affiliated Chapter of the Arc | $12,500 | over one year | Spring 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for services provided to low-income Forsyth County adults with developmental, physical, and mental disabilities, in honor of T. Ray McKinney's service on the Poor and Needy Division advisory board |
| Experiment in Self-Reliance, Inc. | $88,694 | over one year | Spring 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide direct client assistance for working poor individuals being served in the Self-Sufficiency Program |
| Experiment in Self-Reliance, Inc. | $123,186 | over one year | Spring 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide direct client assistance for homeless individuals being served in the Transitional Housing Program |
| Experiment in Self-Reliance, Inc. | $97,563 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide direct client assistance for working poor individuals being served in the Self-Sufficiency program |
| Experiment in Self-Reliance, Inc. | $135,505 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide direct client assistance for homeless individuals being served in the Transitional Housing program |
| Forsyth Jail and Prison Ministries | $25,000 | over one year | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for the Plan to Prosper program to reduce inmate recidivism in Forsyth County, in honor of Brenda Diggs' service on the Poor and Needy Division advisory board |
| The Salvation Army | $200,000 | over one year | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Capital funds to build an addition to the International Corps Community Center/Boys and Girls Club |
| Shepherd's Center of Greater Winston-Salem, Inc. | $44,000 | over three years | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to expand a volunteer-led transportation program for older adults |
| BASIC NEEDS: Health Care | |||||
| AIDS Care Service, Inc. | $108,405 | over three years | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for the Holly Haven Family Care Home for HIV+ adults |
| Cancer Services, Inc. | $149,556 | over one year | Spring 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for medications, medical supplies, nutritional supplements, and emergency assistance for financially needy cancer patients |
| Cancer Services, Inc. | $74,987 | over three years | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to increase access to medications for low-income cancer patients |
| Cancer Services, Inc. | $164,512 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide medications, medical supplies, nutritional supplements, and emergency assistance for financially needy cancer patients |
| Prodigals Community, Inc. | $24,200 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to implement a comprehensive organizational development process |
| Senior Services, Inc. | $168,300 | over one year | Spring 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for the Home Care program to provide homemaker/home health services to indigent elderly clients with chronic health problems |
| Senior Services, Inc. | $185,130 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for the Home Care program to provide homemaker/home health services to indigent elderly clients with chronic health problems |
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | $273,075 | over three years | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to expand health care services to HIV+ individuals in Forsyth County |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina | $330,000 | over three years | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for the second phase of a demonstration project to help reduce obesity in low-income children and young adults in Forsyth County |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County | $330,000 | over three years | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for the second phase of a demonstration project to help reduce obesity in low-income children and young adults in Forsyth County |
| BASIC NEEDS: Not in Area of Emphasis | |||||
| Bethesda Center for the Homeless, Inc. | $73,359 | over one year | Fall 2006 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide emergency night shelter for homeless men and women on a year-round basis |
| Bethesda Center for the Homeless, Inc. | $80,695 | over one year | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide emergency night shelter for homeless men and women on a year-round basis |
| Crisis Control Ministry, Inc. | $425,000 | over one year | Fall 2006 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide direct program costs to respond to the emergency needs of people in financial crisis |
| Crisis Control Ministry, Inc. | $467,500 | over one year | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for direct program costs to respond to the emergency needs of people in financial crisis |
| Forsyth County Department of Social Services | $130,000 | over one year | Spring 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide direct client assistance for individuals whose needs cannot be met by other resources |
| Forsyth County Department of Social Services | $143,000 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Winston-Salem | operating funds to provide direct client assistance for individuals whose needs cannot be met by other resources |
| Moravian Church in America, Southern Province | $140,000 | over one year | Fall 2006 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for Sunnyside Ministry to provide direct client emergency financial assistance for low-income individuals living in southeastern Forsyth County |
| Moravian Church in America, Southern Province | $154,000 | over one year | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for Sunnyside Ministry to provide direct client emergency financial assistance for low-income individuals living in southeastern Forsyth County |
| Senior Services, Inc. | $322,420 | over one year | Spring 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for the Meals-on-Wheels program to provide daily meals for indigent elderly clients |
| Senior Services, Inc. | $354,662 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for the Meals-on-Wheels program to provide daily meals for indigent elderly clients |
| The Salvation Army | $260,282 | over one year | Fall 2006 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide direct client emergency financial assistance and for a bilingual case manager |
| The Salvation Army | $264,000 | over one year | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds to provide direct client emergency financial assistance |
| The Winston-Salem Foundation | $450,000 | over three years | Fall 2007 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for the Community Development Support Collaborative to provide housing for low-income individuals |
| United Way of Forsyth County, Inc. | $740,391 | over one year | Fall 2006 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for fiscal year 2007-08 for member agencies whose missions fall within the objectives of the Trust |
| OTHER: Not in Area of Emphasis | |||||
| Forsyth Futures | $225,000 | over three years | Fall 2006 | Winston-Salem | Operating funds for a community collaborative that will identify community goals and measurable markers of progress, and cause their achievement |
| North Carolina Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Inc. | $41,732 | over one year | Spring 2008 | Raleigh | Operating funds to assist in providing services to Forsyth County members who are grantees of the Trust and serve financially needy individuals |