DIOCESE OF NORTH CAROLINA
UNITED THANK OFFERING GRANT AWARDS
1995-2007
1995
Building Bridges: North Carolina Council of Churches: (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill): To hire a coordinator to seek out and work with lay and clergy leaders of African American churches to develop culturally sensitive aids education programs & compassionate care teams: $14,000.
1997
El Centro Episcopal: Episcopal Farm Workers Ministry: (Newton Grove): For site development costs where a community center will be build; then farm workers & their families can worship, access social services, take part in educational & recreational programs: $25,000.
1998
Neighbors in Ministry: Neighborhood Organizing: (Forsyth County): To fund a neighborhood organizing program that aims to empower Latino immigrants to become full participants of the community, through a coalition of churches and civic organizations: $11,600.
1999
Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center: Parish Nurse Program: (Davidson): To buy equipment and library resources for health screenings and educational programs and to promote programs in an area with critical need for preventive care and wellness programs: $12,000.
Operation Spring Plant: Rural Farm Cooperative Initiative: (Oxford); To purchase a refrigerated truck and hire a driver to deliver vegetables thereby furnishing jobs and stabilizing the cooperative that serves farmers with limited resources: $12,000.
2000
Chapel of Christ the King Preschool: Darrow-Owens Guild: (Charlotte): To help design and install a new playground and to buy classroom equipment for a preschool program for economically disadvantaged children who have moved into a newly renovated facility in early 2000: $17,137.08.
2001
Chapel of Christ the King: Youth Program: (Charlotte): Buy a fifteen passenger van to transport approximately sixty disadvantaged children to and from preschool and after-school programs daily: $24,000.
2003
Saint. Mark's Church and La Guadalupa: La Casa de San Marcos/Saint Mark's House: (Wilson): To help build a parish center adjacent to Saint Mark's Church where an established African American congregation has invited a Hispanic congregation to share its facilities; both congregations minister to a troubled and depressed neighborhood: $30,000.
2004
Urban Ministries of Durham: Feed the Hungry: (Durham): To fund an expansion of this food pantry program so it can offer evening hours to serve the working poor: $2,000.
2005
Student Action With Farmworkers (SAF): Farmworker Institute: Rural North Carolina: (SAF headquarters in Durham): To fund a speaker's bureau and to develop curricula to advance the coordinated efforts of Student Action with Farmworkers and the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry: $2,150.
Chapel of Christ the King: Youth Programs: (Charlotte): To help expand a summer camp program to include 13-14 year
old disadvantaged children.
$5,000.00
2006
All Saints' Episcopal Church Women: (Hamlet) Renovation of parish hall: To replace worn asbestos "health hazard" flooring to enable the facilities to be used for meeting space for All Saints' and various community groups: $8,200.
2007
Regional AIDS Interfaith Network: Care Teams: (Charlotte): To expand the number of volunteers trained, the number of Care Teams established, and the number of persons served by pastoral staff in a ministry to those suffering from HIV/AIDS: $15,000.
