Our Hands to Their Hands Giving Circle Vision: Raleigh women united together financially to positively impact the lives of women and children in our community for Christ. These women will gain education and experience in philanthropy through group discussions on the topics of generosity and philanthropy, identifying and choosing ministries to support, and prayer. We expect this experience to impact us individually in personal giving, relationships, and how we relate to the world. Next Meeting:
The next Giving Circle meeting will be Tuesday, Sept 14, 2010. This meeting will be our informational meeting open to all women and will go over details of the 2010-2011 cycle. We will be taking RSVP's beginning August 2010.
Priorities for Grantmaking: 501(c)3, Christian organizations benefiting women and children Format/Structure: -
Quarterly Meetings with group discussion and decision making -
Donor Advised Fund at the Christian Foundation of the Triangle will hold money until distributed. Donations are tax deducible at time of gift to Donor Advised Fund. Commitment: $600 Gift Commitment (payments can be made in installments)
Four meetings (2 hours each)
Next cycle: September 1, 2010 - May 2011
2010 Grants -
Mother's Heart, Yunnan, China - $5,000 Mothers Heart mission is to help the widows and the orphans Asia, to alleviate their poverty, pain and suffering and to lead them into a better life. $2,500: Funding to start a home school for children rejected from local primary school because of AIDS stigma attached to their families. Grant supplies tuition, books and field trips for all ten 1st graders. $2,500: Widow's fund supports 8 widowed moms living with HIV/AIDS by providing tuition for children to attend school and money for to meet practical and medical needs of the families. www.mothersheartchina.org - Hope Reigns, Raleigh, NC - $5,000
Hope Reins of Raleigh is a Christian equine ministry pairing together rescued horses and children to find hope and healing. This grant will be used to pay for care, feeding, tack and supplies for two of our Angels in Horsehair - Isaiah and Abigail for 2010 (May-December). Along with the food and medical care, grooming and riding supplies will be purchased to allow these horses to being working with the children, ages 5-18, in need of equine assisted outreach (at NO charge to the family). www.hopereignsraleigh.org
2009 Grants
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Mercy for Children
Project: $5,000 will build a well in the Congo that will supply clean, safe running water and basic medical care to an orphanage. www.mercyforchildren.org - Heart's Cry Children's Ministry
Project: $5,000 will replace urine soaked mattresses for children in Malambo Orphanage; provide necessities to the HIV children's ward there; replace worn-out/torn shoes for orphans; and repair pipes/building maintenance at orphanage. www.heartscrychildren.org - Love 146
Project: $5,000 will provide four scholarships for 4 Indian national caregivers to be trained in the Love146 Certificate Training Program in Aftercare (CTPA) and placed in one of our partner safehomes in India. www.love146.org. - Neighbor to Neighbor
Project: $5,000 will fund two trips for 50-70 kids plus volunteer moms to Frankies, Ice Skating, etc... and incentive items such as clothing, school supplies, games, toys and other items for the Educational Incentive System (EIS) program. These items provide incentive to students for educational programs at N2N. www.n2noutreach.org 2008 Grants - $5000 to Building Together Ministries to expand the Women's Outreach Ministry. As a part of this outreach, the Women's Empowerment Zone will expand the summer camp program to help break the cycle of emotional and physical despair these women experience by encouraging them to realize their great worth and potential in Christ.
- $5000 to Make Way Partners to buy beds for the girls' dormitory in their Sudan school/orphange/church and medical clinic. These beds will provide most of the 150 girls in this program with their first bed ever and safe place to sleep and stay at the compound to gain an education, job training, and learn about the love of Jesus Christ.
- $5000 to Children's Relief International to support the "King of Kings" project in Rajahmundry, India. This project offers aid to a boys home caring for 20 Dalit (untouchable class) boys, pastors working in one of the poorest regions of India, and a new church plant outside a rock quarry providing rice and microloans to families.
- $5000 to Raleigh Rescue Mission to assist the W.E. Mangum Children's Development Center gain licensure. This will allow the center to serve the entire community so that non-mission, at-risk families in need of safe, Christ-based child care will be able to enroll their children.
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