Faith in Indiana14https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/1/ori_1.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2020</h6><h6>Faith in Indiana</h6><h6><i>$30,000</i></h6><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This grant will support Faith IN Indiana’s programs and policies to reduce incarceration and the stark impact of incarceration on employment, income, and long-term economic self-sufficiency. The nonprofit organization will use grant funds to build support for innovative policies that can fight crime without incarceration. It will expand programs that identify people with substance abuse or mental illness and direct them into treatment, not jail. Funds will also support non-carceral strategies for reducing crime, particularly Group Violence Intervention, a research-backed program that identifies individuals most likely to be perpetrators of gun homicides, surrounds them with social support, and offers them an honorable exit from street crime.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://faithinindiana.org/" title="" target="_blank" style=""><b>Visit website</b></a></p> Englewood Community Development Corporation15https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/2/ori_2.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<div><h6>2020</h6><h6>Englewood Community Development Corporation </h6><h6><i>$30,000</i></h6></div><div><br></div><div>This grant will be used to deepen relationships between community partners and two schools newly located in the Englewood neighborhood, Purdue Polytechnic High School (PPHS) and Paramount School of Excellence (PSOE). The collaboration will mobilize community resources to enrich the quality education of students, a majority of whom are people of color and/or from households facing poverty, in a way that will help break the cycle of poverty for their families. Grant funds will include first-year salary and overhead for a new position at Englewood CDC, community school coordinator, as well as supplies to facilitate safe gatherings of school/community stakeholders. The staff person will familiarize students and families with the neighborhood, facilitate connections with community organizations for project-based learning, after-school care, and other supports, and coordinate use of such community resources as Englewood CDC’s commercial kitchen and gymnasium.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://englewoodcdc.com/" title="" target="_blank"><b>Visit website</b></a></div> Public Advocates in Community Re-Entry (PACE)16https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/3/ori_3.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2020</h6><h6>Public Advocates in Community Re-Entry (PACE)<br>$25,000</h6><div><br></div><div>PACE will use its grant funds to remove barriers to successful re-entry for men and women coming out of prison and their families. PACE will expand its efforts that help people living in poverty make progress toward self-sufficiency through employment (assisting individuals get out of poverty), recovery services (preventing overdose), and housing stability (preventing homelessness). PACE fights poverty by helping ex-offenders develop productive lives and avoid re-offending. In addition, for those men who have graduated from PACE programs, a select group will be trained as mentors for teens participating in Hovey Street Church of Christ’s Evolve Ministry.</div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="https://www.paceindy.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></b></div> Hovey Street Church of Christ Evolve Ministry17https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/4/ori_4.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2020</h6><h6>Hovey Street Church of Christ Evolve Ministry<br>$15,000</h6><div><br></div><div>This grant will enable Hovey Street Church of Christ to expand its Evolve Ministry for teens struggling with trauma and educate its community on the tools necessary to overcome both mental and physical poverty. The ministry’s innovative collaboration with PACE will provide mentors for teens in the 46218 area-code. The community surrounding Hovey Street Church of Christ is an under-served and under-developed area in Indianapolis with significant income disparities. In addition, the community has significant levels of community-based traumas directly to related to violence, structural racism and historical inequalities. The grant funds will help address the significant need for more mental health services and social support for families working to break the cycle of poverty.</div> BUILD (Believers United In Local Development)10https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/5/ori_5.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2019</h6><h6>BUILD (Believers United In Local Development)<br>$30,000</h6><div><br></div><div>This grant will allow BUILD to reach more young men and women with programs that provide unemployed or underemployed youth with accredited training for in-demand skills in the construction industry. Using an evidenced-based approach that focuses on training and poverty disruption through mentoring, education and more, BUILD collaborates with YouthBuild Indy partnerships that incorporate the West Side Ministers (led by Friendship Missionary Church) as well as EmployIndy, Marian University, CICF, INHP and Marion County Community Corrections. With the grant, BUILD will increase its capacity to provide training to 10 young men and women (ages 16-24). Program participants receive tool belts with basic hand tools, construction boots, personal protective equipment, lunches and a weekly stipend during the 14-week training period. In addition, when necessary, trainees receive counseling, transportation assistance, rental assistance and financial counseling.</div> PACE 201911https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/6/ori_6.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2019</h6><h6>Public Advocates in Community Re-Entry (PACE)<br>$30,000</h6><div><br></div><div>PACE will use its grant to remove barriers to successful re-entry for men and women coming out of prison and their families. With services including job placements, transportation assistance, peer recovery coaching, high school equivalency preparation, mental health counseling and more, PACE fights poverty by helping ex-offenders develop productive lives and avoid re-offending. While studies have shown that, without services, 45% of prisoners will re-offend, PACE participants experienced a recidivism rate of only 2.9 percent in 2018. Partnering with a range of community organizations and corporations, PACE operates its Recovery Resource Center in the Martindale-Brightwood Community and focuses on outcomes such as employment, job placements, participation in education and training programs, financial-coaching participation and avoiding re-arrest. PACE’s strongest partner is Overcoming Church, a church with a passion for welcoming and serving those in recovery through prison outreach, faith walks, a weekly group meeting for those in recovery and a transitional/recovery home for women.</div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="http://www.paceindy.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></b></div> NEAR and Shepherd12https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/7/ori_7.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2019</h6><h6>Near East Area Renewal (NEAR) and Shepherd Community Center<br>$30,000</h6><div><br></div><div>NEAR and the Shepherd Community Center will use their grant to help fund the first intentional intergenerational living and learning center in Indiana, where senior adults and young children will find shelter, care, hospitality, growth and hope. In response to a critical community need for both childcare and affordable senior housing, NEAR is redeveloping the former IPS School 78 at 3734 East Vermont Street into the Minnie Hartmann Center, which will include 64 units of affordable senior housing and a Shepherd Community Center-operated early learning/childcare center that will serve 148 children. Plans also include training for families from John Boner Neighborhood Centers in such areas as career services, financial coaching and individual development accounts. When completed, the day care will create 27 new full-time, livable-wage jobs.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nearindy.org " title="" target="_blank"><b>Visit www.nearindy.org</b></a></div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="http://www.shepherdcommunity.org" title="" target="_blank">Visit www.shepherdcommunity.org</a></b></div> Purposeful Design13https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/8/ori_8.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2019<br>Purposeful Design<br>$25,000</h6><div>With its grant, Purposeful Design plans to add additional training and services to its social enterprise that helps to re-build the lives of men, women and youth who have struggled through poverty, addiction, homelessness and/or prison. Equipping participants with work skills and productive work, Purposeful Design teaches participants furniture making as well as what it means to walk in faith. The organization plans to use the 2019 Faith & Action grant to add metal working to its services (which will allow it to hire and train more people), expand its no-fee School of Woodworking & Discipleship to reach more men, women and youth, as well as to fine-tune the organization, plan for future growth, and expand beyond Central Indiana. For the past three years, revenue from furniture sales has covered more than 90% of expenses, suggesting that self-sustainability and scaling up are possible. Collaborators include College Park Church, Festool Corporation, Purdue University and 35 additional corporations, nonprofits and churches.<br></div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="http://www.pdindy.org" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></b></div> Eastern Star Church7https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/9/ori_9.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2017-2018Worldwide<h6>2018<br>ROCK Initiative<br>$50,000</h6><div><br></div><div>$50,000 to the ROCK Initiative at Eastern Star Church in partnership with Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership, Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic and RecycleForce. The Double Forward Initiative seeks to disrupt the cycle of recidivism and housing eviction in the 46218 zip code. With new housing options, a grocery store and counseling services already being developed, this grant will create avenues to second-chance opportunities by helping project participants gain financial stability and integrate educational and life-skills attainment, assisting with housing placement and educating participants about smart rental practices.</div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="https://www.rockinitiative.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></b></div> Heart Change Ministries8https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/10/ori_10.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2017-2018Worldwide<h6>2018<br>Heart Change Ministries<br>$30,000</h6><div><br></div><div>Heart Change provides ongoing, daily support to vulnerable families in the Brookside neighborhood who are working to achieve stability through formal and informal counseling. Heart Change staff and volunteers develop deep personal relationships with individual moms with a goal of helping them make lasting changes. Heart Change will use the grant to finish renovations at the house that will serve as home for its Gift of Work initiative called <b><a href="http://https://heartchangeartisans.com/" title="" target="_blank">Heart Felt Soaps</a></b>. The new space will allow Heart Change to employ more women and sell more soaps, thus helping moms break the cycle of generational poverty.</div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="http://www.heartchangeindy.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></b></div> Outreach Inc.9https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/11/ori_11.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2017-2018Worldwide<h6>2018<br>Outreach Inc.<br>$20,000</h6><div><br></div><div>Outreach provides homeless youth with a safe refuge from the unrelenting pressures of homelessness. During drop-in hours at the near eastside facility, youth have access to laundry facilities, computer labs, a food pantry, shower facilities, and family-style warm meals. Additionally, homeless youth are supported on their journey by case managers who help the youth navigate a path to sustainable independence and growth.</div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="https://www.outreachindiana.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></b></div> Broadway United Methodist Church1https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/12/ori_12.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2017-2018Worldwide<h6>2017<br>Broadway United Methodist Church<br>$20,000</h6><div><br></div><div>$20,000 grant for a program aimed at improving families’ economic mobility. Modeled after a program created by Families Independence Initiative, the program would build small groups around families, provide families with stipends in return for completing certain activities, and require families to set and pursue three goals that would improve their economic mobility.</div> Edna Martin Christian Center2https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/13/ori_13.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2017-2018Worldwide<h6>2017<br>Edna Martin Christian Center, American Baptist Churches of Greater Indianapolis and Eastern Star Church<br>$25,000</h6><div><br></div><div>$25,000 grant to assist families in the 46218 zip code by increasing the number of stable households. Program activities include working to bring more families into homes that are being built or refurbished in the neighborhood, providing education support and mentoring, assisting in employment readiness and acquisition, and ensuring basic needs are met.</div> Goodwill’s New Beginnings3https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/14/ori_14.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2017-2018Worldwide<h6>2017<br>Goodwill’s New Beginnings<br>$25,000</h6><div><br></div><div>$25,000 grant to fund a six-month transitional jobs programs for formerly incarcerated persons. Participants work four days a week at Goodwill Commercial Services or retail outlet locations and spend one day a week in a six-hour class focused on life-skill development and stabilization activities.</div> Purposeful Design4https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/15/ori_15.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2017-2018Worldwide<h6>2017<br>Purposeful Design<br>$25,000</h6><div><br></div><div>$25,000 grant for its program to teach woodworking and job-readiness to men emerging from addiction or homelessness. The grant will help expand and improve its production facility in order to employ more men, as well as launch a new School of Woodworking and Discipleship to train men and youth in woodworking, employment readiness and Godly living.</div> School on Wheels5https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/16/ori_16.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2017-2018Worldwide<h6>2017<br>School on Wheels<br>$10,000</h6><div><br></div><div>$10,000 grant for a program that helps families recover from the impact of recent homelessness by providing post-shelter education services. Funds will help provide educational assessments after a family moves out of a homeless shelter, school enrollment assistance, school supplies and uniform assistance, transportation assistance, and parent workshops to help parent engage in their child’s education.</div> Trinity Episcopal Church6https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/17/ori_17.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2017-2018Worldwide<h6>2017<br>Trinity Episcopal Church<br>$20,000</h6><div><br></div><div>$20,000 grant for Trinity House, which will offer a safe environment for 16-to-21-year-old people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. In addition to getting shelter, the youths staying at Trinity House will have access to legal services, life-skills training, assistance with education and job training, and facilitated connections to other community service agencies.</div> Brookside Community Development Corporation25https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/18/ori_18.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2021-2022Worldwide<h6>2021</h6><h6>Brookside Community Development Corporation</h6> <h6><i>$25,000</i></h6><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Brookside CDC will use its grant funding to expand its Education and Employment Academy’s workforce development, mentoring and academic-support programs that prepare Neat Eastside youth for success in school and the working world. Through afterschool programs for 12-19-year-olds, the Academy helps young people overcome or avoid poverty through leadership development, academic support and exposure to career opportunities. Some of the funds will support the hiring of a Workforce Coach, who will cultivate community partnerships that benefit the students and teach workforce development skills, while funding also will allow Brookside CDC to contract with community partners who provide complementary services that will help students improve their ability to succeed in school and in work. Remaining funds would be used to purchase equipment needed for the operations of CDC programs.</p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.brooksidecdc.org" title="" target="_blank"><b>Visit website</b></a></p> Elevate Indianapolis26https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/19/ori_19.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2021-2022Worldwide<h6>2021</h6><h6>Elevate Indianapolis</h6><h6><i>$25,000</i></h6><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With its Faith & Action Grant support, Elevate Indianapolis will build on its “No one gets there alone” mantra by ensuring that more Indianapolis youth have access to the program’s trained Teacher-Mentors. The funds will help to leverage relationships with Indianapolis Public Schools, Shepherd Community Center, Marian University, Saint Joseph’s College, and The Creek Church, and to support such activities as college search and application processes, vision trips and career fairs, soft-skills development and more. With an emphasis on hiring staff who come from similar backgrounds of the students they serve with experience overcoming socioeconomic, systemic and cultural barriers, Elevate Indianapolis helps students succeed in the classroom and see greater opportunities ahead. </p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.elevateindy.org " title="" target="_blank"><b>Visit website</b></a></p> Outreach28https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/20/ori_20.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2021-2022Worldwide<h6>2021</h6><h6>Outreach</h6><h6><i>$30,000</i></h6><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Outreach will use its Faith & Action Grant funding to support the opening of satellite program centers that serve additional youth and young adults experiencing homelessness or housing instability around the city. Working in partnership with churches and other community organizations, Outreach will open these satellites near high schools and in areas identified as having greater numbers of youth without secure housing. The Faith & Action funding will help meet immediate and basic needs including transportation, food and clothing. Funds also will support the development of mentor relationships and contribute to salaries for coaches who work one-on-one with the youth, help them access social services and guide them in developing education, employment and housing goals. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.outreachindiana.org/" target="_blank"><b>Visit website</b></a></p> You Yes You27https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/21/ori_21.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2021-2022Worldwide<h6>2021</h6><h6>You Yes You</h6><h6><i>$25,000</i></h6><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Seeking to break the cycle of poverty that becomes imbedded in too many families as a result of incarceration, You Yes You connects fathers to their families and fills gaps in services for them and their children. Launched with a 2014 father-daughter dance that took place inside a correctional facility, You Yes You has expanded in part at the request of the Indiana Department of Correction. With its Faith & Action Grant support, You Yes You will expand programs outside prison walls to provide services for self-discovery, mental health, literacy, nutrition, financial literacy and more, all with an emphasis on strengthening connections within families and building up the capabilities of incarcerated and post-incarcerated parents and their children.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.youyesyouproject.com " title="" target="_blank"><b>Visit website</b></a></p> Lutheran Child and Family Services29https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/22/ori_22.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2021-2022Worldwide<h6>2021</h6><h6>Lutheran Child and Family Services—Pando Aspen Grove</h6><h6><i>$25,000</i></h6><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lutheran Child and Family Services will use its Faith & Action Grant to support the addition of a Peer Support Specialist lived experience to its team at Pando Aspen Grove, a supporting housing initiative that provides homes and support services to homeless youth who have “aged out” of the welfare/foster child-care system. The Peer Support Specialist will be a Certified Recovery Specialist with peer supporting training who can help to ensure that program participants remain in housing for a full year, engage in supportive services from partner organizations, create individual success plans for academic and employment goals, and make progress toward those goals. Through these objectives, Lutheran Child and Family Services seeks to help participants avoid the decent into poverty that so often afflicts housing-insecure youth, a disproportionate number of whom are African American and LGBTQ/gender-diverse. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.lutheranfamily.org" title="" target="_blank"><b>Visit website</b></a></p> Volunteers of America18https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/23/ori_23.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2020 Emergency-Relief Grant</h6><h6>Volunteers of America</h6><h6><i>$10,000</i></h6><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A $10,000 emergency relief grant from the Faith & Action Project would provide essential funds to ensure our ability to continue to meet the needs of our clients. Our immediate needs that have emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic are for personnel costs and technology enhancements. Support in these areas will help ensure limited disruption in client care and our ability to address clients’ basic needs and mental health services while on their path to achieving well-being.</p> <p><em>Technology Enhancements</em><br> Technology support will give employees the ability to continue to provide essential case management and counseling services to clients in residential care through telemedicine or virtual means in order to limit the amount of face-to-face interactions required to serve clients. This allows staff to practice social distancing, while decreasing isolation for clients already experiencing mental health challenges. This funding would allow us to ensure all employees in need can receive hotspot devices, laptops, teleconferencing equipment and platform licenses. We have identified $28,000 in immediate technology needs and have raised $15,000 to assist us in this effort, and additional funds would allow us to leverage this further to help meet our actual needs.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.voa.org/" title="" target="_blank" style=""><b>Visit website</b></a></p> Edna Martin Christian Center19https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/24/ori_24.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2020 Emergency-Relief Grant</h6><h6>Edna Martin Christian Center</h6><h6><i>$10,000</i></h6><p>In 2020 we gave EMCC an Emergency Relief Grant to help during COVID, specifically with family stability and mental health. EMCC used the grant for barrier busting direct support - rental, utility assistance, transportation support as well as equipment and technology - seniors (connectivity toward virtual activities, exercise, bible study, etc.).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://ednamartincc.org/" title="" target="_blank" style=""><b>Visit website</b></a></p> Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center at Eskenazi Health20https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/25/ori_25.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2020 Emergency-Relief Grant</h6><h6>Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center at Eskenazi Health</h6><h6><i>$15,000</i></h6><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center at Eskenazi Health is using the support to standardize their technology so that staff can work more efficiently with their clients. Most immediately, that means providing cellphones and iPads for those employees who work in the community. The money is also helping to fund data plans and hardware for teletherapy services.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.eskenazihealth.edu/mental-health" title="" target="_blank" style=""><b>Visit website</b></a></p> Julian Center21https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/26/ori_26.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2020 Emergency-Relief Grant</h6><h6>The Julian Center</h6><h6><i>$10,000</i></h6><p>TeleTherapy Application Licensing (Licenses for a TeleTherapy program that is compliant with OVW’s confidentiality requirements) and supplies for staff and families at the Center.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.juliancenter.org/" title="" target="_blank" style=""><b>Visit website</b></a></p> MLK Center22https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/27/ori_27.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2020 Emergency-Relief Grant</h6><h6>MLK Center</h6><h6><i>$10,000</i></h6><p></p><ul><li>Device and connectivity support for vulnerable children for Education – we are providing tablets and laptops to students so they can access online educational materials, including our creative writing partnership with Professor Watermelon, who usually comes to the MLK Center on a weekly basis. The workshops are free to MLK families. We’ve contacted every child in our after school program, and are working with School #43 teachers to reach out to their students to see who might need internet access or an additional piece of equipment. </li> <li>Virtual Grief and Counseling sessions or support (trained clinician, MSW, or other support) – our resident counselor (Graduate of CTS) has virtual sessions available. Families can call our front desk and get directly transferred to his cell phone to set an appointment over the phone or via zoom. </li> <li>Virtual Basic Needs and employment/Unemployment navigation – we are continuing to work with families remotely, and conducting coaching sessions via zoom.</li></ul> <p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://mlkcenterindy.org/" title="" target="_blank" style=""><b>Visit website</b></a></p> Eastern Star Church ROCK Initiative23https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/28/ori_28.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2020 Emergency-Relief Grant</h6><h6>Eastern Star Church ROCK Initiative</h6><h6><i>$10,000</i></h6><p>Our CARE Food Pantry is temporarily closed due to the pandemic but we continue to support feeding the community. We are sending funds to provide more than 6,000 meals a week to the community through local food banks. The $10,000 Emergency Grant would allow the acceleration of merchandising and attention to modifications to allow The ROCK FRESH MARKET (RFM) to continue meeting neighborhood food stability needs at a high level and match the consumer needs of shoppers from the neighborhood. With analysis and consulting from a city paid consultant (Joe Welsh) and a new partnership fostered with an area wholesale grocer (Winkler, Inc.) RFM can obtain and accelerate products and merchandising. The cost of two current store employees could also be offset. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.rockinitiative.org/" title="" target="_blank" style=""><b>Visit website</b></a></p> Shepherd Community Center24https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/29/ori_29.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2019-2020Worldwide<h6>2020 Emergency-Relief Grant</h6><h6>Shepherd Community Center</h6><h6><i>$10,000</i></h6><p>We would use the dollars for providing food for our neighbors. For the first 4 weeks, our efforts included:<br> - 1256 breakfast meals for kids<br> - 1429 lunches for kids<br> - 582 dinners for families<br> - 980 family food boxes<br> - 588: breakfasts in a bag<br> - 600 crisis care kits (hygiene items)<br> - 180 computers and tablets out to students (we got more that are being deployed at the end of this week)<br> - This week we will start producing 2000-2500 meals/week, many that will be delivered daily. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://shepherdcommunity.org/" title="" target="_blank" style=""><b>Visit website</b></a></p> Marian University & Faith Community Nursing30https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/30/ori_30.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2021-2022Worldwide<span style="" calibri",sans-serif;="" mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" new="" roman";="" mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:arial;mso-bidi-theme-font:="" minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:="" ar-sa"=""><h6 style="font-size: 11pt;">2022</h6><h6 style="font-size: 11pt;">Marian University and Community Nursing</h6><h6 style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>$5,000</i></h6><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><span calibri",sans-serif;="" mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" new="" roman";="" mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:arial;mso-bidi-theme-font:="" minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:="" ar-sa"="" style="">Marian University’s Leighton School of Nursing will use its $5,000 grant for Faith Community Nursing, an effort to provide ten $500 scholarships to neighborhood communities of faith so each can send one registered nurse to train as a Faith Community Nurse. A specialty nursing practice recognized by the American Nurses Association, Faith Community Nurses – also known as parish nurses – use their expertise</span><span calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:="" calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;="" mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:="" en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" style="">to enhance health and wellness within their communities of faith. By equipping faith communities to support nurses in becoming Faith Community Nurses, Marian’s Faith Community Nursing program aims to help congregations reduce health and wellness disparities and improve health outcomes</span><br></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><font size="3"><a href="https://www.marian.edu/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></font></span></span><div><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri",sans-serif;="" mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" new="" roman";="" mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:arial;mso-bidi-theme-font:="" minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:="" ar-sa"=""><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri",sans-serif;="" mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" new="" roman";="" mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:arial;mso-bidi-theme-font:="" minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:="" ar-sa"=""><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: " calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:="" calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;="" mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:="" en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="">.</span><br> </div> </div> Redeemer Presbyterian Church31https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/31/ori_31.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2021-2022Worldwide<span calibri",sans-serif;="" mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" new="" roman";="" mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:arial;mso-bidi-theme-font:="" minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:="" ar-sa"="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h6 style="color: rgb(80, 87, 94); font-size: 11pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">2022</h6><h6 style="color: rgb(80, 87, 94); font-size: 11pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Redeemer Presbyterian Church</h6><h6 style="color: rgb(80, 87, 94); font-size: 11pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$35,000</i></h6><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><span calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:="" calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;="" mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:="" en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="" calibri",sans-serif;="" mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" new="" roman";="" mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:arial;mso-bidi-theme-font:="" minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:="" ar-sa"="">Through its 4:8 Fund, Redeemer Presbyterian Church will use its $35,000 Faith & Action Grant to increase access to mental health services to people of color. Named for Philippians 4:8 (which encourages Christ followers to focus on things that are noble and right), the 4:8 Fund will use the grant to eliminate barriers to mental health services by providing scholarships to people of color seeking mental health services; facilitating sessions at places convenient to clients; pairing clients with counselors of color; and making the language and experience of counseling as accessible and comfortable as possible.</span></span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></p><span style="color: rgb(80, 87, 94); font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><font size="3" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.redeemindy.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></font></span></span><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(80, 87, 94); font-size: 12px;"></div><div><br></div> Shepherd Community Center32https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/32/ori_32.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2021-2022Worldwide<span calibri",sans-serif;="" mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" new="" roman";="" mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:arial;mso-bidi-theme-font:="" minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:="" ar-sa"="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h6 style="font-size: 11pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(80, 87, 94);">2022</h6><h6 style="font-size: 11pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(80, 87, 94);">Shepherd Community Center</h6><h6 style="font-size: 11pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(80, 87, 94);"><i style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$25,000</i></h6><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;">With its grant of $25,000, Shepherd Community Center will expand its collection and evaluation of data related to its poverty-alleviation work and improve its service-delivery systems. Shepherd is collaborating in a research project currently underway at IUPUI that will result in a replicable, evidence-based approach to place-based poverty alleviation. The expectation is that the research results will support real-time program-delivery decisions to maximize impact for families. In addition, the improved documentation of the effectiveness of Shepherd’s model and interventions will support the development of proven approaches to poverty alleviation that can be shared and scaled in other communities.<br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></p><span style="color: rgb(80, 87, 94); overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><font size="3" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://shepherdcommunity.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></font></span></span><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(80, 87, 94); font-size: 12px;"></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(80, 87, 94); font-size: 12px;"></div> Trusted Mentors33https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/33/ori_33.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2021-2022Worldwide<span calibri",sans-serif;="" mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" new="" roman";="" mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:arial;mso-bidi-theme-font:="" minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:="" ar-sa"="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h6 style="font-size: 11pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(80, 87, 94);">2022</h6><h6 style="font-size: 11pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(80, 87, 94);">Trusted Mentors</h6><h6 style="font-size: 11pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(80, 87, 94);"><i style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$40,000</i></h6><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.6rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;">Trusted Mentors will use its $40,000 Faith & Action Grant to support and expand its mentoring program that helps adults and young adults avoid or emerge from homelessness. The funds will provide necessary staffing to recruit, train and support mentors and maintain relationships with partnering agencies in an effort to help 80 participating adults and young adults end the cycle of poverty. By helping individuals enhance their networks of supportive relationships, the project seeks to support them in developing their gifts, overcoming challenges and becoming stable and contributing members of the community.<br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></p><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(80, 87, 94); font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><font size="3" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://trustedmentors.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></font></span></span><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(80, 87, 94); font-size: 12px;"></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(80, 87, 94); font-size: 12px;"></div> Elevate Indianapolis34https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/34/ori_34.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2023-2024Worldwide<p><strong>2023</strong><br><span style="color: #168ad3; font-size: 1.6rem;">Elevate Indianapolis</span><br><em>$20,000</em></p> <p>With its Faith & Action Grant support, Elevate Indianapolis will support the launch of the Indianapolis-IPS College Core Pipeline. This partnership with IPS and Ivy Tech Community College will serve marginalized 9th to 12th graders as they complete Indiana College Core Program requirements. Students will earn 30 hours of dual-credit college-level coursework that transfers to all public colleges and universities in the state, saving up to $10,000 in college tuition and launching “a trajectory away from generational poverty toward purpose, prosperity and contribution.” Elevate’s 24-7 mentorship model will help participants overcome challenges, achieve educational goals and develop socially and emotionally.</p> <p><a href="http://www.elevateindy.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></p> Greater Indianapolis Multifaith Alliance35https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/35/ori_35.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2023-2024Worldwide<p><strong>2023</strong><br><span style="color: #168ad3; font-size: 1.6rem;">Greater Indianapolis Multifaith Alliance</span><br><em>$15,000</em></p> <p>The Greater Indianapolis Multifaith Alliance (GIMA) plans to use the Faith & Action grant to expand the Eviction Court Watch teams and to expand GIMA’s lobbying efforts for the next Indiana General Assembly. With a focus on promoting equitable housing and ending Indy’s eviction crisis, GIMA will expand and systemize a cohort of congregation-based court watchers who keep an eye on Indy’s eviction court judges, who wield enormous power to affect families but who, in many cases, operate with little compassion or grace. The grant also will help to enhance GIMA’s lobbying efforts by supporting the engagement of a firm that can help inform policymakers about equitable-housing issues.</p> <p><a href="https://www.indymultifaith.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></p> Heart Change36https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/36/ori_36.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2023-2024Worldwide<p><strong>2023</strong><br><span style="color: #168ad3; font-size: 1.6rem;">Heart Change</span><br><em>$20,000</em></p> <p>Faith & Action provided Heart Change with a grant to expand the Gift of Work program by adding a new product line to Heart Change’s social enterprise business, which gives women coming from intergenerational poverty jobs-skills training while also paying them a wage and surrounding them with supports and positive relationships. The expanded program will prepare two of the participants for supervisory roles, equipping them to serve as supervisors and trainers at Heart Change. The ultimate goal is for the new product line to become self-sustaining – like Heart Change’s original product line – and provide a livable-wage job for women involved in Heart Change.</p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><o:p></o:p></p> <p><a href="https://www.heartchangeindy.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></p> Indiana Youth Group37https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/37/ori_37.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2023-2024Worldwide<p><strong>2023</strong><br><span style="color: #168ad3; font-size: 1.6rem;">Indiana Youth Group</span><br><em>$20,000</em></p> <p>With its Faith & Action Grant support, Indiana Youth Group (IYG) plans<span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: " times="" new="" roman";"=""></span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">to double their mental health services and case management support to address the unique stressors, issues and needs of LGBTQ+ individuals and help low-income LGBTQ youth navigate the system of community resources and supports. Often LGBTQ+ youth find themselves trying to access services and programs without essential documents that are withheld by parents as a form of punishment or disownment. Left adrift, these youth find it nearly impossible to </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">apply for services, enroll in school, apply for a job or enroll in a high school equivalency program – a state of affairs that puts them on a short path to poverty.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><o:p></o:p></p> <p><a href="https://www.indianayouthgroup.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></p> West Morris Church38https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/38/ori_38.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2023-2024Worldwide<p><strong>2023</strong><br><span style="color: #168ad3; font-size: 1.6rem;">West Morris Church</span><br><em>$30,000</em></p> <p>West Morris Church will use the Faith & Action Grant support for the opening of the Westside New Day Center (WNDC). Westside New Day Center, which will support more than 30 neighbors experiencing homelessness and connect them to case management, housing, employment-skills training, healthcare services and other wrap-around services. A key component of the program will be offering a place of respite, resource and rejuvenation where basic needs are met and hope can flourish. The grant will help with the cost of developing the space and installing needed plumbing, electrical and HVAC systems that will give neighbors access to showers, laundry facilities, Wi-Fi, computer access and more.</p> <p><a href="https://www.westmorrisfm.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></p> First Baptist Church of Indianapolis and First Baptist Athletics39https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/39/ori_39.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2023-2024Worldwide<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><span style="font-weight: 600; overflow-wrap: break-word;">2024</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(22, 138, 211); font-size: 1.6rem;">First Baptist Church of Indianapolis and First Baptist Athletics</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$15,000</em></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);">First Baptist Church of Indianapolis and First Baptist Athletics will use Faith & Action Grant support to provide program scholarships and community outreach for underserved children and communities in Washington Township. Funds will help to ensure a lack of resources does not block any child from participating in First Baptist’s sports outreach and support a community job fair connecting business owners with families in need of employment. The job fair is modeled on an earlier one that helped many members of the Burmese refugee community find full-time positions that pay well and offer comprehensive benefits.</p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><a href="https://fbcindy.org/" title="" target="_blank" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Visit website</a></p> Brookside Community Development Corporation40https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/40/ori_40.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2023-2024Worldwide<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 600;">2024</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(22, 138, 211); font-size: 1.6rem;">Brookside Community Development Corporation</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$35,000</em></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);">Brookside Community Development Corporation will use Faith & Action Grant support for the launch of the Secure Housing and Breaking the Poverty Cycle initiative. Recognizing housing insecurity’s role in perpetuating poverty, the initiative will help families with transitional housing while also providing financial literacy services, housing maintenance and stabilization assistance including utility subsidies, and financial support to offset unexpected expenses. Workshops will help families manage the costs and requirements of long-term housing while also providing guidance with budgeting, credit management, and more.</p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><a href="https://www.brooksidecdc.org/" title="" target="_blank" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Visit website</a></p> Central Indiana Youth for Christ41https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/41/ori_41.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2023-2024Worldwide<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 600;">2024</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(22, 138, 211); font-size: 1.6rem;">Central Indiana Youth for Christ</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$15,000</em></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);">Central Indiana Youth for Christ will use Faith & Action Grant support for Community Ministries programs that help participants with academic, spiritual, and personal goal-setting, engage participants in group and/or one-on-one therapy sessions, and enroll participants in financial literacy training. Some of the funds will support City Life Wheels, which uses donated vehicles to teach young people basic automotive maintenance and repair along with life-skills training. Other funds will focus on parent support and instruction with the goal of creating more stable, secure families.</p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><a href="https://ciyfc.org/" title="" target="_blank" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Visit website</a></p> Mapleton Fall Creek Development Corporation42https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/42/ori_42.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2023-2024Worldwide<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 600;">2024</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(22, 138, 211); font-size: 1.6rem;">Mapleton Fall Creek Development Corporation</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$25,000</em></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);">Mapleton Fall Creek Development Corporation will use Faith & Action Grant support to support its emergency owner-occupied home repair program. Without the means to make essential repairs to older houses, many long-term residents might be forced to sell their homes or let them fall into critical disrepair. The program gives them access to resources for critical repairs in a timely manner, bypassing typical bureaucratic delays with rapid, low-barrier funding options. The program not only allows the residents to stay in their homes, but also helps them maintain home equity and prevents the creation of a neglected, troubled property.</p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><a href="https://mfcdc.org/" title="" target="_blank" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Visit website</a></p> CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions43https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/43/ori_43.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2023-2024Worldwide<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 600;">2024</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(22, 138, 211); font-size: 1.6rem;">CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$25,000</em></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);">CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions will use Faith & Action Grant support for its Social Care Hub, which will leverage relationships older residents have with their churches to close care gaps in underserved communities. CICOA will embed a staff member to hold office hours in three partner faith communities (St. Mark Catholic Church, Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and Living Word Baptist Church) to help older adults and their families access community services and resources that allow them to remain independent, safe, and healthy in their own homes.</p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><a href="https://cicoa.org/" title="" target="_blank" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Visit website</a></p> Coburn Place44https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/44/ori_44.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2025Worldwide<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 600;">2025</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(22, 138, 211); font-size: 1.6rem;">Coburn Place</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$25,000</em></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);">Coburn Place is a domestic abuse treatment center on the near north side. The grant will support its Transitional Housing Program, which provides rent- and utility-free housing, as well as Coburn programs offering access to education, employment and healthcare options. The grant will be used to help survivors secure and sustain stable housing, improve their safety and well-being, interrupt cycles of abuse and establish goals relating to housing, finances, health, employment, education and relationships. Faith-based partners contribute in various ways, including hosting survivor-focused gatherings, facilitating workshops grounded in spiritual and emotional wellness, and distributing care kits.</p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><a href="https://coburnplace.org/" title="" target="_blank" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Visit website</a></p> DREAM Alive45https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/45/ori_45.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2025Worldwide<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 600;">2025</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(22, 138, 211); font-size: 1.6rem;">DREAM Alive</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$20,000</em></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);">DREAM Alive is a nonprofit that works with Center Township youth who attend Indianapolis Public Schools, helping them discover career paths and mentoring them from 6th grade through high school graduation. The grant allows DREAM Alive to expand into more IPS middle schools, provides transportation for career-exploration trips and covers after-school meals and snacks for students, many of whom face food insecurity.<br></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font color="#2c3338">DA collaborates with various faith-based organizations, including Shepherd Community Center, Elevate Indianapolis, Midtown Church, Indiana Wesleyan University, Str8Up Youth Camp, Marian University, Edna Martin Christian Center, Outreach Inc. and more.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><a href="https://www.dreamaliveinc.org/" title="" target="_blank">Visit website</a></p> Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis46https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/46/ori_46.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2025Worldwide<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 600;">2025</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(22, 138, 211); font-size: 1.6rem;">Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$20,000</em></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font color="#2c3338">Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis is a nonprofit working to end homelessness in Indianapolis. Prior to the COVID pandemic, Family Promise used a model in which congregations hosted families experiencing homelessness at their faith communities, with volunteers providing meals, transportation, childcare and more. When COVID prevented congregations from hosting families, Family Promise researched, raised funds for and launched a new model, the Apartment Shelter Program, through which Family Promise signed leases on apartment units throughout the city, which it offers as temporary shelter for families ineligible for eviction diversion or stabilization programs.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: rgb(44, 51, 56);">Community partner Mustard Seed of Central Indiana furnishes the apartments, while congregations provide housewares, which families take with them when they leave. Family Promise case management helps families maintain stable housing. The model costs roughly 30% less than traditional shelters and reduces the trauma associated with shelter living.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: rgb(44, 51, 56);">In 2024, Family Promise collaborated with over 26 congregations.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><a href="https://www.fpgi.org/" title="" target="_blank" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Visit website</a></p> Holy Family Shelter48https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/47/ori_47.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2025Worldwide<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 600;">2025</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(22, 138, 211); font-size: 1.6rem;">Holy Family Shelter</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$25,000</em></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font color="#2c3338">Holy Family Shelter is a program of Catholic Charities of Indianapolis, located on the near westside. The grant will ensure that 250 families (750 individuals) who are experiencing homelessness or a housing crisis have access to emergency shelter, comprehensive services and permanent affordable housing through Holy Family Shelter’s Sustain, Support and Divert program.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font color="#2c3338">Holy Family prioritizes immediate access to housing – ideally helping families stay in their current housing – and staff advocates on behalf of families with landlords and property managers. Holy Family staff provides an array of services to help families move toward stability and also assists with such expenses as rental deposits and payments, utilities, transportation and childcare, removing short-term financial hardships that can affect a family’s ability to remain housed.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><a href="https://coburnplace.org/" title="" target="_blank" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Visit website</a></p> We Bloom47https://www.cts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sls-wp-uploads/images/48/ori_48.png?t=1775467734slidedownyes2025Worldwide<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 600;">2025</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(22, 138, 211); font-size: 1.6rem;">We Bloom</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">$10,000</em></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font color="#2c3338">We Bloom is a nonprofit focused on healing, empowerment and skill-building primarily for the LGBTQ+ community. The grant funds two programs, the first of which is a queer-affirming and trauma-informed recovery program at Recovery Café Indy. As a first-of-its-kind in Indiana, this program addresses the need for inclusive, healing-centered spaces that reduce trans individuals’ isolation and foster belonging.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font color="#2c3338">The second funded program is a partnership with Purposeful Design, a Christian nonprofit providing job training to individuals overcoming addiction, homelessness and incarceration, to expand job training for Recovery Café Indy members.</font><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(44, 51, 56);"><a href="https://www.webloom.org/" title="" target="_blank" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Visit website</a></p>