At Thursday's Giving Circle celebration, members placed labels on a ladder to represent five elements of generosity: Money, time, reputation, future and life
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Christian women alliance presents seven grants
By SUSAN LEATHERS
Brentwood Home Page
A growing group of philanthropic women on Thursday dispersed a total of $30,000 in grant funds to seven non-profits that help others in Middle Tennessee and around the world.
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| Giving Circle co-founder Susan Patton, right, presents a check to representatives of the Christian Women's Job Corps. |
The Giving Circle of Nashville formed three years ago is comprised of women who independently want to give their money to groups that make a difference in their community and beyond. Thursday night's check presentation ceremony marked the third annual event. The group has now given over $70,000.
Co-founder Susan Patton told those gathered at the Brentwood Library the history of the group and Giving Circles in general. "It doesn't have to be Christian, doesn't have to be women, though ours is," she said.
Since 2009, "we've been blessed to give out over $70,000 and have learned about 80 agencies we didn't know about."
The Giving Circle of Nashville's 2012 Grant Recipients are:
Morning Star Sanctuary will provide Christian mentoring to women who have left domestic abusive relationships.
Christian Women's Job Corps of Middle TN will purchase materials for culturally specific Bible Studies to meet the needs of the groups they serve in their three sites. In Williamson County, it will be a Spanish-based curriculum.
Siloam Health Center will use the grant is being used to supply indigent diabetic patients with insulin.
Radooga Orphan Camp provides funding for orphan camps in the religious-censored country of Ukraine. Radooga also teaches the orphans English as a second language, Orphans are the outcast of the Ukrainian people; they have a very high amount of drug abuse and suicide. These camps enable them to break free of this vicious cycle, and to know they are loved by Jesus and others.
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| David Buntin, left, shares his experience as a 'surrogate father' through the Family Foundation Fund, while FFF founder Onnie Kirk looks on with participants Austin and Malik |
Family Foundation Fund--The grant will be utilized in the educational component of the FFF mentoring program with fatherless boys. Key elements will be providing diagnostic testing to assess individual education needs, coordination of transportation, and homework assistance.
Against the Grain will furnish materials and facilitators for its 180 Degree/Bible study with inmates in the Williamson County Jail.
Refuge Center for Counseling will use its grant funds for materials in its children's therapy room.
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