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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

August 15, 2005 - Mission Monday

Jubilee Grants Committee awards funds to 50 dioceses

[Episcopal News Service] The Jubilee Ministry Grants Committee reviewed
grant requests from 101 Jubilee Ministry Center sites throughout the
Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion and awarded grants to 50
dioceses.

Grant applicants were allowed to apply for up to one grant per five
Jubilee
Centers in the diocese, provided it did not exceed three grant requests.
Most of the requests averaged between $500-2500 and the grants awarded
seldom exceed $5000.

"These amounts are usually too small for most granting foundations, so
the
granting of these funds through the Jubilee Grants Committee is
literally a
priceless service to the hundreds of outreach ministries in
congregations
that Executive Council has designated as official Jubilee Ministry
Centers,"
said the Rev. Canon Carmen Guerrero, staff officer for Jubilee Ministry.

The 2005 Jubilee Grants budget was $150,000. Requests totaled $372,848.

The following dioceses were grant recipients:

Louisiana
Central New York
Washington, D.C.
Southern Ohio
Dallas
North Carolina
Arizona
West Tennessee
Colombia
Southeast Florida
Bethlehem
Central Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Kentucky
Lexington
Western Michigan
Chicago
San Diego
New York
Northern California
Connecticut
Oklahoma
Southwest Florida
East Tennessee
Eastern Michigan
Panama
Southwestern Brazil
Western Missouri
Arkansas
Puerto Rico
Mississippi
Los Angeles
West Virginia
Kansas
Maryland
Rio Grande
Utah
Honduras
Rochester
California
Pittsburgh
Colorado
North Dakota
Tennessee
Northern Indiana
Virgin Islands
Atlanta
Alabama
Southwestern Virginia
Minnesota

The ministry of these Centers includes outreach, advocacy, and
empowerment.

The outreach grant requests include Homeless Drop-in Centers; a
community
garden; child care centers; an emergency utilities program; food/hunger
ministries;  elderly programs; tutoring; clothes and toys for children
with
AIDS; pre-schools for children; shelters; dental care; youth programs;
camps
for kids; a home repairs program; homeless emergency program; and food,
prescriptions and lockers for homeless persons.

"Among the advocacy Jubilee programs that asked for a grant," Guerrero
said,
"we were able to make a grant available for a program for moratorium on
executions, legal services for women and children, children in substance
abuse families, and war displaced families in Colombia."

She also said that empowerment of people is another key aspect of
Jubilee
Ministry, "therefore programs with ministries that teach and empower
people
to begin to do for themselves were also awarded a grant."

These ministries include job training;	education for children, youth,
and
adults; housing programs with life skills classes; parenting courses;
self
sufficiency classes for homeless persons now living in shelters; as well
as
seed money for a micro industry and several computer class programs for
children and women.