Each year the MCWA Outreach Committee invites local charities to submit applications for consideration for funding and support. This year we received 11 applications. Nina Pitkin and Helen Boxer reviewed and prepared summaries for each organization.
At our September Committee Meeting we discussed the key selection criteria for selecting 6 charities to support through our Giving Circle.
The committee wanted to reach kids and youth, families, and the elderly through their giving.
If a nonprofit was very well funded by many other funding sources, it would not be a priority.
The committee wanted to fund specific projects that were well thought out and very tangible (ie.playground equipment last year).
The committee wanted to fund successful nonprofits that we had supported in the past, and also include new charities.
Some nonprofits would be supported as volunteer opportunities for our members.
After a long and deep discussion, agreement was reached on our 2021-2022 Nonprofits we would support. We are please to announce that MCWA will support the following local non=profit organizations this year through financial and volunteer efforts.
Alpha Omega Miracle Home - provides housing, education, and counseling to those who are the most vulnerable: young mothers, their children, and senior women.Pattie Nolton and Ellen Blasi will be co-liaisons
Emergency Services and Homeless Coalition - provides permanent and transitional housing to homeless families and their children; food, clothing, household items; supportive services, after school and summer camp activities; and also provides food and clothing to the larger homeless population.
Melody Ness, Pat Pope & Peggy Cutrino will be co-liaisons.
Food 4 Kids - provide weekend food items in backpacks for selected students at South Woods Elementary School in Elkton, FL and their siblings under the age of 18.
Adrienne Lyons and Nina Pitkin will be co-liaisons.
Pie in the Sky - provides hope by serving with dignity and respect to alleviate hunger and social isolation through the home delivery of fresh healthy produce to as many low-income, hungry senior citizens as is physically and financially possible.
Christine Matthaei and Mimi Ianuzzi will be co-liaisons.
Port in the Storm - place homeless youth in nurturing programs that develop their self esteem, so they become self-sufficient, find stable housing, and change the trajectory of their lives. This is a very underserved population as the children are too old for foster care and considered adults at 18. They serve youths between 18 and 25 years of age.
Lise Murphy and Gayle Dodson will be co-liaisons.
Rodeheaver Boys Ranch - provides a wholesome home environment with an inclusive program implementing social, educational, vocational, and spiritual development for up to 50 boys who, because of parental death, desertion, divorce, disability, or general dysfunction, are at-risk or insecure.
Lise Murphy and Helen Boxer will be co-liaisons.