Domestic Violence Program: $10,000.
Church of the Mediator-Northwest Bronx Hispanic Ministry: The program focuses on building community awareness of domestic violence and providing education and referral services to the Hispanic community in the Bronx. This program is a collaborative effort of three Episcopal congregations, operates four days a week and is staffed by two specialized caseworkers.

Interfaith Caregivers of the Northwest Bronx: $4,000.
St. James, Fordham: Funds will be used to support the part-time coordinator for the Hispanic Outreach of Interfaith Caregivers (10 hours per week). The coordinator assesses needs (interviewing potential care-receivers on referral); recruit and train Spanish-speaking volunteers from the congregations; and coordinates volunteer visits and schedules. Additional funds will be used for developing more Spanish-language recruitment and training materials, as well as materials to publicize the availability of the service to the Hispanic elderly in the area.

Literacy Program: $15,000.
Haitian Congregation of the Good Samaritan: This ESL program annually serves 125 Haitian Creole immigrants during weekly classes. Its purpose is to provide recent immigrants with the English skills necessary to function in the US, by applying for jobs, asking for assistance or directions and applying for citizenship if desired.

Our Lord’s Soup Kitchen: $18,500.
Grace Episcopal Church, West Farms: Started in 1999, this program provides 150 hot lunches each Tuesday and Saturday and has a volunteer staffed food pantry along with referral services that are available to Soup Kitchen clients.

St. Margaret’s Feeding Ministry: $8,000.

St. Margaret’s Longwood: For the past seventeen years the Wednesday Community Dinner has fed over 550 guests each week. The guests are included in every aspect of the program -- such as; food purchasing, preparation, and serving. The program was expanded in 2000 to include a Sunday Morning Breakfast.

St. Peter’s Love Kitchen: $10,000.
St. Peter’s Church, Westchester Square: Each Thursday a volunteer staff provides hot lunch to 600 clients. Free clothing is available to clients and a case worker is often onsite to provide referrals to additional services.

Brown Bag Program: $7,000.
Christ & St. Stephen’s Church: Founded in 1983, the program provides a brown bag, containing two individual size containers of food for a main course, 11 oz of fruit juice, a small box of raisins, a small package of peanut-cheese crackers, cookies and donated bread. Donated clothes are distributed, and a case worker is provided by Care for the Homeless to provide some information & referrals to local agencies and entitlement programs as well as following up with clients to see if they are accessing needed resources. Last year, the program fed about 20,000 clients.

Cathedral Community Cares: $5,000.
The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine: The Cathedral is seeking funds in support of its soup kitchen and shelter program. Over 42,000 meals were served last year through these two programs and an eight bed men’s shelter is on-site.

Community Ministry: $10,000.
St. Bartholomew’s, Midtown: The community ministry operates a number of programs including an evening shelter, soup kitchen, food pantry, and legal clinic. The services are offered in collaboration with the Coalition for the Homeless, Association for the Bar of NYC, and the Community Food Resource Center. The soup kitchen served over 20,000 meals last year.

Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen: $8,300
Church of the Holy Apostles, Chelsea: HASK is the largest soup kitchen in the city and supported by individuals, foundations, and corporations. They started feeding 349 people a day in 1982 and are now serving about 1,400 meals daily. The program operates with the help of 16 staff persons and over 500 volunteers.

Michael Fender Food Pantry: $2,000.
Church of the Ascension, West Village: Founded in 1982, this Emergency Food Pantry combines the efforts of parish and local high school student volunteers in providing food to walk-ins on Tuesday and Saturday mornings, On Monday and Friday’s they fill referral orders for families in need – serving 7,000 annually.

*Rachel’s Room, Holy Trinity Neighborhood Center: $7,500.
The Church of the Holy Trinity: Rachel’s Room, named after the struggling biblical matriarch, was created in 2000 in response to the need for computer training and job training for unemployed and underemployed women in the City of New York. These funds will be used to pay for childcare in the after school program.

St. Clement’s Food Pantry: $5,000.
St. Clement’s, Hell’s Kitchen: This program provides a food pantry to meet the needs of the growing Hispanic population in this midtown Manhattan community. Last year they provided food to over 200 people each week.

St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry: $7,500.
St. Mary’s Church, Manhattanville: Since 1983, St. Mary’s has been providing a feeding program for thousands of residents in West Harlem. The program operates every Monday evening and provides referral services two mornings a week.

St. Peter’s Food Pantry: $6,000.
St. Peter’s Church, Chelsea: The food pantry at St. Peter’s has been in operation since 1981 and gives away over 100 bags of groceries per week, feeding over 10,000 individuals annually. St. Peter’s is planning to increase their storage area to meet increased demand.

WEME/Mainstream Nutrition and Health Center: $7,000.
St. Matthew/St. Timothy Neighborhood Center: WEME is a combination of three programs serving 840 homebound elderly, many over the age of 80. These services include home visitation, meal delivery, transportation, and a food pantry. WEME has also successfully integrated the use of teen volunteers as visitors to the elderly to bridge the gap between the two generations.

Episcopal Feeding Ministry: $11,500.
All Saint’s Episcopal Church: Collaborating with 30 local social service agencies this program distributes over 195,000 meals annually and is open seven days a week. The program operates with one part-time director and over 100 volunteers.

Brown Bag Lunch Program: $5,000.
Trinity-St. Paul’s New Rochelle: This volunteer program provides bag lunches four days a week to homeless persons, serving 16,000 lunches in 2002.

Fessenden Recovery House: $15,000.
St. John’s Getty Square, Yonkers: Fessenden House is a residential facility for men in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse. The grant will be used to pay two live-in staff. The house accommodates 9 residents, serving 15 clients annually.

Grace Church Soup Kitchen: $10,000.
Grace Church White Plains: This soup kitchen feeds over 20,000 people annually and distributes clothing as well. The requested funds will be used to purchase food and to support the part-time salaries of a cook and a warehouse staff person.

Hispanic Job Skills Program: $10,000.
St. Peter’s Church Port Chester: Four evenings a week the program offers over 100 clients vocational English as a second language, a computer literacy program, and a social services drop-in center for persons in need of food, clothing, job referrals, translations services, and assistance with housing and immigration problems.

*Project Empowerment: $6,000.
San Andres Church, Yonkers: The program wishes to address a variety of needs within the Hispanic community in Southwest Yonkers and the surrounding community, including: English as a Second Language classes, immigration counseling and advocacy, vocational and personal development. The grant will be used to fund, in part, the cost of the Paralegal, Social Worker, and Hospitality Coordinator.

St. Peter’s Lunchtime Feeding Programs: $8,000.
St. Peter’s Community Outreach Center, Peekskill: The program was started in 1989. The program exists to provide one nutritious hot meal each weekday to long-time residents of the city who are unable to earn enough money to pay rent and other expenses and still maintain a proper level of nutrition for themselves and their families. A nutritious hot meal is provided every weekday, year-round. Last year 3,500 clients were served.

San Andres Food Pantry: $17,000.
San Andres Church, Yonkers: The pantry opened in 1996 and now provides groceries to 2,500 families. It is the only pantry in this impoverished Yonkers community and its staff continues to increase their outreach efforts to single mothers and children.

*The Sharing Community Family Strengthening Initiative: $15,000.
St. John’s Getty Square, Yonkers: The Initiative provides shelter, housing, food, HIV/AIDS related and other support services to very low income Hispanics and African-Americans, particularly the homeless, substance abusers and people with HIV/AIDS. They propose to continue replicating a nationally validated program, the Strengthening Families Program. No other agency is currently providing this program in Yonkers. The funds requested will be used to cover the cost of salary and fringe benefits for their part-time bilingual
Family Advocate/Educator plus a portion of their operating costs.

Trinity Place Community Center-Food Bank: $9,000.
Trinity Church, Mt. Vernon: The community center houses many community programs including computer training, an after school program, the Open Cage Theatre for youth, and a mobile mammogram clinic. These funds will help purchase and store food for the emergency food pantry and for a new program assistant.

CONOCER (formerly Mid-Hudson Latino Ministry): $9,000.
Christ Church Poughkeepsie: This program offers ESL courses, assistance with legal and immigration services -- operating in Duchess, Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties and serving 300 Hispanic and Latino immigrants.

Grace Church Soup Kitchen: $8,000.
Grace Church Middletown, Guild of St. Margaret: This program has operated 365 days a year for the last 21 years with the help of over 165 volunteers and it serves over 40,000 meals a year.

R.E.N.T. Program: $5,000.
Grace Church Middletown, Guild of St. Margaret: This program provides emergency financial assistance to families in danger of being evicted from their homes.

The Roundout Valley Food Pantry: $3,000.
Christ Church, Stone Ridge: This ecumenical pantry was founded in 1990 and offers food to clients 24 hours a day on emergency referral and is open for general distribution to 600 clients bi-weekly. Staffed by 14 volunteers this pantry also delivers meals to the homebound and clients without transportation.

St. Simon’s Sitdown: $4,500.
Holy Cross, Kingston: This is the only soup kitchen open in Kingston on the weekends. They serve 150 guests every Saturday and Sunday and over 200 people during the holidays. A caseworker with child development expertise is on site.