为了应对印第安纳波利斯贫困的恐慌率,这仍远远超过国家平均数,CTS Faith & Action Project 2015年推出,以点燃一个合作,跨越和包容性运动在印第安纳波利斯社区的福祉和正义。今年,该项目庆祝五年的影响力和变革作品,因为它展望未来。
Over the past five years, Faith & Action Project Director Lindsey Nell Rabinowoch. 据说,学习的重要课程是“贫困的解决方案需要多个部门,整体和协作方法。”她解释说:“面临贫困的个人有许多障碍,只能通过支持和获得经济适用和安全的住房,可靠,价格实惠的营养,可宜居工资,经济实惠的医疗保健和素质教育的网络。
The Faith & Action Project is designed around an annual grant cycle and two annual public events. Through its grant program, the Project seeks to support and accelerate the most effective local poverty-fighting organizations and initiatives. While poverty relief efforts are critically important to meet the immediate needs of so many in our communities, the Faith & Action Project seeks to lift up those who are implementing solutions that help move individuals and families out of poverty entirely.
五年来,该项目分发了超过 400,000美元 在补助金作为本年度计划的一部分。可以找到过去收件人的列表 这里。这些拨款支持广泛的努力,包括实惠的建设 高级和世代的设施,一个多管的计划 经济适用房和经济机会和职业培训和贸易学徒。了解更多关于最近的授予收件人:
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Faith & Action Project also recently provided 75,000美元 在紧急救济范围内,允许贫困减缓工作包括心理健康服务和家庭稳定措施的七个组织。阅读更多关于这些独特的拨款及其收件人的更多信息 这里.
Alongside its grant program, the Faith & Action Project hosts more than 2,000 community members at its annual events each fall and spring. Through these events, the Project works to elevate the conversation about poverty in Central Indiana so that it gains and holds a consistent spot on the radar of policy makers, elected officials,和 community leaders。该se events also serve to raise awareness about the root causes of generational poverty and force our community to take a harder look at the impact that structural and institutional racism has on it.
过去的秋季活动有许多鼓舞人心的和着名的公众人物,包括大卫布鲁克斯和Tavis笑脸,作者 米歇尔亚历山大和评论员 范琼斯。该 2020年秋季活动 9月30日举行,特色屡获殊荣的QT电子游戏工作者和纪录片索拉德·奥布莱恩,与当地社区领导人进行谈话,讨论印度印第安纳州中央反贫困努力和必须克服的障碍,以便在我们城市陷入贫困的自由人民。
The 2021 Faith & Action Fall Event will take place in Butler University’s Clowes Memorial Hall on October 5, 2021,和 will feature 布莱恩史蒂文森,作者 只是怜悯 和同等义务倡议的创始人和执行董事。
The Faith & Action Project hosts a spring conference each year continuing with themes from the fall events but goes deeper by providing evidence-based models and empirical data,和 by highlighting efforts that have shown impact in moving families to stability and a pathway out of poverty. Spring conferences have featured nationally recognized scholars and practitioners such as Robert Lupton,作者 有毒慈善机构,和 父亲格雷格·博伊尔,耶稣会牧师和家庭工业的创始人,世界上最大的团伙干预,康复和重新入境课程。
The 2021 Faith & Action Spring Conference will feature a conversation with economic-mobility innovator Nisha Patel.,谁与国家和社区组织合作,产生大想法并将其移到行动中。本次会议将通过与寻求扶贫更有效地从事信仰社区的地区神职人员的促进谈话来增强。注册信息即将推出。
Looking ahead, Rabinowitch said, “the Faith & Action Project will continue to inspire and empower our community to shift its focus to poverty mitigation and adopt evidenced based approaches that have shown to be effective in removing barriers and providing a pathway to economic mobility.”
CTS’s Faith & Action Project has been made possible by the generosity of the Mike and Sue Smith Family Fund,和 with support by the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF) and Lumina Foundation.
Learn more about CTS’s Faith & Action Project 这里.
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