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IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR GRANTSEEKERS February 17, 2004Requests for funding are no longer being accepted.As a result of an extensive planning and restructuring process, the Greenville Foundation has ended its grantmaking operations. The Greenville office in Sonoma, Ca., managed by Virginia Hubbell Associates, closed permanently on December 31st, 2003. This website (www.greenville-foundation.org) will remain active for an indefinite period of time. Greenville profusely thanks all of the organizations that have applied for funding during the last 55 years. It has been a rewarding process of learning, involvement, and support. Many of the organizations that we funded have websites, listed on these pages: Education, Environment, Human & Social Issues, International, Religion, Other. Visit them and learn about their work. |
Within the area of Religion, the Foundation attempts to increase the relevance and effectiveness of organized Christian ministry by providing meaningful opportunities to influence and support values, morality and compassionate service. The emphasis is on preparation for, or participation in, creative and/or non-traditional pastoral or lay ministries relative to contemporary societal needs in our increasingly complex and changing communities.
To achieve its goals, the Foundation supports Christian-based programs that demonstrate clearly articulated spiritual goals for their project. Those receiving funding may involve pilot programs, conferences, ecumenical cooperation or other approaches that successfully meet one or more of the following:
Arizona Ecumenical
Council, Phoenix, AZ -- $13,000
To support a conference for Western state ecumenical councils to be held in
Spring 2004 on understanding white power and their methods to attract youth.
Center for New
Community, Chicago, IL -- $15,000
To support a project that works with the nation's religious and progressive
community to provide information, training, and organizing assistance aimed
at countering the growing anti-immigrant movement.
Ecumenical Ministries
of Oregon, Portland, OR
-- $15,000
To support "Bridging the Divide: The Role of Faith Communities in Environmental
Conflict," a project to engage communities of faith in theological reflection
and community dialogue to constructively address environmental conflict and
clarify their role.
Interfaith
Alliance of Idaho, Boise, ID -- $19,480
To support Faith Communities Building Our Future: Finding Common Group, a statewide
project in Idaho which will bring together clergy, lay people and youth to
begin to find common ground for working together on social justice issues
and study the effect of fundamentalism upon mainstream faith groups and society.
Working Group, Oakland, CA -- $22,000
To support "The Kalispell Story," a PBS film and media-based anti-hate
community action campaign that examines the dangerous divisions in Northwest
Montana over environment, education and intolerance issues and will be used
throughout the country to explore community based solutions to hate and violence.
Hollywood-Wilshire Cluster of Presbyterian Ministries,
Los Angeles, CA - $5,000
To support "Youth Empowerment," a program to enhance the capacity
of leadership to engage in collaborative cross-cultural ministry and culturally
appropriate youth development.
Marin Interfaith Youth
Outreach, San Rafael, CA - $20,000
To support the QUEST Program, a project that creates understanding among youth
of diverse faiths and mutual cultures in Marin County.
Montana Association
of Churches, Billings, MT - $15,000
To support Renewing the Public Church, an outreach program for churches and
judicatories of Montana in outreach to rural communities experiencing severe
economic decline and dislocation.
United Religions Initiative, San Francisco, CA - $17,000
To support the development of "Interfaith Peacebuilding Training Curriculum," an
educational skill-building curriculum delivering methodologies for peacebuilding
and conflict resolution between people of diverse ethnic, cultural and religious
backgrounds to a global network of grassroots interfaith groups and global
interfaith organizations.
Church
of Mary Magdalene, Seattle WA - $15,000
To support the Mary's Place Center serving homeless women and children.
Faithful Fools
Street Ministry, San Francisco CA - $13,200
To support and expand "Daily Accompaniment," a ministry of presence
on the streets of San Francisco that addresses the problems of homelessness
and poverty.
Idaho Voices of Faith for Human Rights, Inc., Boise
ID - $8,000
To support a joint community organizing project between Idaho Voices of Faith
for Human Rights and The Interfaith Alliance of Idaho to help 13 faith community
groups to look at undoing oppression, dismantling racism, classism, sexism,
hetersexism and other discriminatory behavior and biases.
Jubilee Consortium, Los Angeles, CA - $5,000
To support "Urban Summer," an 8-week summer internship program
for 6-9 undergraduate college students interested in working in outreach ministries
at parishes in low-income, inner city communities of Los Angeles, CA.
Pace e Bene Franciscan Nonviolence Center, Oakland,
CA - $15,000
To support the expansion of "Transformative Nonviolence in the Mainline
Denominations: From Violence to Wholeness," a program that provides spirituality
and nonviolence training for leaders and members of Christian congregations
in northern California and across the country.
Salt Lake Theological
Seminary, Salt Lake City, UT - $10,000
To support "Strategic Campus Ministry," a campus outreach ministry
program for the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City.
San
Francisco Network Ministries, San Francisco, CA - $24,800
To support several different ministry programs that serve extremely poor urban
residents in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco.
United Methodist Presbyterian Campus Ministry at
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT - $10,000
To support a peer ministry program that involves Montana State University students
in personal, campus, community, church and societal transformation.
Washington
Association of Churches, Seattle WA - $50,000
To support Phase III of "When Religions Teach Hate," an ecumenical/interfaith
gathering to strengthen the inter-religious and ecumenical response to anti-Arab,
anti-Semitic, and other racist hate activities in the aftermath of the September
11 terrorist attacks.
Youth and Young Adult Ministries FA Protestant Episcopal
Church Diocese of California San Francisco CA - $10,000
To support "Youth Ministry Academy," a young people's faith formation
and citizenship enhancement program that places full-time, trained adult youth
ministers into San Francisco congregations.
Bridge Ministries,
Kirkland, WA - $10,000
To support the Chaplain Ministry's work toward full participation of persons
with disabilities into the life of the church and into society.
Center
for New Community, Chicago, IL - $15,000
To support the Building Democracy Initiative, a project that educates religious
leaders about theologically motivated hate groups and effective counter responses
to hate group activity.
Cook College & Theological School, Inc., Tempe,
AZ - $10,000
To support the education and credentialing of five Native American lay leaders
to become lay pastors in any of six mainline denominations where these denominations
no longer have a presence.
The Community Churches of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT -
$17,500
To support Ecumenical Vision and Interfaith Cooperation, a project that develops
and strengthens ecumenical vision and interfaith cooperation throughout the
state of Utah.
Friends Committee on
National Legislation Education Fund, Washington, DC - $10,000
To support an outreach program for activists of faith in Northern California
and Pacific Northwest who minister to members of Congress and their staff on
peace and justice issues.
Marin Interfaith Youth Outreach, San Rafael, CA - $15,000
To support Quest: Education, Diversity and Spirituality, a program that provides
conflict resolution, diversity training and interfaith/cross cultural events
for youth in Marin County, CA.
Montana Association
of Churches, Billings, MT - $17,500
To support Renewing the Public Church, a statewide program that seeks to enlist
and equip congregations and individuals as advocates for and partners with people
in poverty.
National Council of
the Churches of Christ in the United States, New York, NY - $14,000
To support a program that develops leadership to build healthy communities amid
religious diversity through intensive experimental consultations in five locations
in the U.S., in partnership with local ecumenical organizations.
New Mexico Conference
of Churches, Albuquerque, NM - $25,000
To support a part-time coordinator for "Standing Together as Communities
for Human Dignity and Respect" a statewide network of faith and secular
communities focused on responding to acts of intolerance and intimidation by
organizing direct support for those who have been targeted.
St. Justin Education Fund for Los Angeles, Inc., In
Touch Leadership Project, Los Angeles, CA - $10,000
To support the acquisition of high impact development and public relations tools
needed to attract volunteers and donors to our unique vocational education and
Christian leadership training program.
Seattle
University, Seattle, WA - $25,000
To support the School of Theology & Ministry Liturgical Institute's Summer
Pilot Program, for the study and teaching of ecumenical liturgy and its practice
in public religious services.
Zuni Avenue Bike
Club / Zuni Peace Center of Shalom Mennonite Fellowship, Tucson, AZ - $11,500
To support the Zuni Avenue Bike Club a project that provides a place for latch
key and at-risk youth to connect with adults in the Corbett neighborhood of
Tucson, AZ.
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Arizona Ecumenical Council, Phoenix, AZ - $10,000
"Uniting Congregations and Communities for Youth Development," an
initiative to equip congregations and communities in Arizona to build essential
developmental assets in youth.
Bethany
Community Church, Tempe, AZ - $10,000
For the "You're Not Alone" Conference for pastors and missionaries
whose kids use drugs.
Center for Strategic
and International Studies, Inc., Washington, D. C. - $15,000
To support a training program to assist religious people in Zagreb, Croatia
to develop civil society initiatives related to justice and reconciliation.
Church
Council of Greater Seattle, Seattle, Washington, $15,000
To support the Youth Chaplaincy Program in expanding its pastoral care ministry
within the King County Juvenile Detention Center by creating collaborative
partnerships with organizations serving incarcerated youth to include a specific
spiritual formation component and make the Youth Chaplaincy Program an integral
part of all service to youth in the Juvenile Detention Center.
Cornell University - Religious Studies Program, Ithaca,
NY - $13,250
To support the attendance of youth leaders and clergy at a conference on hate
movement violence at Cornell University in November of 2000.
Disciples Seminary Foundation,
Claremont, CA - $15,000
To establish a Certificate of Ministry Studies Program in Southern California
for lay pastors and lay leaders of racial ethnic faith communities without
formal theological training.
Donaldina Cameron
House, San Francisco, CA - $15,000
To support the Youth Leadership Training program that offers Christian Leadership
development for Asian youth, teens, and young adults.
Faithful Fools
Street Ministry, San Francisco, CA - $8,000
In support of a project to conduct ten street retreats in the year 2000 in
the Tenderloin District of San Francisco.
Interfaith
Center, New York, NY - $15,000
To support Millenium World Peace summit of Religious Spiritual Leaders at
the United Nations.
Neighborhood
Ministries, Inc, Phoenix, AZ - $15,000
Salary support for the first Development position within Neighborhood Ministries'
holistic ministry to poor and distressed families in the inner city of Phoenix,
AZ.
Pace e Bene Nonviolence Center FA, Franciscan Friars
Province of St. Barbara, Berkeley, CA $16,750
To support From Violence to Wholeness Leadership Development Program,
a culturally diverse advanced training team of clergy and laity that trains
other adult and youth trainers, promoters and facilitators in the spirituality
and practice of active nonviolence.
Samaritan Counseling Center of So. Oregon, Medford,
OR - $10,000
Partners for Health, a southern Oregon project of doctors and behavioral health
care providers who will work together to develop a system of healthcare that
takes into account a person's spiritual health as well as their physical and
emotional well being.
Washington
Association of Churches DBA Montana
Association of Churches, Seattle, WA - $50,000
Second part of a two-part 13-state collaborative initiative to combat the
misuse of Scripture that leads to intolerance, extremism, and abuse of human
rights, and to help equip and empower local churches as voices of faith to
counter theologies of bigotry.
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Center for the Prevention
of Sexual and Domestic Violence, Seattle, WA - $20,000
To support an educational video aimed at preventing teen dating violence.
Church
Council of Greater Seattle, Seattle, WA - $15,000
To support "Youth Chaplaincy Program" in developing a new church-based
program that offers mentoring, educational opportunities and job skills training
to youth transitioning from the King County Youth Detention Center back to
their home neighborhood in one of three areas of King County, Washington.
City
Impact, Oxnard, CA - $10,000
To support "Changing Odds Through Education and Evangelism,"
an effort to train Latino, African American and lay leaders in urban ministry
and theological education in Ventura, Santa Barbara and West Los Angeles.
Donaldina Cameron
House, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To support the Youth Leadership Program which provides faith-based leadership
development for Asian youth and teens in San Francisco.
Earth Ministry,
Seattle, WA - $15,000
To support "Simpler Living Compassionate Life Project," which
provides training for pastors, priests, and lay leaders on issues of lifestyle
change, eco-justice, and compassionate living.
Hispanic Ministry
Center, Santa Ana, CA - $10,000
To support "Kidworks," a youth and neighborhood development program
operating in three community centers in Santa Ana and Garden Grove neighborhood
churches.
Marin
Interfaith Homeless Chaplaincy, San Rafael, CA - $12,000
To support "Two-Way Street," an effort to increase understanding
between homeless people and congregations in Marin County that encourages
faith communities to assist the homeless.
Montana
Association of Churches, Billings, MT - $25,000
To support a 13-state initiative to combat the misuse of Scripture that
leads to intolerance, extremism, and abuse of human rights, and, to help equip
and empower local churches as voices of faith to counter theologies of bigotry.
Northwest Coalition
Against Malicious Harassment, Seattle, WA - $30,000
To support a new program serving 34 community-based human rights tasks
forces in Idaho and Washington, providing hands-on assistance in community
organizing, public awareness education, and monitoring of hate group activity.
St. Justin Education Fund for Los Angeles, Inc. DBA
In Touch Leadership Project, Claremont, CA -
To expand "In Touch," a church-based urban leadership training
program serving young adult mentors and their students.
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Arizona Ecumenical
Council, Phoenix, AZ - $10,000
To support "Uniting Congregations and Communities for Youth Development
Program," a program designed to equip Christian congregations and communities
throughout the State of Arizona to build developmental assets in youth.
Bread for the World
Institute, Washington, DC - $6,700
To support the convening of seminary deans, faculty, and students from
throughout the world, to plan a new systematic anti-hunger advocacy outreach
program for seminarians and pastoral ministers.
Center for the Prevention
of Sexual and Domestic Violence, Seattle, WA - $15,000
To develop an educational video for teenagers world- wide that is aimed
at preventing teen date violence.
Center for Urban Ministry, San Diego, $5,000
Seed funding for a new pastoral multicultural program which will serve
the poor in San Diego County.
Montana
Association of Churches, Billings, MT - $15,000
Continuing support for "Christian Witness for Humanity," a program
addressing human rights issues and confronting extremism by organizing within
mainline Christian denominations.
National Public Radio, Washington, DC - $10,400
Continuing support for the Religion Unit which is dedicated to reporting
on religion in American society and societies around the world.
New City Parish, Inc., Los Angeles, CA - $13,900
To support the expansion of an Inner-Youth Education Initiative which provides
academic tutoring, instruction in computer literacy, and role model character-building
in a church-based environment, for youth from low-income and poor families in
Los Angeles and Inglewood, California.
Seattle University, Seattle, WA - $10,000
Toward the purchase of library resources and theological studies materials
to meet the needs of the non-Catholic student population in the newly established
Institute for Ecumenical Theological Studies.
Union
Gospel Mission, Seattle, WA - $10,000
To support the Expansion Initiative at the Youth Reach Out Center, an educational
and counseling support program which provides services for at-risk youth in
south Seattle.
Zuni Christian Reformed Church, Zuni, NM - $15,000
Toward continuing support of "Upward Vision," a youth ministry
program serving youth 10-18 years of age who live on the Zuni Indian Reservation.
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Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa, Santa
Rosa, CA - $15,000
To support "Communities of Salt and Light," a program of parish
social justice education and organizing in Sonoma County and the six-county
region of The Roman Catholic diocese of Santa Rosa.
City Impact, Oxnard, CA - $14,500
To support "Changing the Odds Through Education and Evangelism,"
an intensive effort to train indigenous Latino and African American Pastors
and lay leaders for urban ministry in high risk neighborhoods in Ventura, Santa
Barbara, and West Los Angeles counties.
Earth Ministry, Seattle, WA - $15,000
Toward an outreach program that helps both church-members and the non-
churched to explore Christian values relating to creation, to work to shape
their own lives to be more congruent with their values, and to understand the
larger societal impacts of daily lifestyle choices.
Marin Interfaith Homeless Chaplaincy, San Rafael, CA-
$10,000
To support "Chaplaincy Enrichment Project," which provides training
for homeless Chaplain's Assistants, and enhanced opportunities for training
of and involvement by volunteers committed to bringing a spiritual presence
to and/or developing relationships with Marin County's homeless residents.
Multifaith AIDS Projects (MAPS), Seattle, WA - $10,000
Toward hiring a fund development officer to diversify and increase the
funding base of MAPS in Seattle, Washington.
National Public Radio, Washington, DC - $7,000
Toward staff salary support of NPR's Religion Unit which is heard by
over nine million listeners weekly on 500 non commercial radio stations.
Presbyterian Church of the Roses, Santa Rosa, CA - $7,500
For "That All May Worship - Remodeling Our Hearts and Minds,"
a one-day interfaith conference for clergy and persons with disabilities designed
to move congregations from concern only for accessing physical space to true
spiritual embrace and the creation of welcoming houses of worship for all people.
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Cal Aggie Christian Association, Davis, CA - $7,500
Toward a project in which university students provide outreach and support
to at-risk teens for the purpose of encouraging the development of personal
morals and values in youth.
California Council of Churches FA Northern California
Ecumenical Council, Sacramento, CA - $15,000
Toward a 5-year initiative that will educate the state's religious community
on the root causes of violence and develop models of congregation-based violence
prevention work with at-risk youth.
Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence,
Seattle, WA - $11,950
Toward the costs involved with the production and distribution of a video
addressing the religious issues that arise for victims of domestic violence.
City of Refuge United Church of Christ FA Ark of Refuge,
San Francisco, CA - $7,000
Toward Hands on Heart Ministry, a San Francisco Tenderloin outreach ministry
program involving community worship, peer counseling, education and life skills
training that serves youth, substance abusers, indigent/homeless and low-no
income needy persons.
Landberg Center for Health and Ministry, San Francisco,
CA - $7,250
Toward a project that will foster value based dialogue and integration
of morals among 7th and 8th grade urban youth.
Montana Association of Churches, Billings, MT - $12,000
Toward developing, in Montana and the Western United States, congregational
and community programming on the topics of extremism and Christian Identity
theology, with the goal of building "hate-proof" communities.
Neighborhood Ministries, Phoenix, AZ - $10,000
Toward costs of hiring a Hispanic youth leader to provide pastoral care,
mentoring, and leadership development to urban, low-income ethnic 7th-12th graders
in Phoenix.
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Church of Mary Magdalene, Bellevue, WA - $11,000
Support toward an ecumenical, spiritual and therapeutic program for women
who are homeless, drug or alcohol-addicted, and suffering from mental illness.
Hispanic Association of Bilingual Bicultural Ministries,
Pasadena, CA - $10,000
Funding in support of "Hispanic Youth Challenge," a national youth
leadership training program that aims to promote the spiritual and educational
advancement of second- and third-generation Hispanic youth who are born and
raised in this country and who speak English as their primary language.
Immaculate Heart College Center, Los Angeles, CA - $10,000
Funding to expand the "Women Doing Faith-Based Social Analysis"
program, which brings together women from diverse cultural, educational and
economic backgrounds and denominations for a one- week program that provides
cross-cultural training in the method of faith-based social analysis.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Dana Point, CA -
$5,000
Continuing support for the "Los Angeles Urban Project" in which
college interns live and work in communities in poverty, developing leadership
experience and applying their personal Christian faith within the context
of these communities.
National Public Radio, Washington, DC - $12,000
Support of NPR's Religion Unit to enable expanded coverage of religion and
a systematic change in the way the media cover religion and faith, and to
raise awareness of the importance of religion in American life.
Zuni Christian Reformed Church, Zuni, NM - $10,000
Funding toward "Upward Vision," a community youth ministry project
aimed at impacting the social, behavioral and spiritual needs of youth, ages
11-17, who live on the Zuni Reservation.
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Bayshore Christian Ministries, East Palo Alto, CA -
$10,000
Funding for "Teenworks `94-`95," an after-school academic enrichment
and spiritual guidance program serving at-risk junior-high students in the
East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park communities.
Central California Ministries, Madera, CA - $12,500
Support for "Operation: Project Serve," an interdenominational Christian
youth service project that provides Christian outreach focused on community
service, leadership development and spiritual support for youth of the central
California Valley.
Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA -
$15,000
Continued funding toward a hospital chaplaincy program and for coordination
of chaplain services that are provided to poor residents being treated in
a large county hospital located in Watts.
The Way Out Ministries, Inc., Hawaiian Gardens, CA -
$14,500
Support for salaries for two seminary interns to do counseling with inner-city
youth.
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