Posts Tagged ‘The Night Ministry’
FBB members show strong support for our first Compassionate Impact Grant
Foundation Beyond Belief members continued their strong support of our featured beneficiaries and FBB itself during the last quarter of 2014. During that quarter, we introduced a new program, the Compassionate Impact Grant. We featured one organization, the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, as our sole featured beneficiary in order to provide a capacity-building grant that…
Read MoreCrib Staffer speaks in DC at 40th Anniversary of Runaway and Homeless Youth Act
Our Challenge the Gap program was created to find and support progressive, non-proselytizing religious charities whose work reflects shared values with the humanist community. The Night Ministry was our Challenge the Gap Q3 2014 beneficiary and received a grant of $10,260. On October 22, the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Family & Youth…
Read MoreDeserving organizations benefit from strong Q3 2014 giving results
The grants we provide to our featured beneficiaries each quarter are funded by our monthly giving members. Each quarter we see a steady increase in total member giving, and therefore an increase in the support we can give to our beneficiaries. This quarter, our Natural World beneficiary was Rainforest Foundation US. Their techniques are to…
Read MoreClosing the Book on Our 3rd Quarter Beneficiaries
As the 3rd quarter of 2014 comes to a close, we'd like to take a look back at the many ways that our beneficiaries this quarter put your contributions to good use in putting humanism into action. Poverty and Health: Sustaining Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL). SOIL is doing important work in Haiti building ecological sanitation…
Read MoreBeyond Belief Network Guides: Fight Homelessness with The Night Minist
The Night Ministry is Foundation Beyond Belief’s 2014 Q3 Challenge the Gap beneficiary for the Humanist Giving program. As with all FBB beneficiaries, Challenge the Gap candidates are chosen based on compatibility with the FBB mission, program effectiveness, financial responsibility, and an innovative approach to solving a problem. The Night Ministry is a Chicago-based organization…
Read MoreVolunteers at work
Last weekend at our Humanism at Work conference, attendees were invited to participate in two service projects: donating, sorting, and labeling books for Bernie's Book Bank (our Q2 2013 Education beneficiary), and assembling hygiene kits from donated travel-size toiletries for The Night Ministry (our current Challenge the Gap beneficiary). Our attendee-volunteers came through in spades…
Read MoreThe Night Ministry: An inside perspective
In order for The Night Ministry, our third-quarter Challenge the Gap beneficiary, to provide housing, health care and support to Chicago community members struggling with poverty and homelessness, they require a dedicated team of staff and volunteers. Two members of this team are Cammeo Medici and Ellen Rosenwinkel. Both started with The Night Ministry on…
Read MoreThe Night Ministry tackles poverty and homelessness in Chicago
The Night Ministry, our third-quarter Challenge the Gap beneficiary, provides housing, health care and support to Chicago community members struggling with poverty and homelessness. The Night Ministry was founded in 1976 by a diverse group of congregations and synagogues. Thirty-eight years later, it has grown into a large, secular organization with multiple programs designed to…
Read MoreMeet our third-quarter beneficiaries
It’s time for a new quarter and a new slate of featured beneficiaries! Get to know our new charities for the third quarter of 2014: Human Rights: Footsteps Footsteps is a New York-based organization that helps people from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community leave this insular way of life. Most leave with a limited knowledge…
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