Community Impact: 9 Ministries
- Free, After School Enrichment Program for At-Risk elementary aged students
- Students in grades 1 -5 who are below grade level in reading and math
- Students who are economically disadvantaged
- Food Pantry – Over 235,000 meals given out in 2020; Childhood Hunger Food Assistance Program impacting 7315 families : Sponsor of 2 high school food pantries, a middle school pantry and Wake Technical Community College
- Camp Good Hope Summer Camp – affordable, Christian summer day camp with safe, structured, educational activities ~ 85 children for 8 weeks in 2020
- Crisis Assistance – financial assistance for utilities, rent, mortgage
- Carpenter’s Hands – home repairs for the elderly, widowed and physically challenged
- Jobs for Life – 16-week Biblically based job readiness program aimed at teaching the unemployed and the underemployed the necessary skill sets to acquire and keep a job
- Financial Literacy Class – 6 week class offering management strategies for balancing a budget with limited income
- Garden of Hope – Vegetable garden growing fresh vegetables for the food insecure
- Track- Out Camp – for Track 4 Students in the greater Garner area
Community of Hope Staff
- Amy White – Executive Director
- Nick Spindler – Director of Operations: All Student Programming and the Food Pantry
- Kim Wallace – Lead Program Coordinator
- Hourly employees – After School and Camp
- After School – 5 teachers and 3 bus drivers
- Camp – 15 part time camp counselors on rotating schedule and 2 bus drivers
- Over 80 regular volunteers
2020 Operating Budget
$321,377.00 operating expenses
+$848,706.62 in “in-kind” donations
$1,170,083.62 total operating
Funding Sources
- Corporate partnerships and in-kind donations
- Government/Corporate Grants- 35%
- Private Donations – 45 %
- Fundraising – 20 %
Tax Identification Status
501(c)(3) Charitable Organization licensed in 2004
