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/or math
- Students who are economically disadvantaged
- Food Pantry
- Over 176,000 meals given out annually
- 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 2019
- Crisis Assistance
- Financial assistance for utilities, rent, mortgage
- Carpenter’s Hands
- Home repairs and yard maintenance for the elderly, widowed and physically challenged
- New Partnership with Baptist Men’s Disaster Relief Ministry
- 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
- Camp Good Hope 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
- Hourly employees – After School and Camp
- After School – 8 teachers and 3 bus drivers
- Camp – 14 part time camp counselors on rotating schedule and 3 bus drivers
- Over 80 regular volunteers
2018 Operating Budget
$326,366.00 operating expenses
+$625,000.00 in “in-kind” donations
$941,366.00 total operating
Funding Sources
- Corporate partnerships and in-kind donations
- Government/Corporate Grants- 30%
- Private Donations – 45 %
- Fundraising – 25 %
Tax Identification Status
501(c)(3) Charitable Organization licensed in 2004
