2023 Grants

To expand information and referral services to food pantry clients and implement best practices with volunteer and staff training.

To offer two LINK internships to serve as mentors for youth in the LIFT program and learn specific skills to enable them to take steps toward a career.

To positively impact the lives of hurting people by encouraging and supporting Christian volunteerism and social service outreach in congregations and the community.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To connect with the neighborhood by engaging with neighbors in the local coffee shops and brewery on a weekly basis.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To provide matching funds to support the use of sensory equipment for 75 students served by the Early Childhood Center.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To help meet critical needs in the community and serve as a catalyst for relationship development and community listening - Community Relief Grant.

To improve access and utilization of healthcare services for more than 1,200 newly arrived immigrants through the employment of one FTE Community Health Worker (CHW) to help connect them to Affinia's medical, dental, behavioral health and other providers.

To offer healthcare navigation, patient advocacy, and case management through the Guides for Understanding, Information and Access program.

To offer tutoring and support to New American children and enable up to 29 children to attend an area Lutheran elementary or high school through the provision of scholarships.

To reduce barriers to accessing healthcare by providing workplace health screenings to 150 foreign-born individuals.

To improve the language proficiency, life skills, and self-sufficiency of 450 foreign-born individuals by providing in-home English language education and life skills training.

To improve the mental health of 170 foreign-born individuals by offering evidence-based mental health services such as, group therapy, individual therapy, case coordination, and targeted referrals.

To increase crisis legal services capacity to better respond to the everchanging legal environment and client needs.

To strengthen the collaboration and coordination of the Immigrant Service Provider Network (ISPN) by curating resources, hosting educational programs, convening providers, and supporting shared initiatives.

To support IFLCA operations to convene an inter-faith community to accompany the people of Latin America in their work for human rights and social justice.

To provide intensive wraparound support to newly-arrived refugees through family partnering services with 150 volunteers.

To provide comprehensive mentoring services and intensive wraparound support to 300 youth who have at least one incarcerated parent.

To support housing, case management, and wraparound services for 65 formerly incarcerated individuals participating in the Release-to-Rent reentry housing program.

To develop an Arts and Faith Mentorship Program to deepen the connection between Intersect and congregants at Holy Cross Lutheran Church.

To more effectively serve area Lutheran school students by offering continuous educational improvement programs and resources through curriculum development, administrator and teacher professional development, marketing and student services.

To commemorate and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the LFCS Dinner and Auction.

To enable 15 grandparents to participate in the Relatives Acting As Parents Program by providing long term support with ongoing case management, financial assistance, support groups, and wellness programming.

To create a welcoming and stigma-free social setting using the Living Room model, a community crisis respite program for 30 older adults with mental illness.

To provide 550 older adults living with serious mental illness with comprehensive services including, psychosocial rehabilitation, healthcare home/wellness program, community support, and occupational therapy through the Young at Heart program.

To provide 74 older adults with Aging Answers' care management services and access to chaplaincy services, to expand spiritual care to 110 older adults in affordable housing communities, and to conduct 20 focus groups to develop spiritual care plans for each affordable housing community.

To support 400 families with a loved one with Alzheimer’s and Dementia by providing in-home assessments, case management, and occupational therapy to improve safety and quality of life.

To ensure older adults are able to remain safe and healthy at home by providing weatherization, education, and equipment.

To provide annual support for 2023.