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June 27, 2011 | Program Result
The Center for New Community conducted a grassroots effort to address health and related problems of immigrants working in meatpacking and poultry-processing plants in 12 rural communities in Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota.
December 1, 2005 | Program Result
A faith-based organization in Charlotte, N.C. recruited and trained members of congregations to help HIV/AIDS patients living in African-American and rural white communities in a 13-county area of the Carolinas.
April 1, 2007 | Program Result
From 2001 to 2004, staff at Sherwood Faith in Action in Sherwood, Ore., recruited, trained and deployed volunteers to provide caregiver services locally to both disabled and frail elderly people.
September 9, 2011 | Program Result
Staff at Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon built and engaged two coalitions of faith communities - in Portland and Corvallis - government agencies, advocacy groups and others to improve the health of congregations and their communities.
August 25, 2011 | Program Result
Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi created and implemented Get a Life!, an initiative to combat childhood obesity by improving access to nutritious food and increasing opportunities for safe physical activities for children in the region.
May 31, 2009 | Program Result
Sitka is a coastal island city accessible only by boat or air. A number of the 8,800 residents of this isolated community do not have family members or close friends nearby to rely on in times of need.
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
Faculty in the Department of Nursing at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., trained cosmetologists and others to deliver community-based health education and screening services.