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African-Canadian Christian Network (ACCN)
Grant Recipient Fact Sheet
December 11th 2006
| Lead Applicant: Christian Centre
Church |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $50,000 |
| Project Name: Revolution After School
Program |
Location: Jane and Finch | |
Project Description:
This is an After School
tutoring program that runs 3 times a week for Grade 4-8 students.
It also provides a once a week drop-in program where life skills
are taught and youth are mentored. Youth are also engaged in a
basketball program which incorporates discipline and team work. |
| Lead Applicant: Church
of St. Stephens |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $47,000 |
| Project Name: Hope Inspiring Peace
Project (HIPP) |
Location: Wilson and Jane |
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Project Description:
HIPP will incorporate youth in the planning and implementation
of vital After School and extra-curricular programs to school
age children in the community, in an effort to build neighbourhood
capacity and provide a safe alternative for youth.
The program will nurture lives and bring about hope that will
inspire peace and restore fundamentals to a young generation.
It also provides an opportunity to give black youth the skills
that they can use to gain further employment, start their own
businesses and alleviate the plight of poverty and lack of resources
that often lead to conflict and crime. |
| Lead Applicant: Kingsview
Seventh-Day Adventist Church |
Focus Area: Family |
Grant Amount: $43,000 |
| Project Name: Rites of Passage Experience
(ROPE) |
Location: Dixon and Kipling |
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Project Description:
A program that employs proven mentoring strategies, parenting
and counselling services to help young black male teenagers (ages
13 to 19) lead lives free of violence. |
| Partners: 1. Advent
Family Services |
| Lead Applicant: Lisle
Memorial Baptist Church |
Focus Area: Family | Grant Amount: $67,000 |
| Project Name: HOOP to Hope Boy's
Program |
Location: Jane and Finch |
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Project Description:
A rite of passage program that will develop life skills and community
involvement within Afro-Caribbean youth age 14-18 living in the
Jane and Finch community. Youth will take part in weekly formal
basketball training coupled with positive mentorship. They will
play in quarterly league tournaments and give back to the community
through monthly outreach activities. |
Partners:
1. Friendship Community Church
2. Yorkwoods Community Church
3. Shiloh House of Prayer
4. Agape Ministries
5. Toronto City Mission
6. Youth Unlimited (Toronto Youth For Christ) |
| Lead Applicant: Living
Hope Community Church |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $67,000 |
| Project Name: Taking TC3 To The Next Level |
Location: Eglinton and Kennedy |
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Project Description:
The Toronto Children's Concert Choir and Performing Arts Company
(TC3), is an arts organization for youth ages 7 to 18.
TC3's mission is to promote, develop and encourage the talents
and gifts of youth in the musical arts through inspirational music
and dance ranging from Spirituals to Hip-Hop focusing on excellence,
holistic development and world-class performance. |
| Lead Applicant: Scarborough
Harvest Victory Church |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $67,000 |
| Project Name: RHYTHM |
Location: Port Union, Rougehill
and Malvern areas |
Project Description:
RHYTHM is a multi-faceted training program developed to help youth
break free from the negative influences of life that causes self-destructive
behaviour.
This program has three components; personal development/leadership,
community awareness and relevant placements. RHYTHM will bring
freedom to participants by assisting young people in developing
a positive self-image and helping them become productive members
of society by addressing the whole person. |
Partners:
1. Youth Unlimited (Toronto Youth For Christ) |
| Lead Applicant: The
Church of the Nativity |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $50,000 |
| Project Name: |
Location: Nielson and Sheppard |
Project Description:
A comprehensive After School program for children and youth ages
6 - 24 years, which includes a snack and nutritional dinner.
Extended hours until 8:00 p.m. ensure children have a safe and
supervised environment. |
Partners:
1. Parkdale Golden Age Foundation
2. The Black Secretariat / African Caribbean Heart, Health &
Diabetes Prevention Program
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| Lead Applicant: Toronto
Ghanaian Seventh-Day Adventist Church |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $67,000 |
| Project Name: Preventing Black Youth From Falling
Through The Cracks |
Location: Dixon and Martin Grove |
Project Description:
After School computer training lab and literacy programs in tandem
with Skills Workshops, a Homework Club and a Book Club for youth
and children in the Jane and Finch community. |
Partners:
1. Heritage Ghanaian Seventh-Day Adventist Church |
| Lead Applicant: World
Centre for Mission Mobilization |
Focus Area: Justice |
Grant Amount: $50,000 |
| Project Name: Preventing Black Youth From Falling
Through The Cracks |
Location: Finch and Weston |
Project Description:
To provide a crime prevention program and youth empowerment through
community capacity building. Programs, workshops, events and seminars
will be provided for black youth and children in the West end
of Toronto, who are in trouble with the law or engaged in criminal,
gang and drug related activities.
The project will also assist youth who have dropped out of school
through tutoring, recreational, spiritual development, employment
and life skills activities. This is to help youth bring out their
full potential and also educate them on their rights and responsibilities
as law abiding citizens. |
Partners:
1. The Voice of the Last Days Ministry
2. Broad African Resource Centre |
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