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African-Canadian Christian Network (ACCN)
Grant Recipient Fact Sheet
June 2008
| Lead Applicant: Agape Ministries |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $43,200 |
| Project Name:Winners with an Active Voice of
Excellence- WAVE |
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Project Description:
WAVE is an after school program that empowers youth
through the promotion of academic excellence,
mentorship and development of essential skills. |
Lead Applicant: Church of St. Stephen Downsview
Youth Covenant |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $28,000 |
| Project Name: Kairos |
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Project Description:
This project incorporates youth in the delivery of vital
after school and extracurricular programs in an effort to
build neighbourhood capacity and provide a safe
alternative for helping the youth to succeed academically. |
| Lead Applicant: Emmanuel Church of the Nazarene |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $49,895 |
| Project Name: Emmanuel Sports Mentoring Program |
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Project Description:
An athletic youth impact program that combines the
discipline of sports with teamwork and character
building lessons. |
| Lead Applicant: Firm Faith |
Focus Area: Family |
Grant Amount: $18,357 |
Project Name: Kids Rock Academy and Arrows for
Youth |
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Project Description:
A program for youth 7 to 18 that offers training in
financial management, life and social skills, self defense,
music and dance. |
| Lead Applicant: Foundation for Life Family Church |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $25,630 |
| Project Name: Foundation for Life Academic Mentoring
Program |
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Project Description:
This program will significantly improve the performance
of the youth involved by providing personalized
academic mentoring, enhanced self esteem, promote
positive behavior and social skills in a safe environment. |
| Lead Applicant: Harvest Call Ministries |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $26,000 |
| Project Name: Rhythm Elevated |
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Project Description:
This is a restorative justice and diversion program
designed to provide youth with personal competencies to
achieve public victory. |
| Partners: Youth Unlimited (Toronto
Youth for Christ) |
| Lead Applicant: Kingsview Village Seventh-Day
Adventist Church |
Focus Area: Family |
Grant Amount: $20,000 |
| Project Name:Rites of Passage Experience Program
(ROPE) |
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Project Description:
ROPE was designed to strengthen and help young black
male teenagers lead lives free of violence, through
mentoring, parenting, counseling, and recreational
strategies.
The mothers of the youth are equally engaged in the
program, and are taught coping skills to face the
challenges of single-parenting, as well as strategies for
dealing with boys in transition to manhood. |
| Lead Applicant: Lisle Memorial Baptist Church |
Focus Area: Family |
Grant Amount: $50,000 |
| Project Name:Hoop to Hope - Boys Basketball Program |
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Project Description:
This basketball for boys that operates in the Jane and
Finc area, offers coaching that affords them the
opportunity to participate in a league and tournaments as
well as benefit from mentorship by positive male role
models.This basketball for boys that operates in the Jane and
Finc area, offers coaching that affords them the
opportunity to participate in a league and tournaments as
well as benefit from mentorship by positive male role
models. |
| Partner: Jane-Finch Church Coalition |
| Lead Applicant: Rosewood Church of the Nazarene |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $15,000 |
| Project Name: Girls of Destiny (GOD) Etiquette and
Leadership Program |
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Project Description:
The activities of the project encourages and mentors
young girls to pursue personal excellence, physical and
spiritual success. It consists of workshops designed to
emphasize leadership, relationship-building, character
development and etiquette, all designed to address the
destructive low self-esteem behavior that leads to
violence, suicide, teen pregnancy, lack of respect for self
and others. The program further ignites brilliance in
them by training these young girls to be effective
community leaders who are equipped to develop the next
generation of leaders who can correlate with their peers. |
| Lead Applicant: Salvation Army - Yorkwoods
Community Church |
Focus Area: Family |
Grant Amount: $21,000 |
| Project Name: KidzOwn |
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Project Description:
This daily after-school program is aimed at developing
leadership in participants, while supporting them in
completing their home work so that they will be more
successful in school. This program also provides critical
care and supervision to these young people during the
hours many parents are at work. |
| Lead Applicant: St. Francis NESBF Archdiocese of
Canada |
Focus Area: Employment |
Grant Amount: $49,562 |
| Project Name: Girls of Destiny (GOD) Etiquette and
Leadership Program |
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Project Description:
An opportunity for youth to be involved in a series of
training for pre-employment, employment, and
leadership. In addition, the students are placed in a field
of their interest which enables them to gain valuable
employment skills. |
| Partner: Woodgreen Community
Services |
| Lead Applicant: The Church of Pentecost Canada |
Focus Area: Justice |
Grant Amount: $30,000 |
| Project Name: Jonah's Passage |
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Project Description:
A holistic program for ages 13 to 25 with a focus to
decrease the number of young people who come into
conflict with the law. The program offers court support,
advocacy, counseling, conflict resolution and other skills
training and educates individuals about the Canadian
legal system. |
| Partner: Pentecost Community
Development Agency
(PENTCDA) |
| Lead Applicant: The Redeemed Christian Church of
God |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $25,000 |
| Project Name: Croossover Mentoship Project |
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Project Description:
This program develops leadership and mentorship and
equips young people with strategies to positively
influence their peers to transition from the negative
impact of life on the streets to living productive lives and
becoming contributing citizens. The process involves
various professionals to develop solutions with the youth.
The transitional process will be documented and aired on
the television program and featured in the magazine of
Planet Africa. |
| Partner: Planet Africa Network Corporation |
| Lead Applicant: Toronto Ghanaian Seventh-Day Adventist Church |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $44,500 |
Project Name: Preventing Black Youth from falling
through Cracks |
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Project Description:
Special attention is given to black youth to develop and
maintain strong interest in education through mentoring,
language, mathematics, science and computer programs
and activities. They are helped to acquire employable
skills and to maintain a "Culture of Learning". |
| Partner: Heritage Ghanaian SDA Church |
Lead Applicant: Toronto International Celebration
Church |
Focus Area: Family |
Grant Amount: $44,000 |
| Project Name: Defy Your Label |
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Project Description:
Working closely with the Toronto Police Services, B4L
is a mentoring and sports program that focuses on
building long term relationships with young black males
by providing a safe enviroment of fun while fostering
respect. |
Partners:
1. Basketball 4 Life(B4L) |
Lead Applicant: Toronto International Celebration
Church |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $48,310 |
Project Name: Youth Engagement Strategy (YES)
Against Violence Program |
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Project Description:
This community choir of young people have and will
continue to be recruited by going door-to-door, in
schools, and the mall, in order to remove the youth from
the potential dangers of the streets. They are engaged
through music (choir), recreational activities and
voluntary community service. The youth are mentored
and receive life skills training and clinical counseling. |
Lead Applicant: Victory Assembly International
Church |
Focus Area: Education |
Grant Amount: $39,785 |
| Project Name: Step-Up Program |
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Project Description:
A leadership and crime prevention program designed to
help youth become competent and responsible leaders of
tomorrow through dance and other recreational activities
with the aim of luring them off the streets and away from
lifestyles of crime. |
Lead Applicant: World Centre For Mission
Mobilization |
Focus Area: Justice |
Grant Amount: $45,000 |
| Project Name: Youth Now on Track (YNOT) |
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Project Description:
YNOT is a crime prevention program for black youths
(aged 12 to 24 years) who are at risk of becoming, or are
in conflict with the law. The program focuses on
redirecting them from engaging in criminal activities by
providing awareness programs, counseling and
mediation services, educational support, and
interventions to empower them to get back on track and
become law abiding citizens. |
| Partners Voice of the Last Days Ministry
(VLDM) |
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