Basic Organization Information
Christian Appalachian Project, Inc.
- Physical Address:
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Lexington, KY
40509
- EIN:
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61-0661137
- Web URL:
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www.christianapp.org/
- NTEE Category:
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P Human Services
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P20 Human Service Organizations
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O Youth Development
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O50 Youth Development Programs
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L Housing, Shelter
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L25 Housing Rehabilitation
- Year Founded:
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1964
- Ruling Year:
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1966
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Mission Statement
The Christian Appalachian Project is an interdenominational, non-profit Christian organization committed to serving people in need in Appalachia by providing physical, spiritual and emotional support through a wide variety of programs and services.
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Impact Summary from the Nonprofit
<div>Christian Appalachian Project’s Operation Sharing Program distributes in-kind donations to people in need in 15 states. We distribute items such as personal hygiene supplies, food, clothing, books, educational aids, computers, toys, exercise equipment, furniture, and building supplies. These items are sent to public agencies and schools, community service organizations, Christian ministries and churches throughout the Appalachian region. The dollar amounts listed below represent the market value of goods distributed directly to various organizations, ministries, and churches throughout Appalachia.<br /></div>
<div>CAP’s Disaster Relief program organizes volunteers to respond to the needs of those impacted by natural disasters throughout Appalachia. Responses include everythingfrom home and property clean-up, to providing and distributing emergency disaster supplies. In 2011, CAP provided tornado damage cleanup to Alabama and sent relief supplies to Missouri following the F-5 tornado that struck Joplin.<br /><br />CAP also has developed the economic development initiative to support Appalachia. Through its colorful (online and print) catalog, CAP expands marketing and sales outreach for 108 entrepreneurial artisans and craftsmen, 91 of which are native to Appalachia. These micro-enterprises feature high quality, locally-produced merchandise. The goals of<em>Appalachian Home</em>are to help these cottage-industries to grow, stimulate local economies and preserve the rich heritage of the region. All the while the proceeds from our sales are put back into our mission: helping children, families, the elderly and individuals with disabilities that live in extreme poverty in Appalachia.</div>
Leadership
Mr. Guy Adams
Term:
Since
Feb
2010
Profile:
Guy Adams is a mission-driven, team-focused executive with a record of leadership and achievement. During his professional career, including Vice President of Development for a private college and a Consultant; Adams has gained expertise in non-profit organization best practices, including building comprehensive development programs, campaign planning and execution, board development and training, donor research, cultivation and solicitation, major gifts and Moves Management®, estate planning and endowment building, grant-writing, donor acknowledgement and stewardship, annual giving, strategic planning, and volunteer utilization. Adams joined CAP in February 2010 with a mandate to enhance philanthropic support for the organization through a significant effort to build the planned and major gift program into a best practice program.
Leadership Statement:
<div>For almost 50 years, Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) has<br />been serving people in need in Appalachia through human service programs focused on self-help. Individuals, corporate, and foundation donors have responded to CAP’s mission and allowed the lives of thousands of individuals to be touched each year. <br /></div>
<div>CAP is the 12th largest human services charity in the nation and the largest charity exclusively serving people in need in Appalachia. Our Operation Sharing® program distributes goods throughout the 13-state Appalachia region. Operation Sharing® distributes items such as food, clothing, cleaning supplies, personal hygiene supplies, building materials, books, and office supplies to communities where families need basic necessities and churches need major support.</div>
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<div>Our Housing program addresses homes needing attention; whether minor repairs, an extensive renovation, or, in some cases, a completely new home. The Housing goes beyond the physical repair of the house by also providing financially-distressed homeowners with budgeting classes, winterization techniques, home ownership classes, and assistance in obtaining low-interest loans, when applicable. </div>
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<div>By focusing on education, CAP’s Child and Family development programs seek to break the cycle of poverty at its roots. In each of our centers, educators work with children to instill basic skills and a firm learning foundation, as well as by training and engaging parents.</div>
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<div>CAP offers many other programs which follow the common thread of helping the most under-served and under-resourced- including elderly services, respite care for disabled individuals, camps and in-school programs for children, family counseling, and disaster relief. One program that stands apart from our service-based programs is our Volunteer program. With year-long commitments or week-long group projects, our volunteers serve as the backbone to many of our service programs.</div>
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<div>CAP serves people in need in Appalachia by looking for ways to promote self-help so that individuals, as often as possible, receive a hand up and not a handout.</div>
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Program:
Operation Sharing
- Budget:
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$1,845,552
- Category:
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Human Services, General/Other
- Population Served:
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Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General
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Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
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Other Named Groups
Program Description:
<p>CAP’s largest program, Operation Sharing<sup>®</sup>,provides over $100 million in non-cash donations to distressed communities inAppalachia Kentucky and 14 other states through a unique partnership with othernational charities. CAP operates four regional warehouses and dedicates threetruck/tractor-trailers to transporting donated food and household supplies frommajor national NGO repositories. Each warehouse then distributes the suppliesto over 1,500 local nonprofits- including schools, churches, food banks,governmental and civic agencies.</p>
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New Hope (Home Repair)
- Budget:
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$1,741,128
- Category:
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Housing, General/Other
- Population Served:
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Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General
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Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens
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Other Named Groups
Program Description:
<p>In some areas of Central Appalachia, up to 16.8% of homes are classified assubstandard- approximately 1 in every 6 homes. Poverty’s vicious cycle is onethat often leaves housing repairs at the bottom of the priority list. Many homes have been passed down fromgeneration to generation and as the roof decays, floors wear, walls corrode,and windows leak, the idea of restoration becomes more and more overwhelming.</p><p>Since 1964, CAP’s housingprogram has assisted need worthy families by providing building materials andvolunteer labor for home repairs, renovations and new home construction in 11Eastern Kentucky counties.</p><p>Projects are broken into several classifications:emergency repair, small repair, major rehab or new home build. Over 350projects, small and large, are completed annually. Short and long-term volunteersassist the project leader in performing repairs or rebuilds.</p>
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Child & Family Development Centers
- Budget:
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$1,179,480
- Category:
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Human Services, General/Other
- Population Served:
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Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
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Other Named Groups
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Females, all ages or age unspecified
Program Description:
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Education is the best weapon against poverty. CAP seeks to support and nurture parents as the child’s primary caretaker and educator. Parents involved in their children’s education, as well as continuing education goals of their own, create an environment conducive to the learning and growth of the whole family and surrounding community.<div> </div><div>CAP operates three child and family development centers in Kentucky: McCreary, Rockcastle, and Martin Counties. Focusing particularly on at-risk children and youth, each center provides services tailored to meet the particular needs of the surrounding community, including daycare, preschool, family literacy, home visitation for infants and toddlers, as well as after-school programming for school-age children and teens. </div></div>
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