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Christian Appalachian Project, Inc.

 

Lexington, KY

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Christian Appalachian Project, Inc.

Physical Address:
Lexington, KY 40509 
EIN:
61-0661137
Web URL:
www.christianapp.org/
Leadership:
Mr. Guy Adams
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Fiscal Year Starting: Sep 01, 2010
Fiscal Year Ending: Aug 31, 2011
Revenue
Total Revenue $138,766,649
Expenses
Total Expenses $137,282,736

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Basic Organization Information

Christian Appalachian Project, Inc.

Physical Address:
Lexington, KY 40509 
EIN:
61-0661137
Web URL:
www.christianapp.org/ 
NTEE Category:
P Human Services 
P20 Human Service Organizations 
O Youth Development 
O50 Youth Development Programs 
L Housing, Shelter 
L25 Housing Rehabilitation 
Year Founded:
1964 
Ruling Year:
1966 

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Mission Statement

The Christian Appalachian Project is an interdenominational, nonprofit human-service organization committed to serving people in need in Appalachia by providing physical, spiritual, and emotional support through a wide variety of programs and services. Based in eastern Kentucky, it aids 1.5 million people annually.Its guiding principles are:* To promote the dignity and self-worth of individuals by promoting self-help* To involve Appalachian people in developing a solution to poverty

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Impact Summary from the Nonprofit

The Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) completed its 48th year of service to people in need in Appalachia. Fiscal year 2012 (9/1/11 - 8/31/12) was a great success because thousands of lives were impacted in positive ways as the organization lived its mission and helped children and their families, individuals with disabilities, and the elderly through self-help focused programs. Through donor partnership, CAP has had many accomplishments in the past year, including: Directly serving 50,329 community service participants and program participants from 32 Appalachian Kentucky counties through 21 hands-on human service programsIndirectly helping more than 1.5 million individuals with $105 million through Operation Sharing by redistributing donated goods through more than 1,400 partner nonprofits, agencies, and churches in all 13 Appalachian states plus Arkansas and MissouriDisaster relief efforts to help tornado victims in three Appalachian Kentucky counties (Magoffin, Martin, and Johnson) with 696 responders working 19,377 response hoursService from 88 long-term volunteers (9 - 12 month commitments), 49 short-term volunteers (less than 9 months), 31 summer camp volunteers, 93 volunteer groups, and 1,162 individual volunteers for a total of 157,961 volunteer hoursEconomic development support through the Appalachian Home Catalog for small business partners from throughout AppalachiaBuilding a counselors' dorm, Lamb Lodge, with more than 30 beds at Camp Andrew JacksonCompleting a strategic plan to set organizational priorities and increase CAP's impactReorganization of the Leadership Team; the nine members average 19 years of serviceIn addition, Anita Seals, a 30-year veteran of CAP's Human Service programs, was promoted to Vice President of Human Services and joins Randy Beckham and Guy Adams on the Executive Team. Unfortunately, due to budgetary challenges two programs were closed - Healing Rain (a drug recovery program for women) and Rainbow Respite (a residential program to assist individuals caring for disabled loved ones). However, individuals caring for disabled loved ones will continue to be helped through in-home respite services. A child development center was transitioned to a private businesswoman to operate with some grant support from CAP to facilitate continued services to low-income families.

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Leadership

Mr. Guy Adams

Term:

Since Feb 2010

Profile:

From his professional career as vice president for a private college, a consultant, and numerous other positions, Guy Adams brings expertise in non-profit best practices and organizational leadership. His experiences include building comprehensive development programs, campaign planning and execution, board development and training, donor research, cultivation and solicitation, major gifts and Moves Management®, estate planning, endowment building, grant writing, donor acknowledgement and stewardship, annual giving, strategic planning, and volunteer utilization.Guy Adams arrived at the Christian Appalachian Project with a mandate to enhance the organization's philanthropic support through a significant effort toward developing its planned and major gift program into a best-practice leader. To that end, he has helped create, update, and implement the organization's first strategic plan as well as embarked on several strategies to increase donations and strengthen donor relationships.

Leadership Statement:

For almost 50 years, the Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) has 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 and changed each year. CAP is the 13th 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. Our Housing program addresses homes needing attention whether minor repairs, an extensive renovation, or, in some cases, a completely new home. The program 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. 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 train and engage parents. CAP offers many other programs which follow the common thread of helping the most under-served and under-resourced: elderly services, in-home 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. 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.

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Program: Operation Sharing

Budget:
$2,072,991
Category:
Human Services, General/Other
Population Served:
Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Other Named Groups

Program Description:

The Christian Appalachian Project's largest program, Operation Sharing®, provides over $100 million in non-cash donations to distressed communities in Appalachian Kentucky and 14 other states through a unique partnership with other national charities. CAP operates four regional warehouses and dedicates three truck/tractor-trailers to transporting donated food and household supplies from major national NGO repositories. Each warehouse then distributes the supplies to over 1,500 local nonprofits- including schools, churches, food banks, and governmental and civic agencies.

Program Long-Term Success:

Operation Sharing is capable of increasing the capacity to serve for hundreds of non-profits throughout Appalachia as well as increasing the response time of disaster relief programs by having supplies on-hand.

Program Short-Term Success:

Short-term, Operation Sharing is able to provide instant relief for families in need of various items and supplies such as food, hygienic materials, and toys for children. This increase their confidence and quality of life.

Program Success Monitored by:

The Christian Appalachian Project keeps detailed documentation of which non-profits it distributes to and how often it does so as well as how many participants these nonprofits serve.

Program Success Examples:

Operation Sharing was able to provide two truckloads of disaster relief supplies to victims of Superstorm Sandy in West Virginia in November 2012.

Program: New Hope (Home Repair)

Budget:
$1,817,519
Category:
Housing, General/Other
Population Served:
Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General
Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens
Other Named Groups

Program Description:

In some areas of Central Appalachia, up to 16.8% of homes are classified as substandard- approximately 1 in every 6 homes. Poverty's vicious cycle is one that often leaves housing repairs at the bottom of the priority list. Many homes have been passed down from generation to generation and as the roof decays, floors wear, walls corrode, and windows leak, the idea of restoration becomes more and more overwhelming. Since 1964, the Christian Appalachian Project's housing program has assisted need worthy families by providing building materials and volunteer labor for home repairs, renovations and new home construction in 11 eastern Kentucky counties.Projects are broken into several classifications: emergency repair, small repair, major renovation, or new home build. Over 350 projects, small and large, are completed annually. Short and long-term volunteers assist the project leader in performing repairs or rebuilds.

Program Long-Term Success:

Long-term, New Hope will provide participants with structurally sound residences for years to come, help decrease heating and cooling costs through weatherization, make residents more mobile through the building of ramps, and make participants feel safer and more secure in their homes.

Program Short-Term Success:

Short-term, New Hope helps put a roof over some participants' heads and makes others (the elderly) more mobile. Participants see results as soon as a repair, renovation, or rebuilding project is completed.

Program Success Monitored by:

The Christian Appalachian Project keeps detailed records of who it helps, the cost, and the length of time. This allows it to budget for projects and leverage connections that help them get reduced or free building supplies. This also allows the organization to do continual follow-ups and evaluations with participants and ensure that they've received a long-lasting, high-quality repair project.

Program Success Examples:

Every year, New Hope completes over 350 projects. for economically disadvantaged, elderly, and disabled participants. One of its most recent projects built a new house for a family of five whose home had been falling apart around them.

Program: Child & Family Development Centers

Budget:
$830,133
Category:
Human Services, General/Other
Population Served:
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Other Named Groups
Females, all ages or age unspecified

Program Description:

Education is the best weapon against poverty. The Christian Appalachian Project seeks to support and nurture parents as the child's primary caretaker and educator. Parents who are involved in their children's education and who continue educational goals of their own create an environment conducive to the learning and growth of the whole family and surrounding community. CAP operates two child and family development centers in McCreary County and Rockcastle County, Kentucky. 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.

Program Long-Term Success:

The Child and Development Centers help prepare students for kindergarten and higher, give low-income students access to the best educational opportunities in the area, help decrease or eliminate issues caused by developmental delays, and give students access to positive mentors. All of this will allow them to become capable students and productive, well-educated members of society.

Program Short-Term Success:

Short term, the centers are able to graduate 100% of all students onto kindergarten, and they help decrease or eliminate issues caused by developmental delays in 100% of applicable students.

Program Success Monitored by:

The centers work with local therapists to chart and track the progress of students and fulfill the standards of both the state and local educational institutes.

Program Success Examples:

One program, Parents Are Teachers, works with students with developmental delays or who are risk to develop them. The current teacher, Suzann Fenton, works with 18 students annually aged 3 and 4, and is able to prepare them to either join the Christian Appalachian Project's preschool or to move onto public or private preschools.

Program: Family Advocacy

Budget:
$551,334
Category:
Human Services, General/Other
Population Served:
Other Named Groups
Females, all ages or age unspecified

Program Description:

The Christian Appalachian Project operates three Family Advocacy centers in McCreary, Johnson, and Rockcastle counties. These centers assist families who have experienced burn-outs or undue financial hardship due to medical issues or who simply need extra help for a short period of time.

Program Long-Term Success:

Long term, the Family Advocacy programs aims to strengthen the family unit and provide short-term assistance to them that will allow them to gather their resources and develop new coping and budgeting strategies.

Program Short-Term Success:

Short-term, Family Advocacy provides once-a-year emergency assistance, often to families who have experienced burn-outs. This assistance is usually financial and helps cover rent, utilities, transportation, and medical expenses.

Program Success Monitored by:

The Christian Appalachian Project keeps detailed records of each family and participant helped, when they were helped, and how they were helped. This prevents repeat assistance throughout the year and allows the organization to better understand the participants and their particular problems.

Program Success Examples:

Currently, the Family Advocacy program in McCreary County is helping families develop payment plans for their home heating and cooling costs. This has become especially important as cuts to LIHEAP have prevented dozens of families from meeting their monthly heating bills.

Program: Family Life Counseling

Budget:
$416,915
Category:
Mental Health, Substance Abuse Programs, General/other
Population Served:
Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General
Other Named Groups
Other Named Groups

Program Description:

The Family Life Counseling program assists families in becoming stronger and more stable and helps address issues surrounding domestic abuse, counseling the batterer, the victim, and children. The program offers both group and one-on-one sessions and offers its services either free or for a very low price.

Program Long-Term Success:

The Counseling program aims to ultimately strengthen families, reduce domestic violence in eastern Kentucky, and ensure that Appalachian Kentuckians have access to afford mental health care.

Program Short-Term Success:

Short-term, the Counseling programs will help participants function in their daily lives and work towards feeling safer and more control.

Program Success Monitored by:

The Counseling program takes extensive notes of each session and follows up continually. It also collaborates with local physical and mental health agencies to ensure that local participants are receiving the best care possible.

Program Success Examples:

From March 2012 to March 2013, the Counseling program has been working with people from Magoffin, Martin, Morgan, and Johnson counties who experienced the devastating tornadoes in March 2012. Thanks to a generous grant from Americares, therapists were able to provide 250 people with in-home counseling sessions.



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