Christian Appalachian Project, Inc.
Faith, Service and Compassion
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) is building hope, transforming lives, and sharing Christ’s love through service in Appalachia. Since our founding more than 50 years ago, we have been committed to improving the lives of Appalachian children, families and seniors who are struggling to escape poverty.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Operation Sharing®
CAP's widest-ranging program is Operating Sharing®. When the program began 36 years ago, the goal was to provide a bridge to Appalachian households in economic distress by donating basic commodities (food, books, furniture, and building and cleaning supplies). The program has grown into a major collaboration, among CAP, national charities (Feed the Children, Good 360, and Operation Compassion), and over 1,200 grassroots pantries, churches, schools, and human service agencies. With the help of CAP's 4 18-wheel tractor-trailers Operation Sharing® continues to have an impact. Non-cash (in-kind) donations are shipped to one of the Federation's eight warehouse hubs nationwide. Next, CAP sends an 18-wheel tractor-trailer to transport the donated commodities from a hub to one of its three warehouses. Employees and volunteers sort shipments and send notifications to local nonprofit partners, detailing what's available and scheduling pick-up deliveries or transports to nonprofit................
Home Repair
Substandard housing conditions, which are 3-4 times more prevalent in the region than nationally hinder the development of children and the mobility of older people in Eastern Kentucky. Such conditions are detrimental to the health and safety of everyone involved. Many low-income households have to choose between the smallest of repairs and buying food, gas, utilities, medicine, and other essentials. Upkeep and maintenance cost are prohibitive. Those with urgent repair needs that they cannot complete, due to age, finances, or disability, are extremely vulnerable. CAP's Housing Repair program exists to help alleviate burdens due to inadequate or unsafe housing conditions. Our goal is to assure that all people living in our service area have homes that are safe, warm, and dry. While CAP completes an average of 260 home repair projects annually, at least 200 eligible homeowners remain on the program's waiting list at any given time, evidence of just how much need persists in the...
Child & Family Development Centers
CAP operates two Child and Family Development Centers located in McCreary and Rockcastle counties in Eastern Kentucky. Focusing particularly on at-risk children and youth, each Center provides services tailored to meet the particular needs of the surrounding community, including family literacy, home visitation for infants and toddlers (Parents are Teachers program), as well as after-school programming for school-age children and teens. CAP also operates a food pantry servicing McCreary County. The Rockcastle location does have pre-school program.
Family Advocacy
FAP partners with local community-based organizations and resource centers to provide short-term emergency assistance to help families in need of utility assistance, household goods, clothing, special assistance to families who are struggling with house loss due to fires or flood, making ends meet and needing assistance with traveling to hospitals or other medical facilities for the care of a seriously ill child.
We also have special events in our communities including but not limited to an Easter Celebration, small farm and gardens, back to school assistance and our Celebratory Christmas distribution.
FAP encompasses and serves the overall family with basic needs.
Family Life Counseling
Licensed counselors with advanced degrees care for the emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of individuals, families, and groups. Areas of focus range from abuse and trauma to behavior problems and family issues. No one is turned away due to inability to pay.
Grateful Bread Food Pantry
Grateful Bread Food Pantry is a ministry of Christian Appalachian Project, providing staple food items to people in need. Children and elderly remain among the most food insecure and are the most adversely affected by the lack of nutritious food in this region. Many families are unable to afford the most basic groceries and must often choose between purchasing food and providing safe, warm, and dry homes or health care for their families. CAP helps fill that gap to ensure that everyone has access to essential food and necessities. Grateful Bread provides supplemental food items to eligible families every month. Low income elderly persons (ages 60 and above) also benefit through the Commodity Supplemental Food Program. Senior citizens living in poverty are at a special risk of malnutrition and these commodities are specifically designed to lower that risk. The Backpack Program provides weekend nutrition to a group of Rockcastle County students who have been identified as most at-risk.
Eagle Food Pantry
This program operates very similar to the program of Grateful Bread Food Pantry in that the pantry caters to those that are at-risk at any age level and seeks to supplement the diet of those living in poverty in this region.
Water Into Wine Food Pantry Partner
This program operates very similar to the program of Grateful Bread Food Pantry in that the pantry caters to those that are at-risk at any age level and seeks to supplement the diet of those living in poverty in this region.
Elderly Services
CAP’s Elderly Services program provides the elderly and individuals with disabilities companionship, increased mobility, and support. Our focus is to increase socialization opportunities for otherwise isolated elderly community members and strengthen the network of support for families and agencies already working with these individuals. Our goal is to keep participants in their home as long as possible.
FY 2020/21 stats (SV & CV combined)
Participants served=118
Home Visits=1,325
Transports=604
Significant services=3,222 (grocery shopping, bill paying, running errands, etc)
Where we work
Accreditations
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) 2001
Awards
Outstanding Philanthropic Organization of the Year 1993
National Association of Fund Raising Executives
Journalism Award - 1ast Place - Best Article - Mountain Spirit Magazine 1995
Catholic Press Association
Nonprofit Organization of the Year 1997
DMA Non Profit Council
Mailing Excellence Award - Judges Choice Selection 1999
National Postal Forum
Father George Mader Award to Rev. Msgr. Ralph Beiting (President) 2000
Catholic Network of Volunteer Service
Governor's Citation - Outstanding Services to Kentucky 2005
Cabinet for Health & Family Services
Affiliations & memberships
Rotary Club of Lexington 2009
Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance - Organization 1985
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) 1976
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of participants engaged in programs
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
"Participants received direct service through 17 human service programs in Eastern Kentucky."
Number of people within the organization's service area accessing food aid
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
"Participants served at the Grateful Bread Food Pantry and partner pantry, Water Into Wine."
Homes repaired and/or rebuilt.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our first aspiration is to serve, empower and strengthen participants, families, and, communities through compassionate programming that utilizes self-help philosophy and emphasizes uplifting young people. CAP's current year goals that align with this aspiration are to conduct human service program evaluations and community needs assessments, implement compassionate programming that emphasizes participant and community self-help, and implement compassionate programming that emphasizes uplifting young people and the family systems in which they live. CAP will aim to conduct evaluations for all Human Service Programs and conduct at least two community needs assessments, one in each region, to better assess county and/or community Human Service Program needs.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
CAP will continue to pursue our mission of building hope, transforming lives, and sharing Christ's love through service in Appalachia. To achieve this, CAP has engaged a strategic plan with four aspiration statements. These are 1) To serve, empower, and partner with participants, families, and communities through compassionate programming that utilizes a self-help philosophy and emphasizes uplifting young people. 2) To expand our impact in Appalachia by leveraging resources and building partnerships. 3) To inspire individuals and organizations to engage with our mission. 4) To enhance our capacity to serve by supporting a high-performance workplace.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
On April 28th, 2016 the board voted and approved the CAP Human Services Effectiveness Assessment Policy 2015. At least once every two years, CAP will review its goals and objectives toward achieving its mission and will complete a performance and effectiveness assessment of its programs based on that review. Such an assessment will be conducted under the authority of the Program Committee of the Board. The CAP Board will receive a written report of this assessment that describes the activities CAP undertook in the prior two years, identifying the measures used to assess CAP's effectiveness in achieving its goals and objectives, analyzing the effectiveness of CAP's programs, and recommending future actions CAP might take to increase effectiveness. At the conclusion of this process, CAP will revise the goals and objectives, as needed, for the upcoming term and will suggest means of measuring them.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
12,928 participants received direct service through16 human service programs in Eastern Kentucky.1,448
people received critical, emergency, and family-oriented community service through the family Advocacy Program.
8,723 transactions were recorded at the Grateful Threadz Thrift Store for clothing and other essential items. 6,437participants served at the Grateful Bread Food Pantry and partner pantry, Water Into Wine. 229homes repaired and/or rebuilt. 511low-income for at-risk family members received professional counseling services. 3,362 students received an in-school curriculum, tutoring, mentoring, and leadership training. 96 at-risk children received educational support through pre-school, infant/toddler, parents are teachers and after-school programs.
218 participants received home visits, transports, and in-home respite in our Elderly Services Program. 247
children and adults trained in disaster relief preparedness. 552 people volunteered their time and talents to the
mission of the Christian Appalachian Project. 1.5 million individuals were impacted by corporate gifts-in-kind donations valued at nearly $106 million and distributed by CAP's Operation Sharing warehouse to 1,173+ partners in 13 Appalachian states, plus Missouri and Arkansas.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Christian Appalachian Project, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 05/31/2023
Jonathan Lett
Griffith, Delaney, Hillman & Lett
Term: 2015 - 2025
Guy Adams
President/CEO, Christian Appalachian Project
Chris Tackett
Business Owner, Unisign Corporation
Marty Preston
Business Partner, Benchmark, Ark-La-Tex Financial Services, LLC
Rob Lawson
Regional Director Thrivent Financial
Deann Allen
Supervisor Clay Co. Board of Education
Alan Cornett
Realtor KW Bluegrass/Keller Williams Realty
Tina Terry
Coordinator of Student Activities Big Sandy Comm. & Tech. College
Liz Toombs
Owner/Certified Interior Decorator PDR Interiors
Mona Baker
Retired Preschool Coordinator, Fayette Co. Public Schools
Andrew Wegrzyn
Principal, Six Thirty Ventures
Lula Bowling Ford
Retired Director Morehead State University
Rebecca Whitenack Tyler
Teacher Woodford Christian School
Joyce Taylor Cummins
Rockcastle Regional Hospital & Respiratory Care
Teresa Kash Davis
Sr. Assoc. VP for Philanthropy Berea College
Holly James
Former Director Georgetown College
Kathy Kluesener
Frank P. Heaberlin
Attorney
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.