Strategies to Elevate People Richmond

Jobs for Life: * Run two semesters of the JfL program. * Recruit ten students per semester to participate in the program. * Pair each student with a Champion. * Graduate 70 to 80% of the students. * Achieve an 80% graduate employment rate. * Maintain Student - Mentor relationship and track employment for at least one year.

Back to School Celebration: This event is held annually in August. Goals: * To provide essential school supplies to families who would otherwise be challenged to provide them, in order to enhance the education of Gilpin's children. * Generate the donation of school supplies to serve at least 250 low income children. * Enable a church or several congregations the opportunity to have an outreach to the city through STEP's existing relationships.

Christmas Store: * To provide a dignified opportunity for the residents of Richmond's low-income communities to give sacrificially to their children while at the same time giving back to others in the community who also need assistance with Christmas gifts. * To generate enough new items to serve at least 60 families.

Camp Hope: * To provide an overnight camp experience to 40 children who would not otherwise be able to participate. * To provide at least 10 counselors, primarily from the urban community/church. * To plant seeds of hope through the sharing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ while advancing the campers relationship with Christians in an urban congregation.