GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC
Love. Serve. Share. Repeat.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Poverty of all types: Emotional, financial, relational, spiritual, physical, by uniting people to live as a community.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Food Delivery and Family Assistance Program
Grace Klein Community currently operates one contact-free food assistance drive-thru site, while resourcing seven additional sites, six days a week throughout The Greater Birmingham area. These drive-thru sites, plus our 121 community partners, distribute boxes of food to 7,500 – 10,000 people in a given week.
This program is largely implemented by Birmingham-area volunteers and serves low-income individuals with a reach of 40 Alabama counties.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
The World Games - Sustainability Team Member 2022
External reviews
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of families assisted with rent or mortgage to avoid eviction
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Total dollars distributed for utilities assistance
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Assistance includes: Power, water, gas, phone bills, storage, and internet bills.
Number of food donation partners
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Food Delivery and Family Assistance Program
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Number of business and church partners donating food on a regular basis to Grace Klein Community to support our efforts in caring for The Greater Birmingham.
Number of active church partnerships
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Stats reflect financial church partners
Number of low-income households who have received utilities assistance to keep the lights, heat and/or water on in their homes
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Assistance includes water, power and gas.
Number of active missionaries
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Total number of active missionaries through global partnership under the covering of Grace Klein Community.
Number of people within the organization's service area accessing food aid
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Social and economic status, Age groups, Ethnic and racial groups, Family relationships, Health
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of households within the organization's service area accessing food aid
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups, Ethnic and racial groups, Family relationships, Social and economic status, Health
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Dollar Value of Food Rescue Donations distributed to low-income households
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups, Social and economic status, Family relationships
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Grace Klein Community exists as an educational and charitable 501(c)3 non-profit providing relief to the poor, the distressed and the underprivileged, lessening community tensions, eliminating prejudice and discrimination and combating community deterioration and juvenile delinquency.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Grace Klein Community seeks to create authentic community (Koinonia) by uniting diverse individuals, businesses, ministries, and churches to work together by sharing what they have in order to meet physical and spiritual needs both locally and globally.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Through the mobilization of volunteers.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Grace Klein Community (GKC) became a 501(c)3 non-profit in April 2010, and today provides food assistance to 10,000+/- people each week.
GKC is vital to over 163,000 households, providing food insecure individuals healthy nutritious food and empowering them to start a journey to independence. Our Food Delivery and Family Assistance Program has shown much growth over the years; beginning with 58 families served monthly in 2010, to 238 monthly in 2015, to
approximately 493 families served monthly in 2020, before the onset of COVID-19, reflecting a 51.72 percent increase in the number of families served over a 5 year period.
With the onset of COVID-19, GKC distributed 2,420 food boxes in March 2020, providing food for approximately 12,000 individuals, resulting in a 79.62% increase in families served through food support in 1 month. Currently, GKC operates two contact-free food drive-thru site, while resourcing six additional sites and 162 food distribution partners, seven days a week throughout the Birmingham area; these drive-thru sites distribute boxes of rescued foods to 7,500 – 10,000 people in need each week. The current global environment makes our services more vital than ever, impacting families in every socio-economic class, due to illness, stay-at-home orders, children requiring virtual study, job loss, and subsequent loss of income.
Food support meets basic needs allowing people to focus on their jobs, paying other outstanding bills to protect or improve their existing living arrangements, and also to give peace of mind to parents and guardians who have children to feed. When basic needs are met, the individual has a greater potential of being released from the cycle of poverty as they are able to focus on their work and not be distracted by anxiety and fear of survival.
Our Food Rescue initiative, FEEDBHM, is largely implemented by Birmingham-area volunteers and serves low-income individuals, with a reach of 41 Alabama counties in 2022.
Our goal is to maintain and increase operations by adding 100 new food donor partners and equip 500 active food rescue volunteers which will increase our ability to share food to food-insecure families.
In addition to food resources, the need for clothing and household items (not limited to) are met through our online Facebook share group called, Acts 4:32.
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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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC
Board of directorsas of 02/02/2024
Mrs. Jenny Waltman
Shannon Haskins
Jason Waltman
Jared Thornton
Jenny Waltman
Larry King
Sheila Parks
Tina Dorius
Rob Compton
Board leadership practices
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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
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- 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 disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- 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.