The Madison Christian Giving Fund (MCGF) has announced its 2016 grant recipients, totalling $120,000. That’s the total amount of money raised in donations in 2015. The funds were distributed among 22 applicants. Fifty applications had been received, totalling $514,167; a total of 28 applications were rejected when the money ran out.
“Ten community volunteers spent countless hours evaluating grants,” said MCGF chair Scott Haumerson. “If we had raised more, many more [ministries] would have received funding.”
Haumerson added: “We realized that during the fundraising process that Madison really does not know the breadth and depth of Christian Ministry in our community…In the coming year, we plan to begin a community dialogue on the importance of Christian programming to address our community’s many issues. At the center of our message will be the hope that faith in Jesus Christ can bring healing to all of us and our community.”
Following are the 2016 MCGF grant recipients:
Mama’s Lunches
High School Outreach
$5,000
Free lunches are provided by 5 moms to students across the street from
the Middleton High School. A Gospel message of hope is always served
to the kids along with lunch. Kids call it “Jesus Lunches”!
Redeemer City
Highridge Trail Center
$10,000
Startup funds to fund a center providing after school programming for the
students from the Highridge Trail neighborhood. Unlike other centers in
Madison, there will be specific Christian programming which excludes
them from other city funding.
Nehemiah Development Corporation
Academic Center for Excellence
$6,500
Funds for an outreach event that will include a weekend retreat for 5th
grade students of ACE and their unchurched friends. There will be specific
disciplining of kids on how to share the Gospel and faith with their friends.
Shelter From the Storm Ministries
Homeless Shelter
$10,000
Startup funds for a new homeless shelter in Sun Prairie for homeless
single women and their children. Women receive Bible-based life skills
training and participate in a study called “Welcome to the Kingdom”.
BratFest
Lifest at Bratfest
$7,500
Our funds provide for Christian performers and speakers on a stage called
Lifest. During each performance, the performer makes a statement of their
faith. A Community Wide Worship Service takes place on Sunday
Lilada’s Living Room
Youth and Evangelism
$10,000
Startup funds to provide prevention services for the sexual victimization of
Black girls through awareness events in local black churches. Outreach to
Black girls will be though evangelistic efforts lead by Christian teen girls.
The Evangelical Catholic
EC Alliance
$5,000
An outreach event in Madison to promote evangelism in the Catholic
church, with the goal to develop a greater sense of discipleship within the
church, and equip them to do person-person outreach to non-Christians.
Madison Christian Schools
You Have Choice
$5,000
Startup funds to fund additional seats to students of color, in direct
response to problems identified in the recent Race to Equity report. MCS
provides quality education based on Christian values.
Iglesia Restauracion Y Vida
Year of Multiplication- 300
$3,000
This programs provides emergency shelter, care packages and community events to homeless people while openly sharing the Gospel of hope in Jesus Christ.
YoungLife
Young Life Camp
$3,000
Scholarship funds will be provided to 20 students from Madison High
Schools, who are eligible for free lunch, to attend camp in Michigan this
summer. YoungLife Camp is always a life changing experience.
F.O.S.T.E.R
Power Program
$3,500
Funds are used to help ex-offenders with re-entry, who have children in
foster care. Christian discipleship is at the core of all of their programs
which help them develop coping skills based on biblical principles.
Child Evangelism Fellowship
Good News Spectacular
$5,000
An event to bring together a partnership between churches and schools to
create additional ‘Good News Clubs’ which introduce the Gospel to kids in
elementary and middle schools in Madison.
Impact Movement
Impact National Tour
$10,000
Funds to send 50 African American UW Madison students to the National
Impact conference to train them up to be leaders in the UW campus
ministry. This opportunity occurs only once every three years.
Lighthouse Christian School
Technology Upgrade
$3,000
One of the few Madison area schools that specifically targets low-income
and minority families with Christian education. Funds will be used to
upgrade current technology needs to further help deliver their message.
Campus Crusade CRU
College & High School Outreach
$5,000
Funds will be used to sponsor an event that will bring an outside performer
who will deliver a Gospel message to a secular audience on UW campus.
The message will also be presented in a high school setting the next day.
A Pathway Home
Sober Living
$5,000
This is a residential program where participants, who are in recovery,
spend up to a year living in a loving Christian environment that promotes
knowing and developing a personal relationship with Jesus Christ
BigBig House
Human Trafficking
$2,500
It is estimated that there are over 200 female minors who sell themselves
with sex in Dane County. This is a call center that reaches out to these
girls, through building a relationship, and then offers them an alternative
for their life by sending them to a Christian transitional program out of state.
Workplace Chaplaincy Foundation
Chaplain Assistance Program
$5,000
Workplace chaplaincy offers people an opportunity to have a faith
conversation and to speak to someone when they are in need. This is seed
money to start programs in nonprofits and governmental units in Madison.
Life Promotions
Dignity Revolution Challenge
$3,000
Additional funds to bring Bob Lenz and his message of anti-bullying to
school assemblies in Sun Prairie and Verona. Evening programs will
include a Gospel message and partner with local ministries.
Madison Area Lutheran Council
Jail Ministry
$5,000
Funds will be used to develop better coordination between local churches,
faith ministries and Christian volunteers that are providing jail chaplain
services in the Dane County Jail.
Lazarus Liberation
Celebrate Restoration Groups
$5,000
Startup funds for an ex-offender program that will provide weekly group
meetings based on a Christian curriculum, and to introduce them to a biblebased
approach to help with the struggles of re-entry into society.
Salvation Army
Homeless Single Women
$3,000
Funds will used to provide homeless, childless, single women in their
residential program, that serves 32 women each night, with a Bible,
pastoral support, and Bible study twice a week.