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- Garfield Community Action Team _
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5419 Penn Ave(Bloomfield and Garfield)
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the project
Help provide your neighbors with free food, access to information, small grants to pay bills, and help for our youth to be ready for college and careers during these uncertain tmes. These funds are more important than ever!
The Garfield Community Action Team is raising funds to help the mutual aid programs administered by the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation.
Donors and volunteers, like you, have been serving the Bloomfield-Garfield community for 45 years!
The cannot do this work with out you!
The Garfield Community Action Team is made up of Garfield residents who volunteer in the neighborhood. The Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation is community based volunteers and board driven!
the steps
These funds will help continue services that already exsist and have seen increased usage during the pandemic.
Funds will be raised by community volunteers with the Garfield Community Action Team. Released to the BGC as fiscal sponsor. Used to provide services.
A highlight of services and programs provided:
1. High School Academic Resources
2. Emergency Grants for Neighbors in Need
3. Employment Help for Adults & Teens
4. Community Engagement around Resources including Free Food
why we're doing it
It is necessary! People are struggling during these uncertain times. The BGC has a 45 year history of working for physical imporvements, greater economic opportunity, and a strengthened sense of well-being for all our neighbors. The past months have proven the need of community based support more than ever! Access to housing, food, education, and employment are the basic requirements that our community needs to be successful and with your help we can help close the gap and provide these programs.
budget
Disbursed:
$6959.50 for administration of Covid-19 community assistance programs for community members. The funding will go 100% towards administration of the following programs:
Neigbhors in Need grant fund
College and Career Readiness for teens
Employment Assistance for Adults & Teens
Covid-19 precautions to keep the free computer lab and internet access open
Online Community Meetings Online Covid-19 local resource
Guide Covid-19 has created an increased need in these programs as well as the need for new marketing, tech, and safety measures.
Donations will ensure that these programs continue to provide for the community in a safe manner
| TOTAL RAISED = | $7,100.00 | $7,100.00 |
| ioby Platform Fee | waived | $35.00 |
| ioby Donation Processing Fee (3%) | $106.50 | $105.45 |
| TOTAL TO DISBURSE= | $6,993.50 | $6,959.55 |
Original:
$10,000 for administration of Covid-19 community assistance programs for community members.
The funding will go 100% towards administration of the following programs:
Neigbhors in Need grant fund
College and Career Readiness for teens
Employment Assistance for Adults & Teens
Covid-19 precautions to keep the free computer lab and internet access open
Online Community Meetings
Online Covid-19 local resource Guide
Covid-19 has created an increased need in these programs as well as the need for new marketing, tech, and safety measures.
Donations will ensure that these programs continue to provide for the community in a safe manner.
| PROJECT FUNDING NEEDED = | $10,000 |
| ioby Platform Fee | waived |
| ioby Donation Processing Fee (3%) (Donation processing fee does not apply to match funding.) |
$152 |
| TOTAL TO RAISE = | $10,152 |
| Donation processing fees apply to donations only. 100% of match funding goes to projects. Please note, fees are estimated here and final numbers may change based on the final amount raised and amount of match funding applied to this campaign. |
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