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GOAL #3 Better Outreach

Align Outreach with Human Needs

Process Objective #1: EDUCATION

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Preparing students for graduation and the future by partnering with organizations and schools.

Process Objective #2: ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Prepare youth, young adults, and adults for meaningful employment.

Process Objective #3: HUNGER

Expand feeding programs to address basic food needs (i.e. CSFP, Fish and Loaves).

Process Objective #4:

Create a comprehensive outreach center at the Elm Campus to identify and provide needs for the Petersburg community.

Process Objective #5: SOCIAL JUSTICE

Address social stability and systemic policies.

Process Objective #6: INTERNATIONAL

Educate, bring awareness, and address needs of world issues and concerns.

Provided financial crisis services for 114 families totaling $58,270

15

volunteers donated 300

hours of support time in small groups to encourage families in crisis Dispensed

Barnabas Counseling Ministry 178 CLIENTS SERVED July 2018 – June 2019

$44,940

to prevent 69 families from being Evicted

• Basic Money – Financial Literacy

Educational Assistance

• This financial literacy series is designed specifically for those taking their first steps toward money management. • 17 members successfully completed and received graduation certificates and are on their way to living debt free! • 8 volunteers donated 24 hours to provide members with financial literacy training and debt reduction

Culinary Arts

• Culinary Arts supported this initiative by providing training on health conscious and wholesome meals for children and youth. We also provided hot and cold meals to children and youth throughout the year.

Dispensed $13,330

to keep lights, gas and water services from being discounected

Citywide Day of Community Service One hundred fifty three (153) volunteers provided community service at the same time to the following locations: Armstrong High School, Bon Secours Noah’s Children, Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club, Capital Area Diaper Bank, The Healing Place Alumni Block Party, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Highland Springs Elementary School, Home Again, Montrose Elementary School, Peter Paul Development Center, Pleasants Lane Elementary School, The Doorways, and Project Homes (October 2018)

Feed More Special Distribution Held a special food distribution for over 100 seniors in partnership with FeedMore. (October 2018)

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Domestic Violence Seminar And

Walk - Partnered with the Richmond City Sheriff’s Office to provide Domestic Violence Awareness Workshops to over 150 participants lead by facilitators Dr. Lisa Johnson and Anita Payne. Keynote speaker Damika “Meko” Kelly shared her personal domestic violence experience. The Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Walk followed the workshops and raised $1,000 for the YWCA Domestic Violence program. (October 2018)

Support Local School: Blackwell Elementary Preschool

Donated cider and pumpkins to 60 students to who could not visit the pumpkin farm. (October 2018)

Veterans Celebration Honored over 100 veterans and their family members for Veterans Day to say THANK YOU for your service. Celebrated with Comedian Antoine Scott, Franklin Military Academy’s Color Guard, Master of Ceremony Retired Lieutenant Colonel Claude Vann, III, food, and lots of fun. (November 2018)

Operation Harvest: RVA Community Thanksgiving

Distribution Partnered with 45 community partners, involving 200+ volunteers to provide Thanksgiving to over 2,200 families. Thank you to sponsors: Richmond Public Schools, Walmart, SunTrust Bank, A Village Youth and Family Services, Saint Paul’s Community Foundation, and Nia of Greater Richmond, and donors: Venture Richmond, Pepsi Beverages Company, Richmond Flying Squirrels, Strother’s Bookkeeping & Tax Service, LLC, Harrell & Chambliss, LLP, Gwathmey Design Group, LLC, Family Secrets Restaurant, Jackie’s Restaurant, and Harris Mechanical Services, Inc. (November 2018)

Senior Thanksgiving Distribution Provided and delivered 450 Thanksgiving boxes to seniors in the community. (November 2018)

Restorative Justice Hosted a Restorative Justice training for mediators and people interested in becoming Restorative Justice mediators. This was in partnership with the Virginia Center for Restorative Justice (November 2018)

Children’s Home of Virginia Baptist Partnered with the Children’s Home of Virginia Baptist for the annual Christmas Toy distribution. Provided toys and bikes to several hundreds of children in Petersburg and surrounding areas. (December 2018)

No Child Without A Toy Hosted a Christmas Celebration for 55 members of the Assisting Families of Inmates Milk and Cookies (MAC) Mentoring Program and their family members. MAC is a program for students at Woodville, Chimborazo, and Swansboro Elementary Schools whose parents are incarcerated. This event was in partnership with the Richmond City Sheriff’s Office. Thank you to sponsors: Richmond Christmas Mother Fund, Nia of Greater Richmond, Roane Consulting Group, John Jones, Joyce

BETTER OUTREACH

As we continue to CARE for one another and the world with the focus of finding needs and meeting

them, finding hurts and healing them, finding problems

and solving them, it is with great joy that we continually expand our offerings of gifts and resources by vendors who honor social responsibility. Here are a few of the vendors we purchase from: • African American Expressions - Proceeds help fund vital services offered by organizations assisting women and children in crisis, the homeless and fatherless - Some of their partners include: Love Him, Love Them, Hosea Feed The Hungry, SafeHaven, Agape International Missions (AIM), About Kidz • Lighthouse Christian Products - Support and help sponsor God4Me Men’s Network, Discipleship Boot Camps in New York City. - SIPS Drinkware – proceeds help build life-saving fresh water wells for our neighbors in Uganda - Thistle Farms – all natural home and body products made by women survivors of addiction, prostitution and trafficking

Culinary Arts supported this initiative by supplying fresh fruits and vegetables to the Refiners, weekly meals for the homeless and meals for area shelters.

WEBSITE STATS Total Site Visits 87,839 (Sessions) Total Pages Viewed 188,459 Pageviews

Most Visited Webpage Areas (excluding homepage & media page): Top 3 Pages Calendar, About Campuses, Giving/Tithes

How many visits from mobile devices? – 59,049 (63.85% of all web traffic)

Mobile devices used by SPBC website visitors – 51% iPhone/iPad users, 15% Samsung, 9% Blackberry, 5% Google Nexus, 10-15% undeclared

Countries Visiting the Website – 78 Different Countries Top 10 (countries): US, Brazil, Canada, UK, India, Bermuda, Germany, France, Italy and Australia

FACEBOOK (7/1/2018 – 6/30/19)

Previous period 10,092 Page Likes (Follows) Current period 11,514 Page Likes (Follows)

*Average 1.5k returning viewers (livestream) each weekend

Jones, and community partners: Ricky Johnson & Friends, and Jerilyn Lundy. (December 2018)

SPBC Community Toy Distribution Christmas toy distribution at all 3 campuses. Provided toys to over 500 children in the community. (December 2018)

Restorative Justice Partnered with the Virginia Center for Restorative Justice who assisted approximately 300 people via victim and offender mediation, restorative justice within local schools, jails and prisons. (Year Round)

Exodus Prison Ministry Provides a weekly worship experience in the Henrico County Jail East. (Year round)

Beyond the Walls Pick up homeless people each Sunday for breakfast, worship and fellowship. (Year round)

Home Again Provide weekly bible study and dinner once a month at the HomeAgain homeless men’s shelter (Year Round)

Housing Families First Provide dinner and fellowship quarterly to homeless women and children. (Year round)

Collected Coats for Hurricane victims in NC Shipped 23 boxes of coats, $375 gift cards and two carts of food to West Street Christian Church in New Bern NC (January 2019)

Black History Month Art, Empowerment & Health Expo

Educated and offered resources to hundreds of members and visitors the entire month of February. Participants: Ezibu Muntu Dance Troop, Caring Hearts Medical Ministry, SPBC Visual Arts Group, My Twisted Wrist, Virginia Coleman, Stacks and Dangles, Charcoal Artist Shatoni Caldwell, Nia, Inc. HIV Awareness, Author, Dr. Kimberly Matthews, Visual Artist Speed Painter Sone-Seere’ Burrell, Visual Artist Jordan Hopkins, His Disciples Clothing Line, Drama Ministry, RAIN Mime Ministry, Ayinde’, Choirs, VSU choir, Poet Cortni Quarles, Artist Unicia Buster, Author Dr. O’Neal Sandidge, spiritual, political, health and financial empowerment information. (February 2019)

Noah’s Children Packed 25 Easter baskets for children in the Noah’s Children pediatric palliative care program that serves children with life-threatening or life-limiting illnesses. (March 2019)

Voter registration and assisted people with getting their right restored (April 2019)

Service for Our Seniors Forty-five (45) volunteers provided minor home repairs in the homes of 17 seniors in the community (June 2019)

I Wear Purple When I Dance Fundraiser Partnered with the Alzheimer’s Foundation on The Longest Day. Raised $3,500 and hosted an awareness reception to share information and resources. (June 2019)

The Saint Paul’s Baptist Church Urban and Community

Garden consist of approximately 20-25 volunteers who contributed close to 1,000 hours. A variety of vegetables were planted, harvested, and distributed to seniors at all of our campuses as well as to individuals, and organizations (i.e. Housing Families First) in the community. (July 2018 - June 2019)

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