{"id":8659,"date":"2014-06-17T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=8659"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:22:25","slug":"gfcf-announces-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2014\/gfcf-announces-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Food Crisis Fund Provides Grant to Bittersweet Ministries, Gives Grant to Extend Going to Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo courtesy of Mountain View Church of the Brethren in Boise, ID<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Global Food Crisis Fund (GFCF) of the Church of the Brethren has given a grant of $10,000 to support a ministry in Mexico, sponsored by Bittersweet Ministries. Also, the fund has given a second grant of $30,000 to Going to the Garden, in a cooperative effort with the denomination\u2019s Office of Public Witness.<\/p>\n

Bittersweet Ministries<\/strong><\/p>\n

An allocation of $10,000 has been given to support a ministry in Tijuana, Mexico, sponsored by Bittersweet Ministries. This one-time grant will support Two Machines, a sewing cooperative in the process of becoming registered as a 501c3. Two Machines\u2019 community development approach includes participation of co-op members in planning and running their own business. Funds will be sent through Bittersweet Ministries and its board of directors, for use specifically for 501c3 filing fees and for wages, rent, and materials for operations through December 2014.<\/p>\n

Going to the Garden<\/strong><\/p>\n

A $30,000 grant extends the Going to the Garden project in cooperation with the denomination\u2019s Office of Public Witness. \u201cGoing to the Garden: A Community Food Security and Nutrition Initiative\u201d is intended to facilitate the formation or expansion of congregationally based community gardens and other garden based efforts to concretely address food insecurity, environmental degradation, and poverty in the US.<\/p>\n

Attached to the grant request was the following listing of community gardens that are receiving support, each receiving a \u201cmini grant\u201d of $1,000. Four congregations have received two mini grants in two separate calendar years. The initial GFCF allocation of $30,000 that started Going to the Garden was made in the fall of 2012.<\/p>\n

For more about Going to the Garden and to view a new video on this project, go to www.brethren.org\/gfcf<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Going to the Garden<\/small>
The garden at Annville (Pa.) Church of the Brethren<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Capstone Community Gardens and Orchard, New Orleans, La.
\nFirst Church of the Brethren, Harrisonburg, Va.
\nMeadow Branch Church of the Brethren, Westminster, Md.
\nAnawim Christian Community (Mennonite), Gresham, Ore.
\nNampa (Idaho) Church of the Brethren
\nBeacon Heights Church of the Brethren, Fort Wayne, Ind.
\nMount Morris (Ill.) Church of the Brethren
\nMountain View Church of the Brethren, Boise, Idaho
\nI Care Inc., Topeka, Kan.
\nLiving Faith Church of the Brethren, Concord, N.C.
\nPeace and Carrots Community Garden, La Verne (Calif.) Church of the Brethren
\nChampaign (Ill.) Church of the Brethren
\nAnnville (Pa.) Church of the Brethren
\nBrethren Hillcrest Homes, La Verne, Calif.
\nCrossPoint Community Church, Whitewater, Wis.
\nHeart of the Rockies Christian Church, Fort Collins, Colo.
\nFalffurrias (Texas) Church of the Brethren
\nMount Wilson (Pa.) Church of the Brethren
\nGracebridge Church of Christ, Chattanooga, Tenn.
\nWest Charleston Church of the Brethren, Tipp City, Ohio
\nHempfield Church of the Brethren, Manheim, Pa.
\nFirst Church of the Brethren, Wichita. Kan.
\nAkron (Ohio) Eastwood Church of the Brethren
\nPleasant Dale Church of the Brethren, Decatur, Ind., for a garden project in Arctic Circle, Alaska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Global Food Crisis Fund (GFCF) of the Church of the Brethren has given a grant of $10,000 to support a ministry in Mexico, sponsored by Bittersweet Ministries. Also, the fund has given a second grant of $30,000 to Going to the Garden, in a cooperative effort with the denomination\u2019s Office of Public Witness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1295,379,1260,1278],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-8659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advocacy","tag-global-food-crisis-fund","tag-global-food-initiative","tag-stewardship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8661,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8659"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=8659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}