SOCIAL JUSTICE - SHEPHERD'S GATE GRANT PROGRAM

Shepherd's Gate is a small annual grant program that supports nonprofit organizations that reflect our parish mission to serve people in need, to do justice where inequity exists, to stand for human dignity, and to promote peace.

Income from Good Shepherd Catholic Church's annual International Festival, held on Labor Day, funds the Shepherd’s Gate Grant Program each year.

For information on applying for a Shepherd's Gate Grant, please contact the parish office at (703) 780-4055 or grant@gs-cc.org.

Recipients of Shepherd’s Gate Grants in 2011
This year Shepherd's Gate Grant Committee received 29 proposals and was able to award 12 grants totaling over $42,500 to amazing local, national, and international community organizations.

• Alexandria Neighborhood Health (www.anhsi.org) - to support additional staff for pediatric care services to low-income and immigrant families.

• Catholic Charities' St. Martin de Porres Senior Center (www.ccda.net) - to support a nutritional breakfast program for vulnerable senior citizens with economic and social needs.

• Catholics for Housing (www.catholicsforhousing.org) - to provide financial assistance to individuals and families moving from inadequate housing or homeless situations into permanent housing.

• Gabriel Homes (www.gabrielhomes.org) - to complete health and welfare related repairs to a home for adults with intellectual disabilities.

• Good Shepherd Housing & Family Services (www.goodhousing.org) - to support their workforce enablement (job skills training) project.

• New Hope Housing (www.newhopehousing.org) - to provide case management and services to homeless children in their programs.

• Northern Virginia Aids Ministry (www.novam.org) - to support a pediatric-targeted program to children living with HIV/AIDS.

• OAR of Fairfax (www.oarfairfax.org) - to provide basic supplies meeting immediate needs of recently released inmates in transition.

• Our Daily Bread (www.our-daily-bread.org) - to provide farmers' market vouchers to their low-income clients.

• Progreso Hispano (progreso-hispano.org) - to expand computer and technology instruction to immigrant clients.

• Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) (www.scanva.org) - to provide educational parent support programs to Spanish-speaking parents.

• St. Joseph's Mission Fund (sjmissionfund.org) - to finance facility repairs to key areas of the orphanage based in Southern India.