Rebuilding Broken Places receives grant
By From staff reports
Published in News on May 29, 2016 1:45 AM
Rebuilding Broken Places Community Development Corp. received a Creating New Economies Fund grant of $11,290.00 from The Conservation Fund's Resourceful Communities program.
The grant will help establish a community kitchen and garden, a culinary and food service training initiative.
The community garden will give local residents an opportunity to of raise a variety vegetables in raised garden beds. In the community kitchen participants will learn various preserving techniques. The goal is to offer entry level training in food service and safety.
"This grant will serve as a launching pad for our job training initiative in food service and safety," said Rebuilding Broken Places CEO John Barnes.
"We are extremely excited about the opportunities we will be offering at RBPCDC as we continue to develop programs for the community," said the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, board chairman of Rebuilding Broken Places.
The grant program is funded with generous support from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, the Oak Foundation and the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
Dedicated to building local capacity, CNEF grants of up to $15,000 support a range of projects that include community trails and eco-tourism; mobile food markets; increasing low-income consumers' access to healthy food; "green collar" job training programs and more.
Open to the program's more than 500 network of community organizations, faith-based groups and rural towns, the small grants result in an average return of $12 for every $1 invested.
Rebuilding Broken Places Community Development Corp. is observing its 20-year history this year in community and economic development programing in Goldsboro/Wayne County.
Greenleaf Christian Church made an investment of $1.2 million dollars in the old Greenleaf community that facilitated the purchase and renovation of a 26,000-square-foot building called Greenleaf Vision of Faith Community Center that houses afterschool programs for four sites in the city, a three-star childcare center, computer lab and other programs of Rebuilding Broken Places. The investment also was the catalysts for the building of Greenleaf Grace Village, a 41-unit senior housing facility.
Rebuilding Broken Placesis the developer of Faith Estates, a single-family housing development for first-time home buyers. The organization's after-school program, Project YESS, currently serves 120 children at Lincoln Homes, Fairview, and West Haven and at Greenleaf Vision of Faith Community Center.