Sharing Abundance Recipients
2004

Sharing abundance is an important part of Unity Palo Alto Community Church’s sharing prosperity and community outreach.

Jan.	Urban Ministries
Feb.	OICW (Opportunities Industrialization Center West)
March	The Rare Cancer Resource Foundation
April	Gay – Straight Alliance
May	Partners in Caring
June	The Transitional Program
July	Free at Last
Aug.	Ministerial Discretion
Sept.	Children’s Programming at the Elsa Segovia Center
Oct.	Mother Branch: The East Palo Alto Community Service Center
Nov.	Pathways Hospice (formerly Mid-Peninsula)
Dec.	Emergency Housing Consortium

Our 2004 Holiday Community Giving includes the Heart to Heart Gift Giving program, and gives to Haven House, Lytton Gardens, and Mother Branch.

Unity Heart to Heart Gift Giving

Help make dreams come true for yourself and/or other Unity family members who are experiencing financial difficulty by participating in our “Heart to Heart” Gift Giving Program.

For more details about referring yourself or other Unity family members to the program, or for giving a gift to make dreams come true, click here.

Elsa Segovia Center

The Elsa Segovia Center Serving Women, Children and Families is located in Menlo Park. The program is sponsored by the Clara-Mateo Alliance, serving the homeless in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Elsa Segovia Center provides case management and basic services such as food, clothing, showers and laundry facilities. It offers case management, medical and dental care, benefit eligibility screening, counseling and therapy, parent/child education, a children's program and a parent-participation preschool. All services are offered on-site.

Emergency Housing Consortium

The Emergency Housing Consortium tackles homelessness one life at a time. In Santa Clara County. It is the county's largest provider of shelter, housing opportunities, and supportive services for homeless individuals, families, and youth. Since 1980, Emergency Housing Consortium, EHC, has helped homeless Silicon Valley residents find housing and long term stability, with the help of corporations, community groups, and individuals. EHC provides state-of-the-art shelters, transitional housing programs — with employment services, life skills training, family support and follow up services being just a few elements in the unique continuum of care.

Free At Last

Building Character by Tapping into Technology. Free At Last Community Recovery & Rehabilitation embodies a new model of recovery – in the community, by the community and for the community. Free at Last has been at the forefront of providing community-based substance abuse treatment services in East Palo Alto and its surrounding areas in innovative ways since 1994. Now Free at Last has begun to serve the community in another innovative way, having been selected as one of three local nonprofits selected to become a Technology Access Point (TAP) as part of the East Palo Alto Digital Village project.

Gay – Straight Alliance

The Gay/Straight Alliance is a network of student run school clubs that acts as a support group for students and works to educate middle and high school communities to fight discrimination, bullying and harassment of students based on actual or perceived sexual orientation.

Mother Branch

Mother Branch of the East Palo Alto Community Center has been ministering to people in need in her community for the past 49 years. Through her work she provides food, clothing, counseling, household items, bus fare, and other types of support. Mother Branch, 650-325-2848.

OICW

The Opportunities Industrialization Center West, OICW, is a non-profit community-based job training center on the Menlo Park-East Palo Alto border. Their mission is to help those who are most in need succeed and their purpose is to change the lives of people in our community through education, attitude and job skills training, career placement, and youth and child development. Its accredited job training, counseling and placement services, teen programs, evening courses, and child development centers help 6,000 people per year.

Partners in Caring

Partners in Caring is a joint partnership between Stanford Hospital and Avenidas. It provides carefully screened volunteer care-givers to assist individuals seeking to maintain their independence in their homes by performing such services as providing transportation, shopping assistance, friendly visiting, telephone reassurance, meal preparation, and relief from isolation.

Pathways Hospice

Pathways Hospice is a a community-based not-for-profit healthcare organization whose philospohy is compassionate patient care comes first. Pathways' mission is to provide compassionate quality healthcare for patients recovering from an injury or illness, managing a chronic disease or coping with a life-threatening illness in their place of residence, promoting comfort, independence and dignity. Pathways provides services in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties to patients who reside in private residences and a variety of independent and assisted living homes such as board and care homes and senior housing.

Rare Cancer Resource Foundation

The Rare Cancer Resource Foundation was founded to serve cancer patients with rare or uncommon tumor types. Through its grant programs, the Palo Alto based Foundation provides grants for new and novel therapies to patients.

Second Harvest

Second Harvest's mission is to rally community resources to assist people who are hungry in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. For every dollar donated, Second Harvest provides two nutritious meals. The local organization is an affiliate of America's Second Harvest, which is the nation's largest hunger-relief organization.

The Transitional Program

The Transitional Program assists individuals in developing appropriate social and work skills, deal effectively with psychological issues and promote behaviors which foster a rewarding and productive life through training, classes and counseling.

Urban Ministries of Palo Alto

Breaking the cycle of poverty and homelessness. Urban Ministry of Palo Alto provides free hot meals, bags of groceries, collects and distributes free clothing, and provides a rotating emergency shelter program.

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