1. North Fulton
Community Charities
Based in Roswell, GA
Assists Families and Individuals in Alpharetta,
Johns Creek, Milton and Roswell
Project: Help with the
NFCC Financial Assistance Program
2. Description of Agency
• Primary Source of Human Service assistance in North Fulton
since 1983
• Overview of agencies services:
– Financial Assistance Program
– Food Pantry
– Thrift Shop
– Seasonal/Special Projects
• Holiday Programs; Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and more
• Back to school Program
• Warm Coat Program
• Case workers saw 4,632 families in 2008
– 85 families/day in 2007
– 135 families/day this winter
3. Proposed Project to support
Financial Assistance Program
• Program assists local Families & Individuals in Need
• Goal to maintain stability during emergencies due to unexpected:
– Job loss
– Injury, Illness
– Divorce, abandonment
– Medical concerns
• Goal to make sure that 85% of our families are able to maintain
stability during their financial crisis.
• Project success can be measured by the # and % of families
assisted who are able to remain in their homes through these crises
4. Project Costs and CG Grant
Request
• Support our Financial Assistance Program
• Forecast for emergency assistance
$961,563 (Actual for 2008= $872,014)
CG funds would be used only to assist local families with
emergency needs. A $40,000 grant would stabilize and
prevent eviction for an estimated 160 families.
Total agency Forecast
Assistance 961,563*
Program Services (Case Management, Food Pantry 576,109
Thrift Shop, Holiday Program, Budget Classes, etc):
Administration: 434,496
Fundraising 59,286
Total $2,031,454
*Assistance does not include value of in-kind goods (food, etc): $2,200,000 in 2008
in-
5. CG Grant Requests
Previous CG recipient—results
recipient—
Grants for assistance in 2009 TBD
2008 $40,000
2007 $40,000
2004 $40,000
2000 $140,000
1988 $ 1,200
Grant for Capital Campaign 2005 $38,100
Grant for Katrina 2005 $ 5,000
Grant for Homestretch 1992 $18,682
6. NFCC Agency Strengths
• Board of Directors – 23 Community Leaders
• 11 Full time, 6 Part time employees
• Hundreds of Volunteers
• Partners: 65 church/synagogues
81 Civic Organizations (including CG)
450+ local businesses
66 Schools
100’s of individuals & families
7. NFCC Agency Strengths
• Collaboration with other service providers to
ensure assistance is coordinated and addresses
range of family’s needs.
• 100% of moneys donated by the community
goes directly to families in need. Administration
and personnel expenses are covered by retail
income from our Thrift Shop and grants such as
United Way and Fulton County.
8. Agency Challenges
• NFCC income has Increased 20%
• But Requests are up 45%
– Therefore ability to help individual families is less
• All forecasts are that the depressed economy will
not recover for 18 + months. More and more
families will be needing help at a time when
fewer and fewer are able to donate funds.