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Michael G. Nicholas Foundation
  • The Orthodox Christian
  • Childrens Fund

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Background History
  • 1997 short-term mission to Uganda
  • Library with no books
  • Classes with one book per class
  • Old broken chalk board and no chalk
  • Students cannot pay even 25 tuition
  • Families of orphans, many with HIV
  • 10,000 donation to Met. JONAH

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Background History
  • 1999 short-term mission to Kenya
  • Good public schools
  • Many students cannot afford 300 tuition
  • Education is way out of agrarian lifestyle
  • Sponsor 15 students
  • Form Private Foundation in 2000
  • Sponsoring more students each year

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Background History
  • 1998, 2000, 2001 trips to Project Mexico
  • St. Innocent orphanage for teen boys
  • Boys would be selling drugs at border
  • or worse
  • Very well run organization
  • Provide one full tuition in 2003 - 2000

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Background History
  • 2001 short-term mission to Cameroon
  • Children selling peanuts, bananas, grubs
  • Student digs/sells sand from back yard
  • 2/day for hard work making concrete
  • Sponsor 9 students in 2003

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IOCC
  • Large - 15 million
  • Humanitarian able to get USAID
  • War relief
  • Tsunami relief
  • Cottage industries
  • Micro-loans

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OCMC
  • Missionary
  • Does not receive matching USAID
  • Long-term missions, short-term missions
  • Catechism
  • Building Churches, Schools, Clinics
  • Support A Mission Priest
  • Agape Canister Program

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Project Mexico
  • Small well-run organization
  • Home Building
  • Orphanage
  • Huge network of donors from work teams
  • Focused only in Tijuana

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Childrens Organizations
  • Save the Children
  • Large, International
  • Child Sponsorships 28 / month
  • Compassion International
  • Smaller, more Spiritual
  • Child Sponsorships 32 / month
  • Holy Land Ecumenical Fund
  • Relief for Holy Land
  • Child Sponsorships in Palestine, 350 / year

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The Need
  • IOCC does humanitarian relief
  • OCMC does missions
  • Project Mexico focused on Tijuana
  • Need a US Orthodox Child Sponsorship Program

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Michael G. Nicholas Foundation
  • Created in 2000
  • Sponsoring 50 students in Kenya
  • Sponsoring 9 students in Cameroon
  • Has sponsored 1 student in Mexico
  • 2nd zero-interest loan for Kenyan student to
    attend university in the US
  • Still small, the need is much larger

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Solution
  • Expand Foundation to be public charity
  • Create board of directors
  • Solicit funds from Orthodox in Chicago
  • Later expand across US

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Sponsorship options
  • 350 for full year sponsor in Africa
  • 175 sponsor day scholar in Kenya
  • 2000 Project Mexico Partner
  • 7000 Lifetime endowed sponsorship

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Thank You
  • Michael G. Nicholas Foundation is already
    operating as a Private Foundation!
  • Donations are tax-deductible to the extent of the
    law!

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