Michael G. Nicholas Foundation
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Michael G. Nicholas Foundation
The Orthodox Christian
Children’s Fund
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
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
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
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
IOCC
• Large - $15 million
• Humanitarian – able to get USAID
• War relief
• Tsunami relief
• Cottage industries
• Micro-loans
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
Project Mexico
• Small well-run organization
• Home Building
• Orphanage
• Huge network of donors from work teams
• Focused only in Tijuana
Children’s 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
The Need
• IOCC does humanitarian relief
• OCMC does missions
• Project Mexico focused on Tijuana
• Need a US Orthodox Child Sponsorship Program
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
Solution
• Expand Foundation to be public charity
• Create board of directors
• Solicit funds from Orthodox in Chicago
• Later expand across US
Sponsorship options
• $350 for full year sponsor in Africa
• $175 sponsor day scholar in Kenya
• $2000 Project Mexico Partner
• $7000 Lifetime endowed sponsorship
Thank You
• Michael G. Nicholas Foundation is already operating as a Private Foundation!
• Donations are tax-deductible to the extent of the law!