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Board of Directors
FROM THE
PRESIDENT
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hile the past three years have brought unforeseen circumstances that have challenged our organization like never before, my heart is full of hope for the future because of you. Through a global pandemic to historic inflation and back-to-back natural disasters, your compassion has made it possible for us to pivot to serve the changing needs of Appalachia.
As we started the fiscal year, the continued outpouring of generosity we received in the wake of the July 2022 floods was remarkable. Because of your faithfulness, CAP was able to get nearly 100 families back in their flood-damaged homes and partner with Appalachia Service Project to build 10 new homes for families impacted by the flood — families like the Ritchies. As the waters surrounded their home the night of the floods, Reggie Ritchie, sick with COVID, carried his wife and granddaughter to safety one at a time on his shoulders just before their home was knocked off its foundation. Your compassion has made it possible for the family to have a safe, warm, and dry home again. Thank you. The generosity from friends like you also made it possible for CAP’s Home Repair program to add eight new positions and to expand our impact. This change allows us to serve more families, create high-impact teams to work on homes, and give more short-term volunteers the opportunity to serve and support our mission. While we have seen the need for home repair services grow in recent years, we look forward to the work we will do with this restructuring as we strive to eliminate 80% of substandard housing in our service area. In October, we entered the public phase of our greatest philanthropic effort — RISE and Shine: The Campaign for Christian Appalachian Project. This effort will bolster our mission of building hope, transforming lives, and sharing Christ’s love through service in Appalachia. Because of the commitment of supporters like you, we have already made tremendous progress in reaching our goal of $95 million to enhance our programming in the years ahead. Thank you. It is an exciting time to be a part of this dedicated organization, which has kept the people of Appalachia at the core of our mission since our founding. As we near our 60th anniversary, I am proud to reflect on where we have come from. Today, we stand on the shoulders of giants who have paved the way so we can continue to provide critical services for our brothers and sisters in Appalachia. Thank you for being a part of our legacy and for making our mission possible. In gratitude, Guy Adams President/CEO
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Christmas Distribution
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he generosity of our donors helped provide comfort and Christmas joy to children, their families, and seniors in Appalachia during the holiday season. CAP’s programs hosted community events for children and their families to gather for a meal, games, a visit with Santa, and gift distributions. Our Family Advocacy program served nearly 650 families through distributions in our service counties in 2023. Because of program collaboration and partnerships, CAP was also able to deliver gifts to senior participants and an additional 1,000 stockings and hams to families in Eastern Kentucky.
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The Campaign for Christian Appalachian Project By Grant Harned
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s many people in our service area navigate the consequences of devastating severe weather events, deadly natural disasters, and recovery from a global pandemic, we are acutely aware of the ongoing challenges experienced by many Appalachian families. Yet, thanks to the strength and commitment of the Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) community, of which you are an integral part, thousands of children and their families, seniors, and people with disabilities have access to basic services and resources when they need them most. Our greatest inspiration remains the people and communities we are called to serve. Their resilience, their spirit, and their love, even amid challenges, invite us to dream big about what God has planned for this beautiful place. RISE and Shine: The Campaign for Christian Appalachian Project is a three-year comprehensive campaign that aims to raise $95 million to fuel enhanced and expanded services for our participants and communities in the years ahead. The campaign is centered around four priorities: standing with Appalachian youth and families, meeting the most basic human needs, building strategic partnerships, and strengthening the heartbeat of volunteerism.
The RISE and Shine campaign is about seizing the immediate opportunities we have to grow as outlined in our strategic plan, while also continuing to serve our participants more and better through a comprehensive network of critical services. RISE and Shine is our largest and most ambitious philanthropic effort to date and will strengthen all of CAP’s human services programs to meet the evolving needs of the people and communities we are blessed to serve. Under the excellent leadership of the Campaign Steering Committee, co-chaired by Brittany and Robert Lawson of Lexington, and with the support of CAP friends during the quiet phase that began in 2021, we have made tremendous progress toward our $95 million goal. By the end of August, CAP had achieved more than 82% of our goal before the campaign was publicly launched in October. As we live out our mission each day, we are inspired to reach toward greater service milestones than we could ever have hoped to reach thanks to God’s providence and the generous response to RISE and Shine from CAP’s faithful partners like you. For more information about RISE and Shine: The Campaign for Christian Appalachian Project, visit christianapp.org/rise-shine.
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God is Good By Tina V. Bryson
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n the darkness of night with flood waters rushing around, the Ritchie family sat huddled together, cold and wet. They watched, by intermittent flashes of lighting in the night sky, as the home they had purchased just two years before was knocked completely off its foundation by another home that was drifting at high speed in the floodwaters. In an instant, they lost everything they had worked for. Generous donations to Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) created an opportunity to partner with Appalachia Service Project (ASP). This strategic partnership will build
Representatives from CAP and Appalachia Service Project (ASP), in addition to Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman, raised the final wall of the Ritchie home in July.
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10 new homes for families who were impacted by the July 2022 floods. The $250,000 grant from CAP helped families primarily in Floyd and Knott Counties get back into homes that are safe, warm, and dry. Della Ritchie is one of the homeowners helped through the grant-funded partnership. “It’s been a long time coming. We’ve been through a lot, but so has our whole community,” she said. “To have so many organizations helping us, you can’t really put it into words how thankful you are and how blessed you feel.”
(Above) ASP volunteers began work on the Ritchie's home in July. (Top right) Della Ritchie observes the progress being made on her home. (Right) Construction of the Ritchie family home was completed in early December. Pictured standing in the Ritchie's framed home are, from left, Tina Bryson, CAP assistant director of Communications; Guy Adams, CAP president/CEO; Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman; Walter Crouch, ASP president/CEO; Reggie Ritchie; and Bryan Byrd, CAP assistant director of Home Repair.
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“To have so many organizations helping us, you can’t really put it into words how thankful you are and how blessed you feel.” — Della Ritchie
The Ritchies are raising their teenage granddaughter and were blessed to have a neighbor who offered their home to the family until the construction was complete. “You really take for granted what you’ve got until it’s gone. This time the year before, we had just been enjoying life like every family does,” Ritchie said. “The night of the floods, I had been working in the garden all day and was still up canning green beans. The rain was so hard and so fast. I was on my knees praying, ‘God please help us.’ I just knew it was not going to be good. It was too much rain.” Her daughter called at 2 a.m. and said the water was already on her porch, even though she lived in a location much more elevated than where her parents were located. Ritchie went to her back door and saw that the waters had already started to come in. By the time she was able to wake everyone and gather their pets, the water would have been over their heads if they had attempted to walk out. Her husband, running a temperature from COVID, had to make a decision. “My husband barely got us out on his shoulders,” Ritchie recalled. Had they waited, a mobile home drifting in the water would have hit their granddaughter’s bedroom. “He came and got each of us one at a time and carried us to safety across the road. You just don’t imagine. All you can see is your home being ripped from its foundation.” Regular homeowner’s insurance doesn’t cover flooding, and FEMA reported that only 4% of people applying for housing recovery assistance after the July 2022 floods had flood insurance. The maximum FEMA grant per household is less than $40,000, and it was the only source of funding for many residents in the area. The Ritchies, like many families, fell in the gray area: making too much to qualify for some government assistance programs, but not enough to be able to manage rebuilding a home on their own.
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The Ritchie family stands on the front porch of their new home. The family moved in during December and looked forward to celebrating Christmas there. The Ritchie's home was completed in December and they looked forward to having their whole family together for Christmas. The Ritchie's have not been able to gather with her father-in-law for many years because they had no handicap access. “I am so overjoyed,” Ritchie said. “They put in an accessible ramp to our new home. We are looking forward to the holidays. God is good.”
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Statement of Financial Position as of Aug. 31, 2023
Total Assets
$46,918,564
Total Liabilities
$2,226,300
Net Assests (unrestricted)
$38,844,178
Revenues, gains, and other support
$199,783,329
Expenses
$194,295,655
Actuarial adjustment on annuity obligations Total expenses and losses Change in net assets
$194,849,671 $4,933,658
Net assets, beginning of year
$39,758,606
Net assets, end of year
$44,692,264
The financial summaries presented here were compiled by management. A copy of the FY23 Audited Financial Statements can be obtained by contacting Guy Adams, president or Brian Stiefel, chief financial officer. Christian Appalachian Project is a 501 c(3) not-for-profit corporation qualified to receive tax-deductible contributions.
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OUR DONORS
249,544
73,652
DONORS CONTRIBUTED TO CAP IN FY23
FIRST-TIME DONORS IN FY23
Geographic locations of CAP’s donors: 50 U.S. States, 6 U.S. Territories, 2 Canadian Provinces, 2 Regions of England, 1 Region of France
TOTAL EXPENSES 88.51% of funds go directly to CAP programs
14.97%
2.66%
Family Services
Management & General
8.83% Fund Development
12.54% Educational Services
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60.90% Community Services
.10% of total expenses contributed to economic development.
Family Life Child Development Center
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AP’s Family Life Child Development Center offers a preschool program for children ages 3-5. The center is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and holds the highest rating in Kentucky’s early childhood rating system, the “Kentucky All STARS” program. During the school year, children engage in play-based activities designed to help them develop skills in all learning domains. Each year, CAP employees and volunteers ensure the preschoolers and their families have a fun-filled year through classroom activities, holiday events and celebrations, field trips, and an annual graduation ceremony to celebrate student achievement.
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“For each person in need, we must set our sights high, and we must act boldly.” - Guy Adams
A student from Mount St. Joseph University works on a home repair project during WorkFest, CAP's alternative spring break trip for college students.
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Darrell Roybal joined a team of volunteers from MEI-Total Elevator Solutions for a week of service with CAP's Home Repair program.
Serve More, Serve Better By Brianna Stephens
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or more than 50 years, Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) has continuously fostered a culture of improvement to guide the work being done to help children, their families, and seniors in the region. After the challenges that have impacted Appalachia in recent years, CAP saw the need for additional help to serve more and serve better through home repair services. In April, CAP leadership announced a plan that would add eight new positions to and restructure the Home Repair program. “The restructuring and added positions set us up to develop high-impact teams, serve more families in a wider area, and give more short-term volunteers a place to serve,” said Bryan Byrd, assistant director of CAP’s Home Repair program. “We are excited about the possibilities moving ahead.”
Home Repair was previously divided into two regions of service — Sandy Valley (Johnson, Martin, and Floyd Counties) and Cumberland Valley (Rockcastle, Jackson, and McCreary Counties). While the number of one-year volunteers was not increasing, employees identified a potential growth opportunity for short-term volunteers to help on worksites. They needed more employees to supervise these volunteers which would expand their capacity to serve more families. With the additional employee positions and the new restructuring, Home Repair was reorganized into four subregions – Sandy Valley North, Sandy Valley South, Cumberland Valley East, and Cumberland Valley West – and will expand services in three to four additional counties in Eastern Kentucky.
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Teams of volunteers serving with CAP's Home Repair program help make homes in Appalachia safe, warm, and dry. The program's restructure will create opportunities for more volunteers to serve.
“The change allowed us to consider expanding our coverage area and support families with offices in their communities,” Byrd said. “It will also allow us to serve more families, reduce waiting time for services, and take advantage of more group volunteers to complete more home repair jobs.”
years,” Byrd said. “We are also excited about new initiatives we will have to partner with local schools, churches, and individuals to develop a pipeline of local volunteers and build skills in local men and women that can benefit them and the communities they live in.”
The pandemic, historic inflation, and back-to-back natural disasters over the past few years have greatly increased the need for home repair services in Appalachia. The pandemic slowed services drastically while the need continued to grow, and material prices and availability impacted the work that could be done. And over the past year, CAP has diverted substantial resources to flood recovery efforts in our service area.
The addition of the positions and the expanded capacity align with CAP’s 30-year vision, set forth by Guy Adams, president/CEO. His vision is intended to inspire, challenge, and focus the creative energies and labors of CAP toward a shared vision of the future. As part of that vision, Adams hopes to see CAP eliminate 80% of substandard housing in the organization’s service area.
“We expect that we will now be able to serve more and serve better to help the many families who have been impacted by or face challenges after the events of the last few
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“We will have given hope to that many more children, their families, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities,” Adams said. “For each person in need, we must set our sights high, and we must act boldly.”
BY THE NUMBERS 11,571
307
1,211
98
4,010
1.5 million
160
2,163
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participants received direct service through CAP’s human services programs in Eastern Kentucky.
people volunteered their time and talents to the mission of Christian Appalachian Project.
participants served at the Grateful Bread Food Pantry, Eagle Food Pantry, and Water Into Wine, CAP's pantry partner.
participants received home visits, transports, and in-home respite in our Elderly Services program.
346
lowincome or at-risk family members received professional counseling services.
194
*
children and adults trained in disaster relief preparedness.
homes repaired and/or rebuilt.
at-risk children received educational support through preschool, infant/toddler, Parents Are Teachers, and after-school programs.
individuals impacted by corporate giftin-kind donations valued at $155.3 million and distributed by CAP's Operation Sharing program in 13 Appalachian states, plus the Ozarks region of Missouri and Arkansas.
students received inschool curriculum, tutoring, mentoring, and leadership training.
2,941
people received critical, emergency, and family-oriented community services through the Family Advocacy program. *Due to immediate needs in the wake of natural disaster events, this number was elevated in previous years.
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Majesta Vaughn, left, serves as an AmeriCorps member alongside CAP employees like Angie Howard, right, program coordinator of Grateful Bread Food Pantry and Grateful Threadz Thrift Store.
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Meaningful Connections By Brianna Stephens
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he stories of hope, transformation, and resilience the employees and volunteers at Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) hear daily inspire the work we do. These stories also create long-lasting, personal connections to the region and the people we serve.
siblings. When her grandmother passed away, she took custody of her siblings and still cares for them while also going to college, paying the bills, and fulfilling many other responsibilities. When the family needs food, they turn to Grateful Bread for nutritious meals.
When Majesta Vaughn left the shores in her hometown of Huntington Beach, California, for a year of service with CAP in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, she had few connections in the area with the exception of a few family members. Almost immediately, though, she discovered the connections she was making through her service at CAP’s Grateful Bread Food Pantry were not only making an impact on the hungry families she served, but on her as well.
“Hearing their story really hit home with me,” Vaughn said. “I am also 18 and have three siblings around the same ages. I couldn’t fathom being in a situation like that at my age. It really stuck with me and inspires me to work hard every day to make a difference for families like theirs.”
“I enjoy the idea of being able to help someone meet the need of having a basic necessity, like food,” the AmeriCorps member said. “I also love sitting down and having close relationships with people and understanding who I serve.” But Vaughn didn’t anticipate the deep connection she would form with one family and how their story would resonate with her. A caseworker in the local school system came to the pantry to pick up food for a family and shared their story with the pantry employees and volunteers. It was a family of four siblings, and the eldest was 18 years old. They had lost their mother and had been taken in by their grandmother. After some time, the grandmother’s health started to decline. Wanting to help her family as best she could, the 18 year old stepped up to care for her grandmother and her three
Like many families CAP serves, the family is appreciative of the pantry. “The young woman is trying hard to do the best she can. She is so humble and thankful for CAP,” said Sherri Barnett, community coordinator for Grateful Bread and CAP’s Grateful Threadz Thrift Store. “We hear so many stories like this, and some of them really make an impact on our lives. Like how this story has with Majesta.” No matter the challenges children, their families, and seniors in Appalachia face, CAP employees and volunteers meet them with love and compassion and walk alongside them through what can sometimes be their darkest time. In those moments, CAP strives to offer a light of hope, love, and friendship for every person. “It can be hard for some of our participants to come into the pantry and admit that they need help. That is its own battle,” Vaughn said. “We meet them where they are, make them comfortable, and make those important connections with them. I really appreciate the relationships we have with our participants. I am proud to serve the people of Appalachia.”
“We meet them where they are, make them comfortable, and make those important connections with them. I really appreciate the relationships we have with our participants. I am proud to serve the people of Appalachia.” — Majesta Vaughn
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Participants in the Teen Leadership initiative partner with other CAP programs for service projects.
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Leaving a Legacy By Brianna Stephens
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ppalachian youth often experience the hardships and challenges of life more intensely than other children. That’s because poverty is prevalent in the region, and it has a devastating impact on many families who live there. Christian Appalachian Project’s (CAP) Youth Empowerment Services (YES) strives to empower and inspire the next generation of Appalachians to build a better future for themselves and for the region. “By believing in our Appalachian youth, they are empowered to believe in themselves — to believe that they can do anything they set their mind to,” said Pat Griffith, assistant director of YES. YES serves children in Appalachia through summer camps, in-school services, and a Teen Leadership initiative. Over the past decade, YES has seen the number
of young people in Teen Leadership grow from 8 to 80. Through hands-on service opportunities and the help of supportive employees and volunteers, participants in Teen Leadership learn and grow. YES offers them a safe place to try new things, reflect, and overcome obstacles — which will benefit them as they face challenges of all sizes, from team-building activities to big life decisions. “As program participation increases, we actively seek out opportunities to help teens develop leadership skills. Some of these opportunities include partnering with various CAP programs for service projects, assisting with community events, and hosting weekend-long events focusing on different aspects of leadership,” Griffith said. This year YES also added two new staff positions, called Teen Empowerment Advocates, whose resources and time are dedicated to the initiative’s programming, recruiting, and facilitation.
CAP's Teen Leadership initiative hosts weekend retreats for participants to come together and learn different aspects of leadership.
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Each year teens help prepare games and activities for CAP's summer camps.
“Going forward from Teen Leadership, participants have a renewed confidence in their ability to lead, and they carry that with them throughout their life.” — Pat Griffith
Participants in Teen Leadership impact their communities in many positive ways, but their work primarily benefits Appalachian children. Through an opportunity to serve as junior counselors during the summer camp season, the teens become role models to the younger campers and help create the camp magic many of them once experienced.
In addition to the impact the teens make on their community and children at summer camp, YES has seen the success of the Teen Leadership initiative as participants transition out of the program. Of the participating teens, 100% of them have graduated from high school. Of that percentage, 60% are attending college or have attended college or a vocational school.
“Many of our teen participants attended our summer camps for years and felt firsthand the compassion, love, and understanding YES offers to Appalachian children,” Griffith said. “They really want to give back by being the person who offers the same compassion, love, and understanding that they received as children. They want to leave a legacy, to know something they did mattered. Something they’ve never been able to do perhaps in any other part of their lives.”
“While these numbers are encouraging to see, we do not measure success by their educational choices alone,” Griffith said. “It’s about who they become and how they’re giving back to their communities. By the time the teens leave the program, they will have done things they once believed difficult or impossible. Going forward from Teen Leadership, participants have a renewed confidence in their ability to lead, and they carry that with them throughout their lives.”
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Disaster Relief
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his year CAP’s programs worked together to continue disaster relief and recovery efforts in Eastern Kentucky to help children, their families, and seniors impacted by the July 2022 floods. The compassion of volunteers to serve has been an instrumental part in restoring hope in the region and helped CAP near the completion of our 100th flood home repair by the end of FY23. The compassion of our donors and strategic partnerships have also helped provide food, clothing, cleaning supplies, building materials, furniture, and other essential items to people impacted by the flood as they continue to rebuild their homes.
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Volunteers like Cleveland Blackmon at New St. Hurricane Missionary Baptist Church in Arkansas help distribute truckloads of furniture, household items, and more from Operation Sharing to families in need.
“We look forward to the opportunities we will have to continue to grow and help people in need in Appalachia during FY24.” - Aaron Thoms
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Continued Growth By Shannon Holbrook
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he power of donor generosity and partnerships made through Christian Appalachian Project's (CAP) Operation Sharing program have continued to deliver hope and essential items to people in need in the region. Continuing the trend of recent years, Operation Sharing saw record-breaking numbers again this fiscal year. “This fiscal year we had a total of more than $155 million in gift-in-kind donations,” said Aaron Thoms, manager of CAP’s Operation Sharing program in Paintsville. “That’s an astronomical number we never imagined we’d hit a few years ago.”
That value was seen in a total of 1,224 truckloads of donated goods—more than 100 truckloads a month on average. Thoms noted just 10 years ago, they had less than half of that gift-in-kind number, but many compassionate people responded generously to the need for help during the pandemic and after the July 2022 floods. When natural disaster strikes in Appalachia, Operation Sharing responds to the immediate needs by distributing food, water, cleaning supplies, and other essential items to partner agencies to distribute to affected communities. In FY23, Operation Sharing distributed more than $11 million in essential items to Eastern Kentucky
CAP's Operation Sharing distributed nearly 60,000 toys in partnership with Good 360 and Toys for Tots.
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Ben Ridner, manager of Operation Sharing's warehouse in Corbin, unloads a truckload of goods during a community distribution.
directly to aid in ongoing flood recovery efforts and provided an additional $5 million indirectly through recipient partners in flood-impacted counties. “It has been over a year since the disaster, and we are still sending essential items to help people,” said Ben Ridner, manager of CAP’s Operation Sharing in Corbin. He and Thoms work together to distribute donated goods to partner agencies. “We wouldn't be able to provide targeted help to people in need without our partners. We are here for the long haul to help the families in these areas rebuild their lives.” In addition to the continued efforts in flood relief for Eastern Kentucky, Operation Sharing sent four truckloads of donated goods to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, earlier this year to help with disaster relief efforts after a tornado tore through the central part of the state. The program partners with a network of more than 1,300 nonprofit organizations, community-based agencies, schools, and churches throughout all 13 Appalachian states and two Ozark states, Missouri and Arkansas, to distribute donated goods to people in need. This year, Operation Sharing welcomed new partnerships with organizations including One More Child and Convoy of Hope. They also strengthened existing partnerships, like the one that continues to grow with Good 360 and Toys for Tots. Over the summer, the partners sent nearly 60,000 toys to Operation Sharing to distribute to children in Appalachia.
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In addition to the toys, Operation Sharing also included snacks, cleaning supplies, and other essential items in the toy distribution events for families. More than 10,000 children received toys through the partnership. “Our distribution events were a remarkable celebration of compassion and generosity, leaving us in awe of the incredible impact we can have on children’s lives,” Ridner said. “We're in the business of helping people lift themselves up,” Thoms added. “When we gave away toys, we didn’t just bring happiness. We ignited a chain reaction of positivity.” For the upcoming year, the program hopes to build on their record-breaking year and is seeking more partners who can help provide and distribute donated goods, particularly food, to Appalachian communities. Operation Sharing also plans to continue to lean into its Clay County satellite hub to bring donated goods and essential items to additional partners in Eastern Kentucky. “Before the hub, around 30 organizations in the area drove to our warehouse in Corbin to pick up donated goods. With the creation of the hub, now nearly 200 organizations pick up from the hub location and distribute donated goods in the community,” Ridner said. “We look forward to the opportunities we will have to continue to grow and help people in need in Appalachia during FY24,” Thoms added. “We are grateful for the support of our donors and partners who help make our work in the region possible.”
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AP’s Elderly Services program works to provide seniors in Appalachia companionship, increased mobility, and support. A focus of the program is to increase socialization to reduce the risk of isolation for seniors. Caseworkers in the program host several events for seniors to gather and fellowship as well as take participants on one-on-one outings. This year the program hosted dinners, the first Sock Hop event, a Glam Day for senior women, a fishing day for senior men, a combined birthday party, picnics, and led community outings to fairs and other local attractions. CAP’s caseworkers are like family to our participants, building strong friendships with them, making them feel special and cared for, and supporting them through any challenges they may face.
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AREA OF
SERVICE
Johnson
Martin
Magoffin Floyd
Jackson
Owsley
Pike
Knott
Rockcastle Clay
Sandy Valley Region Cumberland Valley Region
McCreary
• Family Life Counseling Services • Disaster Relief
• Grateful Bread Food Pantry
• Eagle Child Development Center
• Grateful Threadz Thrift Store
• Eagle Food Pantry
• Home Repair
• Elderly Services
• Operation Sharing
• Family Advocacy
• Water Into Wine Food Pantry partner
• Family Life Child Development Center
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• Youth Empowerment Services
FY23 BOARD OF
DIRECTORS Each member of Christian Appalachian Project's Board of Directors contributes significant amounts of time, talent, and charitable support to ensure we stay focused on our mission of building hope, transforming lives, and sharing Christ’s love through service in Appalachia. We are grateful for their service.
Jonathan E. Lett
Teresa Kash Davis
Chair Ashland, KY
Berea, KY
CAP Legal Counsel John Rhorer Lexington, KY
Andrew Wegrzyn
Holly James Lexington, KY
Vice Chair St. Louis, MO
Guy Adams President/CEO Lexington, KY
Rob Lawson Lexington, KY
Corporate Officers Anita Seals
Marty Preston
VP of Human Services Mount Vernon. KY
Lexington, KY
Phyllis Caudill
Chris Tackett
Manchester, KY
Ivel, KY
VP of Philanthropy Lexington, KY
Mona Baker
Tina Terry
Gloria Jordan
Deann Stivers Allen
Lexington, KY
Pikeville, KY
Rebecca Whitenack Tyler
Liz Toombs
Versailles, KY
Lexington, KY
Alan Cornett
Kathy Kluesener
Lexington, KY
Lancaster, KY
Joyce Taylor Cummins
Frank P. Heaberlin
Mount Vernon, KY
Lula Bowling Ford Pikeville, KY
Prestonsburg, KY
Senior VP of Administration Paintsville, KY
Brian Stiefel Chief Financial Officer Mount Vernon, KY
Recording Secretaries Carolyn Schlappi Mount Vernon, KY
Lauren Kirby Mount Vernon, KY
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