Jubilee Ministries has awarded 28 Ministries (the capital M means they’re official Jubilee Ministries) zeroing in on issues of health and nutrition.
Among them:
… Cedar Valley Episcopal Campus Ministry/East Waterloo Ministry (Diocese of Iowa) has been involved in serving a monthly meal at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Waterloo for more than a year. It’s a way of helping University of Northern Iowa students in Cedar Falls learn about urban poverty and see the many faces of racism still rampant. The free meal creates neighborhood relationships, and at each meal there are activities for children and speakers to discuss parenting topics with the adults. The neighborhood has no grocery stores save one convenience store, and many families do not own cars. The grant will be used to ensure that at least one fresh vegetable will be available at every meal, and that fresh fruit will be available for diners to take home with them.
… Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, OH (Diocese of Ohio) has been providing a hot meal each Sunday to the homeless in the neighborhood for 26 years. In an area lacking grocery stores, Trinity’s program remains the only one in downtown Cleveland to offer walk-ins – an average of 100 people a week – a hot meal on Sundays. Much of the food served comes from Trinity’s Community Garden, a three-acre urban farm run by volunteers who have worked to reclaim a once-destitute and abandoned area in Cleveland’s impoverished Central Neighborhood. Last season, the garden produced more than 3,000 pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables. The grant will help fund both the lunch program and the garden.
… St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland, OH (Diocese of Ohio) offers a variety of food programs for its neighborhood, which has little access to groceries. St. Luke’s Family Night feeds 120 people every Wednesday, many of them children. The church also runs a free Farmer’s Market two Mondays a month during growing season. The market, with support from the Cleveland Food Bank, gives away more than 30,000 pounds of food annually. The church recently obtained an additional building in hopes of running the Farmer’s Market through more of the year.