STATISTICSSTATISTICS
Statistical Summary & Project Overview
Vineyard Outreach Ministry
1/1/2009 to 12/31/2009
Compiled by Arlynn Spresser, Administrative/ Program Assistant & Catherine Dance, Director/Pastoral Worker
Reported by Catherine Dance, Director/Pastoral Worker
2009 Board of Directors
Bruce Shurtz, President, James Donald Nelson, Vice-President & Secretary, Christopher Middleton, Treasurer, Casey Blair, Kay Carter, Margaret Fleckenstein, Janis Forsberg, John Huizinga, Rev. Simon Tuin, Michael Willis
MANAGEMENT, DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS, PROGRAMS, SHORT-TERM PROJECTS
Ø Total number of paid professionals: 1 full-time, salaried; 1 part-time administrative & program assistant at 20 hours per week; 1 part-time WMU Work Study Student in training at 10 hours per week
Ø Total number of administrative, clerical, program and short-term project registered volunteers: 231
STATISTICAL SUMMARY OF TOTAL PERSONS/HOUSEHOLDS CONTACTED OR SERVED
Ø Adults, children and teens served through activities, programs, projects, resource referral, emergency and pastoral(care-giving) services including Family Outing & Holiday Celebration Participants: 709 different individuals
Ø Households contacted through staff door-to-door outreach: 66
Ø Households contacted through mailing outreach: 3,500 households at three different times per year for a total of 10,500 contacts in 2009
*STATISTICAL BREAKDOWN OF TOTAL # OF REGISTERED PROGRAM MEMBERS or PARTICIPANTS
Ø Family Outing &/or Holiday Celebration Registered Members/Participants: 21 (Christmas Party only)
Ø Fun in the Sun Co-Sponsored Summer Recreation Program: 27 (Tuesdays, June 23 through August 18th)
Ø Hope for Moms and Daze Away for Moms Registered Members/Participants: 13 (Occasional)
Ø Hope for Teens Members: 16 (Wednesdays, March 4th thru December 16th)
Ø Kids Klub Supper Hour Members/Participants to include children's Christmas party: 59 children, 6 parents (Tuesdays, January 6th thru May 19th; October 6th thru December 15)
Ø Kids Evening Playtime Members/Participants: 41 (Thursdays, March 5th thru December 17th)
Ø Kids Afternoon Summer Fun Members/Participants: 27 (Thursdays, July 9th thru August 13th)
Ø Neighborhood Children's Lake Outing & Award Celebration: 15 (August 25th - 1 time event)
Ø Students Tutored: 9 (Wednesdays, March 4th thru December 16th)
Ø Students still on waiting list for tutoring: 10 (As of December 31)
Ø Sunday Dinner & Prayer Registered Members/Participants: 48 (March 1 thru December 28)
Ø Week Day Prayer Registered Members/Participants: 26 (includes Christmas Eve & Memorial Service)
Ø Women Faith Writers & Mentoring Pilot Project Participants: 5
Ø COMBINED TOTAL OF PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS SERVED IN ABOVE BREAKOUT: 323
*These breakouts and total numbers reflect only those persons enrolled as members or participants in our regular programs or neighborhood one-time events in 2009. The breakouts do not include those family members served in the Vine neighborhood who don't meet the criteria for our regularly scheduled programs and activities (i.e. too young) yet still receive some form of assistance or support throughout the year.
STATISTICAL BREAKDOWN OF MEALS, SNACKS, SHORT-TERM PROJECTS AND YEARLY ACTIVITIES
Ø Total number of meals and snacks served: 1829
Ø Total number of yearly activities: 224 (excludes emergency assistance, outreach, pastoral(caring) services/visitation to residents in homes, hospitals, or other institutions i.e. skilled nursing facilities, jails/prisons. These type of activities by staff or volunteers are too numerous to count)
Ø Total number of people served through distribution of holiday baskets or gift cards by special donors: 68
Ø Annual Barbecue & Pool Party for young people hosted by donors: 28 children, ages 3 to 16
ACCOMPLISHMENTS OVER AND ABOVE REGULAR ACTIVITIES, PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
Ø Created and/or participated in board fund-raisers: Summer Golf Putt Off, Spring, Summer &
Winter Pecan Sale
Ø Carried out a second summer long weekly co-sponsored neighborhood youth recreation pilot project with the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety that included regular outings from the Vine neighborhood with staff and two police officers. This will become a formal, co-sponsored program in 2010
Ø Created Women Faith Writers pilot project for Vine neighborhood residents or professionals
Ø Created and scheduled a Christmas trip for Vine families to the Science & Industry Museum that necessitated rescheduling until January, 2010 due to inclement weather and dangerous road conditions
Ø Met with leaders and members of Threads Church to assist them through sharing our challenges, experiences and achievements to create and implement grassroots' outreach and program efforts in the Milwood Neighborhood of Kalamazoo where pockets of poverty now exist.
Ø Nominated and celebrated the Career Volunteer Star Award of two of our Kids Klub volunteers, Dick & Betty VanderMolen