Michael%20G.%20Nicholas%20Foundation

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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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