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<strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> <strong>2011</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
BRINGING<br />
HOPE HOME<br />
T H I R T Y - F I F T H A N N I V E R S A R Y I S S U E
<strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> <strong>2011</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
On this, our 35th<br />
Anniversary,<br />
we extend our<br />
gratitude to<br />
Bud Ogle and<br />
wife, Donna,<br />
for founding,<br />
nurturing, and<br />
loving the <strong>Good</strong><br />
<strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong><br />
community. We<br />
are blessed as<br />
Bud continues to<br />
be an important<br />
part of GNP<br />
as President<br />
Emeritus,<br />
furthering his, and<br />
our, call to end<br />
homelessness and<br />
hopelessness, to<br />
foster justice, and<br />
to build bridges of<br />
reconciliation.<br />
Chairman of the Board<br />
<strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> continues<br />
to grow and change. Change is<br />
not only good but a requirement<br />
in a healthy organization.<br />
Change is positive when an<br />
organization continually adapts<br />
to the operational realities it<br />
faces, but negative if it alters the<br />
organization’s original vision and<br />
goals. I think <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> is solidly in the “good<br />
change” category.<br />
GNP is still firmly focused in our commitment to<br />
follow the will of God as we respond to homelessness<br />
and hopelessness. In the last year, through the generous<br />
support of the developing Church Collaborative, we<br />
purchased an additional building in the neighborhood<br />
that will expand living options. We also renovated<br />
previously owned space to both consolidate staffing in<br />
one improved location and to free up additional space for<br />
housing in the Jonquil Hotel.<br />
Additional changes continue on our operational<br />
side. We have bid adieu to former board members Jan<br />
Niemeyer and Andy Shaw. The countless hours of work<br />
and prayer they have given to GNP deserve more than<br />
simple words of thanks. We all need to thank God for<br />
their devotion to the shaping of this ministry. We are<br />
also changing leadership of the board. I am stepping<br />
down as chair and those duties will be turned over to the<br />
capable hands of current board member David Holly.<br />
We are infusing the board with new blood and spirit<br />
by adding four new members. The board continues<br />
to be enthusiastic concerning the management and<br />
vision supplied by Ronn Frantz, Executive Director.<br />
His calm leadership has provided the board with<br />
confidence as GNP moves toward ending homelessness<br />
and hopelessness, beginning in our neighborhood and<br />
expanding to the whole of God’s creation.<br />
Gary Brugh<br />
Chairman of the Board<br />
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Executive Director<br />
As we enter the 35th year of<br />
partnering in the <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong>,<br />
I am reminded of the exhortation<br />
of the writer to the Hebrews,<br />
“Therefore, since we are<br />
surrounded by so great a cloud<br />
of witnesses, let us also lay aside<br />
every weight and the sin that clings<br />
so closely, and let us run with<br />
perseverance the race that is set before us…”<br />
<strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> is greatly enriched by all<br />
of our partners, past, present, and future, especially<br />
other organizational partners in the North of Howard<br />
area with whom we have been working shoulder to<br />
shoulder for much of our 35 years. We have enjoyed<br />
the opportunity to sit together with the leaders of these<br />
groups and reflect upon what we have and have not<br />
seen accomplished in the past two generations. We are<br />
remembering in order to push forward.<br />
As I reflect upon the close of our last year, I am<br />
also reminded of another anniversary that presses greatly<br />
upon us: the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedies.<br />
Certainly, that anniversary is much larger and more<br />
dramatic than that of a small community living and<br />
working in the very northeast corner of the large City<br />
of Chicago. Yet, I am reminded of Dr. Martin Luther<br />
King’s remarks that “the arc of history is long but it<br />
bends towards justice.” It is often the small things, the<br />
consistent things, the everyday things that have the largest<br />
impact and lasting value: feeding the hungry, clothing the<br />
naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, educating the<br />
young, housing the homeless.<br />
I hope that as you review the work of <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />
<strong>Partners</strong> over the past year, you will recognize where<br />
and how you have been contributing to the bend of<br />
history towards justice. I hope also that you will see the<br />
road ahead for yourself as a partner in the <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong>,<br />
building bridges of reconciliation. The choices we make,<br />
be they small or ordinary, are momentous. Shalom!<br />
Ronn Frantz<br />
Executive Director
Mission<br />
To end homelessness and hopelessness with everyone God brings to us, to foster justice<br />
and to build bridges of reconciliation.<br />
Philosophy<br />
<strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> is a faith-based, asset-based community development (ABCD)<br />
organization, focusing on housing, education, and economic development. As an ABCD<br />
organization, in contrast to a traditional social service agency, we do not try to fix<br />
other people or solve other people’s problems. Instead, we focus on empowerment and<br />
partnership. We recognize one another’s unique gifts, talents and experiences and work<br />
to enhance each person’s responsibility and potential.<br />
We all have something to teach and much to learn. We know we all need one another<br />
for our community, our city, our nation, and our world’s optimal health.<br />
As a faith-based ministry we seek to embody the hope, freedom, opportunity,<br />
community, and justice that God intends for us all. We welcome everyone – especially<br />
people often discriminated against because of race, gender, economic condition,<br />
religion, sexual orientation, and national origins.<br />
TABlE OF CONTENTS<br />
4 Home – Our Story<br />
5 Where We Call Home<br />
6 Bringing Hope Home Through More Than Housing…<br />
7 Bringing Hope Home in <strong>2011</strong><br />
8 Bringing Hope Home – Stories of Our Resident <strong>Partners</strong><br />
10 …And Our Support <strong>Partners</strong><br />
11 Financials<br />
13 Support <strong>Partners</strong><br />
19 Board of Directors<br />
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The Jonquil Hotel,<br />
first building<br />
purchased by<br />
GNP, where 58<br />
families call<br />
home.<br />
HOME – OUR STORY<br />
35th Anniversary of <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong><br />
In 1976, a group of Northwestern University<br />
students met with the campus chaplain for Bible Study.<br />
They asked, “Why did Jesus not spend more time with the<br />
Northwestern students of His day? The Rev. Dr. Arthur<br />
“Bud” Ogle responded, “Why don’t we go find out?”<br />
They traveled south of the campus a mere three<br />
miles to an area of Chicago that had the highest crime<br />
rate, highest density, and highest poverty rate in the city.<br />
Here is where the community was built – a 10 block<br />
area known as “North of Howard.” Along with our<br />
Rogers Park youth and other interested members of our<br />
community, we focused on a better future. Together, we<br />
learned about the struggles of poverty and racism, but we<br />
also learned about courage and resilience. What began<br />
as a pick-up game of basketball every Saturday morning<br />
grew to an overnight shelter and, ultimately, a permanent<br />
housing continuum.<br />
We realized that for our youth to thrive, our entire<br />
community needed to be a place of support. In 1980,<br />
we became incorporated and obtained an IRS taxexempt<br />
status. We also purchased The Jonquil Hotel,<br />
once a haven for drugs, prostitution, and gangs. Since<br />
then we have renovated hundreds of housing units and<br />
established a shelter, rental housing, homeownership<br />
cooperatives, jobs , tutoring, and youth programs.<br />
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<strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> now owns 10 buildings for<br />
affordable housing and manages two others, where over<br />
500 people find shelter every night. We have worked<br />
beside more than 160 families who have gone from<br />
homelessness to home ownership through our continuum<br />
of housing.<br />
• New Life Interim Housing, a 32-bed shelter for<br />
otherwise homeless women and their children;<br />
• a large single room occupancy (SRO), The<br />
Jonquil, accommodating 58 families;<br />
• 2nd stage and GNP subsidized rental housing;<br />
and<br />
• 60 units of co-operative housing affordable for<br />
families with low and very low income.<br />
Owning a home has the potential to break the cycle<br />
of poverty for low income families, especially for the next<br />
generation. Our hope is not only with adults but also the<br />
children of those families. The children that grow up in<br />
GNP housing communities are more likely to flourish<br />
as they enter adulthood. Homeownership is not only<br />
something that is hoped for; at GNP we help our families<br />
reach that goal.
WHERE WE CAll HOME<br />
The North of Howard/East Rogers Park<br />
neighborhood is an under-resourced community in the far<br />
northeast corner of Chicago, with approximately 6,000<br />
residents, nearly all with moderate to low income. According<br />
to the 2010 census, “Rogers Park is one of, if not, the most<br />
diverse communities in the entire country, with a robust<br />
mix of ethnic backgrounds, languages, age diversity, and<br />
a wide range of family incomes.” (United States Census<br />
Bureau, 2010) Continuing gentrification, which causes<br />
conversions of rental housing to condominiums and<br />
high-rent apartments, leaves our population of focus with<br />
fewer affordable housing options.<br />
Our community demographics are as follows:<br />
28% African-American, 7% Asian, 45% white, and 19%<br />
mixed heritage. The average annual household income<br />
in our neighborhood is less than $13,000. Forty percent<br />
receive government assistance. This is an untenable<br />
situation, as a Chicago family of four must earn an annual<br />
income of $33,775 to meet a basic budget which includes<br />
rent or mortgage, transportation and childcare expenses.<br />
Chicago Av<br />
CTA Red & Purple Elevated Lines<br />
Calvary Cemetery<br />
NORTH OF<br />
HOWARD<br />
Howard St<br />
N Rogers Av<br />
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▲ to Evanston<br />
▼ to Chicago<br />
Lake<br />
Michigan<br />
Children living in the neighborhood face significant<br />
challenges to academic achievement and personal safety.<br />
Most elementary age youths engaged in our programs<br />
attend Gale Academy, a Chicago Public School with evershrinking<br />
funding. During 2009-2010, Gale Academy<br />
and Sullivan High School (the neighborhood high school)<br />
were both identified for “School Improvement” under<br />
No Child Left Behind and were placed on “Academic<br />
Watch” status. Over 20% of Gale students meet limited<br />
English-proficiency guidelines, and 87.7% meet lowincome<br />
guidelines. Children here face serious temptations<br />
to drop out of school and engage in gang violence.<br />
Among the goals of <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> is to<br />
support community revitalization while minimizing the<br />
negative effects of displacement of current and long-time<br />
residents. GNP aims to secure more affordable housing and<br />
empower our community residents to become responsible<br />
homeowners and active neighbors to one another.<br />
N Sheridan Rd<br />
5<br />
GNP boundaries<br />
are Howard Street<br />
on the south,<br />
Sheridan Road<br />
on the east and<br />
Chicago Transit<br />
Authority rapid<br />
transit tracks to<br />
the west. Along its<br />
northern border is<br />
Calvary Cemetery.
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Reading Coaches<br />
at Gale Academy<br />
help at-risk<br />
students that are<br />
struggling to read<br />
at grade level.<br />
BRINGING HOPE HOME<br />
THROUGH MORE THAN HOUSING…<br />
The <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong>’ mission has remained<br />
constant: to create safe, affordable and reliable housing,<br />
and support building confidence and community<br />
simultaneously. We strive to bring about conditions in<br />
which hope, justice, responsibility, and reconciliation<br />
flourish between Chicago’s East Rogers Park/North of<br />
Howard neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods.<br />
GNP provides affordable housing for otherwise homeless<br />
families with a step-by-step transition from interim<br />
housing to independent living.<br />
In addition to housing, GNP builds community by<br />
providing the following:<br />
• Reading Coaches. Working in tandem with the<br />
Gale Academy administration and classroom<br />
teachers, coaches are on-hand during the school<br />
day to assist first-graders at risk for reading<br />
failure.<br />
• The Jonquil learning Center, on the ground floor<br />
of The Jonquil Hotel, offers children tutoring,<br />
music, art, dance, science, computer and<br />
cultural activities after school and on weekends.<br />
By engaging local adults in these activities,<br />
GNP helps our young people learn about varied<br />
cultures and interact with neighborhood role<br />
models. Activities include outings to museums,<br />
movies, or zoos, and visits to suburban churches<br />
on Sundays.<br />
• Job Training. Managing GNP’s multiple housing<br />
units and communal living areas is a full-time<br />
task. We are fortunate to have an apprentice<br />
program that allows community members to<br />
become trained in a wide range of building<br />
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skills. Supervised by our Rehab Crew Chief,<br />
they remodel and renovate our units to house<br />
and serve our families. As they remodel and<br />
rebuild, the builders acquire skills that move<br />
them toward independence and prosperity. They<br />
also become role models for aspiring workers.<br />
• Youth Mentoring. The <strong>Annual</strong> Tennessee<br />
Wilderness Summer Camping Trip has become<br />
a highlight for our youth since our beginnings.<br />
In order to attend the week-long wilderness<br />
trip, the youth plan and participate in all<br />
the preparations. We try to recruit 12 to 15<br />
young people for each trip, one in June and<br />
one in August. The intensity of the camping<br />
experience builds community among the<br />
participants, encourages a life-long commitment<br />
to physical fitness, and expands the participant’s<br />
frame of reference in coping with life challenges.<br />
• Pastoral Counsel and spiritual nurture to those<br />
who desire it. Most of the families arrive at GNP<br />
with resilience and survivor instincts, but many<br />
feel fearful and vulnerable. Some are young<br />
mothers who didn’t plan on being moms. Others<br />
are older women facing homelessness due to<br />
domestic violence, a fire, a loss of an apartment,<br />
or a job loss. Through the vital services of our<br />
GNP Chaplain, Executive Director and others<br />
on our Management Team, our families develop<br />
and work to achieve their personal goals, in an<br />
environment of safety and security.<br />
Please visit our website, www.goodnewspartners.org, for<br />
more information on <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> activities.
BRINGING HOPE HOME IN <strong>2011</strong><br />
No. 1 Way to End Homelessness:<br />
Provide a Home!<br />
In March of this year we were able to apply<br />
the down payment on a building at 1546 W. Jonquil<br />
terrace to do just that. The building houses 27 families<br />
at affordable rates, while the families wait for more<br />
permanent housing. $600,000 has been raised through<br />
the efforts of our Church Collaborative, our partner<br />
foundations and many of our individual partners. But<br />
we are still only two-thirds to our goal. An additional<br />
$350,000 is still needed. We invite you to join us in<br />
accomplishing our goal.<br />
GNP’s 1st <strong>Annual</strong> Fundraiser<br />
December 2010<br />
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drew over 650 people and netted over $50,000. Travel<br />
guru Rick Steves – author of more than 30 guidebooks,<br />
host of a popular PBS television series, and radio host<br />
– spoke at the benefit event held at Cahn Auditorium at<br />
Northwestern University in Evanston.<br />
Steves and <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> share the vision<br />
of providing homes for the homeless. He recalled his<br />
early days of travel when his main challenge each day<br />
was finding a safe and affordable place to sleep. He also<br />
began to learn about how our rich country’s policies can<br />
cause landlessness (which means homelessness and<br />
hunger) in an underdeveloped country, reminiscent<br />
of European feudalism. This realization led Steves to<br />
brainstorm ways to house the local homeless in his town.<br />
Travel Guru, Rick Steves: Travel as a Spiritual Act<br />
spoke at the 2010 GNP benefit.<br />
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Steves and his wife made a decision to use their<br />
retirement money “to buy a ratty duplex” adjacent<br />
to his church to house homeless moms and their kids.<br />
Eventually, the building developed a mold problem and<br />
they had to tear it down. “But to me, this was actually good<br />
mold. God was in that mold.” Rick heard God’s call and<br />
developed an inspired community they call “Trinity Way”<br />
in Seattle, Washington. <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> looks forward<br />
to the 2nd <strong>Annual</strong> Fundraising Event in April 2012.<br />
Parents Teaming Up to Stop Violence<br />
Even though GNP’s main strategy is affordable<br />
housing, our real focus is upon community building in<br />
the North of Howard area. A key component of strong<br />
communities is members’ mental health, including<br />
developing skills and coping mechanisms for the stresses<br />
within every community. We were pleased that we had<br />
the resources this last summer to empower parents<br />
to help support their teens. The violence prevention<br />
practices incorporated into this program have shown<br />
significant deterrence of violence. Moreover, these<br />
practices have a sustained effect.<br />
As a component of Gov. Quinn’s Neighborhood<br />
Recovery Initiative from the State of Illinois, the Parent<br />
Leadership in Action Network (PLAN), identified parents<br />
and other caregivers of color, who have been “through<br />
the fire” in dealing with their own life struggles and have<br />
navigated the tricky waters of raising adolescents. This<br />
group of parents was paid for part-time work doing<br />
community education and outreach to their peers (other<br />
parents). The program was developed by Motivational<br />
Educational Entertainment and has proven effective in a<br />
number of cities and regions.<br />
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Partnering<br />
with PlAN and<br />
CeaseFire, GNP<br />
community unites<br />
to end violence.<br />
Here neighbors<br />
gather one week<br />
after a violent<br />
attack, pledging<br />
to instill peace in<br />
our neighborhood.
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BRINGING HOPE HOME –<br />
STORIES OF OUR RESIDENT PARTNERS<br />
Karen’s Story<br />
Karen, a recent high school graduate, has not let<br />
adversity get in the way of living out her calling. Karen<br />
and her mother, residents of The Jonquil Hotel – <strong>Good</strong><br />
<strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong>’ single room occupancy building – moved<br />
to Chicago in 2007 in search of better employment<br />
opportunities. She was born and raised in Baltimore<br />
where she and her<br />
mother resided in<br />
various homeless<br />
shelters since age 11.<br />
Karen admits<br />
that these were very<br />
tough times. Not only<br />
was she making the<br />
transition to another<br />
city with higher living<br />
costs, but to another<br />
school where she did<br />
not know anyone. After<br />
checking out various<br />
shelters in Chicago,<br />
Karen and her mother were referred to the New Life<br />
Interim Housing, where they would share living quarters<br />
with 30 other women and children. She enjoyed the fact<br />
that New Life was different from other shelters she lived<br />
in because “They helped residents, and there was more<br />
freedom here.”<br />
Karen and her mom then moved to The Jonquil<br />
Hotel where they share a room. They were welcomed by<br />
a community of residents that many people consider to<br />
be “family.” Throughout her young life Karen never gave<br />
up hope and had a positive outlook on life.<br />
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While Karen was going through major life<br />
transitions, her studies never suffered. She excelled in<br />
the classroom as well as after-school activities. During<br />
high school Karen became involved in the band, science<br />
club, Advanced Placement classes and National Honors<br />
Society, in which students need a 3.5 GPA or better to<br />
be accepted. But she says of herself, “I’m nothing super<br />
special. All I did was work hard and complete things.”<br />
She also found a new passion for art. Becoming<br />
a cartoonist was her career path for a while until she<br />
realized she needed to do more. Her no. 1 concern<br />
became “how can I help those in need?” This past June<br />
Karen graduated with high honors from Lakeview<br />
High School in Chicago. She was accepted to many<br />
universities, including The George Washington<br />
University in Washington D.C. In May <strong>2011</strong> she<br />
completed the paperwork and was ready to start a new<br />
adventure at The George Washington University, but<br />
plans are on hold due to a lack of finances. She wants to<br />
major in sociology in order to study societies and learn<br />
how to help others. Her mother works part time for an<br />
organization called “Help at Home” where she assists the<br />
elderly. She also works for <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> earning<br />
herself rent credits. Karen advises people to find their<br />
own calling, just as she did, and seek help when you need<br />
it. With clarity and direction, she feels motivated to move<br />
forward and pursue a higher degree of education.<br />
Jill’s Story<br />
Jill, a resident of The Phoenix Cooperative,<br />
has experienced the power of hope in the midst of<br />
trying times. Jill is the mother of six, two of whom are<br />
developmentally delayed. Jill’s partnership with <strong>Good</strong><br />
<strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> began seven years ago when she moved to<br />
Chicago from Arkansas. Before her move, Jill lost custody<br />
of five of her sons due to legal issues. She and her<br />
youngest son, Blake, who was two at the time, were left to<br />
fend for themselves in a new city.
When they arrived in Chicago, Jill and Blake<br />
were homeless and she struggled to find employment.<br />
They were referred to <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> where her<br />
transformation started. Blake was enrolled at Gale<br />
Academy and Jill began<br />
exploring employment<br />
opportunities at<br />
Howard Area<br />
Employment Center.<br />
Soon after, Jill was<br />
hired as a part-time<br />
employee for the<br />
Developmental<br />
Disability Organization,<br />
only one block away<br />
from The Phoenix<br />
Cooperative. Jill<br />
was offered a studio<br />
apartment in the<br />
Phoenix. She says, “I never thought after a year of being<br />
homeless I would be able to use my own fridge, my own<br />
bathroom. I dreamed of that and not a vacation.”<br />
Jill has resided in the Phoenix for seven years now<br />
and remains employed at the same organization. Since<br />
Jill has become more stable, she gained custody of three<br />
more of her children and is still fighting for custody of<br />
the two developmentally disabled children. Blake is still<br />
a student at Gale Academy. “<strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> has a<br />
supportive staff, and the community has a lot of resources<br />
all within one block,” Jill says. She attributes the growth<br />
in her life to the encouragement and strength that GNP<br />
offered her during difficult times.<br />
Mary’s Story<br />
“Living at New Life taught me how to dance in the<br />
rain,” says Mary, a single mother who was left homeless<br />
10 years ago. Mary recalls her first day of being homeless<br />
vividly. It was September 5, 2001 when she just “couldn’t<br />
take it anymore.” Although she had no place to run, she<br />
knew that she had to leave behind her husband’s drug<br />
addiction and verbal abuse. After being referred to <strong>Good</strong><br />
<strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong>, Mary and her two daughters, who were<br />
three and nine at the time, left the west side of Chicago<br />
and headed to New Life Interim Housing.<br />
Although Mary now had shelter, she was still<br />
torn. She was on her own to fend for her family with no<br />
income or direction. She soon found a school for her<br />
daughters, but still struggled to find work herself. She<br />
remembers days where she would walk to Rogers Park<br />
Beach and feel the Lord’s peace comforting her.<br />
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Not long after moving into New Life, Mary found<br />
a flyer for Certified Nursing Assistant classes. She proved<br />
herself to be a responsible student, completing the class<br />
work, then earning a small income by taking care of the<br />
elderly.<br />
Mary remembers one transformational moment<br />
while residing at New Life. Donna, a staff member, sat<br />
down with Mary and handed her a Bible. Donna listened<br />
as Mary opened up about her abusive past for the first<br />
time. She began the healing process and credits this<br />
transformation to Donna’s encouragement and being<br />
surrounded by a supportive staff at New Life.<br />
Mary was able to move out of New Life the<br />
following January into an apartment in Rogers Park. She<br />
soon fell behind on rent payments, however, and was<br />
evicted. She returned to New Life. Mary recalls that “it<br />
was a very humbling experience.” Eleven months later<br />
she was able to move into another apartment with her<br />
family.<br />
One of her most valued successes in life is raising<br />
her two daughters. She says, “I thank God that they are<br />
on the right path.”<br />
Her youngest daughter<br />
is now a freshman at<br />
a competitive high<br />
school where she will<br />
begin taking college<br />
pre-requisites during<br />
her junior year. But she<br />
warns her daughter,<br />
“Don’t get cocky.<br />
Always give God His<br />
praise because you have<br />
been truly blessed.”<br />
Mary is currently<br />
in her 10th year of<br />
working for a senior life home where she was promoted<br />
to the home health care position. Despite the fact that<br />
money is still short for food or her daughter’s schooling,<br />
she can still say, “I know how to dance in the rain.”<br />
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Women<br />
Everywhere:<br />
Service project<br />
partners<br />
collaborate at<br />
GNP’s annual<br />
work day.<br />
Our super-hero<br />
volunteer, Tom<br />
Alrich<br />
Julie Bonnette<br />
has a photo taken<br />
with neighborhood<br />
kids to promote<br />
her Chicago<br />
Marathon Run to<br />
support GNP.<br />
The best part for<br />
the kids: seeing<br />
themselves in the<br />
photos.<br />
…AND OUR SUPPORT PARTNERS<br />
Throughout this past year, we have explored deeper<br />
meanings of “partnership” with our supporters. We<br />
have developed more written materials describing how<br />
individuals and groups can partner with us. Our staff is<br />
consulting with outside groups to strengthen the available<br />
opportunities for hundreds of volunteers.<br />
We have also stressed to our supporters that<br />
creating the optimal and most satisfying volunteer<br />
experience is not our objective. Rather, volunteer<br />
experience with <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> is designed to open<br />
doors into the North of Howard neighborhood, and<br />
carve a pathway toward relationships. Housing is our<br />
strategy; nurturing relationships is our goal. Volunteering<br />
provides entrance. Repeated entrance offers familiarity<br />
with individuals. Familiarity can lead to friendship.<br />
Friendship leads to commitment. Commitment seeks<br />
ways to share with one another. Sharing reveals mutual<br />
need. Mutual need leads to reconciliation.<br />
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In addition to regular financial contributions,<br />
supporters bring their own special skills, resources,<br />
and contacts to connect with opportunities in the<br />
neighborhood they discover. This may mean supporting<br />
a family in reaching their goals, providing enrichment<br />
activities for children and adults, offering specialized<br />
professional skills or services, or investing in property<br />
or businesses in the neighborhood. The possibilities are<br />
endless and the opportunities wide open.<br />
A new opportunity for mutual benefit exists now<br />
for individuals and congregations to make short or longterm<br />
loans to <strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> at competitive rates to<br />
earnings in the stock market and higher rates than bank<br />
deposits. We are adjusting our financial strategies towards<br />
paying down our outstanding building mortgages, freeing<br />
up resources for much needed community development.<br />
Those interested in partnering with us in this way should<br />
contact Jan Hubbard, our Director of Development, or<br />
Ronn Frantz, our Executive Director.
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAl POSITION<br />
August 31, 2010<br />
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Assets<br />
Current Assets $484,366<br />
Property and Equipment<br />
Property and Equipment 4,841,275<br />
Less Accumulated Depreciation 851,735<br />
Net Property and Equipment 3,989,540<br />
Other Assets 666,289<br />
Total Assets $5,140,195<br />
liabilities and Net Assets<br />
Current Liabilities $527,638<br />
Non-Current Liabilities 3,364,526<br />
Net Assets 1,248,031<br />
Total Liabilities and Net Assets $5,140,195<br />
Statement of Activities and Changes in Net Assets - Year Ended August 31, 2009<br />
Support and Revenue<br />
Private Contributions<br />
Individuals 483,677<br />
Corporations and Foundations 341,316<br />
Churches 220,635<br />
Special Events 19,785<br />
1,065,413<br />
Government Grants 153,809<br />
Program Service Revenue 422,259<br />
Miscellaneous (incl. Investment income) 10,317<br />
Total Support and Revenue $1,651,798<br />
Expenses<br />
Program Services<br />
The Jonquil 320,963<br />
New Life Interim Housing 298,995<br />
Co-op Housing Support 37,094<br />
Rental Housing Support 227,300<br />
Education, Children & Youth 101,558<br />
Builders and Apprentices 159,973<br />
Ministry 123,787<br />
1,269,670<br />
Supporting Services<br />
Management & General 104,028<br />
Fundraising 62,460<br />
166,488<br />
Total Expenses $1,436,158<br />
Change in Net Assets $215,640<br />
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REVENUE<br />
Individuals<br />
29%<br />
Program Service<br />
Revenue<br />
26%<br />
Corporations &<br />
Foundations<br />
21%<br />
Churches<br />
13%<br />
Government<br />
Grants<br />
9%<br />
Special Events<br />
1%<br />
Miscellaneous<br />
1%<br />
EXPENSES<br />
The Jonquil<br />
22%<br />
New life<br />
Interim Housing<br />
21%<br />
Rental Housing<br />
Support<br />
16%<br />
Builder &<br />
Apprentices<br />
11%<br />
Ministry<br />
9%<br />
Children & Youth<br />
7%<br />
Management<br />
& General<br />
7%<br />
Fundraising<br />
4%<br />
Co-op Housing<br />
Support<br />
3%
DEVELOPING<br />
RELATIONSHIPS<br />
THAT INSPIRE<br />
HOPE
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21st Century Financial Planners Inc.<br />
A<br />
A Just Harvest<br />
Abbott Laboratories<br />
Dave and Ellen Abell<br />
Phyllis and Clark Albritton-Webb<br />
George A. and Marsha A. Allen<br />
Rev. Paul and Marilee Allen<br />
Barbara Allen<br />
Allice Millar Chapel, Northwestern<br />
University<br />
Louis and Nancy Allred<br />
Tom and Janet Alrich<br />
John D. Ammons<br />
Charles Amos<br />
Nancy and Tim<br />
Gayle Anderson<br />
Robert and Mahvash Armajani<br />
Liz Armstrong<br />
Debbie and B.A. Arnspong<br />
Ann K. Arries<br />
Fred Ash<br />
Madge Askonas<br />
James Athanasopoulos<br />
Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund<br />
Kathryn H. Au<br />
Bernard and Charlene Auer<br />
Joseph Auer<br />
Ronald and Marjorie Auer<br />
Cameron Avery<br />
Fred and Cina Axley<br />
B<br />
Frank Baldwin<br />
Don and Lynn Barber<br />
Rev. Claude Marie Barbour<br />
Leonard and Elizabeth Barker<br />
Lynn Barker<br />
Bob and Margarita Bartels<br />
Mark and Dawn Bartusch<br />
Patty and Robert Bastian<br />
Robert and Ann Bates<br />
Dean Batt<br />
Joy Battistini<br />
Peter and Robin Baugher<br />
Jean Baughman<br />
Liz Bazarian<br />
Kathie and Taylor Beard<br />
Bearse USA<br />
Christopher Beattie<br />
Phyllis Beattie<br />
Larry Bechtel<br />
Lorri Beck<br />
David Bender<br />
Patricia Bere<br />
David Berger<br />
Joan Berger<br />
George and Martha Bermingham<br />
Ellen Beyer<br />
Glenn and Mary Kay Bianchi<br />
Biegler Foundation<br />
John and Ellen Binder<br />
Wyolene Bischoff<br />
James and Camille Blachowicz<br />
Blacksburg Presbyterian Church<br />
Harold and Bette Rose Blair<br />
David and Courtney Blanchard<br />
Mary Blanchard<br />
Virginia Blankenbaker<br />
Ken and Margo Block<br />
Blomberg Family Charitable Trust<br />
Chuck and Brenda Blomberg<br />
BMO Harris Bank<br />
Bev and Bill Bolsen<br />
John and Jean Bolt<br />
Joan and Alan Borg<br />
Ben Borst<br />
Debra and William Bostick<br />
Betty and Bill Boyd<br />
Barbara Boyington<br />
Rev. Jack Bremer<br />
Jennifer K. Bricker<br />
John Brna<br />
Zeal Brock<br />
Norman and Robyn Lee Brooks<br />
Tiffany Brooks<br />
Pat Broughton<br />
Paul and Margo Brown<br />
Kingsley and Karen Brown<br />
Gary and Lorraine Brugh<br />
Roberta and John Buchanan<br />
Rev. Elizabeth and David Bueschel<br />
Gordon and Janice Bundy<br />
Sean Burke<br />
Jim Burke<br />
Ronald and Devorah Buzil<br />
C<br />
Lorenzo and Maria Caban<br />
Richard and Carol Caldwell<br />
Cynthia and Robert Caldwell<br />
Mac and Judy Calhoun<br />
Roland and Shirley Calhoun<br />
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Beth Canizara<br />
Helen Carlock<br />
Philip B. Carlsen<br />
Stephen and Suzanne Carlson<br />
Katherine Carpenter<br />
Milton and Shirley Casebere<br />
Catholic Relief Services<br />
Charles F. and Lorraine L. Beck<br />
Foundation<br />
Frank and Diane Chauner<br />
Cherry Picker Investments<br />
Chicago Board of Trade Foundation<br />
Chicago Community Trust<br />
Chicago Musical Connection<br />
Christ Church, Winnetka<br />
Church of the Holy Comforter<br />
Church of the Holy Spirit<br />
Church of the Servant<br />
Cirrus Investment Group, LLC<br />
Littrell and Jane Clark<br />
Jean Cleland<br />
Clemson University Campus<br />
Ministry<br />
James and Kathleen Coffey<br />
Frederick Coggin<br />
Liz and Skip Coggin<br />
Almeda and Winston Colby<br />
Lynn A. Cole<br />
Marylynn and Richard Collentine<br />
Dr. Margaret Collins<br />
Susan Colten<br />
Susan Comstock<br />
Allison and D. Sidney Condit<br />
Winifred Conkling<br />
Agnes and Stanley Conning<br />
Bob Conrow<br />
Charles and Patricia Cook<br />
Charles Cooper<br />
Stephen Cooper<br />
Daniel and Emily Coyne<br />
Nancy Crane<br />
Martha Cray<br />
Creative Designs by Lisa<br />
Critchell-Miller and Petrus Inc.<br />
Bob and Liz Crowe<br />
Pete and Alice Cruikshank<br />
Myrna Cruikshank<br />
Douglas and Eleanor Cunningham<br />
Adrienne Curry<br />
Betty B. and Robert Curvey<br />
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John and Sally Daniels<br />
Steve Darden<br />
Wynne Darden<br />
Joan Dark<br />
Alexander Darragh<br />
Deborah and Nilton DaSilva<br />
Michael and Barbara Davis<br />
Wilbur and Cynthia Davis<br />
Andrew J. Dawson<br />
Christopher De Maio<br />
Dana Deane<br />
Dr. Jeff Deardorff<br />
Maren and Henry Deaver<br />
Rebecca Deboer<br />
Keith and Carol Decker<br />
Deiss Enterprises<br />
Diane Deiss<br />
Peter and Denise Dellva<br />
Dorothy Denson<br />
Colleen Detjen<br />
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation<br />
David and Kathy Devaney<br />
Michael Devermun<br />
Al and Sandra Diaz<br />
John and Martha Dillard<br />
Vincent Dina<br />
Terry and Emily Dischinger<br />
Ann and David Dolman<br />
Donald P. and Byrd M. Kelly<br />
Foundation<br />
Lynn Donaldson<br />
Andrew and Lori Donchak<br />
Nina and Jim Donnelley<br />
Jerome and Elaine Donohoe<br />
Jordan Doorlag<br />
H.W. and Barbara Dotts<br />
Elena Dreiske<br />
Brian Drell<br />
Rosalie Drell<br />
Wini A. Drell<br />
Bob and Roseann Drucker<br />
Dale Duda<br />
Mary Dudek<br />
Brenda Dunkins<br />
Frank and Faith Dusek<br />
Daryl and Hal Dyer<br />
E<br />
E. L. Johnson Investigations, Inc.<br />
Ebla Builders Inc.<br />
Edgebrook Community Church<br />
Hal Edwards<br />
Iona Egozi<br />
Ron and Eleanor Ehresman<br />
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Tom and Jeanette Eilers<br />
Irene Ekstrom<br />
Barbara E. Ellson<br />
Judson Ely and Sheila Ely<br />
Emergency Fund<br />
Lois Emery<br />
Dale Emmet<br />
Betty S. Eng Smith<br />
Jeff and Terren Engle<br />
Mark and Lori Engle<br />
Howard and Marian Engstrom<br />
Epaphroditus Foundation<br />
Doug Erickson<br />
Virginia Erickson<br />
Susan Ervin<br />
Rhonda and Charles Esgro<br />
Evangelical Lutheran Church<br />
in America<br />
F<br />
Donald and Martha Farley<br />
John and Susan Feaster<br />
Gabe Feddema<br />
Larry and Karen Fehr<br />
Doug and Elsa Felten<br />
Judy and Cliff Fenton<br />
Steven Fercho<br />
Katherine File<br />
Sarah Filler<br />
Wolfgang and Judith Filusch<br />
Karl and Kathy Fink<br />
Firefly Legal Inc.<br />
First Congregational Church of<br />
Evanston<br />
First Midwest Charitable Foundation<br />
First Presbyterian Church Arlington<br />
Heights<br />
First Presbyterian Church of<br />
Evanston<br />
First Presbyterian Church of Oak<br />
Ridge<br />
First Presbyterian Church of<br />
Wilmette<br />
Dick and Betty Jane Fitzgerald<br />
FK Investments LLC<br />
Charlotte and Tom Floyd<br />
Jim and Deb Ford<br />
Fourth Presbyterian Church<br />
Thomas and Barbara Fox<br />
Franke Family Foundation<br />
Richard Franke<br />
Michelle Frankovich<br />
Kay Franson<br />
Ronn and Nina Frantz<br />
Tikva C. Frantz<br />
Janice Frede<br />
Kevin and Lynne Frid<br />
Jarvis and Robin Friduss<br />
Ira J. Friedman<br />
Dee Fucik<br />
Don and Millie Funk<br />
G<br />
Gail and Mark Galter<br />
Flo Ganja<br />
Rev. Magdalena Garcia<br />
Peggy and Clarke Garrett<br />
Nancy and Joe Gatlin<br />
George M. Eisenberg Foundation<br />
for Charities<br />
Mary Kay Gerut-Javors<br />
Velma Gholston<br />
William and Carolyn Gifford<br />
John and Cindy Gilman<br />
Dick and Sandy Glenn<br />
Glenview Community Church<br />
Cindy Goldsberry<br />
Jill Goldsmith<br />
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<strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> Foundation<br />
Jacques and Betsy Wiltshire-Gordon<br />
Mary Lynn Gordon<br />
Robert Gordon<br />
Susan Gottlieb<br />
Jill Graham<br />
Patricia Graham Johnson<br />
Brian Gramza<br />
Connie Grant<br />
Betsy Gray<br />
Greater Chicago Food Depository<br />
Steve and Darilyn Greenhow<br />
Andrew and Wendy Griffin<br />
Grover Hermann Foundation<br />
Albert and Carol Guay<br />
H. Jane Guelich<br />
Deb Gundersen<br />
Melvin Guthrie<br />
Francisco Gutierrez<br />
H<br />
Joe and Reed Hagee<br />
Nancy Hagstrom<br />
Mary C. Hales<br />
Dorothy Hall<br />
Christine Haller<br />
Terry and Holly Halliday<br />
Tom and Deanna Hanks<br />
Michael Harada<br />
James and Helen Hardee<br />
Donald P. Harkins
Alison Harrald<br />
Michael Harris<br />
Louis S. Harrison<br />
Jane Harrison<br />
Barbara Harroun<br />
Helen Hartke<br />
Don and Lois Hartung<br />
Barbara Hassen<br />
Patricia and Michael Haverty<br />
Marlene Hayman<br />
Joanne Heal<br />
Olivia Heeringa<br />
Marcia Heeter<br />
Valerie Heidlauf<br />
Lynne Heidt<br />
Helen Brach Foundation<br />
Bill and Mary Lee Hendricks<br />
William and Mary Hengels<br />
Christine and Kenneth Hennig<br />
Melody and David Henrie<br />
Merrill S. Henry<br />
Stuart and Sue Hertzberg<br />
Todd and Donna Hester<br />
Jimi Hickman<br />
Susan Hilkevitch<br />
Tom and Sheila Hirsh<br />
Lawrence and Barbara Holm<br />
Nancy Hohfeler<br />
Walter and Sylvia Holdampf<br />
Sylvia Holdampf<br />
Steven and Kay Holler<br />
David and Nancy Holly<br />
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Mr. and Mrs. Mark Homuth<br />
Jeff Homuth<br />
Kazuko and James Hood<br />
Case Hoogendoorn<br />
William and Marilyn Hooper<br />
Mary Anne and Frank Hoover<br />
John and Beth Horth<br />
Kenneth and Viginia Horth<br />
Peter Horth<br />
Keith Hosey<br />
Alan and Peggy Jo Hoskin<br />
Susan Hosking<br />
Hougton Mifflin, Matching Gift<br />
Program<br />
Housing Opportunities for Women<br />
David and Sandra Howard<br />
Howe Family Fund, San Diego<br />
Foundation<br />
Allan and Jeanne Howe<br />
Frank Hubachek<br />
Jan Hubbard<br />
George and Jean Hull<br />
Barton and Charlotte Hunsicker<br />
Arthur and Florence Hurter<br />
Cindy Huston<br />
I<br />
Illinois Conference of UCC<br />
Infotrack Information Systems, Inc.<br />
W. and K. Ingle<br />
Alisa and Masatoshi Inouye<br />
Intercounty Judicial Sales<br />
Corporation<br />
Joseph and Susan Introcaso<br />
Diane Iorio<br />
David and Sarah Irwin<br />
John and Xiaoliang Israel<br />
Carol A. Ivy<br />
J<br />
H. Noel Jackson<br />
Arlene Jackson<br />
Barbara Jackson<br />
Geraldine W. Jaeck<br />
Richard Jamerson<br />
Ned and Debby Jannotta<br />
Ernst and Agnes Janzen<br />
Farnell and Gloria Jenkins<br />
Alice Jennett<br />
James and Karne Jensen<br />
Susan Jicha<br />
Judy Jobbitt<br />
John and Alice Lloyd Foundation<br />
John R. Houlsby Foundation<br />
Jerry and Annette Johns<br />
Johns Plumbing<br />
Megan Johnson<br />
Peter and Elizabeth Johnson<br />
Arlene V. Johnson<br />
Dorothy P. Johnson<br />
Ernest and Stacey Johnson<br />
Jeanne Johnson<br />
Nancy H. Johnson<br />
David and Rochelle Jones<br />
David Jones<br />
Daniel Jorndt<br />
Sarah and Bob Joseph<br />
Judicial Sales Corporation<br />
K<br />
Claudia A. Katz<br />
Kenneth and Barbara Kaufman<br />
Bert Keats<br />
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Matthew Kelley<br />
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Thomas Kinder<br />
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Kenneth and Jenice Klausing<br />
Jerome Kliejunas<br />
Alice Klingstedt<br />
Judy Ko<br />
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Virginia LaGue<br />
Cheryl Lamm Gunn<br />
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Laura Lapp<br />
Fred Lappe<br />
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Ron and Mary Lou Larson<br />
Mary and Robert Larson<br />
Michael and Martha Laughlin<br />
Law Bulletin Publishing Company<br />
Muriel and Zach Lazar<br />
Zachary and Anne Lazar<br />
Jay and Cre Ledbetter<br />
Susan Lenart<br />
Ann and Irwin Lerman<br />
Levi Strauss Foundation<br />
Morris and Carol Lewellyn<br />
Bob and Sherri Lewis<br />
Lincolnwood Garden Club of<br />
Evanston<br />
Marcia and Doug Lindseth<br />
Living Water Community Church<br />
Dan Lloyd<br />
Lizzie Lockwood<br />
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Charlie and Barbara McBride<br />
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Bud Riley<br />
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Robert R. McCormick Tribune<br />
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Bob Rogers<br />
Michele Rogers<br />
Lee and Sandra Rogulich<br />
James and Carol Rohrabaugh<br />
Marc Rolfes<br />
Margaret and Richard Romano<br />
Kurt and Helen Rorig<br />
Rosebud Foundation<br />
Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates, P.C.<br />
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Norman and Alice Rubash<br />
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Barbara and Charles Schulz<br />
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Carl and Teri Stanley<br />
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Starko LLC<br />
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Manfred Steiner<br />
Tom Stenger<br />
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Warwick and Winnie Stevenson<br />
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The Benefit Source, Inc.<br />
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Virginia Trux<br />
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Even in our deepest losses we<br />
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Nancy Hohfeler<br />
June Lees (Bud Ogle’s mother)<br />
Donald Shaw
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Steven Olson 14 , Treasurer<br />
Allan Howe 9 , Secretary<br />
Ronn Frantz 1 , Executive Director<br />
Gary Brugh 12<br />
Maia Davis-Singleton 5<br />
Brenda Dunkins 7<br />
Jimi Hickman 3<br />
Gladys Hyde 15<br />
Arlene Jackson 11<br />
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