March 2010 Notebook - Virginia Piper

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Of NoteJUDY JOLLEY MOHRAZPresident and CEOPicturing the“Safety Net”As children, when wehear the term “safetynet,” we think of thenetting stretched farbeneath the trapeze artistsas they fly through the air.We know the net is theonly thing between atiming mistake and a fatalfall. We use the same termto describe the human services network thatprovides food, shelter, medical care and assistanceto people in need. It saves them from humancatastrophe.The photographs included in this PiperNotebook are only a few of the images from thePicturing Maricopa project that the Virginia G.Piper Charitable Trust commissioned. While thegoal of the project was to provide professionalphotographs nonprofits could use to tell theirstories, these photos provide a concrete sense ofpart of our community safety net—theorganizations that serve our community day afterday as demands mount and budgets shrink.The pictures also remind us that people in thesephotographs, many of whom are wage earners whocannot make ends meet or are recently unemployedor dislocated, are our neighbors. Young and old,hopeful or stoical, they face the full force of theeconomic pressures of life in the Valley in 2010.And the safety net is fraying.Staggering Statistics• In 2009, one in 16 homeowners in Arizonareceived a foreclosure notice.• The last Maricopa County homeless countindicated an increase of 20 percent.• Unemployment in Maricopa County stands atnearly 1 out of every 12 workers.• Nearly 900,000 people in Arizona soughtemergency food assistance in the past year.• And 40,000 more children in Arizona qualifyfor free and reduced lunches today compared totwo years ago.The statistics are alarming, even staggering. Thephotographs remind us that these are not onlystatistics, numbers increasing by the month. Thesealso are people depending on a fragile, tatteredsafety net to stop free fall. ✱2
“Joseph and Cujo”Damon Sauer / Phoenix Rescue Mission, shelter and food services3
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Page 7 and 8: “Mario”Damon Sauer, photographe
Page 9 and 10: “Nobody’s Daughter”Jason Kost
Page 11 and 12: “Wellness”Bradley Armstrong, ph
Page 13 and 14: “Volunteer Mass”Steve Weiss, ph
Page 15 and 16: “Conversation”Steve Gittins, ph
Page 17 and 18: Deanna Dent, photographer, 2009 / M
Page 19 and 20: “Mother and Child”Jose Sosa, ph
Page 21 and 22: “Faces of Desert Mission”Steve
Page 23 and 24: Picturing Maricopa: 15 Agencies/15
Page 25 and 26: job development, licensed and ancil
Page 27 and 28: GRANT NOTES Grants Awarded from Sep
Page 29 and 30: Southwest Autism Research &Resource
Page 31 and 32: ENDNOTEVIRGINIA G. PIPERCHARITABLE

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