Good News Partners 2011 Annual Report
Good News Partners 2011 Annual Report
Good News Partners 2011 Annual Report
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<strong>Good</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Partners</strong> <strong>2011</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
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 />
10 Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Issue<br />
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.
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