Good News Partners 2011 Annual Report

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Good News Partners 2011 Annual Report On this, our 35th Anniversary, we extend our gratitude to Bud Ogle and wife, Donna, for founding, nurturing, and loving the Good News Partners community. We are blessed as Bud continues to be an important part of GNP as President Emeritus, furthering his, and our, call to end homelessness and hopelessness, to foster justice, and to build bridges of reconciliation. Chairman of the Board Good News Partners continues to grow and change. Change is not only good but a requirement in a healthy organization. Change is positive when an organization continually adapts to the operational realities it faces, but negative if it alters the organization’s original vision and goals. I think Good News Partners is solidly in the “good change” category. GNP is still firmly focused in our commitment to follow the will of God as we respond to homelessness and hopelessness. In the last year, through the generous support of the developing Church Collaborative, we purchased an additional building in the neighborhood that will expand living options. We also renovated previously owned space to both consolidate staffing in one improved location and to free up additional space for housing in the Jonquil Hotel. Additional changes continue on our operational side. We have bid adieu to former board members Jan Niemeyer and Andy Shaw. The countless hours of work and prayer they have given to GNP deserve more than simple words of thanks. We all need to thank God for their devotion to the shaping of this ministry. We are also changing leadership of the board. I am stepping down as chair and those duties will be turned over to the capable hands of current board member David Holly. We are infusing the board with new blood and spirit by adding four new members. The board continues to be enthusiastic concerning the management and vision supplied by Ronn Frantz, Executive Director. His calm leadership has provided the board with confidence as GNP moves toward ending homelessness and hopelessness, beginning in our neighborhood and expanding to the whole of God’s creation. Gary Brugh Chairman of the Board 2 Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Issue Executive Director As we enter the 35th year of partnering in the Good News, I am reminded of the exhortation of the writer to the Hebrews, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us…” Good News Partners is greatly enriched by all of our partners, past, present, and future, especially other organizational partners in the North of Howard area with whom we have been working shoulder to shoulder for much of our 35 years. We have enjoyed the opportunity to sit together with the leaders of these groups and reflect upon what we have and have not seen accomplished in the past two generations. We are remembering in order to push forward. As I reflect upon the close of our last year, I am also reminded of another anniversary that presses greatly upon us: the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedies. Certainly, that anniversary is much larger and more dramatic than that of a small community living and working in the very northeast corner of the large City of Chicago. Yet, I am reminded of Dr. Martin Luther King’s remarks that “the arc of history is long but it bends towards justice.” It is often the small things, the consistent things, the everyday things that have the largest impact and lasting value: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, educating the young, housing the homeless. I hope that as you review the work of Good News Partners over the past year, you will recognize where and how you have been contributing to the bend of history towards justice. I hope also that you will see the road ahead for yourself as a partner in the Good News, building bridges of reconciliation. The choices we make, be they small or ordinary, are momentous. Shalom! Ronn Frantz Executive Director
Mission To end homelessness and hopelessness with everyone God brings to us, to foster justice and to build bridges of reconciliation. Philosophy Good News Partners is a faith-based, asset-based community development (ABCD) organization, focusing on housing, education, and economic development. As an ABCD organization, in contrast to a traditional social service agency, we do not try to fix other people or solve other people’s problems. Instead, we focus on empowerment and partnership. We recognize one another’s unique gifts, talents and experiences and work to enhance each person’s responsibility and potential. We all have something to teach and much to learn. We know we all need one another for our community, our city, our nation, and our world’s optimal health. As a faith-based ministry we seek to embody the hope, freedom, opportunity, community, and justice that God intends for us all. We welcome everyone – especially people often discriminated against because of race, gender, economic condition, religion, sexual orientation, and national origins. TABlE OF CONTENTS 4 Home – Our Story 5 Where We Call Home 6 Bringing Hope Home Through More Than Housing… 7 Bringing Hope Home in 2011 8 Bringing Hope Home – Stories of Our Resident Partners 10 …And Our Support Partners 11 Financials 13 Support Partners 19 Board of Directors Bringing Hope Home Good News News Partners 3
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