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Bethlehem Center
http://www.bethlehemcenters.org/
Bethlehem Center was coaching before coaching was cool. Their many innovative programs serve children and families with individual and group coaching, helping students achieve success and getting parents and the community more involved with these students. Sometimes a grant accomplishes many goals at the same time. In 2003, the HF provided a grant to help create and produce a major fundraising educational event.
This investment paid off in the following ways:
- Bethlehem Center was able to immediately raise many multiples of original grant.
- The organization made many new friends, thus adding to their potential fundraising base.
- The event deepened the commitment of existing friends and donors, helping to solidify the fundraising base.
- The event proved successful, therefore giving Bethlehem Center a model for future fundraising events.
- Bethlehem Center benefits greatly from the visionary, feisty, longtime leadership of Joyce Searcy, and this grant was a vote of confidence in that leadership. We approved this grant request in full, immediately, to enable her to do what she knew she COULD do.