Action Impact Report 2009

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ACTION / impact report / 2009

We volunteered, donated, and completed:

65

hours every day

$11,413

every week

21 projects every month 1 year of serious community impact

thanks to you…

See how we took ACTION in 2009

ACTION did more…

23,565 $447,735 62 50+ 250+ $145,750

12,000 695 5,000

cared more… 2 transitional living homes, owned by Port Hueneme managed by Lutheran Social Services, were completely furnished thanks to the Action ministry center warehouse, 2 young children and their father received housing after the loss of their mother by the step-father in a murder-suicide, thanks to a referral from Casa Pacifica and VC Child Protective Services,

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volunteer hours

volunteer hours value

county-wide church partners agency partners (NPO’s, City/County) service projects completed in-kind donations

i.e. beds, refrigerators, washer/dryers, food, shoes/clothing, bedding, hygiene items, furniture, household goods, toys, computers.

Christmas Shoppe toys (2008) Christmas Shoppe volunteers (2008) hours of volunteer foster care

400+ church volunteers descended on Piru for a town makeover during the 2009 ACTION Serve Multiple partnerships cross-county increased food distribution through churches and agencies including Mercy Ministries, Manna and Simi Food Pantry, thanks to a partnership between ACTION with VC Food Share 10 Ventura County residents struggling with homelessness and sober living were placed into area treatments centers, including Teen Challenge, Casa De Vida, Rescue Mission, VC Behavioral Health & Telecare, thanks to ACTION staff. 12+ county families struggling with mentally ill relatives referred for ministry assistance, resources and life coaching, thanks to the ACTION network. ACTION Executive Director Rob Orth recognized by Turning Point Foundation and Ventura County Board of Supervisors as a “Champion of Mental Health. Financial assistance to fix a Christian couple’s car (foster parents); in turn, donated their other car to a recently emancipated foster youth (age 19), so she could have the car to get back and forth to school and work..” $8,000 in school supplies & 200 backpacks passed out $5,000 in gift gave high school grad gifts to foster youth

ACTION spoke louder

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Join us! Here’s how to take ACTION now for 2010

Thanks to you,

TO DO: MONEY

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others now give thanks... In 2009, we made a serious impact. Thank you again for everything you gave.

And there’s much more to do in 2010... serving the Lord... serving others...

...will you give of you? In thanks for your blessings,

help us continue to bless others. There is a world of hurt outside our doors, in Ventura County, in our city, in our neighbors’ homes... take ACTION now...

Urgently need 40 new monthly donors. Need special one time gifts to reach our $20k goal. Need matching gifts to help us end 2009 in a good position.

Go: www.actionvc.org/1donate/giving.php

TIME Be a volunteer. Serve somebody. Be a leader. Take a project on & organize others. Be an office or event volunteer. Help good things happen.

Go: www.actionvc.org/serveday/list_Services.php Go: www.actionvc.org/1volunteer/staffvols.php

STUFF Need toy donations for the 5 Christmas Shoppes, landscape & construction supplies for various projects, and lots of misc in-kind donations as needs arise.

Contact ACTION office: (805) 987-0330

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We take action, because we can...

thanks to Him.

Giving is our Thanksgiving.

Isaiah 58:11 “…if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.”

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