Press Release: American Baptist Home Mission Societies Partners with Invested Faith to Support Emerging Leaders
For Immediate Release 3.1.23
American Baptist Home Mission Societies Partners with Invested Faith to Support Emerging Leaders
Washington, DC: Invested Faith is pleased to announce the gift of an OGHS Development Grant from The American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS), an organization committed to equipping disciples, cultivating leaders, and to healing and transforming communities across the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico. This funding will provide supplemental grants to four Invested Faith Fellows and offer continued support for their work and mission.
Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Executive Director of ABHMS, sees promise in the work of Invested Faith Fellows. "The American Baptist Home Mission Societies believes in the promise of oncoming generations of faith leaders to change our world for the better. Therefore, we partner with Invested Faith because it consistently identifies and supports such emerging leaders."
The four Invested Faith Fellows receiving supplemental grants are:
Tiffany Terrell, Albany, Georgia – A Better Way Grocers
The mission of A Better Way Grocers is to drive nutritious food into communities struggling with food access issues across southwest Georgia. Using a retro-fitted school bus as a one-aisle grocery store, Tiffany Terrell and her team offer reasonably priced, healthy and nutritious food to local communities, along with health education to address chronic food-related illnesses.
Kit Evans-Ford, Davenport, Iowa – Argrow’s House
Dr. Kit Evans-Ford is the founder of Argrow’s House of Healing and Hope in Davenport, Iowa, a safe space where free services are offered daily for women healing from violence in the greater Quad Cities area. Named after Dr. Evans-Ford's mother who was a survivor of domestic violence, this successful social enterprise provides women the opportunity to earn a living wage by creating bath and body products in a safe space that celebrates who they are.
Olatunji Oboi Reed, Chicago, Illinois – Equiticity: The Freedom & Culture Bicycle Cooperative
Olantunji Oboi Reed is the President & CEO, of Equiticity, a racial equity movement. The Freedom & Culture Bicycle Cooperative is Equiticity's vision for manufacturing bicycles in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the Westside of Chicago. Explicitly developed to remove the generational cycle of poverty, create living wage jobs, and provide transferable and career- oriented job skills to young adults, the cooperative will manufacture beautifully designed, well built, and premium priced bicycles in North Lawndale.
Dorian Hollingsworth, Jr., Virginia Beach, VA – The Teen Care Network
Dorian Hollingsworth is the CEO/Founder and Creative Director of the Teen Care Network whose goal is to support teens by connecting them with free mental health resources while working to break the stigma around mental health treatment. The Teen Care Network bridges the gap between care and community by providing the most necessary and most current programming efforts to teens and the community in the hope of connecting communities to bring mental health center stage.
About Invested Faith: Invested Faith is a fund for faith-rooted social innovators founded by Rev. Dr. Amy Butler in 2019 in response to declining church attendance and the need for a new model of philanthropy. Invested Faith works to become a bridge between traditional churches and social innovators who are creating new expressions of faith and community. The fund is located at ImpactAssets, leading facilitator of direct impact investing within donor advised funds.
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