First Parish in Concord: Social Action Grants Committee Grant Request Cover Sheet A. First Parish Sponsor
Name
Tony Rodriguez
Date of Request
March
h
1i ,2013
Street Address
14 Loring Rd
City, State, Zip
Lexington, MA 02421
Email Address
[email protected]
Are you a First Parish
Pledging Member?
X Yes
No
Home Phone
781-863-2283
Cell Phone
617-877-9542
Describe your relationship to Grantee Organization
I have been part of the EI Salvador Youth Service trips in 2009, 2011 and the recently cancelled 2013 trip to Centro
Arte Para La Paz, Suchitoto, EI Salvador. A group of adults, under the leadership of Jim Reynolds, have accompanied
close to 30 of our FP youth to visit EI Centro establishing very strong bonds with Sister Peggy and the people of
Suchitoto.
B. Grantee Organization Information
Organization Name
Centro de arte Para La Paz
Contact Person
Sister Peggy O'Neill
Title
Street Address
Sisters of Charity/EI Salvador Seton House # 202
Phone
City, State, Zip
Box 476, Convent Station NJ, 07961-0476
Email Address
[email protected]
Organization's Annual
Operating Budget
l
I 011-503 -2 335-1080
Please describe the organization's mission
Centro Arte para la Paz (CAP) The Center for Peace through the arts is a local non-profit organization recognized
for its work with children and youth in Suchitoto. EI Salvador. It is a healing space providing classes and workshops in
art and music, photography, dance, conflict mediation, all in a setting where the Civil War dominated the lives of
families for more than fifteen years. CAP's vision is the prevention of violence and creation of a culture of peace.
C. Grant Request Overview
Goals of project for
which grant is requested
Briefly describe the
Target Population.
How many people will be
affected?
Describe the Geographic
Location of Project
Total Project Budget
Please List Other
See grant narrative for overall context of our request for financial support of the Centro
- This request if for just one of the many programs offered (or to be offered) by CAP .
The "leather workshop" program is created for youth who already are artisans, people
who already have certain abilities with their hands and a clear sense of composition and
design . It's for ten participants who want to learn new techniques to work with leather
and spread their craftsmanship possibilities . Our goal is to provide these youth with a
craft that has a history here in Suchitoto and enable them to launch the sale of crafts
that were many years ago popular here in our zone. Our target will be youth at risk who
need to acquire skills that will bring income to their families and keep them resisting
the temptation to leave illegally to the USA or to join gangs for survival.
The target will be youth at risk who need to acquire skills that will bring income to their
families and keep them resisting the temptation to leave illegally to the USA or join
gangs for survival.
10 youth under the specific grant request,
n/a (if not applicable, describe other
measurable goals in grant narrative.
but, 100s as part of the overarching CAP
mission
Suchitoto, EI Salvador
$4,275
I Grant Request Amount
Sister Peggy and CAP have multiple, but, limited, sources
I $4,275
I $n/a
Funding Sources
of funding available to fund the Centro's multitude of
programs documented in the additional report s provided
to First Parish and included with this application.
To whom should award check should be made payable?
I Sisters of Charity/EI Salvador
D. First Parish Involvement
List First Parish members
involved in project
Describe any other First
Parish connections
Jim Reynolds, Nancy Kerr, Pam Howell, laurie Vanloon
Standing partnership between CAP and the First Parish youth service trips
Has organization or project received previous support (in all forms) from First Parish?
If so, please describe
I X Ye s
No
Matching funds rai sed by First Parish youth for thi s EI Salvador Youth Service Trip
destination to help the center for peace to build a play ground on site. (SAC Grant
amount $1,500 plu s $1 ,500 ra ised by the youth). The playground wa s successfully
completed .
Cover Page Instructions
Enter the requested information into the gray boxes in the answer space. They will
automatically expand to accommodate the text you enter. Enter an X beside Yes or No to
indicate your answer.
Please be brief. You can expand on cover sheet information in your grant narrative . Keep the
cover sheet to one page if possible.
E. Grant Narrative On a separate paper, please provide the following: • One page description of project, including project history, project goals, objectives,
timeline, and a detailed statement of impact. Specify how the impact will be measured .
You may use this narrative to expand on information provided on the cover sheet.
• If applicable, describe impact of any prior funding by First Parish . Please specify source
of those First Parish funds .
Grant Report
If you are a past grant recipient, a Grant Report is required no later one year from the date of
the Grant Request. Specifications for the report content can be found on the web at
www.firstparish.org but should
include how the money was used, who was engaged in or
assisted with the project, and what the significant outcomes of the project were.
Grant Submissions
Submit Grant Requests to:
[email protected]
or
First Parish Concord
20 Lexington Road
Concord, MA 01742
attn: SAC Grants Program
Grant Narrative (Supporting CAP)
The First Parish EI Salvador SAC Program intends to
continue our strong partnership and support for CAPs
mission and vision to help the community of Suchitoto.
What is it about? Our First Parish congregation was introduced to the
Centro Arte Para La Paz (The Art Center for Peace) in Suchitoto, EI
Salvador during 2008-09 as a group of fifteen youth and chaperones
prepared for their April 2009 service trip. The Center, run by the dynamic
Sister Peggy O'Neal, provides education to this war torn country's
inhabitants on ways to move ahead in a life of peace. The First Parish
group supports the Center through various youth-led events.
CAPs Main areas of focus?
1. The School: Peace through the Arts - This is an alternative
educational program that offers a variety of workshops and courses
(in areas of art, gender equality and the prevention of violence) that
are provided free of charge to children and youth who live under the
poverty level in the municipality of Suchitoto. Some of the specific
offerings are: classes in harp, batacuda , guitar and song , yoga,
audiovisual production , digital photography; courses on conflict
mediation , alternative programs to violence, computers and English.
2. The Restoration of the buildings respecting the Cultural heritage
of Suchitoto: On the property are colonial structures: the Chapel and
the School , which are listed on the directory of the ministry of Culture,
the Historical Society, of EI Salvador. A multiphase/multi year plan is
seeking to restore the Hostel , Peace gardens , Playgrounds for
Peace, classrooms and a Community Museum.
3. Self Sustainability - To ensure the sustainability of the organization
and the programs , various income generating initiatives have been
adopted mainly through space rental , such as the Hostel, providing
accomodations for delegations and groups (such as FP), two
conference centers and areas for break out groups. There iare plans
for an outdoor cafe, a small hop to sell local handcrafts and OVO's
produced for the Museum . Cap will also have a tour boat which will
operate on Lake Suchitlan and the youth who have worked in the
museum are the tour guides. All of these efforts are in place to
sustain and ensure CAP's services to the people of Suchitoto.
CAPs Impact to the Community?
The First Parish EI Salvador groups that have visited CAP and the
communities of Suchitoto and EI Sitio have witnessed first hand the very
real impact that CAP's multitude of programs have had to hundreds if not
thousands of people, not only to inhabitants of EI Sitio and Suchitoto but, to
hundreds of students from over 75 universities, high schools students like
our own First Parish youth, and adults from allover the world that have
come to CAP to witness and listen to the stories of a people ravaged and
traumatized by a long civil war.
Placing a number on the on the number of people positively affected by
CAPs programs can be guessed at by looking at our own Face Book page
for our SAC program group that currently has 65 members following our
activities . We are but one of 100 other, big and small institutions (75+
universities) with similar populations of young and old having been touched
by CAP. Suffolk University and it's Moakley Center, hosting annual student
group visits to EI Salvador, are also touched by CAP's reach .
Our group has listened to compelling stories of young people from the
impoverished community of EI Sitio now attending university through
scholarships established and funded by people deeply touched by CAPs
programs .
I'm including a recent example of CAPs successes as described by Sister
Peggy ...
" Here is a project we are so enthused about. It is in line with our goals of
prevention of violence and maintaining youth who are not able to get to
Universities or some who have not completed high school yet to start
thinking of developing a skill and get them to the next step of
commercialization of their products . We have had success with
IMAGINARTE, a group of 5 from the museum project. We got them a loan
of $1,000 from Mary's Pence and they have launched their own business.
They design banners, posters, and photos for post cards along with videos .
They are presently working on 4 films for Rotary International about 4 water
projects completed by Rotary here in Suchitoto. ( a $5,000 project for
them) .. .. the trick is they use all of our computers, digital art software, and
editing machines. We need to help art help them! as well as heal them! "
Specific Request: LEATHER WORKSHOPS FOR
ARTISANS
INTRODUCTION.
This workshop is created for youth who already are artisans, people who already have certain
abilities with their hands and a clear sense of composition and design. It's for ten participants
who want to learn new techniques to work with leather and spread their craftsmanship
possibilities. Our goal is to provide these youth with a craft that has a history here in Suchitoto
and enable them to launch the sale of crafts that were many years ago popular here in our zone.
Our target will be youth at risk who need to acquire skills that will bring income to their families
and keep them resisting the temptation to leave illegally to the USA or to join gangs for survival.
PART I.
I.
About the leather's nature.
II.
The History of the craftsmanship .
III. Different kinds and qualities.
IV. Different techniques .
V. The tools.
VI. Design and patterns.
VII. Cutting.
VIII.
Assembly.
IX. Finish.
X.
Dying.
Length: 20 hrs.
Costs:
Materials and resources . .... .
Fees ... .... . .. . . . .. . ..... '" ..... . ... .. .... .
Sub-total. ............................ .
$150.00
$ 500.00
$ 650.00
PART II.
Handbags and others accessories.
(In this part we expect each participant to manufacture a minimum of five items of
different style).
I.
Design and cut.
II.
Assembly.
III. Finish .
IV. Item confection process .
Length: 40 hrs. Costs : Materials and tools ... $ 1,000.00
Fees ........................... $ 1,000.00
Sub-total .................. $ 2,000.00
PART III.
Artistic and decorative techniques.
I.
Chiseled and embossed .
II.
Pyrografhy.
III. Molded.
IV. Dye, print and paint.
Length: 20 hrs.
Costs:
Materials and tools ... .. .. .... ... . $ 950.00
Fees . ........ .... .. ... .. . ...... . .... .... ..... . $ 500.00
Sub-total. ............................. $ 1,450.00
General resources and materials .. $
275.00
TOTAL......... $ 4,275.00