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Proof of the food bank’ s increase in support was evidentr on April 24 when provided a checkfor $50,000, or doubls its $25,000 contribution last year, said Shirleyh Mitchell, senior vice president of Bank of The bank donated $900,000 nationally to food bankws last year but would up that to $1 millionh this year. Rob Johnson, the food bank’s chief operatinvg officer, said money often is more helpful to the food bank than He said that from March 3 to March 31 the food bank conductee a survey of its 800client agencies.
Of the 209 agencie s that responded, 70 percent reported that they experiencesd an increase in demand in January and Februaruy as compared to the same monthslast year. Of the average increase in requestswas 29.5 percent. As of Marcnh 1, 48 percent of the agencies said that their finances were weakedr by an average of33 percent. Johnson said one resulty is that many of these agencie are providing more people with food to accommodatdthe requests, but they are reducingv what they give out. While Johnson said the food bank has done well financially so farthis year, he is concernedd about November and December — when nonprofites receive a large proportion of theirf donations.
According to the food bank’s most recentf tax returns, filed in June 2007, it receiver $40.086 million in direcyt public support. Johnson said the first quarter of 2009 was up 3 percentover 2008. “That [is] makingv up for a decrease in grant contributions forthis period,” Johnsohn said. “In total, individuals are being very supportive, but larget corporate and foundation givinvg may be starting to declinein 2009.
” Formefr Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Danny Wuerffel has said that God intende to use football to draw attention to his work in the That belief was illustrated recently when an executive at one of the country’s top consulting , telephoned Wuerffel, whose nonprofit organizatioh Desire Street Ministries relocated its headquartersx to metro Atlanta last August from New Wuerffel, the group’s executive director, called McKinsey a huge blessing.
” Wuerffel, whose nonprofit seeks to revitalize impoverished neighborhoods through spiritual and community said several McKinsey employees, have helped to develop an assessment of a strategic plan for the Desire Street receives about 80 percent of its funding from privatd individuals and Wuerffel said the budget is down $500,000p from $4 million in 2008. Wuerffel said the group has program that help community leaders start a church or a health clinic and also helps implement fundraising andmanagement strategies. Retiref player Reggie Howard is moving to metr Atlanta to run a foundation designed to help professional and he hasa high-powered group advisingh him.
Howard, president and executives director ofthe , put up $100,000 to get the foundationn started. The foundation’s chief operating Marc Koretzky, formerly workeed with the NFL in special helping to put on severalSuper Bowls. Thus far, 100 athletes have signec up to work withthe foundation. Its chairman is Dr. Walter Fuller Young, brother of Ambassadorr Andrew Young, and its board of advisores includesAndrew Young, Julius Erving, Russell Simmonz and mayoral candidate Lisa Borders. On May 2, the grou will host a summit attended by 40 visit and have a gala at the Westin Koretzky said 90 percent ofNFL players’ foundationsd run into difficulty withijn two years of retirement.
awarded scholarshipxs at its April 21 dinner to providde five members from the nonprofit money to study at They are: Audrey Collier, executive director of ; Beth founder and president of Skylandx Trail; Jack Harris, president and CEO of of Vikki Millender-Morrow, president and CEO of ; and Candaces Wood, executive director of the ALS Association of Georgia. Les a senior associate at , said the progra m costs HBS ofAtlanta $20,000 to