Hickory – Safe Harbor recently received a grant from the Kenneth K. and Suzanne G. Millholland Endowment Fund. This grant was in the amount of $5,000 to go towards the cost of running their Whole Woman year-long recovery program. This program provides holistic care for women that have struggled with addiction most of their lives. Safe Harbor’s Whole Woman program has a 70% success rate of women living in recovery one year after graduation.
Safe Harbor feels tremendously blessed that the Kenneth K. and Suzanne G. Millholland Endowment Fund has provided funding to go towards life TRANSFORMATION! “It’s not just one life that is being transformed but entire families, for generations to come” says Vicki Murray, Executive Director of Safe Harbor.
Safe Harbor is a Christ-centered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with two main programs, the Whole Woman year-long residential recovery program for women and the Greenleaf Transitional Housing program for women and children. They also offer many services for women in their 10,000 sq. ft. Chloe Waldrop Taylor Renewal Center. Safe Harbor offer life skills and discipleship classes, recovery services, support groups, bible studies as well as houses a Day Center for women and children experiencing homelessness or at risk of being homeless. In the evening the Renewal Community Center (RCC) is a venue for co-ed support groups and community events. Safe Harbor’s ReSource Warehouse provides job training for their program participants and raises dollars to support the ministry.
The NCCF is the single statewide community foundation serving North Carolina and has made $116 million in grants since its inception in 1988. With more than $222 million in assets, NCCF sustains 1,200 endowments established to provide long-term support of a broad range of community needs, nonprofit organizations, institutions and scholarships. The NCCF partners with affiliate foundations to provide local resource allocation and community assistance across the state. An important component of NCCF’s mission is to ensure that rural philanthropy has a voice at local, regional and national levels.
To learn more about either organization you can go to: www.safeharbornc.org for Safe Harbor; www.nccommunityfoundation.org for the North Carolina Community Foundation.
