Precious Blood of Christ Catholic Church
1633 Waverly Road – Pawleys Island 29585

LIVE AUCTION @ 7:15PMLive Music by Bruce Tereo

All you can eat chili prepared by over 25 local restaurants, judged in a PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

Beer provided by New South Brewery

Tickets available for purchase at:
Get Carried Away – Hwy 17 – Pawleys Island
Front Street Deli – 809 Front St. – Georgetown
T Bones – Hwy 17 – Murrells Inlet
OR CALL 843-235-3680 for tickets

$15 in advance or $20 at the door

The Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation

Careteam, Inc. Project: Georgetown Office Expansion Project

Father to Father – Georgetown Site Project: Georgetown Fatherhood Services

Georgetown County Family YMCA Project: Building YMCA Capacity to Serve At-Risk Youth

Habitat for Humanity Georgetown County Project: ReSale Store Improvement Plan

Helping Hands of Georgetown County Project: Capacity Building Project

The Outreach Farm, Inc. Project: Expanding the Beef Production Capacity of the Outreach Farm

Pawleys Island Civic Club Child Care Center Project: Good Beginnings Never End

Service Over Self, Inc. (SOS) Project: Youth Leadership Institute (YLI)

Tara Hall, Inc. Project: Capacity Building – Accreditation

Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, Inc. – Thanksgiving Fund Grant

The Baptist Church of Beaufort Project: “Assessing Our Community” Operation Good Neighbor – Phase II

Citizens Opposed to Domestic Abuse Project: Feasibility Study

Colleton County Literacy Council Project: “Hablo Ingles por Senoras”

A Community Caring for Children Project: Improving Parental Compliance in At-Risk Children

Fennell Elementary School Project: Fennell Technology Center

Healthy Families America – Beaufort County (HFABC) Project: Jasper County Expansion and Outreach Project

Huspah Missionary Baptist Church Project: Huspah’s School’s Out Enrichment Program

Jacksonboro Community Center Project: Jacksonboro Community Center Summer Camp

Low Country Healthy Start Project: Youth of Uniqueness (YOU)

The Sheldon Township Community Support Partnership (STCSP) Project: The Sheldon Township Leadership Academy

Thunderbolt Career & Technology Center (TCTC) Project: Making the G.R.A.D.E. Graduation Requirement Advisors: Diploma & Employability

Frances P Bunnelle Foundation and Clemson University’s

SC Center on Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership

The Outreach Farm

PO Box 644

46 Professional Lane

Pawleys Island SC 29585

843-240-1777

843-240-1777

843-235-7540

mikel524@aol.com

Michael LoVullo Project Director

Infrastructure Improvement Project.

Dedicated to the mission of providing free beef to nonprofits in Georgetown County that prepare meals for the less fortunate, the Outreach Farm will be able to improve its infrastructure at the Hemingway Farm. Doing so will increase farm efficiency, reduce cost of operation, expand the capacity to feed the hungry and ensure the safety and quality of their beef. With the award they plan to purchase a front-end loader for the farm’s tractor, a 8 ½ ton grain bin (silo) with auger, a cattle scale, 4 wheeler, one additional freezer and a generator. Their 2006 goal is to double the annual amount of beef to provide 6,000 pounds and to identify additional community nonprofits feeding the hungry that would benefit from the distribution of their free beef. They also will begin to share their story beyond Georgetown County and work with those interested in replicating what they are doing.

Adult Literacy Council

500 South Kaminski Street

Georgetown, SC 29440

843-546-2188

843-527-0236 fax

zgrate@gcsd.k12.sc.us

Wilfred Connell and Zach Grate

Leveling the Playing Field Project.

The Adult Literacy Council of Georgetown will promote educational opportunities in the rural areas of Georgetown County. Low literacy adult learners will be targeted and invited to participate in Council services aimed at improvement of their reading, writing, language, and job-related communication skills.

Careteam, Inc.

3926 Wesley St #104

Myrtle Beach, SC 29579

843-236-900

843-236-9117

Johanna Haynes

jhaynes@careteamsc.org

Georgetown Expansion Project 2006.

With the help of the Compassion award, Careteam intends to 1) increase the number of people living with HIV who access medical care by 10%, 2) increase the number of clients who access dental and vision care by 10%, 3) provide local service options for mental health and substance abuse treatment to increase the number of clients who access those services by 8%. To do this Careteam will first, increase the hours the van is available for transportation from 20 to 30 hours per week. Second, to ensure quality service provision and to develop partners to provide service, Careteam will hire a new Program Service Director. This person’s job will be to identify partners to provide dental, vision and mental health and substance abuse counseling. Last, to ensure that clients are aware of the additional service provisions in the Georgetown area, Careteam will print new brochures that are specific for this area outlining the services available.

Citizens Against Spouse Abuse

PO Box 912

Myrtle Beach, SC 29578

843-626-7595

843-626-0168

citizensagaisn@aol.com

JoAnne Patterson, Project Director

Hispanic Client Services Capacity Building Project.

Limited English speaking victims of domestic abuse who need the services offered by CASA have rapidly increased with the increase in the Hispanic population in Georgetown County. Because of language barriers and cultural differences between the these clients and service providers, CASA has determined the need to equip their staff to better understand the Hispanic population’s cultural differences, specific needs and to provide staff with relevant language and cross-cultural communication skills. In addition, they will translate their literature into Spanish and find additional materials already produced nationally for this group.

Helping Hands of Georgetown, Inc.

552 Black River Rd.

Georgetown SC 29440

843-527-3424

843-??

Anna White Buko, Project Director

Buko1900@aol.com

Helping Hands Office Enhancement Project.

With the Compassion award Helping Hands will upgrade their computer equipment and furniture, provide training for staff and volunteers and hire a part-time caseworker. This will allow the Director to have more time to devote to fund development, program evaluation, program service expansion, and board development. The new equipment purchase will allow Helping Hands to take advantage of the 211 program offered by the Georgetown County United Way. This connection will allow Helping Hands link to other agencies in “real time” and standardize their intake procedure. It will also provide an means to establish an effective data management system for client information and services and for program evaluation.

Miss Ruby’s Kids

Georgetown County United Way, Fiscal Agent

46 Professional Lane

PO Box 191

Pawleys Island SC 29585

843-235-3185

843-235-3185 fax

pchp@en-visions.com

Elizabeth R. Marlow, Project Director

Increasing Fundraising Capacity.

With a small Compassion award Miss Ruby’s Kids will hire a consultant who will not only write a grant for them but use the opportunity to train the project director in how to write grant, where to find funds, and how to effectively apply for them. They will also have opportunity to secure a subscription to the Online Grants Directory available through the Foundation Center so that their search for funds is more effective and efficient.

Tara Hall Home for Boys

510 Tara Hall Road

PO Box 955

Georgetown SC 29442

843-546-3000

843-527-2156 fax

tarahall@gte.net

Jim Dumm, Project Director

Staff Capacity Building Project.

A consultant will provide training based on a needs assessment done with teachers. She will also observe each teacher’s classroom to assess strengths and weaknesses of both teachers and students and recommend possible solutions, and provide consultation to administration of selected educational issues. The goal is to have better prepared teachers to meet the educational challenges of the boys who live at Tara Hall Home for Boys.

GEORGETOWN – A few years ago, Georgetown home builder Mike LoVullo bought three cows and set them out to graze on a bit of land owned by his co-worker Lee Godbolt.

LoVullo had a dream that he could raise enough beef to feed the people who rely on the Friendship Place soup kitchen in Georgetown.

His efforts have ballooned into the creation of the nonprofit Outreach Farm, which in its first year has 49 head of beef cattle and more than 70 acres of leased land.

Kathy Wilson Robinson, director of Clemson University’s Center for Neighborhood Development at the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life, checked with national organizations, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and found that the farm is the only organization of this kind in the country.

“It is unique in that it has become self-sufficient within a very short time,” she said via e-mail. “It fills a niche in the quality of food that selected food assistance organizations are able to get in the Georgetown area.”

Outreach Farm Board President Bob Morin and LoVullo said they hope to replicate the program in other parts of the county.

Besides the food kitchen, the farm has delivered free beef to other Georgetown nonprofit organizations such as the community center Teach My People, the Pawleys Island Civic Club and Child Care, and two schools for disadvantaged boys.

It also recently began delivering beef to the Community Kitchen in Horry County. Organizers say the meat is a key part of more than 800 meals a month for the hungry in Georgetown and Horry counties.

Each steer yields up to 800 pounds of meat, which is ground into beef for chilies, spaghetti, hamburger and other meals. Outreach also provides stew beef and bones for soup. Donations help pay for the meat processing and it is stored in a borrowed freezer.

“He has a passion for feeding people and he does it in his spare time,” Morin said. Morin met LoVullo at a wedding 20 years ago and persuaded him to move to Pawleys Island.

Outreach Farm also has two crop farms that are worked by the boys at Tara Hall and the Georgetown Marine Academy, both nonprofit residential homes for troubled boys. The boys get more than free beef and produce from Outreach Farm though, Georgetown Marine Institute director Mike Wright said.

“It gives them a sense of responsibility,” he said. “It broadens their perspective of giving back to the community. They give the onions, cabbages, collards, rutabagas and turnips they raise to other nonprofit organizations.”

LoVullo said he wants to give a registered calf to one of the Tara Hall boys to raise and show as well as develop a herd of Black Angus cattle to help support the Hall.

Tara Hall director Jim Dumm remembers when LoVullo appeared on the Hall’s doorstep offering the free beef and farm programs. “I thought he was crazy, but it worked,” Dumm said. “Getting that beef is as good as getting cash. He has done a great job.”

LoVullo didn’t always work with the disadvantaged. He was a home builder for 25 years in Rutledge, Vt.

About 1995, he heard the local soup kitchen and homeless shelter needed a cook for Sunday meals. He didn’t have any particular cooking skills but he volunteered anyway. There he met shelter operator John Casserino.

“He was an amazing man,” LoVullo said. “He is one of the people that I admire. He helped needy people when he was in his 30s, unlike the rest of us who do it in our 60s.”

Casserino, who had a wife and two young children, gave up a good job with the power company to run the shelter, which was deeply in debt.

While volunteering there, LoVullo put together a program called Choices, which involved taking recovering alcoholics and drug addicts into the schools. “We didn’t ask them to tell the students what not to do,” LoVullo said. “They told them what they did and what the consequences were.”

After he moved to South Carolina, LoVullo volunteered at the soup kitchen, held a fundraiser and helped remodel the kitchen.

He also noticed very little beef was being served at meals. He remembered that the U.S. Department of Agriculture used to provided beef to the soup kitchen in Vermont but that wasn’t happening at Friendship Place.

“Beef is expensive,” LoVullo said. “When Friendship Place spends money to buy beef they have to cut back on other programs.”

That is what prompted LoVullo to buy three cows to help the soup kitchen. He said his little cattle operation quickly got, “cost prohibitive,” so in September 2004 he applied to become a tax-exempt corporation complete with a board of directors.

“From that point it grew,” said LoVullo, who is the group’s executive director.

Help has come from a variety of sources. The local Bunnell Foundation gave a large donation to buy equipment and cattle. Clemson University gave nine cows, the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the group a grant to help with farm infrastructure such as fencing and waterlines and Myrtle Beach Building Supply contributed 90 percent of the building materials used by the farm.

“We established a friendship when we met,” said Bobby Smith, president and owner of Myrtle Beach Building Supply. “There is a quality about his life that touched me in a personal way, and I felt like that I wanted to be a part.”

Proceeds from the first ever Taste at Pawleys fundraising event hosted by Precious Blood of Christ Catholic Church in April totaled more than $67,000, according to event coordinator Sherby McGrath.
Since this fundraiser brought more than 30 area restaurants together to help feed the hungry of Georgetown County and surrounding areas, church officials recently dispersed the total amount of the proceeds to three different local charities: Father Pat’s Lunch Kitchen ($32,000), Outreach Farm ($21,000) and Baskervill Ministries Food Pantry ($14,000).
“People ask me if we met our expectations, but I think we met our dreams,” McGrath said. “We hoped it would be as successful as it was. It all came together and it was magnificent.”
She estimates that 2,000 people attended and they raised slightly over $90,000 in cash receipts, including $53,125 from sponsorships and $37,814 from admission, door prize and food tickets. They also had $10,800 in in-kind donations, including decorations, linens, photography, wine, water, door prizes, etc., she said.
“Additional sponsors were Plantation Federal Bank, which paid for admission tickets, and Conway National Bank, which paid for T-shirts to identify our adult and youth volunteers,” McGrath said. “Dr. Gerald Congdon, M.D., and Waccamaw Family Medicine supported the ice cream booth. These sponsors helped us keep our expense outlay to around $9,000 for rentals, printing (programs, stationery, posters, signs), newspaper advertisements, security, etc.”
Attendees purchased $22,000 in food tickets. Of that amount, $8,171 was returned to the restaurants as their share.
“Our agreement with the restaurants was that they would get 50 percent of the amount of food tickets they redeemed at the end of the evening and our beneficiaries would get the other 50 percent,” McGrath said. “We had two ‘vendors’ from the church: Our Young Families in Faith group, which had an ice cream booth that raised $367, and our World Youth Day pilgrims, which made $1,767 from the water and soft drink concession.”

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Lunch Kitchen
The Rev. Patrick Stenson, administrator of Precious Blood Church (also known as Father Pat), who says he is thrilled with the success of Father Pat’s Lunch Kitchen, recently started on the church campus. The kitchen, which opened March 7, offers a free hot meal to the hungry in the community every Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. It is located in the Founders Hall on the church campus on Waverly Road west of Waccamaw Elementary School.
He says the $32,000 donation from the Tastes at Pawleys event will help expand this program to help even more people in the county.
“Having this kitchen is a great blessing for the community,” Stenson said. “It is getting off the ground and it is really moving. We are happy with it, so we will see where it leads.”
The summer months have brought more children to the lunch kitchen since they are not receiving a hot lunch daily at school, Stenson said. Because transportation is a problem for many of the people served by the kitchen, Teach My People, a Christian Youth Center also on Waverly Road, has started busing people to the kitchen on Wednesdays.
“It is summertime, so a bunch of kids came this week and they were really happy with the food,” Stenson said. “They said it was wonderful and sponsors said it is wonderful that these kids get at least one good meal here during the week.”
He adds that it is very important to the whole congregation of Precious Blood Church to help the community any way they can.
“We believe if we are good stewards of God’s gifts, we will be blessed in other ways,” Stenson said.
For more information, call the church at 237-3428.

Outreach Farm
Mike LoVullo, executive director of Outreach Farm, says that the $21,000 they received from the Taste at Pawleys event will be a great boost for the coming year. Outreach Farm is a non-profit organization which raises beef cattle in both Hemingway and Pawleys Island to donate meat to organizations that in turn feed those in need.
“This is money that we never expected and it is going to help us out dramatically this year,” LoVullo said.
Outreach Farm now has 65 head of cattle, and last year they made possible approximately 15,000 meals. This year, LoVullo said, they will probably help provide from 25,000 to 30,000 meals.
This organization provides meat, as well as vegetables, to organizations such as Father Pat’s Lunch Kitchen, Teach My People, Friendship Place, Community Kitchen in Myrtle Beach, Tara Hall Home for Boys, The Marine Institute, Mount Olive Church Soup Kitchen and Waccamaw Boys Home in Conway. As they grow, they will add to these organizations as the need arises.
“Outreach Farm is growing at a good pace and we are delighted about that,” LoVullo said. “With the support from the community, and especially the support from Father Pat and Precious Blood Church, we’ve done very, very well.”
For more information, call 240-1777 or visit www.outreachfarm.org.

Baskervill Ministries
Hank Stroup, the outreach coordinator for Holy Cross Faith Memorial Episcopal Church, which sponsors the Baskervill Ministries Food Pantry, says the $14,000 they received from the Taste At Pawleys event will be used solely on food for the pantry.
“The great thing about this gift is that it will last for a number of years,” Stroup said. “It is truly a blessing.”
The Food Pantry is located on the Holy Cross Church campus on Baskervill Drive, just north of Martin Luther King Drive in Pawleys Island, in the same building as the medical clinic. It is open during the same hours as the clinic, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and on Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
For more information, call 237-3459.

There are those who feed the hungry. And there are those who feed those who feed the hungry.

The Outreach Farm, which raises cattle in Pawleys Island, is in the latter group.

It supplied the meat that allowed area nonprofits to serve a couple thousand meals in 2004. That number is up to 26,000 this year and could hit 44,000 within three years if the group receives the support it needs to continue growing.

The beef has helped feed kids at Teach My People, an educational resource center, who often aren’t provided the proper nutrition at home, the homeless and working poor at Myrtle Beach Community Kitchen, and at-risk boys at Tara Hall Home For Boys, among others.

“Our mission is to feed the hungry in South Carolina,” said Steve Lowe, president of the board of directors. “There is a serious need for protein in the diets of a lot of hungry people. … We are specifically dedicated to supply beef because a lot of those [nonprofits] can’t afford meat.”

The organization was born when Georgetown home builder Mike LoVullo bought a few cows with a vision to raise enough beef to feed those at the Friendship Place soup kitchen. The Outreach Farm hopes to be self-sufficient even while expanding during five years but may need help getting there.

Organizers plan to raise a separate herd of cattle, registered Black Angus, which would be sold and the profits used to provide operational funds to help more nonprofits in Horry, Georgetown and Williamsburg counties through beef donations.

It will take $6,000 to replace cattle and to make the new investment. The farm can also use help with its $200,000 annual budget.

“Over six percent of households in South Carolina have very low food security, which means they are unable to sustain normal eating patterns,” Lowe said. “This is the highest percentage in the United States. … We have only scratched the surface in the amount of food we need to supply to meet the needs of the hungry in South Carolina.”

The group is hosting a fundraiser next month, the third annual ‘”Til the Cows Come Home” 5-K run and walk, which includes a 100-yard tot trot and a 300-yard run for older kids.

Registration will begin at 8 a.m. Nov. 10 at Precious Blood Catholic Church in Pawleys Island. It costs $20 per adult and $5 for children, with proceeds to benefit the Outreach Farm. For more information, call 235-6967 or visit www.outreachfarm.org.

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