P-5322

Support the Enlisted Project

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Project Description

Country: USA

Location: San Diego, CA

Total Budget: $3,200

Area of Focus: Community economic development

Activity Type: Community Development: Volunteer Services

Summary: Grant will provide funds to help families in crisis with basic needs and to provide awareness of and access to STEP’s life changing Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA) Program.


STEP's mission is to build financial self-sufficiency among low income, junior military enlisted members, Veterans, and their families who are facing financial crisis. STEP provides counseling, education, and emergency funds, at no cost to their clients and their families who are in crisis.

Along with financial counseling and education to help them through their crisis, STEP provides families with food, diapers, formula, hygiene products, basic household items, clothing, and children's necessities from their warehouse in San Diego and at remote distribution events.

Grant will provide funds to help families in crisis with basic needs and to provide awareness of and access to STEP's life changing Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA) Program.

Through counseling, education, and emergency funds, Support The Enlisted Project's (STEP's) mission is to build financial self-sufficiency for life-time success.

MOST IMPORTANTLY:

The goal is to not just provide a band aid, but to get to the root causes of the individual's or families' financial challenges, and provide them with the counseling, education, and skill development that will serve them throughout the rest of their lives so that this financial crisis is their last. Every person served through this program will receive information about STEP's EFA Program, and access to resources to help change their lives.

Project Description:

Enlisted service members and their military families experience generational poverty and homelessness. Approximately 25% of these individuals and their families experience food insecurity. STEP's Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA) Program is focused at ending poverty, hunger and preventing homelessness for military families.

To increase the likelihood of success, STEP's clientele must commit to financial counseling, education, and one-on-one personalized support to end their financial crisis.

STEP's WoW program provides service members, Veterans, and their families access to the items they need every day to support their families right where they live and work. Rather than be distracted by how they will provide for their families, enlisted personnel can more easily focus on learning how to budget and plan.

During this "re-education" STEP will distribute food, diapers, hygiene items, and clothes through their Warehouse on Wheels (WoW) program, and warehouse distributions at their headquarters in San Diego.

Funding from this grant will be used to purchase:

• Food

• Diapers

• Formula

• Hygiene Items

These will be distributed on bases and in military housing communities.

Last fiscal year STEP distributed more than 203,250 pounds of food and 168,400 diapers to 6,846 San Diego families through distributions at their warehouse and through their Warehouse on Wheels program.

Club Member Involvement:

Halloween Costumes:

STEP has identified a need for Halloween costumes for the enlisted personnel's children.

DMSB members will sponsor a local drive to ask for donations of gently used Halloween costumes. We will sort and organize costumes ensuring costumes are clean and safe.

On October 19, children and their parents will come to STEPs warehouse to select their costume. For many this will be their first Halloween costume.

Members will provide simple Halloween decorations and some early Trick or Treat Treats.

Ongoing:

Members will participate in ongoing organization

Project Contact Person

District: 5340

Rotary Club of: Del Mar-Solana Beach

Primary Contact: Patricia Case

Email: pcase858@me.com

Project Status

Approved
This project is "Approved". This means that the district leadership has reviewed and approved the allocation of district funds for this project. Once the funds from the district have been issued, the status of the project will be changed to "Paid".

Project listed for the 2024-25 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Del Mar-Solana Beach (5340)

26-Jun-24

$1,600

$1,600

$3,200

Total

$1,600

$1,600

$3,200

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History Log Entries

26-Jun-24

by Conrad Heede

System Entry: Creation of project page.

10-Jul-24

by Patricia Case

System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.

10-Jul-24

by Patricia Case

System Entry: Project signed by Patricia Case.

10-Jul-24

by Art Mendoza

System Entry: Project signed by Art Mendoza.

10-Jul-24

by Alan Turner

System Entry: Signature Process cancelled by user.

10-Jul-24

by Patricia Case

System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.

10-Jul-24

by Conrad Heede

System Entry: Project signed by Patricia Case.

10-Jul-24

by Conrad Heede

System Entry: Project signed by Charlotte Jones.

10-Jul-24

by Art Mendoza

System Entry: Project signed by Art Mendoza.

13-Jul-24

by Conrad Heede

System Entry: Project signed by Charlotte Jones.

12-Sep-24

by Alan Turner

System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee.

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