Thursday, May 25, 2017

Update: LUM Awarded $17K+ in Grants

LUM Nominated for SIA’s 30 for 30 Grants

LUM is urging all SIA associates to “Vote for LUM” in the 30 for 30 grant program.

Subaru of Indiana Automotive is celebrating their 30th Anniversary with gifts to the community. SIA has dedicated $30,000 from their foundation for 30 grants of $1,000 each to go to 30 separate, local nonprofits. SIA associates nominate the nonprofits and they then vote to identify the 30 recipients. The grant winners will be announced in June.

So — if you are an SIA associate, please VOTE for LUM! If you know of an SIA associate, please urge them to VOTE for LUM!

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Madeleine “Maddie” Holmes — LUM Intern: Campaign for Hoosier Families

Maddie grew up in Indianapolis and currently lives in Lafayette.

She earned a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in communications & anthropology (psychology minor) this May. Maddie will continue her studies at Purdue working toward a Master’s degree in communications.

Summer

Erin Moon-Walker — LUM Intern: Good Samaritan Program, ID Clinic, Immigration Clinic, Campaign for Hoosier Families, Emergency Shelter

Erin grew up in and currently lives in West Lafayette with her husband, Aaron, and her two daughters, Lolly (10) & Stevi (7).

She earned a bachelor's degree from Purdue University in psychology (communications minor) and is currently working on a Master of Social Work at the IU School of Social Work.

LUM Shelter to Benefit from Grants

Both the City of Lafayette & the City of West Lafayette recently awarded Lafayette Urban Ministry a significant Community Development Block Grant.

LUM was awarded $11,250 from Lafayette and $6,240 from West Lafayette — totaling $17,490.

CDBG is an important resource for local governments in their efforts to provide both transitional and permanent housing, as well as supportive services, to families and individuals experiencing homelessness. This grant money will be available on July 1 and will be used to support homeless services and programs at Lafayette Urban Ministry.

Thanks to the Cities of Lafayette & West Lafayette for their continued support of LUM’s services & programs for the homeless. If you wish to make a donation to the LUM Emergency Shelter, click HERE.

This past week, Instant Copy...Printing was awarded the first ever Hunger Hike Hero Award. Joe Micon, LUM executive director presented the award to Beth Deaton, production manager at Instant Copy, at an informal ceremony.

Instant Copy has been supporting Hunger Hike for over 10 years supplying all of our pr inting and marketing materials. Their gift to Hunger Hike was vital in helping us surpass our goal and raise over $114,000 in 2016.

Thanks to Mr. Bill Freeman, Instant Copy owner; Beth; and the entire crew at Instant Copy for their heroic work for Hunger Hike. {Pictured L to R: Joe Micon & Beth Deaton.}

Please support Instant Copy...Printing (701 Main St., Lafayette | 765-742-8656) and all of our Hunger Hike sponsors when you are able. If you wish to become a corporate event sponsor of Hunger Hike 2017, please email or call us (hungerhike@lumserve.org | 765-423-2691). For more information about Hunger Hike 2017, go to www.hungerhike.org.

The volunteers and staff who have been working with this year’s LUM Tax Assistance Program met for lunch at Lafayette Brewing Co. to celebrate another successful year.

Some interesting statistics about this year’s LUM Tax Assistance Program are as follows:

552 - Income Tax Returns filed

$877,327 - Total Federal Refunds; $102,067 - Total State Refunds $979,394 - Total Refunds

$332,536 - Total in Earned Income Credit $19,719 - Average Adjusted Gross Income

Attending the celebratory lunch (pictured L to R) were Ben Murphy (program director), Ann Pellegrino, Patti O’Callaghan, Linda Hicks, Ron Smith, Tricia Sembroski, Rob Patrick and Russell Clark.

If you wish to make a donation to the LUM Tax Assistance Program, click HERE.

Career Opportunity: LUM Program Director

Program Director—Good Samaritan Program & ID Clinic

Type: Half-time, paid Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Salary: $16,814 annual Benefits: $5,044 cash benefit; plus eligible for vacation, sick time, personal days & paid holidays Duties: Receives and responds to requests from the public for emergency

financial aid Helps those without legal photo identification to navigate public

agency ID rules and regulations Recruits, trains, schedules and supervises volunteers

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required Experience using QuickBooks and computer database

If interested please send or drop off your resume with a cover letter to the LUM executive director (lum@lumserve.org | 420 N 4th St., Lafayette) before noon on Tuesday, May 30, 2017. For more information, click HERE.