April 23, 2021
We have good news!
The Ken W. Davis Foundation just awarded NEW DAY $5,000!
NEW DAY recently applied for a grant from the Ken W. Davis Foundation. This week Martha Kinard, NEW DAY Board President, announced that a $5,000 grant came through on April 18, “It is wonderful to see that other organizations recognize the great work NEW DAY is doing. Thank you to Cullen Davis, President of the Ken W. Davis Foundation.”
COVID 19 has added to the need to provide weekend food bags as students are at their schools or at home, and parents or guardians have become unemployed or underemployed and food needs have become even more of a challenge. The combined numbers of homeless, at-risk children and the number of area Arlington schools served, has resulted in a dynamic and shifting need that NEW DAY responds to on a weekly basis.
The availability of having weekend food and supplies is invaluable for these youth. This is especially crucial because there is no emergency drop-in shelter for teens in Arlington; youths without a place to stay over the weekend may be subjected to serious food insecurity because they must move from place to place.
The Ken Davis Foundation grant to the NEW DAY Weekend Food Program will pay for over 1,200 weekend food bags towards our efforts to enhance student abilities to learn.
We have good news!
The Ken W. Davis Foundation just awarded NEW DAY $5,000!
NEW DAY recently applied for a grant from the Ken W. Davis Foundation. This week Martha Kinard, NEW DAY Board President, announced that a $5,000 grant came through on April 18, “It is wonderful to see that other organizations recognize the great work NEW DAY is doing. Thank you to Cullen Davis, President of the Ken W. Davis Foundation.”
COVID 19 has added to the need to provide weekend food bags as students are at their schools or at home, and parents or guardians have become unemployed or underemployed and food needs have become even more of a challenge. The combined numbers of homeless, at-risk children and the number of area Arlington schools served, has resulted in a dynamic and shifting need that NEW DAY responds to on a weekly basis.
The availability of having weekend food and supplies is invaluable for these youth. This is especially crucial because there is no emergency drop-in shelter for teens in Arlington; youths without a place to stay over the weekend may be subjected to serious food insecurity because they must move from place to place.
The Ken Davis Foundation grant to the NEW DAY Weekend Food Program will pay for over 1,200 weekend food bags towards our efforts to enhance student abilities to learn.
April 22, 2021
Podcast about New Day
On the "Grace Works" podcast published by Grace Presbytery, host Paul Burns had two guests on to talk about New Day and the challenges of the pandemic:
Podcast about New Day
On the "Grace Works" podcast published by Grace Presbytery, host Paul Burns had two guests on to talk about New Day and the challenges of the pandemic:
Mother and daughter team, Ruler Elder Martha Kinard and the Rev. Kate McGee, share about their churches' collaborative effort with New Day, a ministry that supplies food to families of underserved students in Arlington. It all started with a few bags of groceries delivered to a local high school, now together they feed a 1000 families a weekend. There is a New Day dawning in Arlington thanks to Grace Presbyterian Church and Westminster Presbyterian Church and the God they serve. Listen in to this unfolding work of grace!
Listen to the podcast here.
Watch this video!
NEW DAY feeds children in Arlington with the school district as our partner. We work directly with school counselors to find the students who are either hungry or who may be food insecure. The latter are kids who may not be hungry all the time but who do not have a consistent stream of nutritious food available to them. Counselors identify these kids and contact NEW DAY for the delivery of bags of food on Fridays. The bags are discreetly distributed to students by the counselors.
NEW DAY began as an outreach ministry of Grace Presbyterian Church and it subsequently became an independent tax-exempt nonprofit organization. NEW DAY still has close ties to the faith community. In fact, churches are an important aspect of our business plan. We have established three food packing production lines with the combined capacity of delivering 900 bags of food each week to Title I schools in Arlington. Production lines have been established at Grace Presbyterian, Westminster Presbyterian and Trinity United Methodist. We expect to establish other production lines in churches over the next few years so that we may feed all of the hungry kids in the school district.
NEW DAY began as an outreach ministry of Grace Presbyterian Church and it subsequently became an independent tax-exempt nonprofit organization. NEW DAY still has close ties to the faith community. In fact, churches are an important aspect of our business plan. We have established three food packing production lines with the combined capacity of delivering 900 bags of food each week to Title I schools in Arlington. Production lines have been established at Grace Presbyterian, Westminster Presbyterian and Trinity United Methodist. We expect to establish other production lines in churches over the next few years so that we may feed all of the hungry kids in the school district.
