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Community Challenge Fund
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“Helping communities help themselves”
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The Community Challenge Fund is a program to help the poorest communities of the Dominican Republic with their basic needs. The Fund provides grants for community-based projects such as water, electricity, educational facilities, sanitation and health. Grants of up to $2,500 for construction materials support the contributed labor of community members to construct needed improvements. On-site Peace Corps Volunteers help to plan, coordinate, and monitor projects. Your support will help build and sustain this Fund.
Click Here to Learn More About the Community Challenge Fund
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Annual Community Challenge Fund Drive - December kicks off the 2 month campaign for donations to support a targeted 10 community projects in 2011. FDR’s award-winning Community Challenge Fund (CCF) has assisted 40 projects in the past 6 years helping 2,800 families working through Peace Corps Volunteers in the DR. CCF grants pay for the cost of materials to construct community projects meeting basic needs such as drinking water, health and education. Donations may be sent to: Treasurer, Friends of the Dominican Republic, 4512 Park Road, Alexandria, VA 22312.
Challenge Fundraising a Success in 2010!
Thanks to all who continue to make the Challenge Fund a success!! Nine great projects serving 250 families in 2010! With your generous help the Community Challenge Fund has now helped a total of 8,597 Dominicans! Thats 40 projects helping communities to help themselves in 6 years. This is accomplished with the partnership of the Dominican community donating labor and other portions, the Peace Corps Volunteer assuring the project is well planned and sustainable, the Friends of the Dominican Republic administering the program, and your donations of which 100% go for project activities.
For more detail on the CCF, its projects, project photos and information on how you can help, go to the links on this page for the main content of CCF.
If you wish to mail in a donation a useful form is HERE.
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