Action Pathways Inc.

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Aug 10, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$15,693,232

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Community services programs promote strong work ethics, economic literacy, and positive family values throughout the community of cumberland county.the community service block grant aspire self-sufficiency program provides comprehensive services designed to assist low income individuals and families become self-sufficient and rise out of poverty. In 2011, 145 individuals and their families were served. Forty three (43) participants obtained employment and 12 of the 43 received jobs with medical benefits. The average wage rate was $8.89, more than $1 above minimum wage. Forty nine (49) participants achieved either academic or vocational education goals. Thirteen (13) of the participants were able to secure standard housing; 24 of the participant rose above federal "poverty guidelines for 2011".the second harvest food bank of southeast north carolina (shfb senc) is one of seven certified affiliates of feeding america located in north carolina. The food bank is a member of the north carolina association of feeding america members. The food bank's primary service area includes, bladen, cumberland, duplin, harnett, hoke, robeson and sampson counties.our mission is to feed the hungry by soliciting and judiciously distributing food and grocery products through a network of member non-profit agencies and educating the public about the nature of and solutions to the problems of domestic hunger. The food bank provides nutritious food to those at risk of hunger through a network of over 250 non-profit member agencies.our vision is a hunger-free southeast north carolina. We strive to provide assistance in the fight against hunger throughout north carolina and america. "hunger free" is a complex term to define. Our fundamental meaning is that no one, faced with the risk or prospect of hunger, should be unable to access sufficient food to prevent or remediate that hunger.the food bank was able to distribute over 8 million pounds of nutritious food in 2011. These pounds translated into 6 million meals to those at risk of hunger. The food distributed to our member agencies allowed the food bank to provide assistance on average to over 20,000 households and 102,000 individuals. The backpack program was able to distribute over 21,000 bags for backpacks to 21 elementary school locations. The mobile food pantry program provided assistance to over 8,000 households and 28,000 individuals in cumberland, harnett, and robeson counties in the distribution of 283,568 pounds or 221,538 meals. The mobile food pantry had over 585 volunteers with 1,753 hours completed. Multiple food drives, community volunteer efforts, took place in 2011. Among the food drives are: letter carriers, dogwood festival, students against hunger, fayetteville crop walk, fayetteville duck derby, and heart of carolina food drive.the food bank successfully hosted events such as the 3rd annual driving out hunger golf tournament, strike out hunger bowl-a-thon, and tackle hunger video game tournament during our hunger days campaign.

Activity 3

Low income housing - this program provides affordable home ownership and rental assisted living for eligible participants.the weatherization assistance program is a federal pass through grant that provides energy saving measures and improvements to families who are at or below 200% of the poverty guideline. The services provided reduced air infiltration into homes in order to reduce energy consumption. Ccap operated two weatherization programs, the traditional and a second funded via the american recovery and reinvestment act. Funding for harrp was only provided under the traditional program and at 150% of the poverty guideline.in 2011 under the traditional program, 11 homes were weatherized in cumberland county and sampson county. The heating appliance repair replacement program is a secondary program to weatherization and 76 families received repairs or replacement to their heating and/or cooling unit.the recovery weatherization assistance program is a federal pass through grant providing energy saving measures and improvements to families who are at or below 200% of the poverty guideline. The services provided reduced air infiltration into homes in order to reduce energy consumption. In addition to cumberland and sampson counties, ccap provided these services to moore and montgomery counties via the arra project. In 2011, 260 homes were weatherized in cumberland, moore, montgomery, and sampson counties under the arra project.all totaled, ccap weatherized 271 homes and repaired/replaced 76 heating/cooling units in 2011.

Filer

EIN

56-0845795