Annual Impact Report Thank you to our friends and supporters With the support and partnership of thousands of people who embrace the mission of Associated Ministries, we are doing the hard work of ending poverty and homelessness in our commu- nity.

Each person of faith and goodwill offers passion and commit- ment that brings “love of neighbor” alive among us. It is the kind of love that walks alongside in the journey families and individuals take without dictating their path forward.

The pages of this report represent only a small glimpse of the impact made through your donations, the hours of volunteer time you contributed, the deep dialogue and spirited action you took. We are meant to do this work together!

Thank you for caring deeply about our common good and for You are deeply engaged joining a cause that’s bigger than any one of us can do alone. in transforming our community! 2014 Board of Directors “When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when Officers: something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.” Margaret Brown, President St. Patrick Catholic Parish This description by poet Billie Mobayad of an ancient Japanese art Dr. Christopher Gilbert, President-elect form is full of hope to those of us meeting people in desperate need. Baha’i Faith Every day, we witness those who come to our doors be transfigured; Wendy Holcomb, Secretary from woundedness, from angry despair to beauty and confident Steve Gray, Treasurer strength. It’s a wonderful thing to read some of the stories in this report St. Mark’s Lutheran Church by the Narrows and imagine the gold glistening in the cracks and around the scars in the lives of people who shared themselves with us. We are committed Directors: to encountering and valuing their wholeness. Margaret Brown Associated Ministries has a long, fascinating and important history 2014 Board President Dick Coulter in our community. Over the years, many cracks have been filled with Tahoma Unitarian Universalist Church the love and faith of our staff and supporters. 2014 was a year of many Matthew Ehrlich success stories with our clients and community partners, but we also Temple Beth El met some of our own challenges. We continued living into the vision Patricia Roundy of being a fully interfaith organization and keeping our long-standing Mason United Methodist Church partners fully engaged. We struggled to have the capacity to do all the Gwen White work in front of us. These trials occasionally lead to cracks in our vessel, Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church but this is how we grow, too. Rev. Spencer Barrett Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church As you read this Impact Report, which features our results from Rev. Art Schmidt 2014, see the beauty that is emerging from the work we’ve done Evangelical Lutheran Church in America together. You are making a difference through the programs you Gerald Gehring support. People who thought society had discarded them are touched Molly Archer Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by your kindness. Interim Executive Director Woodrow Jones We hope you see yourself in the stories and impact and are proud Shiloh Baptist Church to proclaim, “I AM Associated Ministries!” John Herem, Volunteer Paint Tacoma-Pierce Beautiful Our team has a small group of dedicated volunteers that sees a project through from beginning to end over the course of about three Saturdays. The first Saturday we pressure wash, scrape and make repairs. Priming bare wood and caulking joints usually takes a half day. A dozen volunteers can completely paint the body and trim in one full day. Each project brings new memories and stories to share. One elderly homeowner surprised our group with a barbeque on paint day. Another elderly widow cooked delicious Filipino Pancit for the group when her home was painted. Expressions on homeowners’ faces as they watch their homes transform makes being part of Paint Tacoma- Pierce Beautiful worth every minute. Homeowners often get emotional, weep with joy, and give us hugs as we leave. Neighbors love seeing their neighborhood improved. Our work inspires them to start sprucing up their own property. When you discover the satisfaction of belonging to Paint Tacoma-Pierce Beautiful, you may find yourself My wife, Mary, and I have coordinated Paint Tacoma-Pierce Beautiful wandering around the paint aisle at a hardware store paint crews for over 20 years. In 2015, our church, Spanaway Lutheran, getting equipment for next year. Twenty years ago, I celebrates 25 years of painting homes for the program. started with only a paint brush and a scraper. Now, I have Does it take work? Yes. Do we find it fulfilling and enjoyable? Absolutely! a shed full of equipment. I a reason for hope in our community.

Since 1985, Associated Ministries’ Paint Tacoma-Pierce Beautiful program has organized volunteers each summer to paint the houses of low-income, senior, and disabled homeowners. In 2014, over 600 volunteers painted 32 houses in Tacoma and Lakewood. Volunteers have painted 2,200 homes in Pierce County in the last three decades. Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland proclaimed August 26, 2014 to be Paint Tacoma-Pierce Beautiful Day in celebration of 30 years of service to Tacoma residents.

600 94 32 Volunteers Projects Homes rejuvenated evaluated & lives changed 13,959 Total calls for 10,551 Households screened by assistance handled 2014 AP4H Assessments completed by the call center by AP4H

674 In 2014 our centralized intake for the Homeless Intervention System in Pierce County, AP4H, Number of openings in our continued to demonstrate the enormous need people have for affordable housing. Solutions will community to house people come by supporting the strengths of people experiencing housing and ensuring that market-rate experiencing homelessness housing is affordable throughout Pierce County.

275 381 Youth assessed Referrals made to 684 HEN providers Referrals made to housing 80 (Housing and Emergency providers Youth referred to housing Needs) providers I transformed by the people I serve.

My journey with Associated Ministries began in the spring of 2013, shortly before my senior year of college. As a psychology major at the University of Puget Sound I wanted to serve people with real predicaments and affect actual change. I felt isolated in the North End of Tacoma, largely removed from the hardships and struggles of people from other parts of Pierce County. I sought to take steps outside my comfort zone. Working in a social work setting in Access Point 4 Housing has brought me a barrage of experiences and lessons. Some have been downright painful to confront. My world view has opened up. The individuals and families served through Associated Ministries come not only in a state of need but with a level of trust that is humbling. Learning to see them as whole people rather than clients has become the cornerstone value that drives my work. Growing up, I was always told that I was a good listener. The success stories that I hear and witness carry my hope and optimism. They combat the times when the people who come to me for services feel dejected and are on the edge of giving up. Such times not only test their resolve, but mine as well. People do rise out of homelessness. They are resilient and resourceful and deserving of dignity. It is an honor for me to share part of the journey with them.

Will Bergstrom, AM Staff Member Access Point 4 Housing Sara, Resident of the Youth Advancement and Housing (YAH!) Program I reaching my dreams!

I grew up in a difficult home and let my parent’s difficulties become my Before living in the YAH house, it seemed like nothing more than a struggle. I contemplated something I never thought I would get to: how fantasy to think about what I would do for the rest of my life. What was to live out of a car. the point in thinking about 10 years from now, when I was barely able to think what one year would look like? I started staying at a friend’s place a few times, even asking if I could just park my car there and use their house every now and then. I began Would I be homeless? Would I be in school? Would I skip all my feeling like a burden. After a while of this deep struggle, I finally called personal ambitions and just try to find a job to get me by? Access Point 4 Housing. I am very happy to say that I will leave this program as the YAH If there is anything I remember clearly of that day, it was the housing coordinator because people trust in my leadership ability and my consideration that I felt from the people in the office. I went in feeling desire to give back. I will also be transferring to UW Bothell starting Fall completely defeated and helpless. I broke down when I was told that I 2016, where I plan to major in Society, Ethics, and Human Behavior and would be entering Youth Advancement and Housing (YAH). A staff minor in policy studies. member gave me a hug. This was a hug I will remember forever because To this day and all the ones in my future, I will be forever grateful to of the compassion that I felt through it. what Associate Ministries has provided me. Think of the young men and By living in the YAH house, I have felt empowered and hopeful; felt that women you are helping propel into their own success. Living in the YAH I am not just a mess or a burden. Any problem that comes my way, I now house, we are reminded every day that someone, somewhere in our own look at it as something to make me stronger. community, is giving a little of themselves to allow us to restore ourselves. Moments of Blessing Homicide. Horrific on all counts, including the wake it leaves behind. The impact it has on family, friends and community is devastating. How is the tear in the fabric of community ever repaired? How does a community begin to heal from the wounds? With time…and a Moment of Blessing. A Moment of Blessing is an opportunity to reclaim space where homicides have occurred. We come together as community to pray for all involved in the particular homicide and to reclaim the space as sacred, a place of life. Just the act of compassionate human beings coming together in that bruised space is amazingly powerful. By setting the intention of reclaiming, praying and cleansing, people can bring about a positive shift in the space and in one another. In 2014, AM conducted 23 Moments of Blessing: domestic violence victims, gunshot victims, even children killed by their own parents. But something so amazing happened at these sites. Family and friends gathered. People that didn’t know the victims gathered. All in the name of honoring the victim and in reclaiming that space in their community. What a powerful, moving experience to move through together! Associated Ministries conducts Moments of Blessing at all homicide sites in Pierce County. It is an important and necessary program for our communities during their healing process, in helping to mend that tear in the community fabric. The 2014 Interfaith Thanskgiving Gathering of Gratitude, hosted by Temple Beth El.

I uniting people of faith in compassion and understanding. 355 I helping Homeowners received foreclosure counseling homeowners keep services their homes. back-payment at a time, then I got behind two payments. All of a sudden they wanted all of it at once. I had my house 14 years. Am I now going to live under a bridge? I was beyond scared! Vince told me not to worry about any of the payments. He had an attorney who was handling everything; anything I got from the mortgage company I was to send to him. Vince told me he could get my payment down to $400 a month. Oh my God, that would be wonderful! I believed everything he said. Then he called me and said he needed $3,000 for the attorney fee. I almost sent the money. I came so close to sending it. I just happened to see a Good Morning America segment about these kind Muriel, Homeowner and Dia Nichols, Counselor of scams. I thought, his couldn’t be a scam—he knows too much about me. So Foreclosure Housing Counseling I called my mortgage company and asked if I could talk to Lisa. There was no Lisa. I was a basket-case when I came to Associated Ministries’ Foreclosure Counseling office! I heard about Associated Ministries’ Foreclosure Counseling Program at church from a woman whose daughter had been helped with some real big My problems started with a phone call. It came immediately after I had talked financial problems. By that time I was so far behind that I didn’t think there was to my mortgage company. The man introduced himself as Vince and he knew any hope for me at all. But I called and got help. everything about me--including my medical problems. He said he was working directly with Lisa at my mortgage company. My counselor, Dia, knows how to talk to these mortgage people--I would have been so upset and so nervous. Dia was able to talk directly with my I was recovering from cancer. I had gotten behind in my mortgage when I mortgage company and convinced them to work with me. She kept talking and was put on medicine that was $469 a month. It didn’t take me too long to fall talking and talking to them--I think they may have given me the modification into the Medicare “donut-hole”. At first my mortgage company accepted one because they were worn out by her persistence. The modification program is working out fine and it’s a great burden off my shoulders.

$150,000 raised 875,000 meals served

I walking so others can be fed. Nearly 40% of people who go to emergency food services for help are delivery services provide food to one in seven Pierce County residents- employed but they still need food assistance to meet the needs of their -more than 100,000 individuals. The money that is raised through the families. Seniors and other households living on fixed incomes depend Pierce County Hunger Walk each year helps meet the needs of hungry on food assistance. Each year, food banks, hot meal sites and meal Pierce County children and their families. Save the Date: Sunday, October 2nd, 2016

Sagan, Volunteer I got a tutorial of how to do things at the Community Resource Community Resource Connections Center Connections Center and I jumped right in. I love helping people get the things they need to get, to move them to the next level in their life, past the next hurdle, to get them through whatever they need to do in their life to be the person that they want to be. It’s fulfilling. This is the path that God has chosen for me and I’m just following it. When I first started school I was homeless. I had just gotten out of jail—just being with the wrong people at the wrong time—and I lost everything. Everything that God blessed me with, He took away from me. Everything, down to my car. I had my two children and our clothes in storage. When I was in jail I cried a lot. I didn’t understand and I started praying. At that moment, God just came to me. “Just do what you need to do…I will make sure that everything that you dream of will come true.” When I got out, I stum- bled a little bit but I got back into school and I got my GED. And then, I was standing there with a GED certificate. “OK, God, where do I go from here? What do I do now?” In the fall I’m going back to school to get my Bachelor’s in psy- chology. Working here with the homeless community has humbled me in so many different ways and it completely changed my life. I’m more patient with people. I don’t lose my temper so quickly, I don’t get frustrated easily. I try to look at the whole person and not just the problem. I’m seeing that people from the homeless community can move ahead, they can make it out of whatever situation they’re in. When you come into the relationship without being judgmental and just offer an open mind and an open heart, you really help people, and they’re grateful. I’ve had people give me hugs and thank me for accepting them and their situation, for not pointing the finger. That’s all they’re asking is that somebody looks past what’s going on in their life and look at them as a person. A long time ago a friend told me about Associated Ministries. I had done internships at a couple of other places and then I came here to I love working with people. Working with the homeless community has defi- Associated Ministries. I happily come here every day. Gladly. nitely opened my eyes to what’s going on in the world. You do the work and you get your blessings. It keeps me happy, it keeps me sane, it keeps me level.

I paying it forward because I needed help once. Associated Ministries has provided Payee Services since 2002 for The Pierce County Asset Building Coalition (PCABC) is a clients who receive funds from DSHS and Social Security. We are able collaboration of 50 partners working to actively engage Pierce County to provide financial management services and counseling to families residents in building prosperity through various programs, like Volunteer and individuals who have difficulty managing their own finances and are Income Tax Assistance (VITA). Through this program, we train in danger of losing their welfare benefits. An adjunct service we offer is volunteers in current income tax law and preparation procedures in the Community Resource Connections Center (CRCC), a one-stop-shop partnership with IRS. Volunteers then prepare returns and tax credits and that connects families to a broad array of resources. Volunteers are the file them electronically at no charge to low-income workers. heart and power of these programs! Our objective is to help low-income families secure community resources and services that address their needs. A significant hurdle that stops many households from entering permanent, affordable housing is 1439 $1,850,000 their inability to obtain necessary documents such as birth certificates, Tax returns refunds and credits identification cards, and social security cards that are essential in any prepared and filed returned to low- housing screening process, enrollment for educational services, and for electronically income workers obtaining employment. at no cost

8115 304 120 Households served Vulnerable seniors 3619 42,067 Protective Payee Homeless Mail services delivered through Family assisted through the Pieces of mail Emergency Senior Emergency individuals served processed Fund Fund 2% 1% 2014 Financials 9% 1% 13% Sources of Funds 2014 2013 5% Foundations 301,300 231,658 Churches 30,606 35,409 Individuals 112,068 113,944 Program Revenue - Government 1,648,952 1,434,110 Program Revenue - Other 215,700 212,653 Special Events 46,566 35,034 69% Other 26,972 84,740 Total Sources 2,382,164 2,147,548

2014 2013 2012 Increase(Decrease) in Net Assets 1 555 263,055 Sources Cash Reserves Operating Cash and Reserves 150,040 59,948 178,908 Additional Reserve Funds 190,280 192,727 419,814 Total Reserves 340,320 252,675 598,722

Notes: 1 Amounts are based on audited financial statements. The firm of Mary Jane Dubbs CPA conducts an annual audit of Associated Ministries. The audit is available to the public upon request. 2 Thousands of dollars of in-kind donations and thousands of volunteer hours are not fully included in the financial statements, but these contributions are a vital element of the mission of Associated Ministries. Uses of Funds 2014 2013 Access Point 4 Housing 937,799 726,993 Uses Housing Assistance & 154,495 164,364 Pass-throughs Other housing & 304,913 390,010 shelter services 4% 7% Foreclosure Housing 196,944 Counseling Hunger Walk 147,081 178,339 Payee & Mail Services 93,192 74,967 Paint Tacoma-Pierce 100,522 133,656 Beautiful Asset Building 82,506 122,792 Coalition 89% Congregational 78,033 59,498 Relations Other Programs 37,334 65,171 Management 164,768 148,491 General Fundraising 84,576 82,712 2,382,163 2,146,993 Total Uses Key Bank Foundation First Presbyterian Church Mariano & Yolanda Corpuz St John’s Lutheran Church Sequoia Foundation Dr. James & Sue Ellen Foss WA Department of Financial St Mark’s Lutheran Church Our Donors: Stewardship Foundation Dennis & Cindy Fulton Institutions by the Narrows The Gottfried & Mary Fuchs Henry & Deborah Izumizaki Emmanuel Lutheran Church Alissa Sturman The people and Foundation Dr. Lawrence & Mary Larson Fox Island United Church of Christ Sunwest Bank organizations who The Greater Tacoma Community Rev. Dr. Jim & Rusty Lewis Grant & Laura Gardner Temple Beth El Foundation Jacqueline Lownie Dr. Jon & Kerry Geffen Gary & Amanda Tucci inspire and champion The Russell Family Foundation Pamela Mayer Norma Gernon United Church in University Place Associated Ministries’ Mr. & Mrs William T. Weyerhaeuser Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church Donna Gibbs United Way of PC-Donor Voice Ronald & Carla Pemberton Barbara Gorzinski & Guinivere Joy Carol Woolery impact in our Brian & Anna Peterson Steve & Wendy Gray $2,500-$9,999 community. William & Dorothy Philip Gus Paine Insurance $1-$499 Associated Petroleum Products Frank Pupo Fred Hanson Gary & Suzanne Abel Dimmer Family Foundation Robert & Christine Reynolds James Harrison Thank you! Wolfram & Edith Abicht Florence B. Kilworth Foundation Rev. Bill & Connie Robey Joanne Henry & Jon Seward Agnus Dei Lutheran Church Franciscan CHI Health Arthur & Margaret Ann Schmidt Hentschell & Associates, Inc. Amber Aguiar Gray Lumber Company St Andrew’s Episcopal Church Homestreet Bank Rachel Ahrens U.S. Internal Revenue Service St Luke’s Memorial Episcopal Immanuel Presbyterian Church Patricia Albert Mountain View Lutheran Church Church JoDee Keller & William L. Rasplica Shelby Alexander Darwin Mueller State Farm Companies Foundation Heather Kindem & Mark Backus $50,000-$1,500,000 Dr. Robert & Sylvia Allen Dr. Lynn Ostenson Tacoma Community College Korsmo Construction Building Changes-Washington Doris Allmer William Kilworth Foundation Tacoma Jewish Community Fund Robert & Molly Lane City of Tacoma Lafayette Altier The Bamford Foundation Rick & Karrin Lewis Pierce County Community Peter & Donna Altmann Michael F. Tucci Ron & Jeanette Lunceford Connections $1,000-$2,499 William & Alice Amblad UFCW Union Local No. 21 Brad & Becky Maxa Michael & Mary Jo Tucci, Sr. Rev. 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