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The financial goal of Be Rich was to raise $500,000 to help people in our community and around the world. Together, we far surpassed the goal by raising $2.1 million! Below are the projects we funded through Be Rich 2011 to address the issues of Sickness, Poverty, Hunger, and Children-At-Risk. Click on any project title to learn more.


  • Sponsor 20 Families Affected by Cancer for a Retreat

    Lighthouse Family Retreat serves children with cancer and their families at a seaside retreat to help them to laugh, restore family relationships, and find hope in God. Our donation will cover the costs for 20 of these families to attend a week long retreat.

  • Providing for Food and Communication Needs

    BCM provides assistance to over 10,000 people in crisis annually. Our donation will support the work of BCM by funding two needs: upgrading their telecommunication hardware to better assist our low-income neighbors, many of whom are first introduced to BCM's services over the phone, and repair an industrial freezer from which they provide meat to their clients needing food.

  • Clean Water Provision

    Lack of clean water contributes to the declining health of everyone in a community: children, parents, adults, and the elderly. We'll complete this water project by replacing old pipes and refurbishing water tanks and pumps in Bohoc, Haiti, a community with which we already partner.

  • Caring for Disabled Orphans

    Effectively caring for and developing disabled orphans takes a team of dedicated, loving workers. Our donation will support the work of Future Hope by funding several needs: a new vehicle for transporting children, staff training, and the addition of four staff members: special education, physical therapy, foster care workers.

  • Utility Assistance

    North Gwinnett Coop has set a goal to turn no one away for assistance between now and the end of the year. Our contribution can make this possible by covering their contributions to the utilities costs of 130 families.

  • Build 8 Greenhouses

    Feeding programs in the schools in Ngaamba have proven to be remarkably effective in improving school performance. To help make these feeding programs sustainable, The 410 Bridge is working with the community to build 8 greenhouses to raise food in an extremely dry climate.

  • Textbooks for Schoolchildren

    In our partner community, Ngaamba, Kenya, four to six children in primary school share the same tattered, barely useable textbook. Our gift can provide school books for every child in every subject in four different schools.

  • Transition House Renovations

    Our contribution will help prepare a home in El Salvador for use as a transition house for the program's 18-year-olds. The transition house will provide a place in which these young men and women who first came to La Casa because of the drug and/or sexual abuse in their homes can now make a healthy integration into society.

  • Emergency Fund Costs

    The NFCC's Emergency Fund provides financial support to over 500 people/families each month. By helping them cover housing and utilities expenses, the NFCC prevents eviction and allows people to remain in our community.

  • Behavior Specialist Position

    This new position will provide case management services for all children whose mothers are in the Personal Development Program. Responsibilities will include counseling, classroom instruction on life and character- building skills, and assisting with smooth transitioning in family reunifications.

  • Truck Driver Intern Program

    The intern program is a job training system for formerly homeless clients. Interns fill a staff truck slot for a 3-month period, receiving a monthly stipend, Marta tokens, and resume assistance. At the end of three months, interns receive a scholarship to CDL-A training school, preparing them for a career in truck driving.

  • Resource Development and Marketing Programs

    By hiring additional staff, the CDA can build an estimated annual fund of over $150,000 through an enhancement of their development and marketing efforts. This, in turn, enables them to help more low-income children.

  • Two Part-Time Positions

    Due to budget constraints, Charis–which works to restore the physical vibrancy of urban communities–has been operating without a volunteer project manager and a program service coordinator. Our funding for these part-time positions equips Charis to continue establishing a healthy, mixed-income community in South Atlanta.

  • Subsidized Food Costs for a Year

    Subsidize the additional cost of food used for meal preparation due to inflation in 2011. Open Hand's average monthly food bill increased by over 20 percent from 2010 to 2011. Our donation would cover the inflation costs of food for one year.

  • Food Bank

    Provide resources to feed the women and children of Abba House, as well as single women and disabled adults in the Forsyth area, for one year.

  • Continued and Extended Academic Services

    In collaboration with Atlanta Mission, this project would retrofit a facility that offers completion of high school requirements for diploma, culinary, and cosmetology certification. The facility would also provide access to a full four-year degree at a college near the property for girls 17-22 years old that are clients of Wellspring. Funding would include the education facility renovations and set-up costs.

  • Replace Four HVAC Units

    Because of the poor working conditions of four HVAC units, Foster Care Support Foundation had to shut down operations for several days last summer. Replacing the HVAC units will relieve a significant burden and ensures their facility will be able to stay open this year.

  • Funds for Capital Campaign

    The Furniture Bank is finishing a $1.1 million capital campaign to purchase and transition into a much-needed warehouse. We'll fund a portion of the capital campaign, which will help with renovations, a new roof, moving costs, and a maintenance reserve fund.

  • Child Survival Program in Kenya

    The Child Survival Program helps save the lives of babies and mothers in poverty utilizing local churches to assist mothers of at-risk infants and toddlers. Our donation supports this program which supplies prenatal care, nutritious food and supplements, ongoing health care, infant survival training for mothers, spiritual guidance and education, and the loving support of a local church.

  • Helping with Mortgage Costs

    Our contribution toward Good Samaritan Health Center's mortgage provides an opportunity to refinance the mortgage on their building. This, in turn, helps them continue to provide medical care to the uninsured, working poor in Gwinnett County.

  • Construction Costs

    Our gift pays for the completion of the construction of a boys' home which, in turn, catalyzes La Casa's groundbreaking and subsequent move to their new farm property. At the property, they'll continue to help children coming from situations of abuse, abandonment, and extreme poverty.

  • Program and Operational Expenses

    Seventy-eight percent of the expenses of MUST Ministries–Cherokee are covered by community giving. Our donation pays both program and operational expenses for three months, impacting close to 3,000 people.

  • Aid Foster Care

    Our funds will help recruit and train potential foster families and respite care providers as well as give a stipend to foster families when they receive new foster children.

  • Transportation

    A new minibus allows Atlanta Mission to offer safe and reliable transportation for homeless men, women, and children for medical appointments, church, and the occasional field trip.

  • Utilities Costs for a Year

    3 Dimensional Life's operating costs continue to increase as they serve more families. Our gift covers the utilities portion of their operating expenses for a year, freeing them to direct funds to other services and/or programs to help young men recover from addictions and destructive behaviors.

  • Expanding Ministry to a New City

    Our funding of this project provides Future Hope the opportunity to expand through opening a special-needs orphanage in a new city with physical therapy and special-education training for staff, salary support for three employees for a year, and resources/equipment for their new facility.

  • Helping Children and Teenagers Around Our City

    Through a variety of ministries, our donation will fund a summer mission trip for at-risk boys, help cover costs for a documentary film about foster children, support childcare provider job training for Latino females, and provide summer jobs and a mentoring program for high school boys in south Atlanta.

  • Program and Operational Expenses

    The mission of The Place is to listen compassionately to those deprived of basic needs and together find creative ways to alleviate their suffering. Our funds are given for use at their discretion for the most significant needs.

  • Staffing, Security, and Operational Expenses

    Our gift will staff them with a licensed social worker through the end of 2013, while also covering their security system costs, which will provide a protected environment for pregnant teens.

  • Care for Children

    This donation was given to My House to assist them in providing transitional housing and a home-like living environment for babies who are ready to leave the hospital but are homeless and have nowhere to go.

  • Children-At-Risk Camp

    By supporting the scholarship fund of Woodlands, we are enabling at-risk children–referred to the camp from DFCS and other fostering associations–to experience an unforgettable week of camp while hearing about Jesus. Their goal is to scholarship 280 underprivileged kids this summer.