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Monthly Budget

• $6,100 cost of 1 full time staff person(Jeff) and 4 part-time staff persons(Pam, Sue, Deanna and John)
• $280 for insurance covering all volunteers, cook out trailer and 3 buildings(Riley Trailer, New Food Pantry and New Community Center
• $800 Utilities in  the three buildings
• $150 building upkeep and maintenance (grass mowing, cleaning supplies, etc)
• $200 for 4 cell phones and 3 portable internet connections
• $250 for office supplies (paper, ink, etc)
• $100 for gasoline for vehicles

          $7880 per month or $94,560 per year
All ministries/programs are funded through designated gifts from  individuals, grants, churches and civic organizations.  While designed funds allow us to provide services, designated gifts do little to support the Administrative Costs associated with providing the program/ministries.  Below are the cost to each of our programs.   KUO's total budget is programming costs plus administrative costs. 


Buddy Bags                 $84,000
Food Pantry                 $90,000
Cooked Meals             $30,000
Baby University            $15,000
Scouting                       $8,000
Horse Therapy             $1,000
Kidmo/VBS                  $1,200
Seasonal 
(Easter Basket, 
Pack backs,
Valentines etc)              $3,000 
ArtReach                       $1,000     total   $233,200


   
Administrative Costs  $ 94, 560
Programming Costs   $233,200


Grand Total                 $327,760


I did not include the Rolling Pantry as it is a combined effort between Kokomo Urban Outreach and the Kokomo Rescue Mission and at least for now is funded through grants.


Our Fall "Growing Hope" fundraiser will be used to provide funds to the Administrative Fund.  

Neighborhoods of Hope

We have a presence in 26 neighborhoods:


1. Garden Square

2. Pine Valley (Alto small group)

3. Southern Indian Heights (Brookside Free Methodist)

4. Billy Bob and Village Green (Crossroads Community)

5. West Middleton (West Middleton UMC)

6. Northwest (Parr UMC)

7. Riley (Howard Miami and ZionUMC(Sunday Night Meals) and Chapel Hill (leading food pantry and weekday lunches)

8. Open Arms (Mary Kidmo)

9. Silk Stocking (Fresh Start)

10. North East (Grace Memorial   Food to You (FTY) Mobile Pantry

11. North Central (Carver FTY)

12. Stoney Creek (FTY)

13. Maple Lawn (Carpenter’s House)

14. Cassville (Carpenter’s House Friday Night Meals)

15. Downtown (Towers/CAM    KUO’s Hands of Hope)

16. Downtown (Foster Park, Breakfast St. Andrews)

17. Briarwick (Thanksgiving)

18. Near Southeast Side (Vaile, Deffenbaugh, Ohio, Appersonway Trinity Wesleyan)

19. Hillsdale Area (Food Pantry)

20. Greentown (Buddy Bags)

21. Russiaville (Buddy Bags)

22. Elwood Haynes(Buddy Bags

23. Boulevard (First Nazarene) Buddy Bags

24. Lafayette Park ( First Pres) Buddy Bags

25. Near Southside (Main St. UMC) Washington, Appersonway, Markland and the Creek

26. Near Southside (Southside Christian) Markland, Deffenbaugh, Home and Washington



Stationary Food Pantries

1. Home and Hoffer

2. Hillsdale

3. Crossroads

4. Riley

5. Carpenters House (County Line)



Rolling Pantry

1. Grace Memorial

2. Carver Center

3. Parr

4. Pine Valley

5. Stoney Creek


Sunday Night Indoor Meals

1. Garden Square

2. Pine Valley

3. West Middleton

4. Maple Lawn

5. Riley

6. Parr
Cook-outs

1. Garden Square

2. Pine Valley

3. Indian Heights

4. West Middleton

5. Maple Lawn

6. Riley

7. Towers/CAM

8. Parr UMC

9. Main St. UMC



Other Meals

1. Friday Night (Carpenter’s House)

2. Saturday Breakfast (St. Andrews)


Buddy Bags

1. Elwood Haynes

2. Boulevard

3. Lafayette Park

4. Western

5. Eastern


Buddy Bag Birthing

1. Tri Central

2. Taylor

3. Peru

4. Pettit Park



Baby University

1. Northwest  Parr UMC

2. Garden Square

3. Kokomo High

4. Pine Valley



Parenting 411

1. Northwest

Kidmo

1. Garden Square

2. Pine Valley

3. West Middleton

4. Riley

5. Maple Lawn

6. Open Arms

Thanks for the help

We know this is not a complete list of organizations/business who support the food pantries, if your group is missing let us know, we will add you to our list. Thanks Jeff

• Kroger Maple Crest
• Southdowns Wesleyan
• Grace United Methodist Church
• Chrysler
• Dr. Tavel Optometrist
• St. Luke's United Methodist Church
• WWKI
• Oakbrook Church
• Harris Bank
• Community First
• Kokomo/Howard Public Library
• United Way
• First Church of God
• Kokomo Rescue Mission
• IUK
• PEO
• Galveston UMC
• Christ Lutheran
• Hillsdale UMC

Christmas Day Blitz

On Christmas Day, 2009, volunteers knocked on a trailer door in one of the neighborhoods. An 84 year old woman answered the door. The volunteers asked how many lunches she needed and how her Christmas was going. She explained that her Christmas Day was the same as it had been for the past 20 years. Her last Christmas present came from her mother just before her mother died. With no family or friends she had not received anything since. The volunteers asked her if she could have anything for Christmas what would it be. She answered a kitchen table and a chair, she had never owned one. Some how the volunteers found a table and chairs on Christmas Day and made this lady's Day.

Buddy Bags 2010-2011

A Buddy Bag is a way to address childhood hunger on the weekends. At the end of each week during the school year, every child who signs up receives a bag of food for the weekend. A typical bag contains: 2 packs of oatmeal, marconi and cheese and tuna, a can of ravioli, 2 cans of soup and a granola bar. The cost for a bag is a little over $3.00 per week per student or $120.00 per month. The food is purchased wholesale through food finders in Lafayette. Each bag has exactally the same food in it so that families will more than one child at school is able to take the food and mix it to feed the whole family. Presently, Buddy Bags are distrubted at :

Elwood Haynes 320 students
Boulvard 150-200 students
Western Primary 150-200 students
Eastern Elementary about 50 students

Elwood Haynes is served by KUO staff and volunteers. We are looking for volunteers to help us deliver the food to the school each week.

Boulvard will be served by the First Church of the Nazarene. The church provides volunteers, a location to pack bags and helps with funding.

Western is served by Russiaville UMC and other churches and businesses in area. Last year this group served Head Start at Western, Head Start has moved to Kokomo, so they will be taking on the primary school. This group funds the bags completely.

Eastern is served by the churches in Greentown, with First UMC taking the lead. They too, fully fund the program at the school.

Buddy Bag Miracle

.....children at Eastern Elementary received Buddy Bags for the first time.

On the first Friday in February we are on track to deliver Buddy Bags to Maple Crest Elementary. The First Church of the Nazarene will be heading up the effort and are expecting to provide weekend food to about 200 students.

There is some talk about going into Western School by some citizens of Russiaville. If you have an interest in being on a start-up committee for Buddy Bags for Western, please call 457-1983.

It is anticipated that by the end of March we could be providing between 600-700 children with weekend food. That translates into 3,600-4,200 meals per week.