Claude Grizzard, principal in Grizzard Communications Group is the recipient of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) Non-Profit Council’s 2000 Achievement Award. He received the award at the DMA 10th Annual Non-Profit Washington Conference. The Grizzard Company is a Business Member of IUGM, and does fundraising counsel for over 50 rescue missions. Previous award winners include Russ Reid, from the Russ Reid Company.

Congress has established two programs targeting homeless people with addictive and medical disorder. The Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program enables states to provide mental health and related services to homeless persons with serious mental illness and co-occurring addictive and serious mental disorders. Congress appropriated $31 million for PATH in fiscal year 2000. President Clinton is requesting $36 million for fiscal year 2001. The other program established by Congress is the Grants for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals (GBHI) which has never been funded since its establishment in 1992. It was for the purpose of establishing addiction and mental health services for homeless persons. GBHI funds would go to nonprofits rather than to establish governmental programs, while PATH would allocate funds to all 50 states to make awards to community-based organizations with the state matching one dollar for every three dollars. The National Coalition for the Homeless is urging Congress to reauthorize and appropriate $75 million for PATH, and reauthorize and appropriate $100 million for GBHI. They are seeking letters to the Senate and House Appropriations Committee by those supporting these programs. For more information check their Website at

In The Crossfire: The Impact of Gun Violence on Public Housing Communities has been published by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is available from the Office of Policy Development and Research, U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC 20410-6000. The following are the highlights of that study:

• Crime rates in public housing have declined, but gun-related crimes remain a serious problem.
• Persons residing in public housing are over twice as likely to suffer from fire arm-related victimization as other members of society.
• Gun related violence poses a threat to public housing residence in small and medium size cities at the same rate as in large cities.
• One out of five residents of public housing feel unsafe in their neighborhood.

UNION RESCUE MISSION, Los Angeles, CA is one of eight IUGM Ministries offering a legal aid clinic, but was accidentally omitted from the list in the March HAPPENINGS. Union Rescue Mission is working with the Pepperdine University Law School, which is providing lawyers and law school students.

New IUGM Member Missions

The Sparrow's Nest
Mrs. Julie L. O'Leary, Exec. Dir.
PO Box 877
Beloit, WI 53511
(608) 362-8215

Benton Harbor Rescue Mission
Rev. Thomas J. Williams,Exec. Dir.
111707 Covney
Buchanon, MI 49107
(616) 926-8320

Outreach Gospel Mission
Rev. Chuck Fidroeff, Exec. Dir.
PO Box 993
Brookings, OR 97415
(541) 412-0278

City Mission of Las Vegas
Mr. Thomas J. Klingford, Exec. Dir.
PO Box 410
Las Vegas, NV 89123
(702) 384-1930

New York Metropolitan City Mission
Rev. Paul D. Vyzourek, Exec. Dir.
PO Box 4299 Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163
(718) 204-4707

Arizona Valley Rescue Mission
Mr. Donald L. Johnson, Exec. Dir
.9133 Grand Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85345
(623) 486-0200

City Mission of Riverside
Rev. Mike Fishback, Exec. Dir.
PO Box 269
Riverside, CA 92505
(909) 341-5055

San Bernardino City Mission
Corrie Patterson, Exec. Dir.
PO Box 1011
San Bernardino, CA 92402
(909) 889-2700

San Francisco City Mission
Ms. Jackie Davis, Exec. Dir.
421 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
(415) 355-1316

Santa Maria Rescue Mission
Caroline Sijera, Exec. Dir.
PO Box 6467
Santa Maria, CA 93456
(805) 929-3410

Crossroads Ministries
Mrs. Cheri Farrell, Exec. Dir.
2410 Main Street
Susanville, CA 96130
(530) 251-0701

From the May 2000 edition of HAPPENINGS, monthly newsletter of the International Union of Gospel Missions