Questions on Options for Healing

A Fund can be established with money donated by businesses and community members who care about survivors.  The fund would be operated by a board consisting of survivors, family members of survivors, social workers, and others who support survivors.  This board would meet once a month, take requests for grants of money from organizations dedicated to assisting survivors as well as from individual survivors for various needs such as help paying past due rent and utility bills, mortgage foreclosure, college tuition, medical bills, therapy, drug and alcohol treatment, or even help paying for summer camp for a survivor’s children.  The amount of money given out each time would total a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.

Compassionate Gathering has two initiatives that can evolve into fund raising ventures as they develop – the Sack Cloth Penance Patch and the Walk Across Oregon.

1a.  Would you be willing to use such a fund?

1. No
   

2. Yes
   

1b.  Would you or any of you family members be willing to assist in setting up or serving on the board of an Independent Assistance Fund?

1. Yes
   

2. No
   

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