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Causes: Human Services, Seniors, Supportive Housing for Older Adults
Mission: As a ministry of the evangelical covenant church, covenant retirement communities celebrates god's gift of life in christian community. We follow the great commandment to love and serve god and one another as taught by jesus christ. (see schedule o)
Programs: Residential living:the number of persons who benefited from the services we provided for the year ended january 31, 2015 were as follows:there were a total of 406 residents, occupying 324 apartments at 01/31/15. Residency for the fiscal year totaled 127,649 resident days.
the organization was involved in various community benefits projectswhich includes the following:- staff members volunteered 231 hours of their time to northbrookchamber of commerce, feed my staving children, local church as a sunday school teacher and umpired at baseball games (equivalent to $19,875)- residents volunteered 7,625 hours of their time to local churches,local schools, public libraries, food pantries and soup kitchens,hospitals, chicago botanic garden, heller natural center, northbrookhistory museum, northbrook historical society, kiwanis and others. The residents also raised in-kind donations for operation christmas child shoe boxes (99 boxes with estimated value of $2,000)- provided space usage for small groups (under 35 people) to largegroups (75+ participants) which includes dance and music recitals for various groups, rush alzheimer's study, aarp driver safety class, chicago puppetry guild, german symphonic band, northbrook covenant church and as election polling place (equivalent to $113,389 and about 356 staff hours)- monetary donations to northfield township food pantry, evangelical covenant church kids, swedish hospital foundation and world vision ($2,258 in total)- in-kind donations to habitat for humanity (estimated value of $25,000)- land usage by ymca and northbrook covenant church for parking(equivalent to $55,000)- usage of property by covenant enabling residence (equivalent to$25,000)- hosted small to large scale community events for different groupssuch as citizens' forums, cinema seminar program, concerts and music recitals for different groups, various lectures and presentation on different topics/issues and health fair(equivalent to $1,601,130 and about 49 staff hours)