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Causes: Civil Rights, Food, Interfaith Coalitions, Intergroup & Race Relations, Race, Religion
Mission: Grace is a religious non-profit, directorship corporation whose volunteers and staff provide educational advocacy and social justice programs focusing on hunger, homelessness and racial justice. Grace invites and recruits the participation of people from throughout the community, according to their own interest, conscience or tradition. Grace creates a community of compassion and justice by organizing responses to human need and issues of faith.
Programs: Congregational partnership program with the coalition to end homelessness - grace partners with the grand rapids area coalition to end homelessness to encourage area congregations to participate in the "housing first" approach by providing financial support for rent assistance and establishing relationships with households who are homeless. This program was discontinued in 2012.
ecumenism/community relations- grace works to promote ecumenical worship opportunities and issues of christian unity; grace represents the religious community on area boards and committees.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.