Promise Village gets $200,000 grant

November 23, 2004

By DeAnna Belger

Davisburg-based Promise Village: Home for Children was recently awarded a planning grant of nearly $200,000 by the Battle Creek-based W.K. Kellogg Foundation for study and research.

Funds are to be used to determine how to replicate and sustain Promise Village’s early-intervention programs for abused, neglected and troubled children for use around the nation and possibly across the globe.

A portion of the funds will be used to hire a full-time director of development to create and carry out fund-raising strategies for the organization. Promise Village is accepting applications.

Promise Village has contracted with Intellitrends L.L.C., a market-research company in Clarkston, to conduct research to determine whether interest exists in other locations for its programs and how to package them to work elsewhere.

Promise Village, on a 70-acre ranch, provides a residential intervention program for children and their families. The nonprofit’s annual operating budget is $432,000.

Currently, more than 300 children are on the waiting list to be enrolled. The home has room for only 12 children.

To volunteer or learn more, call Promise Village at (248) 328-2445 or visit www.promisevillage.com.