Vineyard Community Center

Programs

1. Until its closure in august 2025, vineyard early childhood center achieved the following: (1) maintained the rating of a "four star" quality center through ohio's "step up to quality" program, which recognizes excellence in early childhood education programs; (2) continued development of vecc included ongoing focus on professional development for the staff; (3) created a robust pre-k readiness program that included a pre-k only classroom, kindergarten readiness curriculum, and kindergarten readiness events - not limited to bus tour, multiple family events, kindergarten teacher interview, and more; (continued on schedule o)(4) maintained a 50% rate of enrollment of children from low to moderate income families (measured by eligibility for title xx), reflecting continued diversity of families served; (5) provided services to parents and children through community partnerships - not limited to vision screening to preschool students (in partnership with osu), monthly story time and book delivery from westerville library, family photos (spring and winter) and student art show; and (6) against licensed capacity of 104 children per day, had average daily attendance of 28 children (lower…

   $350,642 spent$366,267 earned by the program
   27% of program spending

2. The social outreach programs achieved the following: (1) continued with a full time immigration attorney (pursuant to authorization granted in 2011 by the u.s. Department of justice, executive office for immigration review, board of immigration appeals), hosted community awareness events and training, supported the growing volume of clients, provided 229 consults/case filings, continued monthly walk-in clinics at northside food pantry, and continued community partnerships with legal aid and catholic charities to host asylum clinics;(2) continued monthly food distributions by continuing mobile food pantry - hosting monthly fresh produce distributions in partnership with mid-ohio food collective. (continued on schedule o)during the months of april through august 2025, 980 households were served at 4 locations over 5 months through the mobile food pantry; 3,812 unique households were served through northside food pantry's brick and mortar location; (3) expanded community garden in the northland neighborhood with produce distributed at the northside food pantry; and (4) our staff continued in-person programming and activities like alpha groups, men's bible studies, men's open gym,…

   $331,250 spentof which $5,954 as grants$45,224 earned by the program
   26% of program spending

3. Vineyard Community Center hosted 33,659 visits from 8,205 unique community members. Vcc classes, events, and leagues were led by 187 volunteers (2,351 times volunteered) who served more than 6,268.5 hours. It opened aim day services, an adult day service program for adults affected by disability.

   $194,371 spent$6,819 earned by the program
   15% of program spending

4. Vineyard counseling services provided professional care by incorporating biblically-based, psychologically sound methods in addressing mental health struggles.

   $169,664 spent$134,494 earned by the program
   13% of program spending

5. The vcc k-12 program included after-school and summer programming for school-age children. The enrollment for the after-school program remained low due to the post pandemic impacts (increased transportation challenges prevented schools from dropping off students at vcc). The programs served the community as follows: (1) maintained partnerships with future ready and use of dessa tool for academic and social/emotional improvement; (2) the vineyard summer program offered quality low cost or free summer services to 24 youth for 8 weeks (3) continued off-site field trips during the summer program, visiting 11 different locations throughout the summer.

   $120,790 spent$3,607 earned by the program
   9% of program spending

6. The free health clinics achieved the following: (1) continued a partnership with lower lights christian health clinic (fqhc) to utilize facility at Vineyard Community Center; (2) continued partnership with columbus cancer clinic - offering monthly women's health cancer screenings at the community center; (3) the total patients served was 403; (4) organized over 50 volunteers with total of 910 consolidated volunteer hours provided, and the conservative overall value of services rendered exceeds $62,862.20; (5) hosted a community health fair - partnered with over 23 community organizations to distribute resources, conduct screenings, and host an engaging educational experience for the community.

   $114,570 spent$17,768 earned by the program
   9% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,281,287.