Recently the GO Threads’ 2011 Team Challenge was highlighted in the Examiner.com
The 2011 GO Threads’ Challenge included 37 teams across the United States who participated in a friendly competition to raise uniform orders and awareness for GO Threads. Collectively the teams secured orders for 4,856 ($97,100) school uniforms that will be distributed to children living in the poorest nations of the world. These uniforms will be produced at GO Threads’ sewing centers, and will generate enough profit to care for over 90 children for an entire year!
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Recently Mike & Beth Fox and The Global Orphan Project were featured in Home in the Northland…
A Time For Transformation
“Sometimes, the basic needs of people separated by time, geography, and resources converge in a remarkable fashion. The story of the Global Orphan Project, based in Parkville, exemplifies how people located here and there are drawn together by a powerful connection.
In 2003, 17 orphan children from the Karen tribe reside in a refugee camp. They are a few of thousands fleeing military conflict in Burma, now Myanmar, and seeking safety over the border in Thailand. The story of how these children inspire love and benevolence begins much earlier.”
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Last Sunday, Olathe Bible Church invited us to share some of what Jesus is doing to care for His children. Questions to Ask on Orphan Care Sunday (watch below) looks to God’s Word to answer questions like, “What is Pure Religion? What is God’s heart for the orphan, and what does that mean to me?”
Psalms: Orphan Sunday Service from Olathe Bible Church on Vimeo.
You may know last Sunday was Orphan Sunday. Colonial Presbyterian invited Joe Knittig to share his observations from 7 years looking through the orphan care window. Watch the message here…
The Global Orphan Project was recently featured in The Beacon-News (Aurora, Illinois) To read the story, CLICK HERE>>
A break in the summer allows some teachers the time to give back to organizations they care about. Mary Ann Frantzen and her son-in-law Mike Leverence, teachers at Brooks and Young elementary schools in Aurora, respectively, spent the first week of their summer vacations in Haiti with The Global Orphan Project.
Frantzen, who is a first-grade teacher, and Leverence, who will be teaching art part time, were with a group of about 20 people, including three other family members, who traveled to Haiti to bring supplies, as well as attention, to the children at four orphanages in Croix-des-Bouquets, near Port-au-Prince. To read the entire story, CLICK HERE>>
Sunday, July 24th NBC Action News (Kansas City) featured Cara Morrison, a 10-year-old All-Star with a heart for others and her entertaining and inspiring talent show/auction, which helps children around the world. We’re so thankful for Cara and her partnership with us. View the feature below or click here>> to read the story.
The Global Orphan Project was recently featured on OneNewsNow and American Family Radio in the piece, “Orphans getting the business.”
An organization that works with orphans has developed a new model of operation which challenges traditional humanitarian-aid outreach efforts.
The Global Orphan Project, with headquarters in Kansas City, uses innovative business practices to reach some the neediest orphaned and vulnerable children in the world. Trading in their business attire for backpacks, mosquito nets, and passports, the Global Orphan Project — or sometimes called the ‘GO Project’ — was founded by Mike and Beth Fox in 2003. To read the entire story, CLICK HERE>> (To listen to the audio report, click on the audio player to the right of the headline.)
Giving Mike Fox a hard time is kind of a GO Project sport. He must like it, because – from his hair gel to his childhood stories – he gives us plenty of material. When the ribbing dies down, most of us will admit that Mike has a good idea or two. As the Tour d’Haiti, Vision Trips, the BIG Event, and the GO Project Family 5K demonstrate, there are many doors one can enter to be exposed to God’s heart for His children.
Today, we announce another – The Tour d’Uganda, January 2012 (Read more HERE>>). 21 riders, 250 miles, cycling climbs, scenic views, breathtaking beauty, Ugandan hospitality, one-on-one time with children, worship with the local church. The TdU isn’t a door through which everyone or even very many will enter, but for those who do, an adventure awaits! As for GO, it doesn’t matter to us through which door your come, we’re simply grateful for all of you who give of yourselves to care for God’s kids.
Mike and Beth Fox were recently featured in the December edition of KC Business. Download the entire article here Generosity 2.0 (PDF)
Generosity 2.0
Kansas City’s next generation of philanthropists steps up quietly
“There are two brands of generosity in this world, the kind that’s publicized for the benefit of someone more fortunate and the kind that really, truly isn’t.
The two can be difficult to differentiate, for even the most seemingly selfless act can, at its crux, be full of selfishness. But if true benevolence exists, Kansas Citians are perhaps in the best position to see it at work. Kansas City has long been revered as one of the nation’s most charitable places, often appearing on top 10 lists naming cities with the biggest hearts and deepest pockets. But why?
Should we thank Kansas City’s long lineage of generosity for setting the bar so high? Can a city’s roots foster a culture of giving that is quantifiably greater than its brother burgs?” … Download the entire article Generosity 2.0 (PDF)
