Allied Churches of Alamance County housing the homeless, feeding the hungry In October of 2018, there was an article published in the local newspaper indicating that the long-standing agency, Allied Churches of Alamance County, Inc. (ACAC) would be closing their doors soon due to lack of financial support and faith in the agency’s mission. The community became concerned and there were several meetings and a task force developed to see what could be done to save the shelter. The future of assisting the homeless population was at stake.
As time progressed and meetings were held, things began to change for the better. ACAC began reworking its programs and customer service. Under the leadership of Jai, small gains were seen and the community started to provide more and more support. While things were changing for the shelter programmatically, the next step was to stabilize and increase the financial stance of the agency.
United Way of As Executive Alamance County, The Jai Baker, along with his support staff, took stock of Director, Jai engaged Board of Directors of with (and met with) things and a fresher vision emerged Allied Churches and local civic and social community stakeholders gathered to In the process, the Board of organizations to listen intently as to create a task force to save and assist Directors named Jai Baker as why organizations were not willing Allied Churches. The Board of Directo contribute to this necessary cause, Interim Shelter Manager, later to tors and the Task Force had to make and he wanted to know how he could be named Executive Director. some tough decisions around staffing change their perception of Allied and services provided. Churches in a way that might compel them to want to help.
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