2023 United Thank Offering Grant Recipient - Episcopal Diocese of Chicago — St. Leonard’s Ministries and St. Andrew’s Church: Community Gathering Space

Episcopal Diocese of Chicago — St. Leonard’s Ministries and St. Andrew’s Church: Community Gathering Space: $100,000

This project will renovate Saint Andrew’s Church, on St. Leonard’s Ministries campus, to create a new community space for returning citizens. It will host residents, alumni, community partners, and faith leaders, and together share what it means to welcome returning citizens back into community with needed support, dignity, acceptance, and kindness.

This year’s focus for grant applications was projects addressing the worldwide incarceration crisis, specifically preventative programs and intervention, prisoner support outreach, prison reform work, or post-prison reentry.