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If director Camille Harris thought it would help, she’d write that letter to Santa Claus . She’s tried every where else.
“I’ve been instructed by the board of directors (for Sursum Corda) to give top priority to ensuring we have operational funds for 1985," Harris reported. “In September and October, I averaged 20 hours a week on 25 requests to foundations for funds. Now I’m doing it again. I didn’t get any promises on the first round but something may still come through. There were some that said to contact them again in January or March, that they’d see what they could do for us.”
The year before the Reagan administration began its budget cuts, Sursum Corda received $57,500 in government assistance, most through the now defunct CETA program in which job trainees gained experience in working for non-profit employers.
The learning and child care center now gets just $2,500, all in subsidies for its breakfast and lunch program from the Department of Agriculture. “We get 11 cents for breakfast, 21 cents for lunch and eight cents for an afternoon snack per child. You can hardly set out a glass of milk or pay for the paperwork with that!” Harris noted.
Through staff lay-offs, volunteer efforts and stepped-up fund raising, Sursum Corda has absorbed half of the loss in federal funds. But that still leaves a deficit of $25,000 — a deficit that Harris expects will continue unless Santa Claus or some other generous source lends assistance.
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“One of the last rugs that could have been pulled out from under us was yanked away this fall,” she continued. Tax exempt, nonprofit organizations in the 501 (c) 3 category formerly had the option of providing social security coverage for employees. “Our staff chose not to have the coverage.
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