Renewal, Inc.
(A non-profit organization)
Renewal's mission is to foster economic and social development to disadvantaged communities by:
- Teaching entrepreneurial skills
- Assisting with small business start ups
- Teaching employment, job service and computer skills
- Teaching personal finance skills and financial counseling
- Teaching personal responsibility and social etiquette to youth
- Utilizing the holistic principle to achieve self-sufficiency
- Assisting residents with homeownership
Since 1998, Renewal, Inc. has been dedicated to serving socially disadvantaged and economically depressed communities. As a seperate and independant 501(c) (3), the goal of the organization is to enrich and empower residents via training and information sharing resulting in individual and community achievement.
PROGRAM AREAS
Regional Community-Buiding
Program(RRCBP)
In partnership with the Mid South Delta Initiative of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the RRCBP is geared to help small, emerging, grass-roots, community-based non-profits and faith-based organizations. This program will help those entities that lack financial means, training, and organizational capacity skills for organizational and community capacity-building. Three (3) - $6,000 grants will be awarded to organizations in Northeast LA over the next year through this program. Each grantee organization will be selected based on the potential to impact their communities and increase their capacity.
Gloria Dickerson of the Mid South Delta Initiative presents Renewal with a grant for the RRCBP program. Pictured l to r: Bishop Walker, Gloria Dickerson, Ericka Kelly, and Rod Washington.
Entrepreneurship Training
As a collaborative effort with other organizations in the area, numberous partipants have graduated and successfully completed a 2-hour business course that we offer semi-annully to the community at no charge. The course is taught by professors from the University of Louisiana at Monroe as well as other instructors from the community. The areas of focus for the course are training on business management, writing a business plan, and running a successful small business.
Bishop Walker receives at grant to help Small businesses from Monroe City Council Chairman Red Stevens and Mayor Jamie Mayo at the Lighthouse Church.
Housing and Housing
Counseling Services
Renewal provides 1st Time Homebuyers Classes to the public on a quarterly basis. The 2-day course provided access to bankers, realtors, mortgage lenders, home inspectors, and much more. Subjects of the course include understanding homeownership, selecting the right mortgage loan, understanding the value of good credit, shopping for a home, and insurance. We also have staff that is available to pull and review credit reports and counsel potential homeowners on what steps they need to take to position themselves for homeownership.
Graduates of Renewal's Homebuyer Class
Video Production and Media
Technology
This initiative provides audio and video training to disadvantaged youth in the community. Youth are trained in the operation of camera equipment, script-writing, audio and video editing, how to produce documentaries, and commercials. The program has a training component which teaches leadership principals and places students in active leadership roles.
Youth video production participants conduct interviews for a documentary project.
For more information on Renewal, see our brochure, or contact us at:
Renewal, Inc.
513 Sunnyside Dr.
Monroe, LA 71202
318-387-2999 ph
318-387-0686 fax
Email: renewalempowerment@hotmail.com
Website: www.renewalinc.org
Office Staff
Bishop Alvin Walker, Executive Director
Ericka Kelly, Program Director