COMPASSIONART ANNOUNCES FIRST GRANTSTO 16 CHARITABLE
PROJECTS
Nearly $80,000 Donated To Help Poor
(Nashville, TN) December 22, 2009 – The award-winning CompassionArt charity announces its first grants to 16 charitable projects chosen by the CompassionArt songwriters. The four “headline” projects will each receive $9,944 (£6,000) and the 12
individual artist nominated projects will each receive $3,315 (£2,000) for a total of $79,556 (£48,000).
The grants come from personal gifts and proceeds being raised by the CompassionArt: Creating Freedom From Poverty CD and 50-minute DVD documentary, and its companion book, The Art of Compassion, written by the 12 world-acclaimed
CompassionArt songwriters. In an unprecedented effort to engage people everywhere to help end world poverty, song and artist royalties received from these acclaimed projects will be donated to
the poorest of the poor.
“It’s exciting to see the vision of CompassionArt and its songwriters coming to fruition; to see the labor of love that began with an unlikely gathering of songwriters
almost two years ago now tangibly helping to ease the suffering for thousands in projects all over the world,” says CompassionArt founder Martin Smith. “The amazing thing is that this is only the
beginning, as these CompassionArt songs take hold and inspire more and more people and worship leaders to get involved.”
Anyone can help support CompassionArt’s charitable efforts through purchasing the CompassionArt CD/DVD and book for themselves, family, friends or as Christmas gifts
( http://compassionart.tv/created/), as well as through personal donations ( http://compassionart.tv/donate/).
Andy Park and the North Surrey Vineyard nominated St. Stephen’s Society Hong Kong to be one of the recipients. St. Stephen’s will use these funds to support an ongoing
initiative in Tin Siu Wai, Hong Kong that looks after distressed and single families in an area that is known for teenage drug addicts, suicides and mental illness. The grant will help convert an
old car park into a gathering place where people can gather for youth programs that help rescue children and single parents from the drug trade, etc.
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