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People investing in people: apply for a grant. Read more →
People investing in people: synods and presbyteries. Read more →
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The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) has approved grants totaling $180,000 to 9 self-help projects in the United States. The money is from the One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) offering. Self-Development of People receives 32 percent of undesignated OGHS gifts. Read more→

Don’t be the last to try something new or to give up something old!!!!!  Self-Development of People’s National Committee met in Baltimore during the third week of May, tried something new, and gave up something old.
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COME TO OUR FREE COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
July 13 from 10:00 AM to noon at Don Bosco Hall's Community Resource Center  
19321 West Chicago, Lower Auditorium
 Detroit, MI 48228.  This free workshop will explain SDOP program, how it works, what qualifies a group for funding, and the application process.
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Self-Development of People will participate in the Turning the Tables – Compassion Peace and Justice Conference at the Big Tent conference through presentations on  Friday, 08/02/2013. Check back for session updates. Flyer, Read more
Attend a grants workshop for low-income groups

When farmworker and organizer Leonel Perez with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers,(CIW), visited the tiny, one-room workers' center of Nashville's Workers' Dignity, he said the place felt familiar. Read more →

As I approach my 50th anniversary as an ordained pastor with the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., I have begun to reflect back on my ministry with all its many opportunities and challenges, accomplishments realized as well as those left undone Read more