Here is the latest financial report covering activity through the end of September 2019 as well as the annual financial report for our 2019 fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2019.
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We just awarded our first nursing scholarship grant
Thanks to a generous contribution from nursing job board NurseRecruiter, last month we awarded our first ever nursing scholarship to a promising future nurse who was raised in a cult that routinely violated the basic human rights of children.
Continue readingNovember 2018 Monthly Financial Report
We started the year with a plan to revive Safe Passage Foundation and so far we’ve made significant progress. In May and June, director Steven Levithan, former director Juliana Buhring and many others launched Facebook fundraising campaigns that raised over $7800 for Safe Passage Foundation. So far this year we have raised about $21,496 which is a significant increase over the $2820 we raised the previous year.
Our books are open, here are our financial reports!
Over the past 4 years (April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2018), Safe Passage Foundation has disbursed 28 college scholarship grants totaling $14,015 and 24 emergency aid grants totaling $13,128. During that period, Safe Passage Foundation received $35,597 in donations from over 40 donors and donations from current and former directors totaled nearly 50% of total donations.
Nursing scholarship now available
Do you want to be a nurse or do you know someone who wants to be a nurse or continue their nursing education? If so, you’ll want to know all about our new scholarship for nursing majors.
Thank you!
We would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to everyone who organized and attended the special charity dinner event tonight at Il San Pietro Di Positano. Thanks to your generous support, we raised over $10,000 for Safe Passage Foundation which will enable us to greatly expand the Julia McNeil Memorial Scholarship program and replenish the Safe Passage Foundation Emergency Aid Fund.
SPF scholarship program expanded
This month, Safe Passage Foundation will be awarding 10 $500 college scholarship grants to individuals born and/or raised in cults. In January 2014, we also awarded 3 $500 scholarship grants. The 13 $500 grants SPF will award in 2014 is more than triple the originally planned amount of 4 $500 grants.
Help bring Stacy home! Donate to the Stacy Paul Rugely Memorial Fund
Stacey Paul Rugely was born into the Children of God on February 12, 1982 in Sannois, Val-d’Oise, France. After leaving the cult with his family in the early 1990s, he started a new life in the United States but continued to travel the world to work on various art and film projects. Born into a family of musicians, he was passionate about music and in the mid-2000s started a band named Oplexicon.
In April 2014, he became ill and died in Yerevan, Armenia.
Safe Passage Foundation is raising funds to help Stacy’s family bring him home from Armenia and lay him to rest.
Safe Passage Foundation has made an Emergency Aid Fund grant of $250 to Rugely’s relatives to help cover the estimated $15000 in costs. With your support, we can make additional grants to cover more of the costs. As of May 19, 2014, a total of $4610 has been raised (including $4145 raised by Rugely’s relatives on GiveForward).
Jeremy Spencer: a child-abuser unworthy of your support
Safe Passage Foundation was recently contacted by several abuse survivors who were dismayed to learn that the man who sexually assaulted them when they were children would be touring the United States and raising money (including on Kickstarter) to produce a new album.
On behalf of these survivors, and in consideration of the extensively documented abuse Jeremy Spencer has been credibly accused of, Safe Passage Foundation created a petition calling for the cancellation of this tour and fundraiser.
Warning: The remainder of this article contains graphic descriptions of child abuse and may be disturbing for some readers.
Basic human rights for children
The mission of Safe Passage Foundation is to ensure:
- That minors within cults or high demand organizations are protected from abuse and exploitation and that their rights are respected and protected.
- That those who choose to leave a cult or high demand organization have a support structure throughout the transitional period.
- That those who violate children’s human rights are held accountable for their crimes and face justice
Safe Passage Foundation has adopted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as the statement of its guiding philosophy.