Dreams Can Be Foundation - Income-Generation Skills for Battered Mothers

Address

Dreams Can Be Foundation
Dreams Can Be Foundation 945 Menoher Blvd.
Johnstown, PA 15905
United States
(814) 255-4379
http://www.dreamscanbe.org/

Mission

DCBF is a US 501 c3 nonprofit charitable supporting organization and a Brazilian NGO dedicated to aiding street children and impoverished youth in Brazil. We work in partnership with local organizations and NGO's to provide: education, moral and social development, humanitarian relief, and the offering of opportunities where there were none before.

Programs

Luta Pela Paz - Fight for Peace Sports Club (with NGO Viva Rio); Nós do Cinema - We in Cinema; Pequeno Tigre Circus School (with Porto da Pedra Escola do Samba); Crescer e Viver (Grow Up and Live); Final Feliz - Happy Ending; Instituto de Ecocidadania Juriti - IEJ-Meio ambiente e Cidadania (Institute of Eco-Citizenship - Environment and Citizenship); Circo Baixada; and many more.

Personnel Overview

Ana Cristina Diôgo - General Coordinator/ Trained Sociologist
Cristina’s experience began with Project Shanty School, an initiative that culminated in the construction of the Shanty School in the Alto da Mina community of PE; the majority of whose community leaders are women. She created a report with the Tapirapé settlement, situated in Mato Grosso, where she researched gender relations in the settlement, birthing, & nursing practices & achieved much else.

Sandra Honorato - Educator
Sandra Honorato is an educator, with a degree in Literature, specializing in the English Language. She develops the pedagogic support for and works directly with delinquent youth and their families in juvenile probation programs (the Integrated Project of Assisted Liberation-PILA), and the Support Group for Families of Adolescents in Assisted Liberation (GAF).

Ana Patrícia Silveira - Social Educator, and a student of Pedagogy
Ana Patrícia Silveira is a Social Educator, and a student of Pedagogy. She acts along with PILA and GAF in school and family assistance. She administers the offices of Eco-Citizenship Agency and Education in Transit.

Personnel Statistics

Lisa Marie Urgo, Founder and President
Founded in 2000
Employees: 5
Volunteers: 4

Financial Statistics

Budget (2006): 250,000
Budget (2005): 241,000
Maximum Budget: 241,000
Overhead: 13%
Other funding sources: board of directors pays overhead, individual donors and benefits support projects, and we also write proposals to funders for the projects. Our financials http://www.dreamscanbe.org/view/218#auditors
Religious Affiliation: None