We can’t do what we do without Volunteers Like YOU
Meet Leonard! If you met Leonard, you would walk away feeling that you just met a really nice guy. Like many people in Mt. Pleasant or the East Cooper, he isn’t a native but calls Mt. Pleasant his home now. Leonard and his wife moved from West Virginia in 2004 on a work move and […]
Where to go when you can’t afford affordable housing? ECFN’s Fix It! program helps people stay in their homes
If you have read the Moultrie News or the Post and Courier recently, you are well aware the housing challenges many with fixed or low income have here in the East Cooper. Just the other week, the Moultrie News wrote an article titled “Affordable Housing – Why there isn’t any” which gave a progress report […]
Help ECFN by making a donation today!
Please consider making a donation today to the East Cooper Faith Network (ECFN) as we raise funds for our 2017 programs; I-Beam and Fix It! You can donate by clicking on the DONATE NOW button to the right or by sending a check to ECFN, PO Box 1071, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465. By giving your […]
Reading Support for elementary children in the East Cooper: I-Beam starts its 7th year supporting East Cooper Schools
I-Beam was created in 2010 to help students achieve grade-level reading and to foster the joy of reading. I-Beam is an elementary school initiative of the East Cooper Faith Network (ECFN) that provides long-term academic support and mentoring for at-risk children in the East Cooper area schools. One day each week, volunteer mentors meet with their […]
Childhood poverty: Nothing to be celebrated (Moultrie News)
Childhood poverty: Nothing to be celebrated Moultrie News, Friday, June 10, 2016 Last month our country celebrated Red Nose Day. To the best of my memory, this is the second year childhood poverty has had a day of national emphasis and recognition. Believe it or not, more children live in poverty today than before the […]
ECFN’s Summer Enrichment Camp Get’s Ready
The East Cooper Faith Networks Summer Enrichment Camp will be starting its 2nd year this summer at the Miriam Brown Center, Mount Pleasant, SC. During the summer months, children are often on their own and experience what is sometimes called Summer Learning Loss. Meaning, advances in reading and other subjects ‘back-slides’ and at the start […]
MPPC’s Wise Giving Campaign makes contribution to I-Beam at Jennie Moore Elementary School
WISE GIVING The Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church’s (MPPC) Wise Giving Campaign presented Karen Felder of Jennie Moore Elementary School (JME) with a check for $1305.00 for the I-Beam program which is a lunch time literacy program. An additional $1400 was earmarked for ECFN’s Summer Enrichment Program that helps reduce summer learning loss by offering low income children […]
East Cooper Agencies and Faith Working Together
NGO’s (Non-Government Agencies) do a lot in the community to help fill in the gaps where those who need additional help can get it. These NGO’s rely heavily on personal donations and volunteers to support but the faith community is one of the biggest areas of support. East Cooper Community Outreach, East Cooper Meals on […]
ECFN’s Fix It! program gives a hand to make safe and healthy homes in the East Cooper
When George Roberts became the Director of East Cooper Meals on Wheels (ECMOW) in 2012, he began hearing from volunteer drivers about health, safety and security issues at some of the homes where meals were delivered. Things like rotten porch floors, entrance doors that couldn’t be locked, homeowners in wheelchairs or on walkers without ramps […]
I-Beam is ready for another Great Year!
The East Cooper Faith Networks leading initiative; I-Beam, is ready to start its 6th year serving children in select schools in the East cooper. I-Beam is a lunchtime literacy and mentoring program that connects volunteer adult mentors with 2nd thru 5th grade students who scored below the 25th percentile on MAP (measures of academic progress) […]