Program areas at Bird of Pray Foundation
Our international compasssion program supports families and provides wheelchairs for disabled children, educational materials, vehicles, clothing, winter gear, shoes and boots, food, baby supplies, medicines, and vitamins to shelters, orphanages, foster families and the disabled in belarus, ukraine, and the philippines. In prior years, the program has also assisted with damaged roof and heating system replacements.
The Montana compassion grant program provided funds to a local adoption agency to help cover home study expenses for adoptive families. Funds were also spent on setting up a marriage workshop for Montana families in crisis.
Compassion cars program provides safe, reliable transportation to economically vulnerable families and individuals at no to little cost to them. Reliable transportation in Montana is a vital component for self-sufficiency, the care of children, stable employment, and the pursuit of education. In 2019 a shop building was purchased to provide an area to inspect and prepare purchased vehicles for distribution for those in need. In 2020, land was purchased in order to construct a larger shop facility in the near future for this expanding program.
The community grants program provides program support to local organizations that provide services to families and those in need.
The reach out and read program provides parenting and childrens books to families in Montana, giving them tools and information to better equip them for the most important job in the world: raising children. Proper parenting along with reading to children truly serves as a catalyst for healthy childhood development. To date, hundreds of books have been provided at no cost to Montana families.
Bird of Pray Foundation provides humanitarian support through building renovations, food baskets, cleaning supplies, and mobilty devices to hundreds of children in shelters, schools, and orphanages by providing funds to domestic organizations that are assisting disadvantaged children and the disabled.
Compassion coffee is a program created to provide workplace training and job opportunities for orphans that were never adopted. The program also promotes charity work and charitable giving throughout the theme, design, and marketing of the coffee shop and it generates revenue for nonprofits providing for children and disabled individuals. All net revenues from the program are distributed to local shelters and nonprofits.