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Form: Senior Staff MESSGRF Application

Submitted by adam.croft

Wed, 05/03/2017 - 13:55

108.34.247.238

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Name of Staff Applicant Jeremy Ogunba

Name of RD/VP Chris Nichols / Gail Ebersole

Region New England

This staff is at least in his/her 5th year Yes

Salary Information

Budgeted Salary Level 7

Actual Salary Level 6

Budgeted Salary in Dollars 66,900

Actual Salary in Dollars 31,500

Local Funding Sources and amounts (list Area, Division, or Regional seed money, matching grants, Chapter Planting start-up grants, Jumpstart, in kind gifts, etc.)

Some regional money (not consistent amount. 10k has been given in the past) applied for the 1% grant and this one. Some staff have transferred escrow, working on Brown alumni giving as Jeremy moves to staff Brown U. M.E. chapter, Advocacy council that is forming will most likely start with either alumni giving or bridge money for Jeremy.

Grant Criteria

Ethnic Identity (check all that apply) Black/African American

Financial Difficulty (check all that apply)

Limited networks or average gift < $600 annually
Non-Christian background/college convert
Challenging ethnic PR issues, e.g. Black church, Native American community, Latino community, unfamiliar with InterVarsity.
Church partnerships have limited capacity (<$3K annually per church)

Please describe their situation including their ending deficit or surplus for the last three years and any present escrow in their account

Jeremy has been on staff for five years and never been fully funded or full time. He was worked multiple (upwards of 5) jobs at a time. We invited Jeremy to take the full-time position at Brown U. this past year. Jeremy is uniquely gifted to work at Brown and is what Brown needs. Jeremy is also the regional BCM coordinator. His work around multi-ethnic witness and the gospel is invaluable and will be a huge asset to ministry at Brown. Jeremy has no escrow and has struggled to make his budget every year, consistently needing to be "bailed out" by some combination of sources.

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Strategic Role: The Senior Staff worker plays a critical leadership role regionally and/or nationally to help build healthy, ethnically diverse witnessing chapters or staff teams Yes

Please describe as it relates to their present and future involvement

Jeremy will be working at Brown as the multi-ethnic chapter staff. As I said on page 1, he is uniquely gifted to reach Brown and to create a multi-ethnic conversion community. Jeremy has lived out multi-ethnic witness on our team. Jeremy is the only staff of color on the team right now and has been instrumental in our growth, exhibiting patience and grace while remaining a team player. He has personal experience to draw from as his wife is white and his daughter is obviously then biracial - so he navigates those complexities regularly. Jeremy was also in Sarah Shin's NISET training on ethnic identity and the Gospel and has really taken and honed her material and shaped the way we do our Spring Break project in New Orleans around that framework.

What role (if any) does this staff play in chapter building or chapter planting?

Jeremy doesn't play an official role in either. That said, he will be resourcing any student or chapter in New England that wants to start a BCM ministry. Jeremy will also be working with a chapter that would be categorized under building. I was in the Beta test for the building material and will be training Jeremy on building strategy.

What plan or strategy is being implemented regionally to assist this applicant in addressing their fundraising difficulties?

-Moving Jeremy to Brown to secure greater access to resources (alumni, wealthy donors)
-Taking Donors Seriously training program
-Professionally made ministry case for cultivating high level donors
-Jeremy is off campus focusing on MPD full time.
-We're networking
-Our advocacy council that is forming in my area is going to tackling some of these issues. Too early to say exactly how that will play out.
-I as his AD am applying for multiple national level grants.

Additional comments or questions

My DD and I went "all in" with Jeremy on this. Moving him to Brown and inviting him on full-time was a huge risk because his budget went up. Jeremy is a staff that is worth fighting for and highly valuable to this organization. I believe in Jeremy and want to see him sustainably funded.

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Electronic Signature of Staff Completing This Application (name and zip code) Adam Croft 02909

Email Address adam.croft@intervarsity.org