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Inter-Faith Council for Social Service

The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service is a Chapel Hill poverty-relief organization that began in 1963 as the Inter-Church Council, out of the organizing of seven women. It built low-income housing such as Chase Park and Elliott Woods, turned the old town hall into a homeless shelter in 1989, and opened IFC Commons in Carrboro in 2021.

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Inter-Faith Council for Social Service

Kiester, Dorothy J. · 1984 · The Council

Dorothy J. Kiester's account of the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service, the Chapel Hill and Carrboro charity through which local congregations pooled volunteer and professional effort, subtitled 'a volunteer/professional partnership'. Published by the council in 1984, 68 pages with illustrations. It relates to charities, churches and social service in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

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Inter-Faith Council for Social Service : a volunteer/professional partnership.

1996

A 1996 publication of the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service in Chapel Hill, describing the agency as a partnership between volunteers and paid staff. Topics include social service in Chapel Hill and volunteer workers in social service.

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Job training and substance abuse treatment for the homeless : a report on the demonstration phase of the Employment Project

Presler, Myles · 1996

Myles Presler's 1996 report on the demonstration phase of the Employment Project, which paired job training with substance abuse treatment for homeless people in Chapel Hill. The introduction gives the aim as helping participants overcome addiction and reach independence through work. Topics include Community House, the town's shelter, occupational training and substance abuse treatment in Chapel Hill.

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Community House : a case study of voluntarism and its ability to meet the needs of homeless women

Yount, Kathryn M. · 1991

Kathryn M. Yount's 1991 case study of Community House in Chapel Hill, examining voluntarism and how far it met the needs of homeless women. The bibliography runs on leaves 131 to 133.

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An occupational therapy intervention program for homeless adults in a community shelter

Dean, Mary L.; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Division of Occupational Therapy · 1988

Mary L. Dean's 1988 study from the Division of Occupational Therapy at the University of North Carolina, describing an intervention program for homeless adults at Community House, the Chapel Hill shelter. A bibliography runs on leaves 118 to 123.

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UNC

Community salute to the Inter Faith Council : Tuesday, September 14, 6:30 p.m. Carolina Inn

Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1982

A program from a community salute to the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service, an evening event at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill on Tuesday, September 14, 1982. A note says it describes the council's past and present activities, which fall under social service in Chapel Hill.

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The Inter-Faith Council for Social Services : newspaper clippings, 1982-1999, on the IFC, the homeless shelter, and other IFC programs.

2005

Newspaper clippings from 1982 to 1999 about the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service in Chapel Hill, its homeless shelter and its other programs, copied in January 2005 from clippings that Pearson Stewart gave to the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Interfaith Council (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

Chapel Hill's Interfaith Council in a newspaper clipping, photocopied articles and copies of published material, from box 14 of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Vertical File Collection, where it sits in the town government series. Undated.

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Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 2021 · Inter Faith Council for Social Service

A periodical from the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service in Chapel Hill, with issues recorded from 2021. Social service in the town, citizen participation in it and the volunteer workers who staff it are its subjects. Published by the council in volumes with illustrations, 28 to 36 cm.

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Children's services news, Orange and Chatham counties

1990 · Social Action Committee, Interfaith Council for Social Services

Issued in 1990 by the Social Action Committee of the Interfaith Council for Social Services in Chapel Hill, this newsletter reported on services for children in Orange and Chatham counties. The title follows the council's earlier Children's services news for Orange and north Chatham counties.

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Newsletter

Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1990

Newsletter of the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service in Chapel Hill, covering social service and volunteer work in the town. Four volumes dated from 1990, measuring 28 centimeters.

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Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1989 · Inter-Faith Council

Newsletter of the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service in Chapel Hill, dated from 1989. Published by the council, concerning local charitable work. Volumes measure 36 centimeters.

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SAC bulletin

Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1986 · Inter-Faith Council

Issued by the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service in Chapel Hill from 1986, this bulletin reports on the council's social service work, citizen participation and the volunteers who did the work. A large format run, volumes at 36 cm.

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UNC

Children's services news, Orange & north Chatham counties

1981 · InterFaith Council for Social Service Inc

A 1981 newsletter from the Interfaith Council for Social Service in Chapel Hill, reporting on services for children in Orange County and northern Chatham County.

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Inter-Church Council for Social Services (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1979 · Inter-Church Council for Social Services

Charitable work by Chapel Hill congregations, reported in the newsletter of the Inter-Church Council for Social Services from 1979 onward. Volumes at 36 centimeters, a broadsheet size. The council's name identifies it as a cooperative body of local congregations.

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Connections

Connections, the periodical of the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service, published in Carrboro. It covers charities and volunteer social service work in Carrboro and Chapel Hill. Issued in volumes with color illustrations.

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  1. Inter-Church Council forms Seven women’s organizing led to coordinated local poverty relief. Inter-Faith Council — History · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 20, 1985, p. 2; The Daily Tar Heel, December 2, 1987, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, September 27, 1988, p. 4
  2. Nearly 200 attend an Inter-Church Council forum on Chapel Hill's racial situation Almost 200 people came to an open forum on race relations in Chapel Hill, sponsored by the Inter-Church Council for Social Service, at the Episcopal Church parish house on Sunday afternoon, December 29. Town officials committed there to take the tabled public accommodations ordinance up again at the aldermen's January 13 meeting. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 2, 1964, p. 1
  3. Adelaide Walters chairs the Inter-Church Council's housing committee After leaving the Board of Aldermen, Adelaide Walters chaired the housing committee of the Inter-Church Council for Social Service (later the Inter-Faith Council) from 1966 to 1973. Her papers deal with civil rights for Black residents of Chapel Hill and with urban and regional planning. UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Adelaide Walters Papers, 1954-1981
  4. Students help finish an Inter-Church Council house for a Black family near the Carrboro dump About 45 students from Morrison Residence College and the Nurses Dormitory took over the finishing of a nine-room house the Inter-Church Council had begun about a year earlier for a Black mother and her nine children, who lived in a shack next door near the Carrboro town dump. Working afternoons and Saturdays with donated materials, they laid sewer pipe, plastered, painted and put on siding, because the council, building homes for about a year on Community Chest money, could not pay to finish it. The Daily Tar Heel, March 8, 1966, p. 5
  5. Howard Lee and Roland Giduz meet in an open forum at the Newman Center About 100 people heard the two mayoral candidates differ on the Mitchell Lane open storm drain, a local option sales tax, the Inter-Church Council low-income housing project and developers' seats on the Planning Board. Lee called the drain the town's responsibility; Giduz, twelve years an alderman, was asked why it had not been covered. People: Howard N. Lee, Roland Giduz The Daily Tar Heel, April 25, 1969, p. 1 (OCR text)
  6. The Inter-Church Council Housing Corporation builds 79 moderate-income apartments Foundations were being laid for 79 racially and economically integrated apartments for moderate-income families, 39 on Elliott Road near Kroger Plaza and 40 on N.C. 54 near Frank Porter Graham School, built for more than $1 million by the Chapel Hill Inter-Church Council's housing corporation and expected ready in February. Rents including utilities were to run from $107 to $130 a month, with priority for local moderate-income families; the council had begun planning the housing in 1966. The Daily Tar Heel, September 28, 1973, p. 2
  7. Chase Park and Elliott Woods apartments are completed The Inter-Church Council's housing corporation finished Chase Park and Elliott Woods, 79 federally assisted low-income apartments on Elliott Road in Chapel Hill. Construction began in January 1973, and the complexes took applications from June 1974. Triangle Blog Blog: The five-year-long struggle to build Elliott Woods
  8. Chapel Hill churches and residents sponsor Vietnamese refugee families By July 1975 Chapel Hill residents had sponsored two Vietnamese refugee families and expected more. Four churches pledged about $1,500 for a family sponsored by UNC historian Thomas Reefe, and volunteers were directed to INFO, a referral service in the Inter-Church Council building. The Daily Tar Heel: Sponsoring isn't easy, being a refugee is hard, July 24, 1975
  9. The Inter-Faith Council's Community Kitchen begins serving free lunches in the Masonic lodge The Community Kitchen, funded by the Inter-Faith Council of Chapel Hill to give prepared meals to needy people in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, began serving lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekdays in the lodge the Carrboro Masons lent it at West Rosemary and Sunset streets, for a three-month trial. Food came mostly from churches, volunteers and restaurants, and volunteers from churches and University groups cooked and served. The Daily Tar Heel, November 23, 1982, p. 2 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, December 9, 1988, p. 9
  10. Ground is broken for the Adelaide Walters Apartments Community Housing Alternatives, an organization created by the Inter-Faith Council, broke ground in 1983 for the Adelaide Walters Apartments in Chapel Hill, two years after Walters died. Inter-Faith Council for Social Service: History · Also: North Carolina Anvil (Durham): Hillsborough Parents Rap Demerit Rule, February 26, 1983, p. 2; The Daily Tar Heel, March 21, 1984, p. 3
  11. The Inter-Faith Council decides to buy a Cameron Avenue house for a homeless shelter The president of the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service told the Chapel Hill Town Council that the council had decided to buy a house at 427 Cameron Avenue for a community shelter for the homeless instead of renting a motel, and asked for support from Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County. The Daily Tar Heel, October 10, 1984, p. 2
  12. The Masons ask the Community Kitchen to leave their lodge The Masonic lodge at Sunset and Rosemary streets, which had let the Community Kitchen use its building rent-free since November 1983 in return for most of the utility bills, asked the kitchen to move out by March 15, saying its supplies and patrons disrupted the lodge's meetings and had damaged fixtures. Started by the Inter-Faith Council in 1983, the kitchen served hot meals to 40 to 50 needy people each weekday on $3,500 a year, with more than 100 volunteers from 20 to 25 congregations, and its volunteers said it might have to close. The Daily Tar Heel, January 22, 1985, p. 1
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  1. The Town Council lets the Inter-Faith Council shelter homeless people in the old police building The Chapel Hill Town Council approved an Inter-Faith Council for Social Service proposal to use the basement of the old police building at 100 West Rosemary Street as a temporary night shelter for homeless people, open from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. with trained volunteers from member congregations, until April 30. The IFC had rotated the shelter among churches that winter and was weighing the purchase of a house on Cameron Avenue for a later site. People: R. D. Smith The Daily Tar Heel, January 16, 1985, p. 3
  2. Chapel Hill's Board of Adjustment turns down the Inter-Faith Council's Cameron Avenue shelter house The Board of Adjustment denied the Inter-Faith Council's appeal to have its house on Cameron Avenue rezoned for use as a permanent shelter, leaving the shelter in the municipal building basement. Shelter director Jacquelyn Gist later said neighbors' opposition and the lack of any zoning category for a shelter had stopped the plan. People: Jacquelyn Gist The Daily Tar Heel, February 18, 1985, p. 1
  3. The Inter-Faith Council's soup kitchen opens at 111 Merritt Mill Road The Chapel Hill Interfaith Center for Social Services opened its soup kitchen in a former hairdresser's shop at 111 Merritt Mill Road, rebuilt by volunteers with an industrial kitchen. Forced out of the Masonic Lodge on West Rosemary Street the previous December, volunteers had kept feeding about 35 people a day from their cars on the lot. The Daily Tar Heel, August 23, 1985, p. 8 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 18, 1990, p. 2
  4. Graham Street residents petition the Chapel Hill Town Council against an Inter-Faith Council shelter Residents of the Graham Street area petitioned the Town Council against the Inter-Faith Council's planned shelter for the homeless on South Graham Street, citing lower property values, traffic, security and fear of violence. The council referred to the town manager a request for a report on other possible locations for the shelter. The Daily Tar Heel, August 28, 1985, p. 4
  5. Chapel Hill Service League gives $3,500 to the Inter-Faith Council's Community Kitchen The Chapel Hill Service League announced almost $6,000 in 1986 grants, three times the year before, with $3,500 going to the Inter-Faith Council's Community Kitchen and the rest to six agencies including Meals on Wheels, the Orange-Durham Coalition for Battered Women and the Orange County Rape Crisis Center. The Daily Tar Heel, February 25, 1986, p. 4
  6. Chapel Hill Town Council sets aside $25,000 toward a permanent homeless shelter The Town Council referred $50,000 in restored federal Community Development money to the town manager: $25,000 to renovate public housing and $25,000 as a challenge grant to help the Inter-Faith Council buy a building for a permanent shelter for the homeless. The temporary shelter was in the basement of the old police building at Rosemary and Columbia streets, and the council's representative said the IFC had paused its search for a site until spring. The Daily Tar Heel, November 18, 1986, p. 4
  7. Mayor Jim Wallace forms a task force on the homeless and a new shelter site Mayor James Wallace created a special task force to improve human services for Chapel Hill's homeless and to find a new home for the Inter-Faith Council's night shelter, which had run since January 1985 in the basement of the municipal building at Columbia and Rosemary streets, the old town jail. By late March the task force had narrowed the choice to a site in the country or the whole municipal building, and member Billy Barnes said the downtown building was the only workable choice. The Daily Tar Heel, March 31, 1987, p. 1
  8. Chapel Hill Town Council puts off its vote on a permanent homeless shelter in the old police building after downtown merchants object Downtown business owners led by Spanky's owner Mickey Ewell, later counted at 56, asked the council to wait until November while they looked for another site for the Inter-Faith Council shelter, which had run on a temporary basis in the old police building at 100 West Rosemary Street since 1985 and which a mayor's task force had recommended keeping there. The council set the vote for September 14 instead; David Pasquini alone voted no, wanting the longer delay. The Daily Tar Heel, July 9, 1987, p. 2
  9. The Chapel Hill Town Council keeps the homeless shelter in the old police building The council voted unanimously to begin a three-year lease of the old police building at West Rosemary and North Columbia streets to the Inter-Faith Council for the Orange County homeless shelter and community kitchen, rejecting downtown businessmen's proposal to move the shelter to the Mason Motel in Carrboro. The shelter had used the building since early 1985; a task force chaired by Robert Seymour had recommended the site in April, and the businessmen, led by Spanky's owner Mickey Ewell, had called the property too valuable for a shelter. The Daily Tar Heel, September 16, 1987, p. 1
  10. Chapel Hill Town Council agrees to the shelter lease and pledges $150,000 to renovate the Old Municipal Building for the Inter-Faith Council The council agreed to sign a three-year lease giving the Inter-Faith Council the Old Municipal Building on West Rosemary Street for its homeless shelter and community kitchen, and the town pledged $150,000 toward renovations. The shelter, kept in the damp, unheated basement since January 1985, was to move to the first floor while the IFC raised the rest of a $200,000 to $250,000 renovation planned to start in the spring of 1988. The Daily Tar Heel, September 30, 1987, p. 4
  11. IFC shelter counts 281 guests in a year, 57 percent more than in 1987 The Inter-Faith Council's emergency shelter in the old municipal building housed 281 guests in 1988, 57 percent more than in 1987, with an average stay under three weeks; more than a third went on to find housing. Volunteers said more than half worked near minimum wage and could not raise the $400 to $500 needed to rent an apartment. The Daily Tar Heel, April 3, 1989, p. 1
  12. A business-led task force begins reviewing the Inter-Faith Council shelter's location The Public-Private Partnership resolved at a conference in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to study the location and operation of the Inter-Faith Council homeless shelter in the old Chapel Hill Municipal Building, and its Task Force for Sheltering the Homeless, headed by real estate agent Sally Jessee, was weighing 14 to 16 sites. The shelter's manager said only downtown merchants questioned its location, which the town leased to the council free; the shelter averaged about 30 clients a night. The Daily Tar Heel, October 28, 1988, p. 1
  13. Chapel Hill Town Council approves housing the Inter-Faith Council shelter at the Community Kitchen during renovation The council approved a plan to move the Inter-Faith Council's homeless shelter to the Community Kitchen on Merritt Mill Road while the old Municipal Building at Rosemary and Columbia streets was renovated, work the IFC planned to begin in January. At the same time a town task force was preparing to recommend a new shelter on town land in the 800 block of Airport Road, which IFC president Richard Edens opposed. The Daily Tar Heel, November 28, 1988, p. 7
  14. Chapel Hill Town Council backs keeping the Inter-Faith Council shelter in the old Municipal Building Most members of the Chapel Hill Town Council said on November 28, 1988 that the town was committed to the Inter-Faith Council homeless shelter in the old Municipal Building at Rosemary and Columbia streets, and Mayor Jonathan Howes called further study of a town-owned site on the 800 block of Airport Road a waste of time after IFC leaders said a move there would hurt the shelter's work. Council members Julie Andresen and Nancy Preston, who sat on a Public-Private Partnership task force looking at other sites, still favored a new building; the IFC said it would go ahead with renovating the old building with $350,000 from its capital campaign and a $200,000 town commitment. People: Jonathan Howes The Daily Tar Heel, November 29, 1988, p. 1
  15. Interfaith Council and Chapel Hill agree to keep the homeless shelter in the old municipal building After a Public-Private Partnership task force searched for other sites, the Inter-Faith Council, the town and the task force agreed in December 1988 that the old Chapel Hill municipal building at Rosemary and Columbia streets, where the IFC had run its shelter since 1985, was the best place for it. The IFC planned to renovate the building to house 56 people and feed 70, moving the Community Kitchen there from Merritt Mill Road; it had raised $260,000 of $350,000, and some downtown merchants objected to the site. The Daily Tar Heel, January 27, 1989, p. 3
  16. The Inter-Faith Council shelter gives 354 homeless people 7,837 nights of shelter in a year The Inter-Faith Council's year-end report for 1989 counted 354 homeless people given 7,837 nights at its shelter in the old Municipal Building, and its soup kitchen served 35 percent more meals than in 1988; Chapel Hill's public housing waiting list then held about 200 names. The Daily Tar Heel, August 31, 1990, p. 4
  17. The Interfaith Council begins turning the old town hall into a homeless shelter The Inter-Faith Council, which had run its emergency shelter in the old municipal building at Columbia and Rosemary streets since 1985 and leased the building from the town, began renovating it on September 15, 1989, after asbestos was removed earlier that month. The work, paid for with donations and town money, was meant to let the shelter and the Community Kitchen reopen there together in the spring of 1990. NC State Historic Preservation Office: Chapel Hill Town Hall, National Register nomination (OR0327), p. 3 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 19, 1989, p. 4; The Daily Tar Heel, September 28, 1989, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, November 28, 1989, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, March 30, 1990, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, June 14, 1990, p. 4; The Daily Tar Heel, September 18, 1990, p. 2
  18. Orange County commissioners give $10,000 toward asbestos removal at the IFC shelter The Orange County Board of Commissioners granted the Inter-Faith Council for Social Services $10,000 of the $20,000 it asked for to pay for removing asbestos from its homeless shelter in Chapel Hill's old municipal building, work estimated at $28,000 that cost $71,000. The next night the Carrboro aldermen voted 6-1 to put off the IFC's $5,000 request, with Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird the only vote to grant it. People: Ellie Kinnaird The Daily Tar Heel, September 21, 1989, p. 3
  19. Forty-nine Chapel Hill and Carrboro restaurants give a tenth of a day's receipts to the Inter-Faith Council In a fund-raiser called RSVVP (Restaurants Sharing Ten Percent), 49 restaurants in Chapel Hill and Carrboro gave 10 percent of the day's breakfast, lunch and dinner receipts to the IFC Community Kitchen and the Family Services Food Pantry. Barbara Hardin was honorary chair, and organizers said it might become a yearly, Triangle-wide event. The Daily Tar Heel, November 16, 1989, p. 5
  20. Chapel Hill Town Council accepts a state loan to move the IFC Community Kitchen into the old Municipal Building The council voted 7 to 2 to accept $108,000 from the N.C. Building Finance Commission so the Inter-Faith Council's Community Kitchen could leave Merritt Mill Road and join the IFC shelter in the renovated Municipal Building at Columbia and Rosemary streets. The programs had to stay there at least 10 years or the town would repay the money, and the IFC's lease was extended three years. People: Jonathan Howes The Daily Tar Heel, November 28, 1989, p. 4
  21. The Inter-Faith Council shelter reopens in the renovated old municipal building After nine months of renovation, the IFC Community Shelter at West Rosemary and Columbia streets reopened with room for about 30 men and 20 women, its soup kitchen moved in from Merritt Mill Road with a 68-seat dining room, a walk-in freezer and an examining room for volunteer doctors and nurses. Women guests moved in on June 5 and the men were to follow that week. The Daily Tar Heel, June 14, 1990, p. 4
  22. The Inter-Faith Council dedicates its new shelter and community kitchen in the old Municipal Building More than 100 people attended the dedication and open house of the Inter-Faith Council Community Kitchen and Shelter, named Community House, at 100 West Rosemary Street, with a Chapel Hill High School choir and speakers from the council and the Town Council. Mayor Pro Tem Nancy Preston said the town leased the building and lot to the council for $1 a year and kept up the property. People: Jacquelyn Gist The Daily Tar Heel, September 17, 1990, p. 3
  23. Fliers falsely signed for the Downtown Commission and the Inter-Faith Council tell the poor to leave North Columbia Street Fliers posted near North Columbia Street, bearing the names of the Downtown Commission and the Inter-Faith Council, said poor people were not wanted on the block and offered free one-way bus tickets out of town. Both groups disowned the fliers in a Nov. 7 press release. The Daily Tar Heel, November 12, 1990, p. 3
  24. Chapel Hill-area restaurants give a night's receipts to the Inter-Faith Council in RSVVP In December 1990 a number of Chapel Hill-area restaurants gave 10 percent of one Sunday night's receipts to the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service in a benefit called RSVVP, which IFC coordinator Irene Briggaman called highly successful. It led Il Palio at the Siena Hotel to give the IFC 5 percent of its gross receipts on each Tuesday in March 1991. The Daily Tar Heel, March 6, 1991, p. 3
  25. The Inter-Faith Council shelter houses 897 people in a year The Inter-Faith Council's community shelter in Chapel Hill's old municipal building at 100 West Rosemary Street housed 897 men, women and children in 1991, against 125 in 1985, and 570 more had stayed by mid-September 1992, two-thirds of them new to the shelter and 40 percent from Orange County, the Daily Tar Heel reported. The Daily Tar Heel, September 16, 1992, p. 5
  26. The Inter-Faith Council shelter and community kitchen report record use Shelter director Chris Moran reported that the kitchen at 100 West Rosemary Street had served more than 50,000 meals so far in 1991, against 44,999 in all of 1990, and that the shelter had taken in 683 guests against 483 the year before, with more women, children and families. He blamed the recession, the lack of affordable housing and low wages, noting that half the guests had jobs. The Daily Tar Heel, November 1, 1991, p. 1
  27. Federal fuel aid cut leaves the Inter-Faith Council to cover heating bills With the federal crisis intervention program for heating bills cut by 40 percent, the Inter-Faith Council's family assistance program said in January 1992 it would rely on United Way, business and private gifts to help families, as Orange County's own $50,000 emergency fund ran short. The Daily Tar Heel, January 27, 1992, p. 3
  28. Student groups stage a Memorial Hall concert for the Inter-Faith Council shelter The student Hunger and Homelessness Outreach Project held a benefit concert in Memorial Hall on March 18, with the Clef Hangers, the Black Student Movement Gospel Choir, Opeyo! and others, for the IFC Community House; about 250 tickets were sold. Organizers later said the shelter needed at least $10,000 by the end of summer to stay open. The Daily Tar Heel, March 22, 1994, p. 3
  29. United Way advances money to the Inter-Faith Council in a funding crisis With contributions short for a third year and about $50,000 needed to keep services going through December, the Inter-Faith Council, which ran the Community House shelter and Family Assistance, appealed to the public, and the United Way of Greater Orange County advanced a three-month allocation of $16,000. The Daily Tar Heel, July 14, 1994, p. 2
  30. Project HomeStart opens Project HomeStart, transitional housing for homeless families on Homestead Road, opened in 1998 as a joint project of the Inter-Faith Council and the Orange County/Durham Coalition for Battered Women. By October it housed five families; it now runs as IFC's HomeStart shelter for women and families. The Daily Tar Heel, October 26, 1998, p. 1: Inter-Faith Council 'Successful' in 1998
  31. New community house opens The men’s shelter moved to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Inter-Faith Council — History
  32. IFC Commons opens in Carrboro The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service opened IFC Commons at 110 West Main Street in Carrboro, a $6 million building that put its community kitchen, food market and other non-shelter programs under one roof. Its virtual grand opening was held January 21, 2021. Inter-Faith Council for Social Service: IFC Commons Grand Opening (January 22, 2021)

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