The Barnabas Board of Directors is looking for new members. Would you like to do more for the poor?

Barnabas Almsgiving Fund is a small 501(c)(3) charitable organization that aims to meet people’s basic needs: food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education. Each year we receive and distribute about $100,000 in alms. Our local project advocates provide details about individuals and their needs so that donors can be directly acquainted with recipients. New projects can be initiated by anyone who knows of a need and is interested in gathering donors to cover that need.

• Since its beginning, Barnabas has assisted a network of poor families in Kerala, India (see Current Projects). We currently provide tuition for about 45 Catholic grade-school students and 25 university students, besides meeting medical and housing needs of individuals and families in India.
• For the past two years, we have helped two seminaries in Ghana obtain textbooks, computer equipment, and lots of FOOD for the 200+ students from several African nations. (See A New Project! Seminarians in Ghana)
• And Barnabas has helped some needy families right in Washtenaw County.

At present we need about a half-dozen individuals to fill a variety of roles. The time commitment is at most two hours per week, including emails and quarterly Zoom meetings. Barnabas especially needs people with marketing, administrative, accounting, writing, website, and record-keeping skills. If you are interested and would like to learn more, please contact info@barnabasalms.org soon.

Also, if you think of anyone you think would be a good fit for Barnabas, please let them know about us. Thanks for considering our invitation!

We want to express our deep gratitude for the service of our brothers John Urbanic and Don Mierendorf, who recently left the Barnabas Board. Both will be greatly missed.

John, despite his busy professional and personal schedule, has been serving as our financial officer since March of 2017. He has been diligent in keeping our books, sending money wires, and taking care of all our financial and tax matters. We greatly appreciate his professionalism and years of service.

Don has been associated with the Barnabas Almsgiving Fund since 2017, when he was our first finance manager. Later he took on an advisory role, bringing tremendous experience and common sense to the Barnabas Board. We’ve appreciated his support, ideas, and recommendations throughout the years.

We take this opportunity to thank all former Board members for their contributions of time and talent. You have together contributed greatly to this mission.