RAP, Inc. Initiates Capital Campaign:
Buy a Brick; Build
a Facility
Chairman
of the Board of Directors of RAP, Inc., Johnny
Mercer, has announced a new capital campaign for
the organization…
Buy a Brick; Build a Facility.
The purpose is to expand the treatment space to
meet the
growing need for services.
The long term
fundraising target is $1 million.
Mercer, an attorney currently of counsel with
the TEC Law Group, has served on RAP’s Board
for close to 30 years - the last twelve as Chairman
- emphasized the necessity for expansion. He said,
“When RAP opened its doors in 1970, who
could have imagined that there still would be
a need for our services almost 40 years in the
future? But here we are.” Mercer added,
“Because injection drug use is one of the
major ways that people are becoming infected with
HIV, there is an
even more urgent need for our
treatment services.”
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Yetta W. Galiber, RAP Board Chair Emerita and
founder of the Information, Protection, and Advocacy
Center for Handicapped Individuals, will now chair
the Capital Campaign Committee. About her new
challenge, Galiber said, “What the community
must understand is that addiction impacts every
facet of life in our city and we all pay for it
through increased costs for law enforcement, health
care, and family services. Not to mention human
life. So, in addition to caring for our citizens,
treatment will save the city millions of dollars.”
To contribute to Buy
a Brick; Build a Facility
- click
here
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