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162 • Lead generation test marketing project partner • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Warriors of the Dream – Transforming Violence, Building Leaders, $20,000 • Office of Black Ministries Rising Stars Program: The office helps to implement the program to ensure mentor training, background checks and Safe Church Training in the Dioceses of Central Florida, Long Island, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Southern Ohio. • Organized celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month in the Dioceses of Long Island and New York • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Pilot usage of churchwide asset map developed in partnership between Episcopal Relief & Development, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and the Dioceses of Louisiana and New York; additionally, the Dioceses of Central Gulf Coast, Chicago, Colorado, Eastern Michigan, New Jersey, and Northern California joined Phase 2 in late 2014. • Scholarships, $5,000 • Three-day convocational gatherings of Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Southeast Asian, and South Asian clergy and lay leaders in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Training with theologians and seminarians through AsiaAmerica Theological Exchange Forum held in Philippines 2013 in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion Diocese – Central