HOH NEEDS LIST Batteries—All sizes Baby Wipes Bed Pillows
Ketchup Aerosol Disinfectant Spray Bath Towels Liquid Laundry
Detergent Olive Oil Vegetable Cooking Oil Toiletries for Children
Toiletries for Women
812 Merrimack Street, Lowell MA 01854 (978) 458-2870
www.hopelowell.org December 2014
Dear Friends, This fall we had a ribbon-cutting on Pawtucket
Street for seven beautiful, completely renovated units of permanent
housing for homeless families. All seven families have settled into
permanent, affordable homes with supportive services available
through House of Hope Housing. With a total of 21 families housed
in our properties, House of Hope Housing’s commitment to permanent
supportive housing as the solution to family homelessness is as
strong as ever and we are hoping to announce our next housing
project soon! But, as our Board President Laurie Gould has voiced,
“With the growing number of homeless families stuck in motels
throughout the state, we are asking ourselves how, in 2015, we
should prioritize our efforts to support those families in their
journey to stability and self-sufficiency. In that spirit, House of
Hope is embarking on a new strategic planning process that will
help us to chart a path forward for the next several years.” So
stay tuned. During this season of giving, we are inspired by the
faces, talents, gifts and time our community commits to helping our
families. Every gesture and gift makes a difference in the lives of
the children we serve. We pledge to be compassionate stewards of
your trust, and to meet each and every family on their unique path
to finding a stable and safe home. On behalf of our families in our
shelters and housing, as well as our employees and board of
directors, we wish you Hope and Health for the Holidays and
throughout the New Year. — Deb Chausse, Executive Director
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Thank you to UMASS Lowell Hockey Team who did a Fall cleanup on
Veterans Day!
Middlesex Community College students making service fun
at the shelter!
A BIG thanks to St Elizabeth's Church in Wilmington who
annually serve our Thanksgiving meal!
‘Tis the season for giving! Please sponsor a Holiday Gift Card
Tree or a Most-Needed-Goods
Giving Tree. To sponsor a giving tree please contact Edna
Gustafson at
[email protected].
HARVEST 2014 WAS “THE BEES KNEES”!
Milly is Home for the Holidays
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“I don’t know how I can ever thank House of Hope enough!” -
Milly
Milly first walked through the doors of House of Hope as a
volunteer. She enjoyed helping the families here because she too
was living in a nearby shelter at the time. At 21 years old, she
was living at a teen shelter with her 1 year old daughter Briannah.
Due to her age, Milly was about to transfer to an adult shelter,
when Marianne Staid, HOH Shelter Oper-ations Director, encouraged
her to apply for one of the first units of HOH Housing back in
2007. Milly had a job with a very small income but it was enough to
quali-fy her for our apartment and she got it!
“HOH gave me a home when I had no home.” She kept working, got
her Asso-ciates Degree in Biotechnology, complet-ed Budget Buddies
and increased her income slowly but surely. Soon, Lindsey DiRocco,
Housing Program Manager, encouraged Milly to go house-hunting.
Lindsey helped Milly to believe she could make the numbers work. At
the last mi-nute her financing fell through, but Lind-sey was there
to help her find a mort-gage and she closed 3 weeks later. Now
Millie and Briannah, now 9 years old, have moved into their own
home in Lowell. When asked how she overcame all of her hurdles,
Milly was clear; “I focused on my daughter; I didn't want to show
her that I was failing in any way. That’s why I kept going.” Milly
works full-time and she still finds the time to work per-diem to
support some of today’s homeless mothers. She helps them see that
they can succeed.
A HUGE THANK YOU to BAE Systems in Nashua, NH for their recent
donation to HOH. Through their FOCUS Program (Fixing Old Computers
for Use of Students), we received 15 refurbished computers with
significant memory and hard drive capacity upgrades, along with
monitors, keyboards, and other hardware necessities. The FOCUS
Program was created in 1998 by a small group of employee volunteers
seeking to serve the community – mentoring students with an
interest in technology and providing functional computers to
organizations in need. With technology demands increasing at a
steady pace, non-profits are often at a disadvantage due to budget
constraints and limited resources. Upgrading or replacing aging
equipment is costly, but necessary, as more of our services and
funders require internet-based engagement and digital record
keeping. Having up to date systems gives us the ability to
communicate and perform better and faster than ever – which greatly
benefits the people we serve.
We had a full house at this year’s Harvest of Hope Benefit with
our Bees Knees, Cat’s Meow and Hotsy Totsy Event Sponsors! So many
dear friends joined us at the beautiful home of Senator Eileen
Donoghue and Mr. John ’Connor.
Thanks to our generous community, over $56,000 was raised for
HOH Shelters and HOH Housing!
Please Help!
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