One of the coolest parts of this journey is all the collaborations that have come together. Middlebury Chapel came to us with the idea of creating a school to help the folks that live here learn marketable skills. Electric, plumbing, woodworking, welding. Anything that people could learn that would help them find work or make […]
Every day, it seems, I get inspiring and exciting good news about people that want to help the homeless. It’s to the point where I can’t even get the time to share all the amazing things that happen to us because there are so many amazing things happening. But this is SO cool I had to […]
The Peter Maurin Center has been one of our earliest and most consistent supporters. They have delivered several temporary dumpsters to help clean out our facility and backyard. The also pay for 2 porta potties for months and months. And they also pay for our weekly dumpster services. Since the beginning people have complained about our […]
Akron District St. Vincent de Paul – Akron’s Oldest Church has donated $2000 for us to use to help keep the homeless of Akron warm. 100% of the money goes to things like tents, tarps, long underwear and sleeping bags. It still shocks me that Americans everywhere are living in tents because they have no other place […]
It is said that it often takes 3 years to get your first grant as a startup non-profit. So the fact that we were able to get a grant in the first year of operation is thrilling for us. It also tells us that the community realizes there is an urgent need to help the homeless of […]
Website: TEI – Thompson Electric, Inc. Phone: 330.686.2300 Facebook: Thompson Electric, Inc. Ohio – Home Thompson Electric was literally a Christmas miracle. From the day after Christmas to the middle of January they were here every single day. Sometimes with multiple trucks and multiple teams. They have rewired our entire facility. All parts and all labor was 100% donated. This […]
We are incredibly thankful that Spring Garden Waldorf School is a Silver Sponsor of The Homeless Charity. As a non-profit themselves, they understand the importance of supporting local non-profits for the betterment of the entire community. They write: Spring Garden is part of the long-standing Waldorf tradition, a worldwide movement putting Rudolf Steiner’s educational philosophy […]
Quite simply, The Homeless Charity would never have become a thing unless there was first SageRock. SageRock bought the building at 15 Broad Street in Akron Ohio in the middle of the Great Recession. It was a huge risk and a huge amount of money to come up with for the down payment. But it […]
OK folks. This is HUGE. HUGE, I say! But that’s pretty much all I’m allowed to say. I’ve been working on this for a couple months and it finally came through. This is the official statement they say I’m allowed to make: “The Homeless Charity is a recipient of a Google Ad Grants award. The […]