In Memory of our Friend, Gary
CHPHP Volunteer Center
By Ellen
Our dream is to receive a donated building which will be a center for all of our volunteers to come and provide services for the poor and homeless people within our community.
Our unique center will be a collection
place for clothes, food and other household items. Our volunteers will sort and place the items in our sorting wall, food pantry or thrift shop. Other
volunteers will come and distribute the items to people in need within our community.
Our center will provide space for our mentoring, peer tutoring and literacy programs. Volunteers will work one on one with poor and homeless shelter children and will tutor them in school subjects.
Our center will schedule cultural programs such as concerts of performances by one of the schools/groups/individuals. The residents of homeless shelters will be invited to enjoy uplifting entertainment.
Our center will provide space for a library, law center, job finding center, audio visual room, arts and crafts room and nursery to be used by our volunteers and residents of homeless shelters.
Presently, there is no volunteer center where students, teachers and parents can come on any given day to help their community. Isn't it time we create one? We can't do this alone. Call or email us with your ideas and contributions. You can be part of this one of a kind experience.
Initiate...
Initiate...means to go about the initial steps in doing a task. Our task is to develop a volunteer center. Following are some practical steps you can take to make our center happen.
Corporate Sponsorship: A yearly grant for the startup and maintenance of the CHPHP Volunteer Center. Amount will go into a general fund or can be earmarked for any one of our programs:
Collection Programs include:
Routes for Homeless People, Outreach Program for People in Need, Thrift Shop, Holiday Gift Basket Program, Animal Outreach Program.
Improvement Programs include: Mentoring, Arts and Crafts Program, Peer Tutoring Program, Peer Computer Training Program, Literacy Program, Job Tracking and Placement Program.
Cultural Programs include: Theater Program, Concert Program, Library, Law Center.
Small Business Profit Sharing: If you own a small business you can link your web site to ours. Our website will feature a section called Shop CHPHP. Our many volunteers can purchase your product or services and in turn you will donate a percentage of the item cost to CHPHP. Contact us at chphp@earthlink.net to discuss the possibilities.
Personal Event Fundraising: You can organize a yard sale, block yard sale, lemonade stand or bake sale in your neighborhood or school and donate profits to the start-up cost of our Volunteer Center. Contact us at chphp@earthlink.net to discuss the possibilities.
Donations can be earmarked for your particular interest or program. It's our hope that you will maintain your interest in that program and eventually be one of our volunteers making it happen in our Volunteer Center. Donations are tax deductible. If everyone does their part, our Volunteer Center will be built and together we can help poor and homeless children and adults.
Thank You, Chloe!
"Dear Ron and Christine,
"Over the holidays, my seven year old daughter, Chloe, asked me if there was a way she could help the homeless people that she sees so often on our streets.
"We researched various organizations and shelters where she could participate directly, but none of these offered anything for kids her age.
"When she was about 4 years old, our family was out to dinner at the pier in Santa Monica and Chloe was staring out the window watching the homeless men and women on the beach.
'She was so upset by the fact that they didn't have a home and they were trying to find food from the transh cans that she began to cry.
"The other day she asked me if I remembered that dinner because she had made herself a promise that night to help those people when she got older.
"Then, with a big smile on her face, she said, 'See, Mommy, I kept my promise and I am helping them now.
"Your letter to Chloe's principal and teacher prompted them to lend their help as well...We have set up boxes in both the classroom and the lobby of the school and will be delivering another batch of toiletry bags to CHPHP in the next week or so.
"Thank you both and to all the volunteers at CHPHP for allowing children of all ages to help those less fortunate in the community.
"You have taught my daughter and many other children that they can make a difference in people's lives and have given them the resources to do so.
"Chloe asked if she could still help CHPHP when she grew up so I think we've begun a lifelong relationship with you all!
"Sincerely, Kelly"
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