Mardi Bras VA
- Collection Site – Every year around Mardi Gras
- Host collections of bras, underwear, pads and tampons for women who have a no/low/restricted income, are homeless or incarcerated.
Hope Works – Recovery Community
- Adopt a House
- Adopt a house of men or women to provide for practical needs and move into relationship with the residents of the house.
- As relationships build, look for ways to meet spiritual needs through Bible Studies, encouragement, etc.
- Housing Response Fund – formerly COVID Housing Response Fund
- Give financially to support men and women who don’t have financial resources to support their safe and sober housing needs.
- Collect gently used items for the residents
- twin sheets and comforters
- towels
- kitchen items like silverware (that always seems to disappear!), coffee cups, etc.
- coffee makers, crock pots and other simple appliances
Hope Works – Chesterfield County Jail
- Christmas Project – Get Clean! Bags for Chesterfield Jail Residents
- Providing every resident with basic full-size personal hygiene items. (450 needed) More Details >> Click Here
- 3in1 Shampoo/Conditioner
- Toothpaste
- Lotion
- Antiperspirant
- Bar of Soap
- 2 stamped envelopes and pap to write a friend or family member
- A note of encouragement
- Providing every resident with basic full-size personal hygiene items. (450 needed) More Details >> Click Here
- Jobs for Life – (coming Winter 2021)
- Champion –
- Commit to 8 weeks, Monday and/or Thursday Nights
- Encourage and mentor participants
- Instructor –
- commit to facilitating 2-4 classes
- Business Leaders, Managers and Owners plus HR Management/Recruiters
- Business Leader Panel
- Participate in a panel, allowing participants to ask questions about your work/business
- Mock Interviews
- Act as a hiring manager/recruiter in mock interviews, allowing participants to practice interviewing, and provide constructive feedback to the participant
- Hiring Manager
- Be willing to hiring Jobs for Life Graduates.
- Supply Basic Needs
- Act as a collection site for basic needs and personal hygiene items.
- Basic Needs include reading glasses (plastic frames only), Tshirts, underwear, no wire bras, socks, etc.
- Personal hygiene items include items such as shampoo, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, lotion, and feminine hygiene items.
- Act as a collection site for basic needs and personal hygiene items.
- Business Leader Panel
- Champion –
Hope Works – Richmond City Justice Center
Due to COVID, this work is currently on hold.
Miss Marti’s House
- Assist with building relationships in the Southern Barton Heights Neighborhood through many community-building activities such as:
- Easter Egg Hunt
- Memorial Day Community Cookout
- Camp Splash – week-long Vacation Bible School
- Halloween – Front Yard Party
- And more!