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Thank you to the readers for their support
To the Editor,
Roberti Community House would like to express its infinite gratitude for support received from Help them to Hope, Inc.
Going on 14 years, Roberti Community House has been a safe place for youth and families in our community. We are in located in an area with higher rates of poverty. Your support helps us ease the strain and stress of hunger. Sharing a meal together fosters a sense of belonging and unity and your support helpsprovide programs and food support that give immediate assistance to those in need. Our freshly prepared meals fill the gaps especially when they need it most, during summer and school breaks and holidays.
Thank you to your readers’ continued support of this important fundraiser organizations such as Roberti Community House will continue to meet the most pressing needs of our local community. We greatly appreciate your support!
Maribeth Roberti, Founder and Executive Director, Roberti Community House
Thank you for opening your heart to Love INC.
To the editor
Our warmest appreciation to you, the News – Sun readers and the Help Them to Hope Fund for the generous grant given to by Love INC. For 30 years now, Love INC has been able to partner with the local Church and offer a variety of help to our struggling neighbors. We have only been able to carry out our mission because the people of this community, like you, have freely and generously supported our work.
Maybe even more important than the physical items our church partners provide such as beds, furniture, household starter kits and baby care items is the love and hope offered when those items are shared!
Love INC’s work has three steps: First, hear the story and get to know the neighbor before the need. Second, meet the physical need. Finally, build deeper relationships with our neighbor that allows trust and a longer walk on their journey toward a better life. This final step, our ultimate goal, is lived out in our 12-week-long life skills and community-building classes. In 2023 we had 61 graduates from these classes.
Thank you again for opening your hearts to Love INC and the hundreds of local families we serve!
Gary Garland, Love In the Name of Christ, Lake County, Executive Director
Generous gift helps support children and families
To the editor,
Beacon Place would like to thank Help Them To Hope for the generous gift that will be directed to our programs to help support the children and families in the Beacon Place community! We would also like to thank the people of Lake County, IL for their support in the community-wide fundraising efforts.
This year, our focus is on sharing the voices of our Beacon Place families and their stories of brighter futures created by the impact of our programs and services. That impact is created by supporters like you – those who give generously to help us, help children and families. Individuals who are willing to lend a hand to others who are willing to do the work, they just need the help of that first step.
Their voices and stories are powerful. Families that are overcoming obstacles and creating paths toward a brighter future. We believe that each and every individual has the ability to create their own version of this vision. Beacon Place does not set or define that path for them – they do. We just provide the experiences, guidance, and resources to make it happen.
We know that challenges for our families have not gone away, they have gotten larger. The need for our programs and services, greater. Your support changes that. It changes futures.
Thank you for joining the Beacon Place community on this journey forward! Please follow us on social media and email this year as we share the stories of the big impact and bright futures you are helping to create.
Sean Miller, Board Chair
Investment supports live-saving work of A Saving Place
To the editor,
A Safe Place would like to thank the readers of the Lake County News-Sun for their generous support of the Help Them to Hope Campaign. Your investment supports the life-saving work of A Safe Place. A Safe Place is the sole provider of services in Lake County exclusively focusing on domestic violence and human trafficking victims.
Through comprehensive programs, A Safe Place assists victims and their children in transforming their lives after domestic violence and human trafficking, prevents future abuse by addressing its root cause through abuser intervention programs, and educates the community about domestic violence and how we can all be involved in its end.
Last year, A Safe Place served over 22,000 community members.
Programs and services include, emergency shelter, permanent housing, scattered homes, a 24-hour crisis line (800-600-SAFE), crisis response services, legal advocacy, individual and children’s therapy, support groups, art therapy, family visitation services, monitored custody exchanges, batterer intervention services, prevention education in the middle and high schools, and professional and community training.
For more information about our life-saving programming, please visit our website at www.asafeplaceforhelp.org. For more information about Help Them to Hope, visit: www.helpthemtohope.com.
Pat Davenport, Executive Director/CEO, A Safe Place
COOL honored to be one of the organizations receiving a donation
To the editor,
All of us at COOL Ministries are so thankful for the generosity and support of your readers who have given to Help Them to Hope over all these years. As well as for the volunteers who have worked to make this annual giving event so successful for so long. COOL is honored to be one of the organizations chosen to receive a donation from Help Them to Hope. The kindness and caring of the entire community is clearly demonstrated by this gift which will be used to purchase food for our hungry neighbors and provide housing for homeless families with children.
The support of Help Them to Hope enables COOL Ministries to give food to our Lake County neighbors in need. In fact, nearly 70,000 individuals were served at our pantry just last year! COOL Food Pantry is open five days per week and one Saturday each month to assure that families will never have to go hungry in Lake County. This year and last we have been serving more new neighbors in need than ever before, making this donation more crucial to our mission than ever.
In addition to feeding the hungry, COOL also operates a transitional housing program for unhoused parents with their children. Last year COOL provided shelter for 16 unhoused families which included 31 children and 19 adults.
Help Them to Hope’s support enables COOL to provide this help to those who need it most. On behalf of all of the directors on our board, staff who work at COOL, volunteers who serve faithfully, and especially on behalf of those who receive help at COOL, we want to thank everyone involved for their generous support! You have made it possible for COOL to give hope to others and we appreciate every volunteer hour worked, every penny donated and your kindness over the many decades. Here at COOL Ministries we believe food and shelter are basic human rights, your giving helps to ensure we can fulfill our mission of feeding the hungry and housing the homeless.
Mindy Lindholm, Executive Director