Hospitality Center - Please keep this place in mind to donate.

To my friends in the Racine, WI -

SOCKS

Thank you friends of Christ Episcopal Church (Whitefish Bay) for helping our sisters and brothers to hope and for warming feet and hearts.

Socks are disposable items for our sisters and brothers experiencing homelessness. If you are homeless, you wear socks until the socks wear out and then you hope for help.

Thank you to all of Christ Episcopal Church for the socks, socks and more socks, which offer hope and provide help to our sisters and brothers in need.

SHELTER

The Hospitality Center is passionately committed to and will purposefully seek to be part of a community solution; a permanent shelter solution for all who are in need in Racine. Until then ----

The Hospitality Center provided food, safety and overnight shelter for the past three winter seasons for our sisters and brothers who called the streets "home." Unfortunately, the Hospitality Center is unable to again provide overnight shelter for many reasons. The Hospitality Center will continue to serve as a daytime "drop-in" center and will also continue to administer Racine's largest meal program.

When the Hospitality Center announced on January 4 of this year that serving as an emergency overnight shelter was beyond the Hospitality Center's capacity, the Racine community and beyond responded swiftly, generously and overwhelmingly. Persons interested in volunteering called; donations of food, clothing, and bedding arrived; and financial contributions were received.

A few days later, the Hospitality Center was pleased to announce that it would be able to continue operating the overnight shelter for the remainder of the winter season.

All funds received earlier this year were restricted and were used by the Hospitality Center for shelter needs. Unused funds were set aside at the end of the winter season in a restricted shelter provision account.

As made known on October 19, a few days ago, we learned that a motel voucher fund program in Racine ran out of money. The voucher program, administered under the Continuum of Care umbrella, was established to offer the growing number of our sisters and brothers in need of shelter with motel vouchers. Demand exceeded capacity. The voucher program's financial resources were exhausted before the first frost and people were out on the streets.

The Hospitality Center was in dialogue with Gai Lorenzen, Continuum of Care President, since learning about this pressing and life-threatening situation.
I am pleased to share that the Hospitality Center is releasing $38,879.17 (balance of the restricted shelter funds) to the Continuum of Care for the continuation of providing an immediate solution for our sisters and brothers in need.

We are indebted to the generous people of Racine and beyond who responded swiftly, generously and overwhelmingly in January of this year. That response - your response - allowed the Hospitality Center overnight shelter to remain open last winter and allows the Continuum of Care to continue to open doors of safety and shelter for our sisters and brothers in need now.

The Hospitality Center is passionately committed to and will purposefully seek to be part of a community solution; a permanent shelter solution for all who are in need in Racine.

On behalf of all of the Hospitality Center, thank you Gai and thank you Continuum of Care. And thank you to each of you who made overnight shelter at the Hospitality Center possible in the past and assistance available through the Continuum of Care in the present.

http://racinecountyeye.com/hospitality-center-donating-39000-for-winter-hotel-vouchers/

http://journaltimes.com/news/local/hospitality-center-donates-for-emergency-shelter/article_3e05efe2-c398-514c-8363-bfd906cce20e.html


Gratefully,
Kevin

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