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2023 Community of Hope Impact Brevard Florida

Reflecting on our journey, celebrating milestones, and shaping the future. 🌟 Our 2023 Impact Report is live! Grateful for the strides we've made together. 

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321 Brevard – Day of Compassion

On Saturday, March 25th a group of volunteers from several area churches came together to serve in Brevard County and do hands-on mission work. The Baywood complex, which Community of Hope just purchased was one of the locations that they did service work. Over 40 volunteers came out and repaired fences, pressure washed sidewalks, raked leaves and pine needles, trimmed palm trees, weeded flower beds and mulched. Wow! What an improvement. One resident said that the place never looked so good.

Baywood new roof

Community of Hope recently purchased a 14 unit complex called Baywood, in palm bay. Heart Roofing did a great job installing new roofs on the two buildings on Baytree Drive. These are a recent purchase that has a 2005 aged roof. They replaced all the bad plywood, repaired the facia and soffit, and we easy to work with. They were diligent and did an amazing job picking up all the old roofing nails.

CubeSmart Rockledge partners with COH

A big THANKS to our teammate, Marth Sholtz from HRC (Handy Women Repair with Care)!  She contacted Mike Renfro, owner of the CubeSmart Self Storage on Viera Blvd and explained Community of Hope’s need for additional space to store furnishing for our units.  Mike made a very generous ($5,580) in-kind donation to cover a 10’X15’X8’ climate-controlled unit for one year.  This will officially start Phase II of HRC.  Lisa, working with Stephanie, has begun looking for furniture donations, HRC (under Lisa’s guidance) will make minor repairs and we will store the items in CubeSmart until a new family arrives and needs the furniture to get started. Our current goal is to find donated slightly used furniture.  If you hear of someone who has items we may be able to use, please contact Lisa.   T will be seeking a grant in the near future to give us money to buy needed items when we find good bargains.

Located at 1935 Viera Blvd, Rockledge, FL 32955

Thanks again to Mike Renfro and his team at CubeSmart for helping us, help those seeking a fresh start in  affordable housing.  Be sure to tell your friends to support this company!

 

The Paulucci Family Educational Program

New program to help our families

The Paulucci Family Foundation provided Community of Hope (COH) a very generous $15,000 grant.  With the funds, COH is starting two new programs to better serve our clients. and our nonprofit.

Commiunity of Hope is proud to team with the Paulucci Family Foundation.  These win-win programs are helping our families successfully navigate the path out of homelessness while providing COH with more personnel to meet ever-increasing program demands.

Hope Hammock Ground Breaking

Phase 1- 4 units in Titusville

Community of Hope has started construction on the first four units of a 10 unit project in Titusville called Hope Hammock.  Titusville Mayor, Dan Diesel spoke at the ground breaking.   He spoke about this  project being a game changer.  He said " Don't talk about it, Be about it.  Truly, this is a we thing not a me thing."

Stephanie Hopper the President of Community of Hope and Ben Scott with M. H. Williams who is the general contractor spoke also.

Video Link

 

Helping Pets of the Homeless

Community of Hope helps pets
Pet care Day 2022

Community means we work together

Community of Hope believes that we can’t solve the problems in our community or home town alone.  On February 14th, we partnered with The Street Dog Coalition, Habitat for Humanity of Brevard, and Mosaic of Palm Bay to provide free vaccines, heart worm tests, heart worm medication, and flea preventatives for the pets of people experiencing or at risk ofexperiencing homelessness.

Pets Get Some Extra Love

Click here for Florida Today story on February 15, 2022 by Tim Short

Christmas with Santa

Community of Hope Christmas party

This year’s event was wonderful.  There were games for the kids. The Hulu hoop contest was fun to participate in and watch as the kids and parents joined in.
Kids made Christmas tree ornaments and hair decorations. Thanks to our volunteers, everyone had a good time. The kids were excited to see Mr. and Mrs. Claus. Thanks to the Seaside Stitchers and Faith in Action everyone got a stocking. The Community of Hope case manager, Nicole started handing out donated gifts to the children that were at the party.  She will be Santa’s helper and deliver the rest of the gifts before Christmas.

Without the support of the community and all our helpers our families would not have such a fun event.  It was a blessing

Volunteer of the Year – 2021

Community of Hope honored their Volunteer of the Year for 2021 at the Mad Hatter Gala on Oct. 22, 2021. Joe Ameigh has worked tirelessly for Community of Hope. “If it were not for volunteers like Joe, Community of Hope would have to spend thousands of dollars hiring contractors to paint and do every day maintenance.” said Community of Hope President, Stephanie Hopper. He has been a great blessing to Community of Hope

Joe Ameigh and his wife Kathy with Executive Director, Drew Warren and President, Stephanie Hopper

Help Us House Families with Children Today

Community of Hope has a goal to help 70 families gain access to a home.  We want to expand our Hope Housing Services Program. This program allows us to fund families moving into rental housing and provide the support they need to stay housed.  Last year we helped 52 families.

In Brevard County, a family needs about $3000 to move into a rental.  They can't do it alone.  We can't do it alone.  We need your help. Our goal is to raise $50,000 to provide housing access to families with children by lessening the barrier of $$ to get housing.  Please give today. Please note Hope Housing on your gift.

Give HERE now.

Every child should have a home.

Learn what Community of Hope did last year in our Snapshot Report