10/11/2026
‼️The need for $134 to reconnect the electricity of a local family has been met! ❤️
Unfortunately, I was not able to pay it in time for it to be reconnected before Monday. I will go down there as soon as they open though.
We have another family that we have worked with for a while who need help avoiding having their electricity disconnected as well. They are on a prepaid system and are already over their usage by a few dollars. I want to put $100 on their account as well, if we can collect it, but I will apply whatever we can. This grandmother is giving all she can to her grandkids and she has also given to the charity when she could.
A little financial backstory:
Back in June, I expressed worry that something would happen with our landlord and we would lose our center. This was before I knew the lease wouldn't be renewed, before several events that sealed our fate in that particular location. In an attempt to secure our space for the remainder of the year, one of our donors, someone whose spouse and self I have come to greatly respect, sent a donation large enough to pay rent from July to December.
I brought this to the board and they, very correctly, suggested we not send the entire sum to the landlord at once, instead, we continued to pay rent monthly. We ended up being informed in July that the lease would not be renewed.
We could have moved out then, but I told the landlord we would definitely need time to find a new place. We stayed there three more months, paying for rent out of the previously mentioned donation. With the other $4,500, we paid bills. We paid A LOT of bills. We fed people. We bought shoes, underwear, and socks for kids. We stocked a hygiene rack. We planned events. We built an infrastructure.
That money, and other donations in that time, allowed us to approve almost EVERY request and referral that came to us for a time, within the bounds outlined by our board.
For now, our rent and ultilities are covered each month and we are trying to build our funds back up. We will always keep enough to pay our own finances, such as stocking the pantry and paying storage, but I will never deny a reasonable request while money sits unused in our account.
I have a few fundraisers planned for the future but, as we have always asked, if you can give just $5 a month, we can do truly amazing things as a community.
Our rent at the new center is $800, utilities included. That is a HUGE reduction in what we are obligated to pay monthly. We used to ask for 500 people to give $5, but now we only need about 250 people!
We only serve Marion County, TN and our donors, our volunteers, our partners all love these people and this place. Our focus will always be on community centered service, and community driven solutions!
If you are seeking to be part of the solution, you can give on our PayPal with any debit card.
Thank you! ❤️🩷
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