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YOU’RE INVITED!
HOME SWEET HOME TO OPEN DOORS FOR THE HOMELESS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2011
Hyatt Regency, Cambridge
Please join us at Home Sweet Home on Oct. 22. You can taste delectable desserts donated by local pastry chefs, wine from local vineyards, enjoy a delicious buffet dinner with local ingredients, dance to the amazing LOVE DOGS and help the homeless move from shelters and streets to homes.
There's more info here: http://www.chafund.org/dessert2011.html
BUY TICKETS HERE: http://www.chafund.org/pages/tickets.html
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162264663824227
Just donate: http://chafund.org/pages/donation.html
About CHAF: http://www.chafund.org/
Love Dogs sound clips: http://www.thelovedogs.com/
AWESOME AUCTION ITEMS INCLUDE:
- TV Diner guest appearance with Billy Costa (http://www.billycosta.com/)
- One week at Provincetown condo
- Basketball autographed by Paul Pierce
- Tour of Formaggio Kitchen Cheese Cave
- Red Sox tickets
- Bruins tickets
- Ski & Stay packages at Sunday River & Sugarloaf
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Homeless police, firemen and teachers
It's hard to believe that city service workers like police, fireman and school teachers are showing up homeless at CHAF partner agencies HomeStart and the Cambridge Multi Service Center for the Homeless.
Who will put out fires and teach our children? It shows how homelessness can happen to almost anyone. A parent gets ill and can't work, the family falls behind in mortgage or rent payments, you're a paycheck away from life on the street and then yes, you lose your home and end up in the state emergency shelter system, which is all to often a motel room with microwave meals.
There's a great video here about a woman with 5 children living in a motel room in California.
Since 1999 CHAF has raised $1.6 million to help 1,500 homeless or near homeless families and individuals to move from a shelter to a home or, to retain the housing they already have. CHAF’s goal this year is raise another $150,000 to assist 125 more families with rental startup costs.
CHAF partner agencies focus on ‘prevention.’ When a family loses their home, it costs the state $40,000/year of our tax dollars to house that family in the state emergency shelter system. For an average $800, CHAF can help that same family to stay in the housing they have, avoiding the devastation and cost of homelessness. With follow up services from CHAF partner HomeStart, 95% of families remain in their home one year later.
For more info about CHAF: http://www.chafund.org/.
We welcome any donation you would like to make.
Who will put out fires and teach our children? It shows how homelessness can happen to almost anyone. A parent gets ill and can't work, the family falls behind in mortgage or rent payments, you're a paycheck away from life on the street and then yes, you lose your home and end up in the state emergency shelter system, which is all to often a motel room with microwave meals.
There's a great video here about a woman with 5 children living in a motel room in California.
Since 1999 CHAF has raised $1.6 million to help 1,500 homeless or near homeless families and individuals to move from a shelter to a home or, to retain the housing they already have. CHAF’s goal this year is raise another $150,000 to assist 125 more families with rental startup costs.
CHAF partner agencies focus on ‘prevention.’ When a family loses their home, it costs the state $40,000/year of our tax dollars to house that family in the state emergency shelter system. For an average $800, CHAF can help that same family to stay in the housing they have, avoiding the devastation and cost of homelessness. With follow up services from CHAF partner HomeStart, 95% of families remain in their home one year later.
For more info about CHAF: http://www.chafund.org/.
We welcome any donation you would like to make.
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