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Matthew's Hope Relocation Fund
Matthew’s Hope 2.0 is underway!
We have moved our office to 523 S. Woodland St. Our Guest Services will be at 740 9th Street in Winter Garden, Florida [the old Willie's Bar-B-Q].
Your donations are helping make our uninterrupted services to the homeless of West Orange possible. We are now at work making renovations to our new locations.
Immediate Needs
- Bottled water for our Guests: please drop off at 523 S. Woodland St. [M-F, 9 am- 4 pm]
- Temporary locations: please contact us if you can help.
6-8 weeks, until new location renovations complete:
- Pre-school for 18 children and staff, beginning 08.15
- Life services and meal serving meeting room, seating 50-75 adults – Tuesdays 9a-3p
Thank you, Bruce Knox, owner of Winter Garden’s Knox Nursery, for rallying community support with your $5,000 matching funds challenge. A second $5,000 challenge was issued by another supporter.
Follow our Moving Forward story on Facebook, as we continue to help our community’s homeless become self-sufficient. We are at: MatthewsHopeMinistries
Thank you, West Orange! With your help, we reached our $25,000 relocation goal. Your support means the world to the homeless of our community.
Thank you to everyone who has donated to our relocation campaign on this site, on our website and by dropping off donations at our office. Your donations count toward the relocation fund total, no matter how you donate!
All money raised is being used for the down payment and renovations to the building along with our moving expenses, estimated to be between $25,000 and $35,000. The purchase cost of the building is $155,000.
If you would like to issue a matching funds challenge too, you can email us via this campaign page.
Check/cash: 523 S. Woodland St., Winter Garden, FL 34787 [mail, or dropoff M-F, 9 am- 4 pm]
About Matthew's Hope
Our mission: Broken, flawed people helping, loving and caring for broken, flawed people.
Matthew’s Hope is the primary provider of critical needs for the homeless community in West Orange County, Florida. The faith-based charity connects the area’s homeless to additional specialized wrap-around resources that enable them to improve their individual situations and stabilize their lives.
There are over 1,000 homeless persons in West Orange County lacking basic sustenance and services with no other providers available within walking or biking distance to assist them with basic needs and resources needed to better their circumstances. One-third have been homeless for three months or less and 55% are women and children. The non-profit fosters the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of these individuals by meeting basic needs, developing skills and restoring dignity and independence.
The homeless are able to go to one facility that provides all the necessary support and training they need to move forward in life. Services include transitional housing; a food pantry; access to medical and dental services; rehabilitation; counseling; a pre-school; personal services including showers, haircuts and clothing; and other tools necessary in becoming independent and self sufficient. Matthew’s Hope programs are funded by grassroots community support.
Program guests earn points working at Matthew’s Hope community services – an organic garden, car detailing service, and furniture refurbishment – that they can use to redeem for life’s necessities including food and transportation.
Over the past two years, the charity has opened 15 transitional homes providing over 20,000 nights of shelter. In 2014, the group opened its Firm Foundation Montessori-based preschool, offering a solid educational opportunity to homeless children while providing childcare for parents to pursue employment and educational opportunities.
From November 2014-November 2015, Matthew’s Hope supplied its homeless guests with:
10,454 nights of shelter
5,508 meals served
1,275 loads of laundry washed
27 students enrolled in our preschool
494 attendees at life recovery classes
138 patients on the medical bus
891 showers
548 haircuts
85 pairs of glasses
1,614 shirts given
13,044 toiletries given
50,000 volunteer hours
Further info:
Matthew's Hope Ministries
Orange Observer Article
We have moved our office to 523 S. Woodland St. Our Guest Services will be at 740 9th Street in Winter Garden, Florida [the old Willie's Bar-B-Q].
Your donations are helping make our uninterrupted services to the homeless of West Orange possible. We are now at work making renovations to our new locations.
Immediate Needs
- Bottled water for our Guests: please drop off at 523 S. Woodland St. [M-F, 9 am- 4 pm]
- Temporary locations: please contact us if you can help.
6-8 weeks, until new location renovations complete:
- Pre-school for 18 children and staff, beginning 08.15
- Life services and meal serving meeting room, seating 50-75 adults – Tuesdays 9a-3p
Thank you, Bruce Knox, owner of Winter Garden’s Knox Nursery, for rallying community support with your $5,000 matching funds challenge. A second $5,000 challenge was issued by another supporter.
Follow our Moving Forward story on Facebook, as we continue to help our community’s homeless become self-sufficient. We are at: MatthewsHopeMinistries
Thank you, West Orange! With your help, we reached our $25,000 relocation goal. Your support means the world to the homeless of our community.
Thank you to everyone who has donated to our relocation campaign on this site, on our website and by dropping off donations at our office. Your donations count toward the relocation fund total, no matter how you donate!
All money raised is being used for the down payment and renovations to the building along with our moving expenses, estimated to be between $25,000 and $35,000. The purchase cost of the building is $155,000.
If you would like to issue a matching funds challenge too, you can email us via this campaign page.
Check/cash: 523 S. Woodland St., Winter Garden, FL 34787 [mail, or dropoff M-F, 9 am- 4 pm]
About Matthew's Hope
Our mission: Broken, flawed people helping, loving and caring for broken, flawed people.
Matthew’s Hope is the primary provider of critical needs for the homeless community in West Orange County, Florida. The faith-based charity connects the area’s homeless to additional specialized wrap-around resources that enable them to improve their individual situations and stabilize their lives.
There are over 1,000 homeless persons in West Orange County lacking basic sustenance and services with no other providers available within walking or biking distance to assist them with basic needs and resources needed to better their circumstances. One-third have been homeless for three months or less and 55% are women and children. The non-profit fosters the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of these individuals by meeting basic needs, developing skills and restoring dignity and independence.
The homeless are able to go to one facility that provides all the necessary support and training they need to move forward in life. Services include transitional housing; a food pantry; access to medical and dental services; rehabilitation; counseling; a pre-school; personal services including showers, haircuts and clothing; and other tools necessary in becoming independent and self sufficient. Matthew’s Hope programs are funded by grassroots community support.
Program guests earn points working at Matthew’s Hope community services – an organic garden, car detailing service, and furniture refurbishment – that they can use to redeem for life’s necessities including food and transportation.
Over the past two years, the charity has opened 15 transitional homes providing over 20,000 nights of shelter. In 2014, the group opened its Firm Foundation Montessori-based preschool, offering a solid educational opportunity to homeless children while providing childcare for parents to pursue employment and educational opportunities.
From November 2014-November 2015, Matthew’s Hope supplied its homeless guests with:
10,454 nights of shelter
5,508 meals served
1,275 loads of laundry washed
27 students enrolled in our preschool
494 attendees at life recovery classes
138 patients on the medical bus
891 showers
548 haircuts
85 pairs of glasses
1,614 shirts given
13,044 toiletries given
50,000 volunteer hours
Further info:
Matthew's Hope Ministries
Orange Observer Article
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