New beds for the homeless shelter
Donation protected
The Tyler Blain House is a homeless shelter in Lancaster, NH. It provides housing and assistance (including transportation, food, and connection to medical and mental health services) for up to 8 people at a time.
One of their rooms holds 1 queen and 2 twin beds, so a whole family can stay in the house together. The current furniture is no longer usable, and needs to be replaced. Enter, all of us!
It'll cost about $2000 to get 3 new bed frames and new mattresses. Folks who stay here are likely to be stressed and in need of comfort, so we're talking charming farmhouse-esque wooden bed frames (not generic metal stands), and a bunch of bright and cheery sheet sets and comforters to go with them. Tyler Blain refers to themselves "A home between homes", and I think comfy beds and charming sheets are a necessity, not a luxury.
If we raise more than we need, the extra will all go to Tyler Blain's assistance programs.
My partner Aaron and I will go pick up the furniture, deliver it to the house, and do all the assembly and setup. Let's be clear: Aaron and I will make up any fundraising shortfall, so we're outfitting this room no matter what.
Tyler Blain is a small operation, and in the face of all the terrible things happening in our country right now, this is a tiny fundraising project. You know what, though? I like small projects. David James Duncan once opined, in a sermon about the paralysis that comes with tackling huge problems, that "Small things, lovingly done, are always within our reach."
One of their rooms holds 1 queen and 2 twin beds, so a whole family can stay in the house together. The current furniture is no longer usable, and needs to be replaced. Enter, all of us!
It'll cost about $2000 to get 3 new bed frames and new mattresses. Folks who stay here are likely to be stressed and in need of comfort, so we're talking charming farmhouse-esque wooden bed frames (not generic metal stands), and a bunch of bright and cheery sheet sets and comforters to go with them. Tyler Blain refers to themselves "A home between homes", and I think comfy beds and charming sheets are a necessity, not a luxury.
If we raise more than we need, the extra will all go to Tyler Blain's assistance programs.
My partner Aaron and I will go pick up the furniture, deliver it to the house, and do all the assembly and setup. Let's be clear: Aaron and I will make up any fundraising shortfall, so we're outfitting this room no matter what.
Tyler Blain is a small operation, and in the face of all the terrible things happening in our country right now, this is a tiny fundraising project. You know what, though? I like small projects. David James Duncan once opined, in a sermon about the paralysis that comes with tackling huge problems, that "Small things, lovingly done, are always within our reach."
Organizer
Eileen Webb
Organizer
Littleton, NH
