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Feeding the hungry
Feeding the hungry
Feeding the hungry
Our non profit was blessed to become a recipients in The Food Donation Connection's Harvest Program. We have been partnered with Outback Steak House, Olive Garden & Starbucks in Burlington, NC. We pick up food weekly, that these restaurants would normally throw away. Instead they freeze the food and save it for us.
With Help from our
Feeding the hungry
Feeding the hungry
Since 1992, Food Donation Connection has assisted food service companies with the development and implementation of Harvest Programs designed to provide an alternative to discarding surplus food.
Community Partners
Feeding the hungry
Community Partners
We deliver the donated food to the Piedmont Rescue Mission, Trinity Worship Center, Mercy & Grace Ministries, Freedom's Hope and The Caring kitchen in Burlington. We want to give a big thanks to Outback Steak House, The Olive Garden & Starbucks for donating food to help feed those in need in communities everywhere.
OutBack SteakHouse
Olive Garden Italian Kitchen
Community Partners
2735 Longpine Rd, Burlington, NC 27215
Olive Garden Italian Kitchen
Olive Garden Italian Kitchen
Big thanks go out to The Food Donation Connection for creating the Harvest Program, and to all the participating restaurants as well.
Olive Garden Italian Kitchen
Olive Garden Italian Kitchen
Olive Garden Italian Kitchen
1770 Glidewell Dr, Burlington NC 27215
Starbucks
Starbucks
Starbucks
Starbucks
Starbucks
University Commons,
1447 University Dr.
Burlington, NC 27215
Harvest Program
Starbucks
Harvest Program
This is how the Food Donation Connections Harvest Program works.
Food lines around the country
NY, GA, PA, FL, Food lines
OHIO - long lines for food
utah food bank
Housing the homeless
IS AN AMBITIOUS UNDERTAKING THAT WE TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY.
Our plan is to build temporary transitional shelters, 1, 2, 3 BR apt. homes & Duplexes. All Safe, affordable, Low-income, Green housing. The shelters will be used to get people off the streets and into interventions such as "Housing First". A philosophy that all people should be housed prior to working on anything else. This outlook can filter through every individual program and the collective system to focus on moving people into housing as quickly as possible, then providing the appropriate level of support to ensure long term housing stability. This system also lowers hurdles to program access, prioritizes people that have the highest barriers to stable housing first, and believes that everyone is housing ready. Additionally, Housing First is based on the simple idea that a person experiencing homelessness will be most successful when able to make his or her own informed decisions about housing and health. We will also build lager structures like the one pictured above that can be used as multi-generational homes, Veteran housing, ADA compliant Assisted living facilities, Group Homes, Mental Health & Elder care facilities, etc. There is a large and growing evidence base demonstrating that Housing First is an effective solution to homelessness. Housing First programs often provide rental assistance that varies in duration depending on the household’s needs. Consumers sign a standard lease and are able to access supports as necessary to help them do so. A variety of voluntary services may be used to promote housing stability and well-being during and following housing placement. Two common program models follow the Housing First approach but differ in implementation. Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is targeted to individuals and families with chronic illnesses, disabilities, mental health issues, or substance use disorders who have experienced long-term or repeated homelessness. It provides long-term rental assistance and supportive services. (PSH) has a long-term housing retention rate of up to 98 percent. A second program model, rapid re-housing, is employed for a wide variety of individuals and families. The Core components of rapid re-housing—housing identification, rent and move-in assistance, and case management and services—operationalize Housing First principals. It provides short-term rental assistance and services. The goals are to help people obtain housing quickly, increase self-sufficiency, and remain housed. Studies have shown that Rapid re-housing helps people exit homelessness quickly—in one study, an average of two months—and remain housed. A variety of studies have shown that between 75 percent and 91 percent of households remain housed a year after being rapidly re-housed. Participants will be given the option of a rent to own program or yearly lease. Affording them the opportunity to achieve the American dream of homeownership if they so desire. Once they are back on their feet.
(Data compiled by National Alliance to end Homelessness &
Partners ending homelessness)
why we do, what we do.
From our conversations with homeless people we learned that not everyone living on the streets wants to exit homelessness. The reasons given were mental illness, drug or alcohol addiction and some said they have just given up. We understand we can only help those who want to be helped and our community is full of people who need and want help. We work diligently to help people by providing the 2 things we feel are most needed, the basic necessities most of us take for granted, food and housing. We want to help our veterans the elderly, people with mobility issues an of course the homeless to enjoy a better quality of life.
Guilford County has developed a Housing First team that drastically reduced the number of Chronically Homeless individuals in the community from 107 in 2014 to 36 in 2016 (2016 Point In Time Count). This partnership between the Salvation Army Greensboro, Psychotherapeutic Services, Inc. and the Servant Center’s SOAR program (Disability Assistance) have changed the landscape of long term homelessness in this community.
For details about a (PIT)
Point-In-Time count and a (HIC) Housing Inventory Count conducted in January of 2022. Click the link below for national, state, and CoC-level PIT and HIC estimates of homelessness, as well as estimates of chronically homeless persons, homeless veterans, and homeless children and youth.
Temporary transitional Homeless Shelters Accessory dwellings / disaster relief
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