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When One Door Closes, Another One Opens...
The Other Place is officially Homefull. A "Reveal Party"
was hosted by CareSource on May 19th and the new name and brandmark
were unveiled to the crowd of VIPs and partners of TOP.
Check out
the story by the Dayton Business Journal.
July 1st marked the beginning of Homefull. We hope that we make
as many good memories as Homefull as we did as The Other Place.
Our new name and rebranding more accurately reflects our
organization that has evolved from a volunteer-run daytime homeless shelter serving 20
people on its first day back in 1988 into a comprehensive continuum of services that
now serves more than 550
people each day. For more information,
click
here for a PDF for more information about Homefull.
Our new website,
homefull.org, is coming soon!
Our
1st Annual Golf Outing was a success!
On Saturday, June 26th at Heatherwoode Golf
Club, The Other Place held its 1st Annual Tee Up Fore TOP golf
fundraising event. The day commenced at 1:30 pm with a shotgun
start and included 18 holes of golf with cart, professional curbside
bag service, unlimited range use, Heatherwoode Signature Grillout Buffet
Dinner, 2 drink tickets per player, and a swag bag.
One hundred players signed up for the event
and enjoyed golfing on a beautiful Saturday at Heatherwoode for a great
cause. Click here to view
some of the photos we took at the outing.
We would like to thank all of our sponsors
for this event--without you it couldn't have been possible.
Special thanks goes out to our two signature sponsors, Fifth-Third
Processing Solutions and Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center!
We hope to see all this year's sponsors and
participants at our next golf event next year!
Thank you again for your support!
Gettysburg Gateway Micro-Farm breaks ground
The Gettysburg Gateway Micro-Farm is located on the grounds of the new
men's Gateway shelter at 1921 S. Gettysburg Ave. A collaboration
between The Other Place and
TransPlant Project,
Gettysburg Gateway Micro-Farm will:
- generate transitional employment with paying jobs, productive
skills, meaningful activity and self-esteem for the growing number of
homeless adults currently residing in our community's Gateway emergency
shelter system
- produce permanent community-based employment opportunities
post-shelter through relationships with local farmers
- yield fresh, healthy, affordable locally grown produce to the
local neighborhood and larger community where such products are in short
supply
The Gettysburg Gateway Micro-Farm was recently featured in the Dayton
Daily News. View the
article here.
To learn more about the micro-farm and follow its progress from
construction to harvest, check out our
blog!
Want to support this "ground-breaking" project?
Sign up to join the Farm2ForkFresh CSA (Community Supportive Agriculture)
online here or download
this pdf
form! The Gettysburg Gateway Micro-Farm
is just one of the local farmers who provide the fresh produce that go into
each CSA box delivered to every member each week. For more information
on the Farm2ForkFresh CSA click here.
Not sure you want to join the
CSA? You can buy produce from the Gettysburg Gateway Micro-Farm
directly at the multi-farm farm stand near you starting in mid-June
2010 DLM Good Neighbor Program
This year Dorothy Lane Market will donate $40,000 to local nonprofits
through its Good Neighbor Program. As enrolled Club DLM members
shop, all of their purchases are credited to the nonprofit of their
choice. At the end of the year, the amount credited to each
nonprofit determines the percentage of the $40,000 DLM will donate to
that nonprofit.
If you are a DLM Club member and would like to raise money for The
Other Place as you shop at DLM, you can fill out this
enrollment form and turn it in at your local DLM, or you can visit
DLM's website, insert your name, DLM Club number, and The Other
Place's charity ID number (418), then press submit. It's that
easy!
If you have previously enrolled in this program and would like to
participate again, you will need to re-enroll for 2010. Once you
have enrolled, all you need to do is spend at least $500 at DLM by the
end of the year and you will have raised some much-needed funds for TOP!

TOP's "Stimulus Package" Project
The Other Place's Homelessness
Prevention program helps low-income households who are at risk of
becoming homeless, by providing short-term financial assistance and
longer-term case management. As an incentive for our Prevention
clients to continue meeting with a case manager to help them remain
stably housed, we want to periodically offer each household a
"Stimulus Package" with nonperishable food and household
items -- to help them stretch their budget. TOP would like to
challenge the community to provide at least 60 of these packages per
month, like the one pictured here. To learn more about this new
project, including ideas for items to put in each package, view and
print our PDF
flyer or call us at (937) 293-1945.
TOPics Newsletter
The Other Place has a newsletter called TOPics to help keep our
friends informed of the progress we're making. The current issue features
information on various TOP programs and projects, including updates from
River Commons and our Opportunity Housing program
for veterans. The newsletter
is
posted online in PDF format for easy reading and printing. To read the
current issue, click
HERE.
Keys: Ending
Family Homelessness
The National Alliance to
End Homelessness, with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, has produced a video that highlights how communities
across the country are decreasing homelessness among families. To watch
the 15-minute video, click HERE.
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