Davie-based nonprofit HOPE Outreach Center announced that the organization has received a generous grant from Coral Gables-based Cargill Inc. and an additional matching grant from the company’s corporate division, totaling $15,000 to support the Emergency Assistance Program.
“We deeply appreciate Cargill for providing us with important funding that will provide an immediate and significant impact in helping us reach the many families and individuals who need our assistance,” said Helen Shinners, Executive Director of HOPE Outreach Center. “With their compassion, we are able to serve more people who find themselves in difficult circumstances for reasons beyond their control.”
The Emergency Assistance Program (EAP) provides services for more than 3,850 children and adults every year who are struggling to make ends meet because of job losses, disabilities, health crises, and other emergencies. Each year, 196,000 pounds of nutrition-rich food is collected and distributed to ensure children and adults don’t go hungry. The food pantry provides non-perishable foods in addition to fresh produce, recipes and store vouchers so clients can prepare healthy meals. HOPE Outreach Center also facilitates holiday food drives each year.
“We find that families and people in crisis can often return to independence, once the immediate issues have been resolved, and HOPE Outreach Center frequently serves as that financial and emotional bridge,” added Shinners.
Families receive the essential basics of food, clothing, and shelter to stabilize and strengthen families so they can emerge from crises. Additional components of the EAP include case management and counseling services, financial literacy training, senior services and partial financial assistance for housing, transportation and health care.
HOPE Outreach Center, Inc. – HOPE is an acronym for Helping Other People Every Day -- is based in Davie, Florida and the organization provides a helping hand to people who suddenly find that they cannot make ends meet. The organization offers a variety of services to help families and individuals through very trying times.
About HOPE Outreach Center, Inc.
HOPE Outreach Center, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501c (3) community organization founded in 1995. The Davie-based center offers an immediate 'hand up' to people in the community who find themselves suddenly unable to make ends meet due to: job loss, disability, health crisis, and/or some other emergency circumstance. By providing emergent financial support, food and other educational and social services, HOPE Outreach Center often serves as the financial and emotional bridge that allows families in crisis to return to self-reliance and independence quickly and comfortably.
The HOPE Outreach Center has a small staff and a large volunteer force, who serve approximately 100 families per week. HOPE Outreach touches the lives of over 6,000 adults and children annually living in our communities. The organization is fueled almost entirely by private contributions (75%) and through the hard-work of a dedicated Board of Directors, staff and more than 200 active volunteers.
Last year alone, the HOPE (an acronym for ‘Helping Other People Everyday) Outreach Center provided 100 tons of food to our neighbors in Broward County. In addition to the HOPE Center’s food pantry, through the last 20 years HOPE Outreach has also offered local families a variety of programs and services including an after-school enrichment program for children of low income families, elderly companionship and visitation, social services, emergency financial support, as well as assistance in applying for public benefits.
