“Join the
fight, no child goes hungry!”
"Our goal is to
re-create a stable, mixed-income community that is
safe, socially and spiritually healthy, and
economically viable."
“Together, let's be a hand up and not a hand out...”
“There’s
no greater time for the church to rise than when people
around us are faced with adversity. In times of
devastation and heartbreak, God’s grace shines bright as we
help to rebuild and restore the lives around us.”
~George Ross, Northside Christian
Church
Thank you all for your help on Serve Day 2012!!
Steven, Kristi, Lilly, Hope and Jack Wheatley
Jackie and Doug Keithley
Jack and Deb Mauzy
Cindy Spainhour
Michelle Smith
for making the day great!!!
Northside
on Oak
“I can do all things
through Christ which strengtheneth me." ~Philippians 4:13”
“Our
Purpose..”
We started in 2007 as a grass root
organization that raised $200 and 511 pairs of clean socks and
donated them to the homeless in Louisville (The Healing Place).
Since then, we have become the home of the
Hope Music Festival (an annual contemporary Christian Concert
Event to raise awareness for those in need) an impoverished citizen
and child/parent homeless advocacy program in southern Indiana and
Louisville.
Clean Socks Hope is now a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to the
forgotten community of people who remain lost in the shadows, alone
without a voice.
Our passion, purpose and focus as a group has evolved and since 2010
has focused on impoverished children (the average age for the
homeless in America is 9 years old) and their parents (almost always
a single mother with an average of 2 children to care for).
We work in partnership with dozens of
area "like thinking" missions and organizations, churches and grass
root groups (MOSAIC - Multiple Organizations Serving All In our
Community) and fund raise annually and give it all away each year -
holding back just enough to keep our bank accounts open.
We are a 100% volunteer organization with over 150 volunteers
spanning all ages, church affiliations and denominations, service
groups and socio-economic backgrounds.
Check out our Causes page on
Facebook!
cleansockshope.org © 2012
A donated pair
of socks is one of the most requested items on the streets of
America. Any one of us understands the the wonderful feeling of a
clean, new pair of socks. Donate $249.00 now!
Our goal from the beginning has been to raise awareness and
donations on behalf of those less fortunate and to provide hope
through-out our urban market.
In 2011, Clean Socks Hope began its own
development program by identifying and focusing on the
‘Midtown’ – S. Ellen Jones community in New Albany, Indiana. We
began a bi-weekly breakfast service providing a nutritious
morning meal in partnership with Northside on Oak (a community
based outreach parish of Northside Christian Church). Our goal
is to build close personal and long-term relationships and not
become engaged in politics, but to survive and thrive in spite
of them.
We compare betterment to development as:
- Betterment provides for others vs.
Development maintains the broad view and looks to enable
others to do for themselves.
- Betterment improves conditions vs.
Development strengthens potential.
- Betterment gives men fish vs.
Development teaches men how to fish and feed a community.
The ideas, programs and support of the
last 60 years have created more debt, multiple classes of
poverty and economic hardships that’s turned generations of
Americans into beggars, instead of a working class economy that
Springsteen alluded to and, “.. fed my children and made my
pay.”
“I am commanded to restore community, to
resist injustice, and to meet the needs for my brothers.”
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clean Socks Hope is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit recognized by the IRS. All donations are
tax-deductible.
An outbreak of powerful tornadoes spread across our community on
Friday, March 2. Many people and their pets are displaced by this
terrible tragedy. With your help, we can reunite pets with their
families and care for those who have lost their homes.
Check out our Hopefest Storenvy Shop today!
Can't bake, but would like to help? Beat the rush and
Donate Now!
“Join the Fight”
Check out our Wordpress Blog!
These are not ours, but (Clean Socks Hope) has adopted
them.
KEYS TO SUCCESS:
1. Never do for those in need what they have or could have the
capacity to do for themselves.
2. Limit one-way giving to emergency situations.
3. Strive to empower those in need through employment, lending and
investing, using micro grants sparingly to reinforce achievements.
4. Put self interests aside for the needs of those being served.
5. Listen closely to those who seek help. What is not being
said–unspoken feelings may contain essential clues for effective
service.
6. Above all, do no harm.
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Among the
findings reported in America's
Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness:
1 in 50 children in America are homeless.
1.5 million children are homeless each
year.
Of the 2.3 to 3.5 million Americans who are
homeless each year, 34% are families.
These numbers are likely to grow as the
economic recession worsens and escalating housing foreclosures
increase.
“Youth Poverty by the numbers in our area..”
Floyd County Youth poverty rate:
13.1% or 9,403 kids in need.
Harrison County: 6,495 or
16.5%
Clark County: 4,024 14.0%
Are we asking the right questions? As we begin
our own model of urban ministry we look to
Focus Community
Strategies who celebrates 30 years of learning in the heart of
urban Atlanta. Hear
the story of FCS from Dr. Bob Lupton, and discover how questions
shape neighborhood action. Hear from FCS directors and staff about
ways to collaborate, cut costs and join God in the city. As an urban
collective, FCS currently has thirteen diverse groups working
together within one distressed, yet beautiful neighborhood to bring
about God’s peace.
Bring your questions. Let’s learn together.
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Facebook!
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