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Fletcher Place Community Center has been a source of HOPE for the last 150+ years. Join us as we embark on our "Hope Starts Here" Annual Campaign with a goal of raising $250,000 to support our programs. With a focus on breaking the cycle of poverty, we have prioritized early childhood education. Enhancing that focus, we have determined that wrapping those families in comprehensive services is key to their success. All this while staying true to our mission of feeding the hungry. We are still feeding, clothing, and providing basic needs to the unhoused and all neighbors in need. Families receiving our early education scholarships are experiencing hunger, which underscores the broader challenges they face beyond educational needs.
Poverty is a thief. It deprives children of what they need to live, grow and thrive. It prevents children and adults alike from having dreams and aspirations of a better future. It steals their HOPE. Together, through supporting our programs, we have the power to restore HOPE and help families break free from the cycle of poverty.
Join us over the next 10 weeks on a journey of sharing our successes, learning more about our needs, and how with your support we can build HOPE and expand our reach even further.
Our journey will culminate at the Tailgate and Celebrate event on Thursday, September 12th as we come together to celebrate a successful campaign.
Poverty is a thief. It deprives children of what they need to live, grow and thrive. It prevents children and adults alike from having dreams and aspirations of a better future. It steals their HOPE. Together, through supporting our programs, we have the power to restore HOPE and help families break free from the cycle of poverty.
Join us over the next 10 weeks on a journey of sharing our successes, learning more about our needs, and how with your support we can build HOPE and expand our reach even further.
Our journey will culminate at the Tailgate and Celebrate event on Thursday, September 12th as we come together to celebrate a successful campaign.
Education
With the knowledge that education is the best tool to break the cycle of poverty, FPCC has been expanding our REACH Early Learning (EL) program. REACH EL is an affordable, diverse Paths to Quality Level 3 early learning program for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. REACH EL offers opportunities for scholarships to children while supporting their parents to gain valuable education and training in alignment the 2Gen Poverty model in partnership with Southeast Community Services (SECS) Center for Working Families. Having REACH EL housed within FPCC allows us to provide our immediate need services to families creating a supportive “family village” that aids in breaking the cycle of poverty.
With the knowledge that education is the best tool to break the cycle of poverty, FPCC has been expanding our REACH Early Learning (EL) program. REACH EL is an affordable, diverse Paths to Quality Level 3 early learning program for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. REACH EL offers opportunities for scholarships to children while supporting their parents to gain valuable education and training in alignment the 2Gen Poverty model in partnership with Southeast Community Services (SECS) Center for Working Families. Having REACH EL housed within FPCC allows us to provide our immediate need services to families creating a supportive “family village” that aids in breaking the cycle of poverty.
Hunger
Staying true to our mission to ease the burden of low to moderate income individuals who struggle with life's basic needs, FPCC has maintained our immediate need programs of providing hot meals, sack meals, food pantry, free thrift store and free produce from the community garden. We also recognize that our students and their families on scholarship at REACH EL are hungry. We provide breakfast, lunch, and snack as well as access to all our immediate need services.
Staying true to our mission to ease the burden of low to moderate income individuals who struggle with life's basic needs, FPCC has maintained our immediate need programs of providing hot meals, sack meals, food pantry, free thrift store and free produce from the community garden. We also recognize that our students and their families on scholarship at REACH EL are hungry. We provide breakfast, lunch, and snack as well as access to all our immediate need services.
Building Maintenance/Staff Empowerment
Maintaining world class programming takes well maintained facilities. A recent grant to expand early learning seats allowed us to not only create new classrooms but update our current ones as well as address crucial building maintenance with a much-needed new roof and HVAC system. World class programs also take a fairly compensated and trained staff. We have been dedicated to ensuring our staff receive living wages, expanding benefits and providing training opportunities.
Hope Starts with You
All of this important work takes financial support. We are asking you to join the Hope Starts Here Annual Campaign to support scholarships, immediate need programs, and operating costs. In reaching our goal of $250,000, we will provide HOPE in the following ways:
Maintaining world class programming takes well maintained facilities. A recent grant to expand early learning seats allowed us to not only create new classrooms but update our current ones as well as address crucial building maintenance with a much-needed new roof and HVAC system. World class programs also take a fairly compensated and trained staff. We have been dedicated to ensuring our staff receive living wages, expanding benefits and providing training opportunities.
Hope Starts with You
All of this important work takes financial support. We are asking you to join the Hope Starts Here Annual Campaign to support scholarships, immediate need programs, and operating costs. In reaching our goal of $250,000, we will provide HOPE in the following ways:
- $200,000 in annual scholarship support to qualified families, creating HOPE for a better future.
- $35,000 in immediate needs support, creating HOPE for those living in poverty, knowing they have a place to get their next meal.
- $15,000 in operating support, creating HOPE for our staff knowing they have access to resources to carry out our mission.
Help Us Create Hope!
