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Newsletter for November 2024




We Need Your Support!


Help Solve the Challenge of Homelessness in Tucson


Our non-profit organization, The Homing Project, is 100% volunteer run. 

We thank you, all of you who have contributed so far, and thanks too, to our hardworking volunteers.

 

We need your generous gifts to raise awareness and help us open the first Homing Project village in the first half of 2025, near Glenn and Stone, to begin housing unhoused individuals here in Tucson.


The Homing Project is a 501(c)3 non-profit that qualifies for receiving charitable donations under federal tax law, including Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) that count towards Required Minimum Distribution
from IRAs held by people who are 70
½ or more years of age.

Our project will not be an "Arizona qualifying charity" until we have clients move in.


The First Village

The Pallet-64 micro-shelters are purchased and ready to be assembled once the location site work is complete.  A donation of any amount supporting our village is appreciated.  Below is a list of specific needs. We need your help to purchase start-up items and/or provide ongoing monthly support to ensure we maintain a smooth operation.   


One time purchase support needed for a January 2025 opening of the village:

  • $1000 each from 110 people, church congregations, or civic/social groups to for site preparation, including leveling, sidewalks, and parking lot

  • $200 for a commercial grade six-slice toaster

  • $300 each from thirteen donors to purchase micro-shelter AC units
  • $600 each from eight donors to purchase the shipping container for the kitchen
  • $1,000 each from fifteen donors to purchase a shelter for the dining area 
  • $1,000 each from five donors to purchase paving, fans, and heaters for the dining area
  • $2,000 each from ten donors to wire, outfit, and finish the kitchen
  • $2,000 each from two donors to purchase commercial washing machines

Ongoing Monthly Support Needed:

  • $50 to purchase cleaning and laundry supplies
  • $100 to purchase food for one resident
  • $100 to pay for electricity for one resident’s micro-shelter
  • $200 to pay for one eight-hour shift of security staff time

 

Please be generous in supporting our unhoused Tucson neighbors as we work together to bridge the current economic and social gaps separating them from safe and dignified living. 


Raising Awareness


The Homing Project is sponsoring an author at the Tucson Festival of Books.

Kevin Adler, co-author of When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the  Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America, will be at our booth during the Tucson Festival of Books, March 15 and 16, 2025.  Kevin will be autographing his book, a thorough analysis of America’s homelessness crisis and a research-based, solutions-focused guide to ending it.  We will have his book for sale at the booth.  We also plan to host an event in April for Kevin to speak. 


Support Needed:

  • $2,600 to pay for travel and housing expenses for Kevin and his wife to be at Tucson Festival of Books 
  • $1,500 to pay for the April speaking event space.  Exact date TBD.
  • $1,000 to pay for event advertising


Interested in hosting a fundraising event for the Homing Project?

Interested in having a Homing Project speaker and/or a demonstration micro-shelter to present at an event for your group, church, or neighborhood?

Please contact us at info@thehomingproject.org 

 


    


 

Tucson Festival of Books


March 15 & 16, 2025, on the University of Arizona Campus


See the  THP activities at TFoB under Raising Awareness, above.



 

Meeting Dates


Month            Board        Volunteers


Nov 2024        20th            30th


Dec 2024        18th            21st


Jan 2025        22nd            25th


Feb 2025        19th            22nd



Board Meetings convene at Kris Olson’s home at 5:30 PM. Volunteers are welcome to attend.


Volunteer Meetings are held at 10 AM at St. Phillips in the Hills, in the Children’s Chapel Room.  Join us to plan new, & discuss past, events.






The Homing Project Newsletter

Joe Vaughan and Phyllis Thacker produced this month’s newsletter. 

Email suggestions of items for inclusion to: newsletter@thehomingproject.org

Our email address is: newsletter@thehomingproject.org

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