2023 MATCHING GIFT CHALLENGE
Help us raise $400,000 this year!
A generous group of partners have recently given $200,000 as a dollar-for-dollar matching gift challenge to BHITC’s supporters! If you haven’t given yet to FLOURISH, now is the time! If you have already contributed, please consider making another gift this year to meet this match!
Flourish: Expanding Welcome at The Hope Center
Creating a Place That Communicates Dignity and Hope
OUR GOAL:
Communities where people are valued and understood help generate greater resilience. That’s why over the next four years FLOURISH will invest more than $700,000 in The Hope Center.
INVESTMENT NEEDED:
$720,000
INVESTED AS FOLLOWS:
$500,000 for staffing and Program Expansions at the Hope Center.
$220,000 for facility renovations.
Work for the well-being of the city where I have sent you to and pray to the Lord for this. For if it is well with the city you live in, it will be well with you.
Jeremiah 29:7
As of April 2023, we have already raised $4.4 million
of the $6 million goal for the Flourish campaign
Download Flourish campaign brochure
Flourish at Home
OUR GOAL: Create affordable, supportive homes for families in Stockyards. Contribute to erasing blight and tangibly restore hope to city neighborhoods.
INVESTMENT NEEDED:
$3,800,0000
Flourish through Work
OUR GOAL: Give opportunity, dignity and employment to our neighbors by expanding social enterprise ventures; equip small business entrepreneurs with coaching, learning and support to help them succeed.
INVESTMENT NEEDED:
$1,200,000
Jewel
“When I visited The Hope Center after graduation, I could not believe there was now a place that had all of the resources refugees need,” says Jewel Yokie, The Hope Center’s Family and Career Development Manager.
Jewel first met our team as a 7-year-old refugee from Liberia. Despite her English skills, the adjustment was difficult. Through BHITC’s tutoring program, where she met other refugee kids and amazing volunteers, her “fear turned into confidence.”
The seeds planted during those years led to a college degree for Jewel and a desire to serve the refugee community. She now leads its career program, connecting newcomers to resources and sharing her own story for encouragement. “Working at THC has helped me connect with my community again. What better job could I ask for?,” says Jewel.
