REnesting needs your help!

Let us guide you through an imaginary journey that will hopefully demonstrate what it is Renesting does:

Imagine you are Avery, a 30-year-old veteran, a single parent of 3, and a domestic violence survivor. You have a minimum-wage job and have finally scraped together enough for a deposit. Today you received the keys to a modest apartment, YOUR apartment. It's a cold wintery afternoon and the sun will be setting soon. You and your children enter your home only to realize it is empty and dark: you have no lamps. A local food pantry sent you a bag of canned food and you're most grateful, but you don’t have a can opener, a pot, or plates to prepare and serve a meal. Nor a table to gather around. You say to yourself you’ll figure it out after a shower now that you have your own, private bathroom, but you realize... you don’t have a shower curtain or any towels. So you spend what little you have to order in so your family at least has dinner for the night. Now you just want to rest. But on what? You don't even have sofa cushions for a makeshift bed. And your children… how and where will you tuck them in tonight with no beds, pillows, or blankets?

Can you feel the anxiety building inside of you? This was an imaginary journey for you, but for our clients, it’s a harsh reality with no end in sight. A reality we can change with your help!

The picture above is the Renesting Board, employee, and volunteers when we did 6 Hours of Caring on KTAL, Channel 6 recently.  They are my competition. Each board member is challenged with raising more than the other board members.  Our furniture and household items may be donated; but our warehouse rent, utilities, insurance, gas, and other expenses of running day to day are not. We rely on generous money donations to cover those items. Give for Good helps our donation dollars go even farther with various contests and the Lagniappe fund. I've arranged for the first $2,000 I raise to be matched; so please help me get there!!