Welcome Fednise!

Please join us in welcoming our new AmeriCorps Project Coordinator Fednise! Fednise is heading into her junior year at Hamline University, where she is majoring in neuroscience with a minor in psychology and American Sign Language.

Fednise will serve a year with us as an AmeriCorps CapacityCorps member! Rebuilding Together CapacityCorps is a National Direct AmeriCorps program with AmeriCorps members serving 11 months at Rebuilding Together affiliates around the country. Members help improve the lives of their neighbors in need through hands-on home repairs and community outreach, while earning a living stipend and an education award to help with educational expenses.

AmeriCorps members play a critical role in our work to provide needed repairs and accessibility modifications for our neighbors in need. We are thrilled to have Fednise on our team!

The Opus Group Gives Back

We recently partnered with volunteers from The Opus Group for their Founder’s Day. Together, we made improvements to Juxtaposition Arts, a nonprofit youth art and design education center, gallery, retail shop, and artists’ studio space in North Minneapolis. In addition to the hard work of their employee-volunteers, The Opus Group also provided us with a grant that supported that project day, as well as additional work to be completed at Juxtaposition Arts. We are grateful for the long-standing support of The Opus Group!

Hook, Line, & Shelter Is in Full Swing!

Our Hook, Line, & Shelter Fishing Tournament kicked off on May 14th and fishing season is in full swing! This year, we are thrilled to have WCCO Television, Joe’s Sporting Goods, and 13 Fishing as sponsors!

This event will run through Labor Day. Fishing participation requires registration, and the proceeds will support our efforts to ensure that everyone in our community has a safe and healthy place to call home!

The tournament is open to any skill level, including a category just for kids, and we have included a pricing package that will allow the whole family to participate. For those of you who are serious anglers, there is a category for you too! The tournament runs all summer long and is as easy as sign up, catch a fish, measure it, and share the results.

Thanks to our amazing sponsors, we will have some exciting new prizes this year! Stay tuned for more information.

Register today and get all of the details at https://bit.ly/3GmlU9Q.

We hope to see you on the lake!

Shout Out to Tracie Bowman

We would like to extend a special thank you to one of our amazing volunteers, Tracie Bowman. Tracie has been volunteering regularly with us for several months, focusing primarily on supporting our Safe at Home program. For example, she recently packaged up our Safe at Home Kits, which provide much-needed safety items to older adults. These kits include a smoke detector, carbon monoxide detector, no-slip bath treads, dawn to dusk lightbulbs and nightlights, grabbers, mini-flash light, batteries, kitchen fire extinguisher, reusable masks, sanitizing wipes, and an application for Safe at Home services. We are very grateful to Tracie for her hard work and dedication!