3.16.11
COMPASSION NASHVILLE - TRANSITIONAL FAMILY HOME SPONSOR-A-ROOM PROGRAMS
Our Compassion Nashville Project for reaching out and helping children and families is just beginning. We recently took in our first family and will have at least 28 more rooms available for children and families who have been displaced from their homes.
Sophia's Heart is currently offering a number of different sponsorship opportunities and levels for you or your company to support this exciting new project!
Compassion Nashville Project Sponsorship Levels | $50,000 Sponsorship - Family Room/Common Living Area | $50,000 Sponsorship - Computer Lab/Classroom | $16,000 Sponsorship to Sponsor/Support One Family | $12,000 Sponsorship to Prepare Each Room | Other Items Needed | - Fix the room, floors, walls, and paint the room to prepare the room to be a common living area for all resident families
- Couches
- Sofa Tables
- Chairs and tables
- TV
- Artwork
- Family counseling offices
- Volunteer office and service office
- Family meeting area for group classes, such as life skills and financial budgeting
- Decorations
Upon sponsorship, a plaque is placed beside the door to the room with your name and a statement of dedication or recognition.
| - Tables
- Desks
- Chairs
- Computers
- Teacher's Desk and Chair
- Network Connections
- Projector and screen
- White Board
- Book Shelves
- File cabinets
- Fix the room, floors, wall and paint
Upon sponsorship, a plaque is placed beside the door to the room with your name and a statement of dedication or recognition. | - $90 per day
- includes meals and housing for a family of four
- Clothing
- Future move out items
- bedding
- kitchen items
- etc.
- Counseling services for:
- Job training
- Life skills
- Financial planning
Your sponsorship will help change the life of a family in need. Sophia's Heart will provide you updates on how the family is doing in our program and how your sponsorship has helped each family get back on their feet.
Upon sponsorship, a plaque is placed beside the door to the room with your name and a statement of dedication or recognition. | - Full size bed
- Sofa/daybed/bunkbeds
- Sofa Table
- Dresser
- TV
- New bedding for every bed, (including matching linens, new pillows and comforters)
- New towel sets for each member of the family
- Bath mats, shower curtain, curtain rod
- Alarm clocks
- Table Lamps (2)
- Curtains/blinds
- Flooring
- Clean-up, paint and fix each room to feel like a home
- Fix and clean bathroom walls
Upon sponsorship, a plaque is placed beside the door to the room with your name and a statement of dedication or recognition. | - Roof-Top air conditioner unit to be replaced - $30,000
- Cooling tower - $30,000
- Roof repairs - $30,000
Your sponsorship for these items will allow Sophia's Heart to support more children and families by allowing us to open up more rooms for families in need.
Upon sponsorship, a plaque is placed beside the door to the room with your name and a statement of dedication or recognition.
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For more information about our sponsorship opportunities please contact Sophia's Heart click here.
3.15.11
COMPASSION NASHVILLE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING SUPPLY NEEDS
As Sophia's Heart prepares to increase the intake of families in our Transitional Housing program, we will be in need of new furniture and linens to prepare the rooms for the forthcoming families. You may help us meet this need by donating or purchasing any of the items on the following list. For more information please contact us at 800.595.6269 or at info@sophiasheart.org.
Transitional Housing Program Wish List | Qty | Items Needed | | 56 | Dressers | | 56 | Closets | | 28 | Full-size beds with mattresses | | 28 | Bunk beds with mattresses | | 56 | Full-size sheet sets (flat sheet, fitted sheet & two pillowcases) | | 56 | Full-size blankets or comforters | | 112 | Twin-size sheet sets (flat sheet, fitted sheet & one pillow case) | | 112 | Twin-size blankets or comforters | | 112 | Pillows | | 224 | Towel sets (bath towel, face towel & wash cloths) | | 28 | Blow dryers | | 40 | Hair brushes | | 150 | Under the bed storage boxes |
3.09.11
COMPASSION NASHVILLE HELP
Sophia's Heart is looking for volunteers to help assist with our new Compassion Nashville Facility in the East Nashville area. If you are interested in lending a helping hand to our efforts please download a Volunteer Application today. See below for some of the current available volunteer positions.
Sophia's Heart Compassion Nashville Volunteer Task List | Volunteer Task | Volunteers Needed | Time Required | Inventory paint supply in warehouse:
*Create one completely empty shelf / cabinet
*For each can, put following info on label - Color
- Location used in building
- Date inventoried
- Original purchase date
| 2 | 8 hours | | Collect paint tools into one location | 1 | 4 hours | | Remove green cabinets from dining area | 2 | 16 hours | | Create dream servicing station | 2 | 4 hours | Hang LCD flat screen monitor in lobby - Put DVD in place
- Get DVD to scroll
| | | | Find, buy and replace emergency push-button for refrigerator | 1 | 8 hours | | Remove and dispose of contents in Mechanical Room storage area | 4 | 4 hours | | Sand wallpaper glue residue from walls | 4 | 8 hours | | Investigate water leaks on roof | | | | Investigate water leaks in rooms around heater/ac and windows | | |
Sophia's Heart Compassion Nashville Program Volunteer Needs | Housing Oversight | Oversee the building and residents. Answer phones and accept donations.
Days: Saturday & Sunday from 9 am - 1 pm or 1 pm - 5 pm; Wednesday night from 5 pm - 9 pm | | Weekday Receptionist | Answering the phone, greeting people when they arrive at the office and light computer work (computer skills are not required, we are happy to train).
Days: Monday - Friday 8:30 am - 4 pm | | Childcare | Watching kids of the residents while parents are taking classes through our program.
Days: Monday - Thursday 6:30 pm - 9 pm; Friday 6:30 pm - 10 pm | | Tutors | Help children in subject areas as needed and assisting with daily homework
Days: Monday - Thursday 7 pm - 9 pm |
3.01.11
A GLIMPSE AT SOPHIA'S HEART COMPASSION NASHVILLE
Hello, my name is Preston Evans and I am the facility manager and program director of the new Sophia’s Heart of Compassion Nashville Facility (SHCN). Please allow me to provide a glimpse of our fledgling facility and our vision.
Once known as the Miller clinic, this 70,000 square foot building eventually became the Nashville Rehabilitation Hospital before Danny ultimately received a phone call asking if he would desire the donation of this facility to Sophia’s Heart. Although we were hunting for a modest building to house our programs, he took a leap of faith and said “yes” to the generous offer of this very large facility. From Day One, Danny told us to prepare for obstacles, the “giants in the land” and we have had our share. But we have been working nonstop with results; things are progressing and we trust that help is on the way. I’m proud of our ambitious goals, and would like to fill you in on what we are trying to accomplish. At this early stage we have four primary goals. - Taking care of our tenant, so they can care for others. We have one independent tenant: They are a nonprofit in-patient treatment facility. Their own nursing staff services their eight rooms (fifteen beds) which occupy their own separate area. This section is segregated by dedicated doors and security cameras.
- Take care of families in need of temporary housing. Nashville has 2,177 homeless children in the school systems that need help. In addition to providing safe housing, Sophia’s Heart of Compassion will strive to offer families life and job skill training, as well as a chance to network through our volunteer forces. Although we have a staff of housekeepers, security and food service professionals to help with these goals, we need thousands of dollars and many volunteers to show up and help us clean and prepare our thirty unfurnished family rooms, as well as assist with curriculum planning and staffing. Our first family has already moved in, and we are starting to prepare for the next!
- A core goal of Sophia’s Heart has always been to enrich the lives of disadvantaged children with music and arts programs. We are excited about starting a Sophia’s Heart choir and dance team in East Nashville. If they are half as accomplished as the Milwaukee and Antioch teams they will be a hit! Although such a large facility offers financial and physical challenges for maintenance, it provides much opportunity to develop spaces for separate tenor, alto and soprano choir rooms, as well as a dance studio. Danny, Ivan Santiago and Mr. Talkbox Byron are in the process of planning special events for East Nashville Middle School students.
- Expand and develop our volunteer program to enrich the East Nashville community. We wish to continue encouraging people from all different walks of life to get involved and feed their passion to help others. A few burgeoning ideas are: outdoor Summer Jazz concerts, neighborhood cleanup days, developing a neighborhood gymnasium with aerobics, running and walking groups, boot camp, weightlifting, and of course our annual Christmas Bike Drive. We have exciting ideas for future events-all right here in the new SHCN facility! Yes, we have ambitious goals, but just remember- with your support this past year along with the help of 400 volunteers we were able to provide flood relief to 1500 people right here in Nashville.
My personal vision in 2011 is to add 1000 new volunteers, raise $1,000,000 and reach 10,000 people in Nashville. We really need your help to make this happen. I encourage you to get involved financially and/or as a volunteer. The facility will cost SHCN $60,000 per month maintenance when it is fully operational. We need volunteers; even if you are not in Nashville email us if you are interested in fundraising, planning, or however you might wish to help. Please stop in and visit us when you are in the area! Thank you for all you do. Onward and upward for Sophia’s Heart-great things ahead!
2.02.11
IN THE MEDIA: SOPHIA'S HEART FACILITY IN NASHVILLE
Danny Gokey could hardly contain his excitement as he took guests on a whirlwind tour of the new Sophia's Heart facility in Nashville on Tuesday (February 1st). The 77,000-square foot building will be the base for his Compassion Nashville project.
"We just put our first homeless family here this week," Danny told The Boot. "Our goal is to not just provide them housing but give them programs that help them to return as a viable part of the community."
Among the programs for adults that Sophia's Heart will offer are GED tutoring and life skills, including financial training and how to approach finding a job. The facility will also off a variety of after-school music and arts programs for children from the surrounding community, including contemporary dance, audio & video recording, engineering classes, fashion design and choir.
Click HERE for the full story.
5.17.10
SOPHIA'S HEART FOUNDATION OPENS NASHVILLE FLOOD RELIEF CENTER
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