Project: The Madison County Domestic Violence Shelter aka "A Friend's House' provides safe, undisclosed housing for women and children who have left an abusive relationship. They have families come through the Shelter on a constant basis and are always in need of furniture and/or household and personal items to assist them in going out on their own.
Madison County Realty Association raised $700.00 and additional funds from CBR for a total of $1200 for our project. We rented a storage facility for one year to help with the overflow of storage of furniture for the Shelter's victims. We spent the $700.00 on personal/household items, which we put together as 'care baskets' for 20 families to assist in their transition from the Shelter. We organized a furniture drive and on June 5th we had shifts scheduled for volunteers to be at the storage facility for drop offs. Other volunteers put together the care baskets.
Volunteers:
Michelle Anders, Real Living, Anders & Associates, President, Madison County Area Realty Association and RCD Project Manager
Rachel Berkshire, Wells Fargo
Karen Bowling, Real Living-Anders
Darlene Clark, Dillion Realty
Liz Finchum, Remax Team Advantage
Richard Flax, Midland Title
Kevin Flax, Midland Title
Travis Fling, Merchants Bank
Rick Forrest, The Madison Press
Phil Gilliam, Prudential Calhoon
Dianna Hay, Huntington Bank
Keli Howard, Real Living-Anders
Debbie Karns, Real Living-Anders
Alicia Pullin, Real Living-Anders
Rick Ralston, Ralston Home Inspections
Julie Stage, Real Living - Anders & Associates Special Thanks to our committee chairs:
Rachel Berkshire, Wells Fargo & Karen Bowling, Real Living-Anders -- shopping for all of the products.
Sandy Cunningham, Strategic Mortgage -- correspondence for our Project.
Dianna Hay, Huntington Bank -- creating and distributing poster
Julie Stage, Real Living-Anders -- research of storage facilities and rental arrangements as well as hauling all of my items there. Press releases for the events.
Additional thank you: Karen Bowling -- toothbrush and tooth paste for baskets
Rick Forrest -- press coverage
Keli Howard -- furniture donation
Midland Title -- $200, which we used to purchase 40 towels & 16 packs of diapers
Alicia Pullin -- furniture donation
Rick Ralston -- gas cards
RE/MAX Team Advantage -- donation of flashlights, batteries, light bulbs & dishtowels
Julie Stage -- donation of various Avon products
Studio 42 -- free haircut vouchers
Target -- donation of personal products
Wall-to-Wall Storage -- discounted rental of storage unit
BOLD = RCD Project Coordinator and/or Area Realty Association President
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