Executive Director’s Report January 2012
February 13th, 2012
Executive Director’s Report
January 2012
The Caring Place distributed 1,592 bags to 1,201different households in January. Each bag weighs at least 20 lbs, so that is a minimum of 30,800 lbs distributed this month alone! This food affected the lives of approximately 7,900 people!
Of the people who received food, 83% of the households found articles of clothing they needed in our display rooms. This was made possible by the 1,488 hours of volunteer service provided by 159 dedicated volunteers!
The following groups volunteered time in January:
- Cleveland High School – FCCLA (13 hrs)
- North Lee Ruritan (8 hrs)
- Trousdale School (13 hrs)
Community Involvement
- Chamber of Commerce Coffee – Christy and Reba
- Cleveland Interagency Council – Christin and Hillary
- Cleveland Media Association – Julie
- Community Advisory Board – Christin and Hillary
- Mainstreet of Cleveland – Christy Presentation
- First United Methodist Church – Men’s Breakfast – Christy and Reba
Adopt-A-Month Food Drive Participants
February 2012 food drives will be held at:
- First Presbyterian Church
- Mayfield Elementary School
- New Covenant Church of God
- Prospect Elementary School
- Stuart Elementary School
- Westmore Church of God Children’s Ministry
The following held food drives in January but were not reported:
- Aspire Orthodontics
- Hyder Hangout Quilts
- Waterville Elementary School
Ongoing food drives:
- Cooke’s Food Store
- First Church of the Nazarene
- First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
- Habitat for Humanity ReStore
- Peerless Road Church
- St. Luke’s Episcopal
- SuperSaver Cost Plus
- Westmore Church of God
- Broad Street United Methodist Church
- Coca-Cola
diaperLove
This month we distributed 21,840 diapers to 364 babies/toddlers! This program is funded by Cleveland’s own Brenda Lawson, Thank you, Brenda! What a blessing this is to our community!
Tours of The Caring Place Were Given to:
- Karina Burgueno
- Chamber of Commerce Youth Leadership
- Xiomara Collins
- Erin and Cole Crosby
- Debra Furey
- Mike Renner
- Elaine Samples
- Katrina Stone
- Rev. Lake Walker
- Wanda Wright
“Welcome” to Our Newest Volunteers
- Xiomara Collins
- Erin and Cole Crosby
- Mike Renner
- Elaine Samples
- Katrina Stone
- Wanda Wright
January Food Donors
- Anderson Kathleen
- Animal Medical Center
- Arnold Bread Company
- Aspire Orthodontics
- BI-LO – Ocoee Crossing
- Broad Street United Methodist Church
- Burgueno, Karina
- Candies Creek Baptist
- Check Into Cash – Human Resources
- Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce Youth Leadership
- Cleveland Interagency Council
- Cleveland State Community College
- Community Chapel Church of God
- Cooke’s Food Store
- Cowart, J. D.
- Cracker Barrel
- Crumly, Connie
- Distinguished Young Women of Tennessee
- Douglass, David & Carol
- Eagle Chapel Church
- Elliot, Sam
- FCA – Ocoee Region
- Fairfield Inn
- First Cumberland Presbyterian
- Goodwill Baptist Church
- Habitat for Humanity ReStore
- Kyker, Lisa
- Lee University – Bowdle Dorm
- Living Word Church
- McCulley, Eugene
- Montalvo, Cole
- Moore, Bob
- Newcomers’ Group
- New Prospect Cumberland Presbyterian
- Nolen, Mary
- Northside Presbyterian Church
- Prospect Church of God
- Red Hill Valley Farms
- Refuge Community Centre
- River Counties Assoc. of Realtors
- Saint Luke’s Episcopal
- Sara Lee
- Schroll, Arlene
- SuperSaver Cost Plus – Georgetown
- SuperSaver Cost Plus – Springplace
- Target
- Triplett, Allyson
- Vazquez, Isabel
- Wal-Mart
- West, Marissa
- Westmore Church of God – Main Campus
- Westmore Women’s Bible Study
- Westwood Farms
We are looking for opportunities to share about The Caring Place. If you or someone you know is interested in having someone from The Caring Place come to your church, Sunday school class, civic club, business, etc., please contact us at 472-4414 or via email at info@thecaringplaceonline.org.
To God Be the Glory!
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Executive Director’s Report April 2011
May 31st, 2011
The Caring Place distributed 967 bags in April. Each bag weighs at least 23 lbs, so that is a minimum of 22,241 lbs distributed in April alone! This food affected the lives of approximately 4,352 people!
Of the people who received food, 88% of the households found articles of clothing they needed in our display rooms. This was made possible by the 1,037 hours of volunteer service provided by 115 dedicated volunteers in April alone!
In addition to the above hours worked by established regular volunteers, the following groups volunteered 78 hours:
- Community Gardening Initiative
- CSCC – Baptist Collegiate Ministry
- Trousdale School
Individual Tours of The Caring Place Were Given to:
- Hope Atchley
- Cassie Bell
- Chamber of Commerce Leadership Cleveland – Adults
- Valerie Cherry
- Billie Cooley
- Pat Davis
- Rhonda Davis
- Rose Letner
- Pat Longwith
- Virginia Renee
- Dr. Gary Riggins’ class
- Arlene Robbins
- Brittany Seagrass
- Mary Beth Wiggall
“Welcome” to Our Newest Volunteers:
- Hope Atchley
- Billie Cooley
- Pat Davis
- Pat Longwith
- Virginia Renee
- Mary Beth Wiggal
April Food Donors
- Arnold Bread
- BI-LO – Ocoee Crossing
- Cleveland State Community College
- Cleveland Tubing, Inc.
- Community Chapel Church of God
- Complete Choice Bakery
- Cooke’s Food Store
- Douglass, David
- Farmland Community Church
- First Lutheran Church
- Habitat for Humanity
- Hamilton, Alice
- Iglesia Davida Maranatha
- Kraft, Jennifer
- Macedonia Baptist Church
- Mayfield Elementary School
- Newcomers’ Club
- Newby, Dana
- Northside Presbyterian Church
- Phillips, Ben
- Westmore Church of God
- Westwood Baptist
- Willis, Sandy
- Norm Wojcik
I am looking for opportunities to share about The Caring Place. If you or someone you know is interested in having me come to your church, Sunday school class, civic club, business, etc., please contact me at 472-4414 or via email at rterry@thecaringplaceonline.org
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Executive Director’s Report May 2010
October 17th, 2010
The Caring Place distributed 1078 bags in May. Each bag weighs at least 23 lbs, so that is a minimum of 24,794 lbs distributed in May! This food affected the lives of approximately 5,000 people!
Of the people who received food, 87% of the households found articles of clothing they needed in our display rooms. This was made possible by the 899 hours of volunteer service provided by 80 dedicated volunteers in May alone!
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