we celebrate you! - Boulder Shelter for the Homeless

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W E C E L E B R AT E YO U !
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And we celebrate your support, and the power it has
to impact the people we serve.
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Yo u a l l o w p r o g r a m s t o c o n t i n u e , r e s u l t s t o h a p p e n , l i v e s t o t h r i v e ,
and stories to be told. Like this one...
He Felt Like a Person
An elderly man named Bruce who had been
living on the streets for many, many years
was accepted as part of the original group
of individuals who moved into 1175 Lee Hill
when it first opened in 2014.
According to his case managers he lived his
life unapologetically—accepting their support most days, at times refusing to accept
what they had to offer, but always with a
smile and a joke. He was an important member of the community at Lee Hill, even more
so within the homeless population at large
within the city.
Bruce passed away in December shortly after
having a stroke. The night before, during his
case manager’s last visit, Bruce was improbably but thankfully at peace, and said that
he was content and happy. He was grateful
for the friendship and support of his case
manager, and smiled and said, “I’ll see you
later kid.”
After Bruce died quietly in his sleep, his case
manager said, “When he was homeless he
was broken and angry and would lash out. By
the time he passed away, having lived his last
year indoors in his own apartment,
he felt like a person. Nobody can
take that away from him again.”
He did not die alone
and homeless,
and he will not
be forgotten.
Housing First is a programmatic approach
designed to help chronically homeless
individuals move quickly off the streets or out
of the shelter system into permanent housing,
accompanied by case management and
support services.
1175 Lee Hill, a Housing First facility,
is operated by Boulder Housing Partners
with case management services
provided by the Boulder Shelter for the
Homeless, and provides 31 permanent
supportive housing units to chronically
homelessness individuals.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
JEFF KAHN, PRESIDENT
DIRECTOR’S DIALOGUE
Attorney
ANN GETCHES, VICE-PRESIDENT
Retired Business Owner
BETTY HOYE, TREASURER
CPA and Realtor
JACK GIPPLE, SECRETARY/RECORDER
Psychotherapist
RUTH CORNFELD BECKER
Deputy Boulder County Attorney
DARRELL BILLINGTON
Secondary Educator,
Fairview High School
JIM CARLSON
COO, Acustream Inc.
BENITA DURAN
Program Director,
Denver Public Schools
MARK GOOSMAN
JEFF HOFFMEYER
Pastor
CATHERINE BEAN
Developer, Element Properties
The Boulder Shelter ended
its 2015 fiscal year on
September 30th, 2015. In
FY2015, because of your
investment, the Shelter was
able to provide over 40,000
bed-nights of shelter and
over 93,000 hot meals to
1,300 men and women in need. These results
would not have been possible without the
1,000+ volunteers who gave of their time and
the more than 3,000 donors who gave from
their bank accounts.
One of the highlights of the Shelter’s 2015
fiscal year was the opening of 1175 Lee Hill.
In partnership with Boulder Housing Partners,
31 chronically homeless adults moved into this
new facility over the course of five days just
before Thanksgiving in 2014. This apartment
building offers permanent housing, with on-site
support, for those who have been chronically
homeless, are highly vulnerable and have some
form of disability. We are very excited to have
31 vulnerable people off the streets for good.
Last year, the Shelter also invested significant
energy into working with our sister agencies,
Bridge House and BOHO to better coordinate
our services. The results of this work so far
have been greater program integration and the
merging of client lists. This work continues with
the end goal of greater positive outcomes for
our clients.
Again, none of this would be possible without
the generous support from people like you.
Your continued support helps to make all
of these services for the less fortunate a reality.
Thank you.
Greg Harms, Executive Director
MATT ROAN
Director of Specialty Banking, EVP
Vectra Bank Colorado
SCOTT ROBBINS
Housing Consultant
ARDIE SEHULSTER
Retired HUD Official
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
The 2015 Financials ★ ★ ★
W E C E L E B R AT E YO U !
Yo u a l l o w p r o g r a m s t o c o n t i n u e ,
results to happen, lives to thrive, and stories to be told…
GREG HARMS
In 2015, here’s where our funding came from:
Executive Director
In 2015, here’s how we spent our funding:
MICHAEL BLOCK
Director, Programs
TRAVIS RAILEY
Director, Development & Marketing
MIKE RAUER
Director, Facilities
WAYNE AGRAZ
Controller
TIFFANY S.
Manager, Volunteers
JANET M.
Manager, Transitional Housing
CECILY W.
Corporate Gifts and Events
Other
Private Sources $102,136
Expenses:
$65,556
Administrative
217,415.36
«REVENUE
Fundraising
207,892.18
12%
12%
Shelter Programs
1,362,069.14
76% $2,024,900
Total
Total Expenses
1,787,376.68
100%
United Way
$32,277
Foundation
Grants
$273,366
Individual Gifts
$800,730
In addition, over $113, 000 worth of inkind donations - Government
including food, Grants
blankets, towels, toiletries and other
$737,698
supplies - was generously
donated to
the Shelter by the community in 2011.
EXPENSES
Total $2,014,319
Administrative
$250,593
Fundraising
$214,957
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Shelter Programs
$1,548,768
Faith Community
Gifts • $13,136
Manager, Boulder County Cares
CHRIS BYRNE
Manager, Housing First
CAROLINE GOOSMAN
Manager, Donor Outreach & Events
KELLI MURPHY
Manager, Grants
MARYBETH BANNON
Manager, Kitchen
$107,184 worth of in-kind donations—including food, blankets, towels,
toiletries, and other supplies—was generously donated by you in 2015.
33of years
service in our community.
The mission of the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless is to
provide safe shelter, food, support services, and an avenue
to self-sufficiency for homeless adults in our community.
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Under Our Roof
April 2016
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[ staff profile ]
Marybeth
Kitchen Manager
Why do you work at the Shelter?
For the challenge of it! I was very intrigued at my
first interview. Feeding over 350 people daily with an
extremely limited budget is the biggest challenge I have
ever faced. My 30 years in hospitality were primarily in
fine dining and catering. While the similarities between
that and my work at the Shelter may seem to be few,
food is still the common denominator. We all eat, and sometimes at
the Shelter it could be the best part of someone’s day. How many
people can say that about their job?
What are your daily responsibilities?
Many and varied...
Creating recipes and cooking instructions for volunteers who are
preparing meals. Working with Program Staff to coordinate a clean
and organized kitchen. Supervising volunteers who assist with
daily kitchen prep. Overseeing proper storage of donations and
deliveries. Supervising corporate groups that use our facility for
team building exercises. Making awesome soups!
What exceptional challenges and opportunities
have you discovered in your work here?
My daily challenge is “what’s for dinner”? We get 90% of our food
donations from Community Food Share. I order once a week, and
then when the truck is unloaded the fun begins! Comfort food
probably bests describes the “style” of our menus. Dinner will
typically consist of soup, salad, protein, vegetable, starch, dessert
and milk. Breakfasts have some combination of eggs, hash browns,
pancakes, oatmeal, whole or canned fruit, yogurt, pastries, coffee,
milk and juice. I always use fresh ingredients before opening
cans, but the reality is we open a LOT of cans at the Shelter. I look
forward to my shopping trips to CFS—they give me some creative
freedom to prepare the best meals I can out of our extremely
limited resources.
What do you like to do for fun?
I watch a lot of cooking shows! I love to entertain, and am looking
forward to my daughter’s upcoming wedding. My more traditional
schedule at the Shelter allows for free nights, weekends and
holidays, never a possibility in the restaurant world! Hiking
our beautiful state, spending time outdoors with family and
my dog, Buddy!
[ volunteer profile ]
The “Three Amigos” of Thursday breakfast
How long have you been volunteering at the Shelter and
in which volunteer positions have you participated?
For the past five plus years, Jay, Girish and Mark have been serving
up a wonderful breakfast at the Shelter every Thursday morning.
Mark also prepares and serves dinner on Monday nights during
the winter season and has done several shifts with BCC over the
past four years. Girish serves dinner once every month.
What inspired you to volunteer at the Shelter?
We each enjoy helping folks, and the homeless population is not only
in need but is also hugely appreciative of whatever help they receive.
The Shelter is also an “easy” place to work as the rules are clear and
limited, and the staff is very respectful of the volunteers.
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To (just some of our) friends,
new and old...
THANK YOU
for all the ways you’ve touched
the lives of those we serve.
★ Barnsley Tire Co.
★ Bellock Construction, Inc.
★ Black Roofing, Inc.
★ Cain Travel
★ Colorado Business Bank
★ Colson-Quinn Attorneys
★ Conscious Coffees
★ Cook & Pagano, P.C.
★ Covidien-Medtronic
★ Daily Camera
★ Deuce Entertainment
★ DigitalGlobe
★ Diversified Radiology
★ Eldorado Natural Spring Water
★ Emerson/Micro Motion Inc.
★ EVOL
★ Faegre, Baker, & Daniels
★ First Western Trust Bank
★ Fisher KIA
★ Gondolier Italian Eatery
★ Google
★ Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant
★ Hospira Boulder, a Pfizer Company
★ Level 3 Communications
★ Lucky’s Market
★ Millenium Harvest House
★ Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery
★ MoveInSuccess.com
★ North Boulder Dental Group
★ Northrop Grumman Corporation
★ Pasta Jay’s
★ Pollard Jeep
★ Posh Splat, LLC
★ Qualcomm, Inc.
★ Savory Cuisines
★ Seagate Technologies
★ St. Julien Hotel & Spa
★ Terry Chiropractic
★ Walnut Brewery
★ Xilinx
WISH LIST
The people w
ho come to th
e
Boulder Shelte
r ever yday have
many needs. Be
low are some
of the things w
e require in
order help mee
t those needs.
Sleeping Bags
Large Coats
Hats
Gloves
Socks
Soap
Towels
Cough Drops (n
on alcoholic)
Cold Medicine
(non alcoholic
)
Canned Veggie
s
Tylenol
Coffee
Sugar
Cooking Oil
Please visit ou
r website,
www.boulders
helter.org,
for our complet
e wish list.
“The satisfaction I get from knowing that I am helping
people in need is immeasurably more valuable to
me than $25 a month.”—Mike S., Shelter monthly donor
Has anything surprised you about volunteering at the
Shelter? If so, what?
What has surprised each of us is how courteous and thankful
the residents are. There has not been a breakfast over the
past five plus years that we have not had multiple guests
thank us for our efforts. It’s a wonderful way to start the day.
What is your favorite story or interaction from your time
volunteering at the Shelter?
Hard to pick just one story, so here are two... We see many
of the same folks every week so we have the opportunity
to get to know many of them. When they get a job or an
apartment we are able to share a bit in their excitement
and joy—which is really cool. And, every time a new
volunteer has that “moment” when they realize the face of
homelessness isn’t exactly what they expected - It is at that
moment our community takes one step closer to increasing
its compassion for, and understanding of, the people we
serve here at the Shelter.
April 2016
We invite you to become a member of the Home Team, the Boulder
Shelter monthly giving program. You’ll be part of a winning team, a
special dedicated group of loyal Shelter supporters, and an integral
part of the Boulder Shelter’s mission - saving and changing lives
every day.
The Home Team was born from the idea that just as we encourage
the people we work with to focus on building a positive future,
we too try to continually be forward thinking in our planning.
With your investment in the Shelter, you will help us to do that.
In addition to being an easy and affordable way for you to make
a positive impact in the lives of homeless individuals, recurring
gifts provide the Shelter with an extra level of certainty as we move
forward in our efforts to reach more individuals that need our help.
Simply put, your monthly gift will represent the kind of help that just
doesn’t give up - and the kind of help that can deliver a better life for
so many.
It’s easy to set up. On our website, just touch the “Donate Now”
button and select “Monthly recurring gift” under “Type of Gift.”
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“Our Adopt a Night sponsorship
is so important to us.... We continue
the legacy of our parents who taught
us to help others in need. And we
are able to send notes of gratitude to
friends, clients and colleagues
to let them know we sponsor the
Shelter on their behalf.”
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- Colson Quinn, Attorneys at Law
W E C E L E B R AT E YO U ! ★
Every night this winter, up to 160 homeless people will call the Boulder
Shelter home. You have the power to make available a night of safety, warmth
and food for them!
Your gift of $487 will help us provide a warm, clean bed and two hot,
nutritious meals for 160 people in need. In addition, you will be recognized
as the sponsor for a particular winter night of your choosing.
There are 212 nights in our winter sheltering season. By filling up our
calendar, you will raise $103,244 to help the Shelter provide much needed
services for the homeless in our community.
Please consider adding your name to the Shelter’s Adopt-a-Night calendar
and reap the satisfaction that you are offering life saving services to those
less fortunate. It’s easy to do. On our website, just touch the “Donate
Now” button and select “Adopt a Night”.
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