The REALTORS® Community Foundation (RCF) is pleased to announce the 2022 grantees! The following organizations were voted on by the Boise Regional REALTORS® membership, and the Foundation will be supporting them throughout the year with its fundraising and community service efforts:
Program/Project Name: City Light Home for Women and Children
Description: BRMM’s City Light Home for Women and Children (City Light) provides a range of services for low-income and homeless women and children to help them return to the community as healthy, employed, self-sufficient, individuals filled with hope and equipped with the appropriate life skills to manage future challenges. The programs and services offered at City Light include the Emergency Services Program, Work Search Program (85% success rate), New Life Program (long-term addiction recovery), Transitional Housing Program, Veterans Ministries Program (89% success rate) and comprehensive Children’s Program for homeless children and youth that addresses all developmental needs.
Organization Mission: Boise Rescue Mission Ministries reaches out to the community by teaching the Word of God and providing food, shelter, clothing and opportunities to recover from homelessness for men, women, and children in need.
Website: boiserm.org
Program/Project Name: Taking Root (Rapid Rehousing of Homeless Families)
Description: We are seeking support to help provide resources to our Ada County families transitioning from homeless shelters and into their own home through our Rapid Rehousing Program, now titled Taking Root. They are provided everything needed to move in, including basic furnishings and upfront costs of moving families into their new homes.
Organization Mission: Everyone needs a home. That is why we work to create a safe, healthy, connected community by embracing Housing First best practices, empowering those without housing, building collaborative partnerships, and increasing public understanding to end homelessness.
Website: www.catchprogram.org
Program/Project Name: Workforce Development, Food Service, Life Skills, GED Training
Description: Life’s Kitchen is a nonprofit social enterprise providing Opportunity Youth (formally at-risk youth) 16-24 years of age with wrap around work and life skills. Through our Workforce Development, Food Service, Life Skills, and GED Training Program, trainees receive the valuable skills and resources they need to become independent, financially stable, and successful.
Organization Mission: Life’s Kitchen is dedicated to transforming the lives of young adults by building self-sufficiency and independence through comprehensive food service and life skills training, placement in the foodservice industry, and continuing education.
Website: lifeskitchen.org
Program/Project Name: Safe refuge for individuals escaping domestic violence
Description: The focus of this program is to support WCA’s safe emergency/transitional shelter program, serving scores of women and children fleeing domestic and/or sexual violence every year. The National Resource Center on Domestic violence reports that domestic violence is often the cause or precursor to homelessness and housing instability for women. This understanding is critical as an organization serving individuals fleeing domestic violence and the surrounding circumstances they may be facing.
Organization Mission: The mission statement of the Women’s and Children’s Alliance is to provide safety, healing, and freedom from domestic abuse and sexual assault.
Website: wcaboise.org
