To make a monetary donation online, please go to http://www.hopehousetrees.com and click on the donate button under the "Donate Now" tab. The donate buttons on this website were set up by Hope House and all donations from that site go directly to Hope House. We hope to have the donate and subscribe buttons fully operational within the next couple of days.

The Hope House Board of Directors and staff remains dedicated to providing a safe haven for homeless mothers and their children in the Rappahannock Region who seek to turn their lives around and become independent and self-sufficient citizens.  We support their efforts by providing the necessary life-skills in a structured environment that will enable them to gain and sustain employment.  Sustainable employment is the only means of successfully gaining and maintaining permanent housing.

To help us continue to provide for homeless mothers and their children, Hope House is expanding!!

Project Discovery House

The road to Discovery House has been quite a journey. After encountering numerous potholes, detours, and speed bumps, we should be opening the doors to our Hope House addition by the end of the year. Discovery House will accommodate the same population as the adjacent property at 902 Lafayette: women and children in search of structured transitional housing that will allow them to escape the cycle of homelessness.

We could not have completed Discovery House without the generosity and good graces of citizens and organizations in Planning District 16. The City of Fredericksburg, with grants for HUD through the Community Development Block Grant program, has enabled us to receive more than $22,000 toward Discovery House. These funds applied toward a match of a grant in the amount of $100,000 from a family foundation. As with all construction projects, there were nearly $30,000 in unforeseen costs that were not part of the $200,000 initial budget. As a result, Hope House has struggled to get the building open. We knew that many agencies, foundations and individuals were counting on us to provide additional space for homeless mothers and their children. We knew we had to make Discovery House a reality. Hope House thanks all of you for your continued support of this much needed project.

If you have it in your heart and in your financial reserves, we certainly could use some extra donations to get us through this unexpected economic hurdle. We feel that we have been caught in a Catch-22 situation. We long have known that opening this extra space would meet a growing need in the community. All of us would rather see homeless women and children in a viable program, working to become tax-paying citizens, than on the streets. However, in order to help make these women productive, we need money to complete our building project and meet additional programming needs in an already strapped budget.

Thank you for considering our request for additional support. If you are more inclined to give toward tangible goods, we still need a few big ticket items which can be found on our Discovery House wishlist under the "How You Can Help" tab. Let us know if you can meet any of the needs associated with moving into a new house, including landscaping. We want Discovery House to be as homey as possible.

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