2024 Donor Proposal
RUBIES WOMENS GROUP
Vision of Rubies & Gems:
We envision Rubies & Gems as an environment of impacting the restoration of families and the community by addressing the housing needs of the children and mothers to stay unified. Healing together. Structure. Safe Place.
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Our dedicated Board of Directors are distinguished members of our community. Each of these individuals brings a wealth of experience, expertise, and commitment to our organization, and their collective guidance is instrumental in steering our strategic direction.
Candace Cole Executive Director
Courtney Collins Board Chair
Rebecca Hergatt Secretary
Amber Hickman Treasurer
Tyler Amos Events/Marketing
Pamela Lintern Board Member
AWELCOMEFROMOUR EXECUTIVEDIRECTOR
I am delighted to extend a warm welcome to you on behalf of Rubies Womens Group As the Executive Director, it is my honor to have you join us and be a part of our organization.
At Rubies, we are driven by a shared commitment to help the women and children we serve go from survival to healing Our team is dedicated to creating a safe and structured atmosphere for women and their children through the restoration of Rubies & Gems . We believe that your partnerships will play a crucial part in advancing and making a meaningful impact in our community that affects families.
Our organization is built on a foundation of faith, compassion, and love We believe that the women we serve are in the process of healing and therefore healing the whole family. Your partnership is crucial to our success and the lives we touch. We are eager to collaborate with you to fulfill the next step of our mission that impacts our community as a whole and their families
In the coming days, you will have the opportunity to partner with Rubies. We encourage you to schedule a meeting if you have questions or ideas
In Partnership,
Candace Cole Executive Director Rubies Womens Group
ABOUT RUBIES to RUBIES & GEMS
Established in 2016, Rubies is a local grassroots, registered 501c3. Our charitable organization was founded by a dedicated group of community leaders to share a vision of providing a safe, structured environment for women to go from survival to healing.
Thanks to our generous donors we have continued to grow with employees and property to expand to serve the survivors that are the backbone and inspiration of our organization.
In 2016, we embarked on our beginnings of Rubies with a support group at the late Ocie Hill, supporting and encouraging women who were struggling with addiction. Shortly after identifying the correlation between addiction and human sex trafficking, a safe, structured, loving environment would be vital in the healing process for the women we encountered. Rubies started in Millersburg, Ohio. Today, with relocation back to Mansfield, we are again expanding our tent pegs with the renovation of a 4500 sq ft house to be able to house the women we serve and their children.
HAND UP NOT A HAND OUT
Most people are surprised to find that the Person-centered Holistic approach used at Rubies addresses mental, physical, spiritual, and social of each thriver that lives at Rubies and is a Survivor expert led organization
Mental
Focusing on empowering survivors to regain control of their lives through holistic support, rooted in dignity, self-reliance, and community.
Empowerment over charity with dignity and respect treating every thriver with dignity, assisting in recognizing their worth and potential. That they are not just recipients of aid, but active participants in their growth and recovery.
Strength-based approach focuses on the thrivers strengths rather than weaknesses. Encouraging them to identify and use their skills and talents as they work towards self-sufficiency
Goal setting-Thrivers work with their own Community Health Worker from Rubies to set realistic personalized goals to align with their values and aspirations To take ownership of their progress. With regular check-ins, progress reviews, and celebrating milestones
Mental and Emotional well-being through partnering with area counseling and support groups that address trauma, mental health issues, and emotional challenges.
Community Connection by fostering and encouraging healthy supportive relationships among peers, staff, and community involving volunteer opportunities and service projects
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HAND UP NOT A HAND OUT
Physical
Key Elements that foster dignity, empowerment, safety, and community.
Welcoming with a home life atmosphere, comfortable semi-private rooms, food, common areas (shared kitchen and living room, outdoor area that is monitored with security measures 24.7.
Resource Center includes space equipped with computers for job training and group meetings with partnered facility within walking distance
On-site Laundry facility and hygiene provided Faith-based Space off-site, but within walking distance designated for prayer, meditation, and worship services.
Safety and Security include 24.7 security camera monitoring and code access for the women to feel safe.
Emergency plan is placed in each room of a residence. Safe-transportation provided to employment, mental health appointments, spiritual support groups.
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HAND UP NOT A HAND OUT
Spiritual
Spiritual Empowerment
Identity in Christ, by teaching thrivers their worth and identity as children of God, is not defined by their circumstances but by their relationship with God
Scriptural Guidance through biblical teachings that emphasize self-worth, resilience, and God’s plan for hope and a future
Faith as a Source of Strength
Prayer and meditation-thrivers engage in personal prayer, meditation, and prayer
Space is created where they can seek God’s guidance and strength.
Building a faith-based Community
Worship services are held multiple times a week with partnering churches that are inclusive, uplifting, and centered on the message of hope and renewal. Encouraging residents to participate actively, fostering a sense of belonging and community.
Small Groups and Bible Studies where thrivers can share their experiences, support each other, and grow together in their faith These groups can be a source of accountability and encouragement.
Spiritual Healing and Restoration
Offer spiritual healing programs that address past trauma, guilt, and shame, while use scripture and promises of God’s forgiveness, love, and restoration to help find peace and healing.
Spiritual Mentorship
Pairing residents with spiritual mentors who can guide them in their faith journey, offering support, wisdom, and encouragement as they grow spiritually and personally
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HAND UP NOT A HAND OUT
Social Empowerment Through Dignity
Personal Responsibility by encouraging thrivers to take ownership of their progress by providing opportunities for them to contribute to the community.
Skill Development-training in life skills, financial literacy, and job readiness to become self-sufficient. This is not just about giving them a place to stay, but equipping them with tools to thrive independently.
Sustainable Solutions
Aftercare programming to hold thriver accountability and follow up after moving out. Personalized to each thrivers needs. Participation in alumni groups mentorship to women residing at Rubies after exit, continued access to Community Health Worker.
Partnership with local organizations by collaborating with local businesses, churches, and service providers to create opportunities for thrivers to gain employment, continue education, and/or receive additional support services.
Encouraged Restoration with family and children
Goal is for children to live with mother to heal with mother.
Programming
Prevention and Awareness Rubies
Workshops and Seminars hosted in the community that cover warning signs, risk factors, and how traffickers and addictions can entrap vulnerable individuals. Community Outreach and Engagement through collaboration with local law enforcement, shelters, and addiction recovery programs
Prevention strategies created with awareness speaking engagement in schools
Safe Housing Food Clothing
Hygiene products
Mental, Physical, Spiritual, and Social Support
24/7 monitoring for safety
Accountability and Goal setting
Furthering Education opportunities
Identification obtainability (ID, birth certificate, social security card)
Personalized Trauma
Centered Healing
Sober environment enforced and monitored
Programming that includes financial literacy, life skills, and parenting classes
Rubies & Gems
Structured Safe Housing Environment where mothers and children can heal together
Parenting that can be monitored and new techniques learned Food Clothing
Hygiene products
Mental, Physical, Spiritual, and Social Support
24/7 monitoring for safety
Accountability and Goal setting
Furthering Education opportunities
Identification obtainability (ID, birth certificate, social security card)
Personalized Trauma Centered Healing Sober environment enforced and monitored
Programming that includes financial literacy, life skills, and parenting classes
Events & Fundraisers
Two Bi-Annual Banquets
Love for Rubies Fall for Rubies
Monthly Partnering with local businesses to provide a service or product with a purpose
Appetizers and Awareness speaking presentation to local churches, businesses, and small groups on human trafficking and testimonials
Community Events to hand out information and provide support
Gemmed Frenzy-held the whole month of June where you can Gem Flock friends and family with Gemmed Flamingos
Ways To Get Involved
Your financial gifts allow us to continue to provide an environment of healing for mother with her children. Provide adequate staffing for safety, growth, and accountability. Safe reliable transportation. Growth and Renovation of Rubies and Gems.
Donate Volunteer Advocate
Consider donating your time and talent to our project. We offer opportunities for individuals and groups. An extra hand is always needed for construction, renovation, and beautifying Rubies and Gems home. You’re not just building and restoring a house but families.
Please help us raise awareness about the need for a safe, structured, and sober environment for not only women but women with children. Advocating for survivors to go from survival to healing. Bringing awareness that human trafficking is an issue in our community and that Rubies is a solution.
Partner
We offer many opportunites for major gift partnerships. These opportunites are deeply meaningful, communityfacing sponsorships designed to align with our mission and engage your employees throughout the year PR media, Home build/rehab sponsorship, VIP event sponsorships, volunteer days, and more.
2022 Human trafficking & Addiction in Ohio
Help Rubies make it possible for women to go from survival to healing in Ohio
As of June 2022, Ohio ranked fifth in the country for human trafficking cases, but fourth worst for its victim-to-population ratio. Ohio's ratio was 3.84 victims per 100,000 residents, which resulted in 450 cases in the state that year.
Renovation
Repairs and renovation of 4500 sq foot house. Common rehabilitation activities include upgrading plumbing, heating and cooling installation, installing windows and doors, upgrading the electrical system, removing and laying of new flooring, and painting walls. Kitchen and bathroom remodels. Moving in and installing appliances and furniture. Networking and surveillance system installed. Painting and renewal of siding and brick on the exterior. Outside landscaping, fencing, and playground installed.
Community Involvement: to involve the community volunteers, including skilled and unskilled laborers, who contribute their time and efforts to restoring this home that represents the lives of the women and children that will heal and be restored with in the walls.
Laundry Room
12,500
Conference Room
Upstairs Bedrooms
Common Area and Education Learning Area
Upstairs Common Areas
Children’s Quarters
Bedroom
Bedroom 2
Heating and Cooling
Campaign Partnerships
Ruby Partner Diamond Partner
Brand Name Integration: Your company’s name included in the event title or major marketing materials.
Exclusive Branding: Prominent logo placement on all event materials, including banners, posters, and digital media
Speaking Opportunities: Opportunity for a representative to speak at both annual Rubies events and Reveal event
Media Exposure: Major media coverage, including press releases and interviews
VIP Access: Special open house event when Rubies and Gems is finished.
Brand Placement: Logo placement on event materials and website, though not as prominent as the Title Sponsor
Recognition: Mention in press releases and media coverage
Speaking Opportunities: Opportunity for a representative to speak at both annual Rubies events and Reveal event
VIP Access: Special open house event when Rubies and Gems is finished
Emerald Partner
Sparkle Partner
Brand Placement: Logo included on event materials and website
Recognition: Mention in event programs.
Access: Invite only walk through once Rubies and Gems is done
Brand Placement: Logo included on event materials and website
Recognition: Mention in event programs.
Access: Invite only walk through once Rubies and Gems is done
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BUILDING EVALUATION REPORT
RUBIES WOMEN’S GROUP
245 West Fourth Street, Mansfield, OHio
PREPARED BY
Building Evaluation Summary
INTENT
The purpose of this report its to analyze the current building located at 245 West Fourth Street in Mansfield, OH with regard to space planning and general suitability to be utilized as transitional housing for women with a history of addiction and sex trafficking.
This report addresses the layout of spaces, needed repairs, code requirements, and probable costs. Included are a schematic options for spatial arrangement to make optimal use of the existing facilities, visual inspection report, code requirements for the type of housing being proposed, and a statement of probable costs for repairs and renovations.
This report does not address furniture, equipment, nor communication needs. While the building seems to be structurally sound, a full structural analysis is not in the scope of this report. Similarly, adequacy of current HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems, are based solely on visual inspection and assumptions made from previous uses of the building. A full analysis of the HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems is not in the scope of this report.
DISCLAIMER
The analysis of the building and site is based on a list of desired outcomes provided by the client. The size of the spaces allocated for individual spaces is approximate and not intended to represent exact sizes or arrangements. As such the diagrams included in this report are not meant to be design concepts. They are simply programmatic studies to see if and how the required spaces could be accommodated by the building Arrangement of the spaces and required adjacencies would need to be further discussed and implemented before a design concept could be arrived at.
Likewise, the analysis of probable costs associated with the diagrams is not a cost estimate. While it is intended to give a rough idea of what could be expected in expenditures, it should not be taken as a firm budget number. There simply are too many variables at this stage to fully and accurately estimate the cost of construction. The primary function of the analysis of probable costs is to provide a rough order of magnitude for the project. Certain assumptions are made on the part of the design professionals regarding level of finish, variations in program, layout of spaces, reuse of existing structure and systems, among other things in order to arrive at these numbers. The required occupant load is not always commensurate with the actual number of people that would be in the room. It is, rather, a guideline for designing life safety features of that particular space.
PROJECT VISION
Rubies Womens Group exists to assist and serve women with addiction, human sex trafficking, and reentry needs to encounter the Lord in order to heal They work towards restoration of families and community by addressing the needs of women as they move from survival to healing by utilizing the tools of Bible studies, counseling, work programs, education, family, and accountability. By renovating this building, Rubies Womens Group seeks to provide safe long-term housing for up to six women coming out of addition or sex trafficking as they work to reenter society Providing space for healing and allowing them to remain with their children
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
The house, while in a state of disrepair, appears to generally structurally sound. It has suffered from some neglect and deferred maintenance and has sat vacant for several years. The house is of sufficient size to provide congregant living for six women and three children However the layout of the current rooms is not particularly conducive to the accommodating the additional spaces required. Some reconfiguration of spaces and updating of systems would be recommended to make the best use of the space, including accommodating the required bathrooms, providing for accessibility requirements, and facilitating administrative functions.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
The following list of spaces and activities that need to be accommodated for the operations of Rubies Women’s Group:
-Sleeping Rooms:
-Six Women - 2 per room
-Room for Children
-Bathrooms:
-Two Full Bathrooms
-One 1/2 Bathroom
-Common Use Spaces:
-Sitting Room
-Computer Lab
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Kitchen Play Area
-Administrative
-House Manager Office
-Conference Room
-Individual Counseling
-Group Counseling
Building and Code Analysis
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Renovation of an existing building to be used as a congregate living facility to assist and serve women with addiction, human sex trafficking, and reentry needs.. The building will house up to six women and three children for a period of year or more as they transition from survival mode to healing They will share a kitchen, bathing facilities, and other common use areas. The new facility will be operated in addition to their existing facility on Park Avenue.The new use will be classified as R-3 according the Ohio Building Code and will constitute a change in occupancy classification from the former Institutional use of the building. Because it is a change of occupancy classification, the building is required to comply with the current code requirements for the new occupancy.
ZONING
The building is located in an MF Multi-Family Residential district. The zoning official views congregate living facilities as multi-family, similar to an apartment building Making this a permitted use in the MF zoning district As there is not expected to be any additions, the only thing that may trigger a zoning variance would be how accessibility from the site into the building is addressed in terms of where the accessible entrance is located. If it is located in the back of the building or on the east side, there should be no issue However, if it is decided to put the accessible entrance in the front, a variance may be needed.
Zoning requirements include: -10,000 square foot minimum lot size -60 foot minimum lot width-25 foot front yard setback
25 foot rear yard setback
12 foot side yard setbacks
The existing building and site meet these requirements with the exception of west sideboard setback in which case the building encroaches on the side yard
Zoning should not require a hearing with the City Planning Commission. We would anticipate the approval of the zoning
SITE PLAN
ZONING DISTRICTS
ARCHITECTURAL
There have been several unfortunate and poorly planned additions to the building over the years. While these additions and alterations detract from the historic nature of the home, they do offer a certain functionality that the original house could not easily accommodate. These additions include enclosing the front porch, the second floor stairs from the front porch, the second floor bathroom, and the large first floor addition on the west side of the building. While revisiting all the additions is not in the scope of the project, we would strongly recommend considering reopening the front porch and rethinking the stairs to the second floor from the porch
We do not anticipate need major reconfiguration of the interior spaces. Some interior partitions will need to be removed and some new ones built to meet code requirements And while not necessarily ideal, the layout of the rooms can be made to work for the intended use. However, all new finishes will be required.
There are several accessibility concerns that would need to be addressed as well Currently there is no accessible entrance to the home and no accessible route from the parking area or sidewalk. This would need to be remedied with a series of ramps from the parking area or from the alley to the west of the building. The bathrooms would also need to be enlarged and reconfigured to meet current accessibility codes.
The exterior walls of what would have been the original structure appear to be solid brick. The various additions over the years are likely framed construction. With the exception of the large addition to the east, which is concrete masonry We would recommend adding air sealing and insulation from the interior of the building This will maintain the exterior of the house and provide a more cost effective solution to increasing the energy efficiency of the building. The trade off being a slight reduction of useable interior floor space. We would also recommend adding insulation either in the attic floor or at the roof. The advantage of insulating at the roof is keeping the attic as usable space for the future if needed However insulating at the roof will be more difficult to achieve the recommended insulation values and likely be more expensive.
STRUCTURAL
Structurally the building appears to be in fairly decent shape. The foundation masonry seem solid and there is not sign of settling However, there are a few floor framing concerns that will need to be addressed. Major structural repairs will be required in the southwest room that appears to have been a laundry room or kitchen at some point. The floor would need to be taken up and completely reframed Regardless of what happens with the former front porch, the floor is not suitable for continued use. It will need to be reframed, leveled, and brought up to the floor elevation of the rest of the house. The same is the case for the portion of the front porch that the stairs are in as well The current stairs do not meet code and should be reconstructed to meet the current code requirements and best practices for stairs.
PLUMBING
The plumbing will need to be completely overhauled with new fixtures and updated piping. The likely hood of the plumbing being in good condition after sitting vacant for so long is minimal. That being said, the water heaters look to be fairly new and in good condition and could be reused
HEATING, COOLING, AND VENTILATION
The heating system is an old boiler and radiator system. There is no cooling. The boiler is beyond it’s serviceable life and will need replaced We would recommend replacing the entire system with something that could provide both heating and cooling throughout the building.
ELECTRICAL
The electrical panel looks relatively new and should have plenty of capacity for what you want to do with the building The wiring is a mess and will need to be completely redone with the renovation.
FIRE PROTECTION
There is both fire alarm and fire suppression systems present in the building The fire alarm will need to be updated to current code requirements and new alarm devices will be required that provide visual and audio alarms. The fire suppression system is required by code. The system that is in place will need to be repaired and likely need some reconfiguration for the new use.
STATEMENT OF PROBABLE COSTS SUMMARY
Building Renovation
Accessible Ramp
Site Work
Total Construction
Contingency (20%)
Architecture and Engineering fees
Permitting + Soft Costs
TOTAL PROJECT
$583,000 $21,000 $18,000
$833,000 LOW COST
$622,000 $26,000 $124,400 $80,860
$779,000
Includes all work done inside the building.
$30,000From the site access point to the building.
$24,000Grading, sidewalks, landscaping, etc
$166,600
$108,290 Includes both this report and the detailed design and construction oversight phase.
$34,000
$853,260 $1,141,890
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