Volunteers Enrich Our Mission and Programs

Volunteers Enrich Our Mission and Programs

By Alexandra Furr, Volunteer & Community Engagement Manager

Volunteers support Safe Haven’s mission and programs in a multitude of ways and are as essential in their function as they are immense in their impact! We are tremendously fortunate to share in community and work to end family homelessness, together!

~ We introduced Family Events in the summer. They now occur six times a month with events ranging from skill-sharing classes, creative workshops, movement classes, musical performances, therapy dog visits with Mena, open office hours with area resources, themed movie nights, games and crafts nights, hair services, pampering events and more.

~ Our community partnerships grew exponentially with new and local partnerships including Forward Flora, Small World Yoga, Nashville Street Barbers, HERO Doughnuts, Mercy Chefs, Music aLIVE and more.

~ Through our partnership with Schneider Electric we created sustainability around our community garden with tools and a canopy to ensure proper care. New benches were also installed for socialization and rest.

~ With help from Hands on Nashville and Amazon, we were able to improve our basement’s organization and efficiency.

~ Through our relationship with Teriyaki Madness, we established a Shelter Bike Program, which provides more than a dozen bikes to both our HiSET families and families in the community. Additional thanks to Schneider Electric for contributing locks and a bike rack to this bike program.

~ The Junior League of Nashville and Safe Haven’s Young Professionals Council helped us hold multiple Family Events, supply drives and more.

~ More than 100 volunteers helped make the 19th Annual Hike for Safe Haven an incredible event community event that raised over $160,000.

We are equally as grateful for our volunteers who show up for our families weekly by supporting our HiSET adult education program and helping our operations and youth teams with childcare, administrative tasks, inventory, Birthday Club, holiday prep, tutoring and more. We are thankful to our incredible community partners who ensure our families have nourishing dinners throughout the week. We appreciate the many volunteers who helped our families sustain housing and live more fully through the delivery of dining sets, mattress deliveries, lawn care, cleaning projects and more. Further we are thankful for our translation volunteers who help us support our families more fully and increase accessibility to resources. Volunteerism can look like many things, and this year we asked you, “How can and would you like to show up for us?” We are in awe of your response, and we look forward to doing even more in 2024!

If you would like to get involved, have a skill to share or would like more information, please email me at afurr@safehaven.org.

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