Since the summer of 2018, we have been proud to provide exciting opportunities for people to join us in serving the community. If you or someone you know may be interested in joining a growing mission-centered nonprofit – please connect with us!
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In this week’s Perspective on Poverty, we are hearing from our project managers Phil and Tom.
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This week our project managers spent some time reflecting on different perspectives of poverty rooted in their work with Good Neighbors.
"Some people were just going through so much more that you just have no idea what they're going through because they don't show it. And you see that once you get and start working in their home, that they're just, they're just overwhelmed."
Poverty is a multidimensional problem that thousands of our neighbors face each day. Most of the time the struggles these families are facing go unnoticed. The work we do at Good Neighbors opens the eyes of our project managers, volunteers, and interns to a variety of different perspectives on poverty in our communities while helping to restore hope in the homeowners.
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Enjoy the outdoors this fall while making a difference. Spend a Saturday serving your neighbors, volunteer with Good Neighbors now through November!
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In this week’s PERSPECTIVES ON POVERTY, Tom MacAulay shares about how his thinking of poverty has been recalibrated.
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Over the last few months, I knew that God was trying to teach me something – but I just did not understand what. I began to see that I saw myself as Jesus’ helper more than his follower. I sought to fix other people by “doing love” instead of recognizing that I – like my neighbor, am impoverished and simply a willing servant of God.
This has led me to find a new meaning to the way I think about poverty. Do we believe poverty stems from a lack of education, resources, money, laziness, a loss of health, or divorce? We tend to emphasize a lack of material things such as food, money, clean water, and housing. However, people experiencing housing challenges often talk in terms of shame, inferiority, hopelessness, depression, and social isolation. So how should we think about poverty?
The book When Helping Hurts helped me with my perspective on poverty. The authors define poverty as a set of broken relationships: a broken relationship with God, a broken relationship with self, a broken relationship with others, and with the rest of community and creation. Poverty is the result of relationships that are not lifegiving, harmonious, or enjoyable.
This is a humbling way to think about those in need because it puts everyone on an equal playing field as we all have brokenness in our lives. We all experience poverty to some degree. We are unified in our need for restoration, and should see our neighbors as brothers and sisters; not different, failures, or a project needing to be fixed.
In life, we all struggle with poverty of some type, and part of Good Neighbors’ work of restoring hope is rebuilding our homeowners, volunteers and staff to see that God has given us gifts and resources to develop and grow in community. Using our gifts to serve others brings glory to God and purpose in our lives. While we may wrestle with poverty, it does not define us. Our relationship with Jesus and seeing ourselves and others as God’s children do.
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SUMMER 2020 INTERN HIGHLIGHT. This summer we had the amazing blessing of having Jon Bruns - Good Neighbors Business and Marketing Analyst, join us! Jon has helped us to clarify and refine our internal financial tracking and tell the story of Good Neighbors through video and media. He has done so much for his neighbors! Read about his experience below!
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Part of my role was meeting homeowners and speaking firsthand with them about their lives, giving me new perspectives about not only owning a home, but also understanding that you never know what someone else may be going through. Connecting and learning from Good Neighbor homeowners will stick with me as I go on to face life's tough challenges.
I am grateful for the opportunity I had to be able to help Good Neighbors in financial aspects and benchmarking, as well as video capturing and promoting the good works of God through Good Neighbors. Furthermore, Good Neighbors has given me valuable experience to take with me as I finish my financial degree and obtain a job in the financial services field.
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Keeping the Hope - Nickole was literally just trying to keep a roof over her head. Her home insurance company observed that her aged roof needed to be replaced immediately. For a single mother raising her five-year-old son alone, the expense of a new roof was just more than her salary could cover.
Ralph Short, of R. Short Roofing, suggested that Nickole contact Good Neighbors. To keep Nickole's home warm, safe, dry, and healthy, Good Neighbors also determined that the home required all new siding and all new windows. over the course of five days, Good Neighbors volunteers completed all the work at no cost to Nickole.
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During the month of October only!
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Keeping the Hope - Carrie is a 37-year-old woman with spina bifida. Carrie had been using a walker to get around, but that became increasingly difficult over time. Although the house had just four steps up to its entrance, they were quite steep. It reached a point where Carrie's leg would occasionally lock as she mounted the steps, and she would fall into the house. That's when Carrie started crawling up the steps to be able to safely get into her home.
Good Neighbors installed a ramp for Carrie which will give her a safe way to get in and out of her home. All of us at Good Neighbors are thankful for the generous support of foundations and individuals that enable us to repair homes and restore hope.
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Good Neighbors is going virtual this year for our Annual Portraits of Hope Fundraising Benefit!
Every year, we repair hundreds of homes, restoring hope for elderly couples and widows, for single moms and veterans. This year, we're featuring videos from homeowners, donors, and community leaders to share with you the amazing impact Good Neighbors is having on their lives, and in their communities. Join us in restoring hope on October 24th for this special evening and buy your ticket today!
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Keeping the Hope.
So, this month join us as we hear from several people who have been positively impacted by Good Neighbors and explore how our work has given hope to our neighbors in need.
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Keeping the Hope - Sharon's roof had been leaking for two years before Good Neighbors replaced it in August. Sharon is a social worker who has spent her life helping people, but due to a significant injury, she can no longer work full time.
Sharon is full of joy and eager to bless others so when she realized her neighbors had an even worse roof leak than she did, she wanted Good Neighbors to repair their roof first, which we did. Sharon shares, "I recommend everyone journal and write their prayer requests and watch God work because it will be His timing.”
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The amazing videos of homeowners featured at our fundraising event Saturday night can be accessed here: https://buff.ly/2Hz3idc
We would be honored if you would take the time to not only watch these videos but share them with just one other person who is unfamiliar with Good Neighbors. Spreading the word about this ministry is vital to our ability to support our low-income homeowners and their families in Chester and New Castle Counties.
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TONIGHT is Good Neighbors Annual Portraits of Hope Gala! If you haven't registered yet, no worries, you can go to the link below to sign up to take part in an event that will change lives!
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Join us later this evening for our annual Portraits of Hope fundraising event to hear stories from homeowners, learn more about Good Neighbors, and help fun the hard work of our volunteers in their efforts to make our neighbors' homes warmer and safer.
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Less than 36 Hours to go until our Annual Portraits of Hope Gala! Will we be seeing you there?!
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A big thanks to our Portraits of Hope Presenting sponsors! Our Portraits of Hope event wouldn't be what it is without their generous support for this event and our organization. Because of them all our other sponsors, we are able to repair homes of low-income homeowners, so they can live in homes that are warmer, safer, drier, and healthier.
Don't forget to join us Tomorrow October 24th at 8pm for our Portraits of Hope Gala.
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Making an Impact - Good Neighbors is much more than a home repair organization. Our vision is for all people in our communities to have a warm, safe, dry, and healthy home. By coming alongside your neighbors with Good Neighbors, you are not only helping one family but impacting the whole community. You too can change lives, change them for the better. Make a real imprint on the communities we live in by joining us in helping to restore hope.
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Since the summer of 2018, we have been proud to provide exciting opportunities for people to join us in serving the community. If you or someone you know may be interested in joining a growing mission-centered nonprofit – please connect with us!
#internships #supportyourcommunity #goodneighbors #communitydevelopment #goodcauses #homeownerstories #makeadifference #restoringhope #takeinitiative #communitystrong #communitysupport #christianleadership #storytelling #videography
Working Poor Defined - Working people whose incomes fall below the poverty line due to low-income jobs and low familial household income. The working poor aren't necessarily people without jobs but are people who make enough to provide for their families but can’t afford to maintain their homes. This often causes these homeowners to lose sight of better days and hope for a better future.
In our experience, poverty is often only visible when you are on the inside. When you get immersed in it, you begin to see how much people are struggling. Good Neighbors cannot solve all these problems, but we help homeowners get a “reset” so they can gain back their confidence to take on other problems.
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Portraits of Hope was a great success! We raised $100,000 -- almost reaching our goal of $125,000! We still have some ground to cover in the two months remaining in this year, so please consider donating, whether again or for the first time, before the end of 2020!
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Throughout the month of October, Drip Roasting Co. has been supporting Good Neighbors through online sales. There are only a few days left so be sure to go to their site (link in bio) and purchase some coffee today using code: REPAIR at checkout!
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"I am overjoyed and grateful for Good Neighbors. Being recently declared disabled from working for over 25 years, I was at my wits end on how [to meet] so much of the needed repairs. I have been treated with compassion and grace." - Cynthia Slater
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Since the summer of 2018, we have been proud to provide exciting opportunities for people to join us in serving the community. If you or someone you know may be interested in joining a growing mission-centered nonprofit – please connect with us!
#internships #supportyourcommunity #goodneighbors #communitydevelopment #goodcauses #homeownerstories #makeadifference #restoringhope #takeinitiative #communitystrong #communitysupport #christianleadership #storytelling #videography