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Urban Homeworks EIN #: 41-1821520
“As we look back on 2022 together, it is my hope that everyone can recognize the part we each played in the outcomes of our communities. We are all responsible, in some way, for what is happening in society today. The arc of justice is long, and the seeds we collectively plant today will manifest for our children. At Urban Homeworks, we choose to continue to plant seeds of love.
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“2021 was a year of preparing our soil, and while the work of plowing and leveling is less exciting than seeding or harvesting, it is essential to ensure that our next steps are informed, collaborative, and led by those we serve and partner with every day. We know this work will lead to the change that is needed in this time and in this era, right now.
We are growing our work to be more comprehensive dignified housing. “
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“Hope. In 2020, our notions of hope were challenged beyond measures previously defined. We witnessed, without blinders, the ways our systems of healthcare, housing, policing, and education fail the most vulnerable in our communities. We were faced with ourselves and our capacity to move systemic injustice to a place of balance, a place where all humans have space and an opportunity to live life to its fullest.
In 2020, we witnessed human greed, corruption, xenophobia, racism, and ableism prevail over the greater good.”
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“In 2019, Urban Homeworks housed 602 total individuals. Sixty-three percent of those individuals were families with children, 73% had a female head of household, and 52% had a BIPOC head of household.”
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“To perpetuate the Hope of Jesus Christ through innovative community development is the re-affirmed mission of Urban Homeworks. In 2018 we embarked on a strategic planning process, and as the saying goes: ‘plan the work, work the plan.’ We did some planning. As we did, we saw our mission and vision statement refining as we stood together with neighbors to meaningfully address housing injustice and challenge the barriers of inequity.
At the center of Urban Homeworks are people. It is fundamental to how we understand the hope of Jesus Christ.”
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“As you may know, I grew up on a farm. One of the lessons that framing taught me, is that for everything, there is a clear and distinct season. As the author of Ecclesiastes pens and the Beatles song posits: “for everything there is a season (turn… turn… turn…) and time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted… You, our funders, volunteers, supporters, advocates and partners are a part of a movement that is committed, and dedicated, to pushing back on some of the most rooted, intractable symptoms of the dis-eased parts of the human condition.”
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“2016 was a year of growth and changes that made us stronger as an organization. We strive to take the biblical meaning of loving neighbor and self and apply this to ourselves and our work each day.
Urban Homeworks is proud to build a platform with our neighbors; a platform upon which we can stand and make a path toward a more equitable future, and where the positive presence of justice prevails. This goes beyond the absence of conflict and embraces a vision where the world is as it ought to be—for all people.”
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