- April 24, 2024
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On the heels of granting $25,000 to Homes Bring Hope, Bank of America recently announced an additional $50,000 commitment to support the nonprofit's mission to help hardworking people transition from being renters to becoming homeowners, bringing the bank's support to $75,000, plus advocacy and volunteer support, according to a press release.
“The impact of this gift to the community cannot be overstated,” said Forough Hosseini, founder of Homes Bring Hope and senior vice president of ICI Homes. “Homes Bring Hope, which was created following lengthy planning and research, is only in its first year of operation. Yet already it has guided six clients to homeownership. This grant from Bank of America will help us reach our goal identifying and helping a dozen families achieve homeownership during our first year of operation. That will accelerate the movement as we approach our second year.”
Peter Mannino, president of Bank of America East Central Florida, said they have supported Hosseini and her team for more than a decade in their fight against youth homelessness and hunger via Food Brings Hope and VCAN.
“The creation of Homes Bring Hope aligns with our commitment to support local nonprofits that help combat the root causes of poverty through homeownership and the equity it can generate," Mannino said.
While each of these agencies is independent, the press release explains, they are all affiliated under the FBH Communities banner, allowing them to share resources, best practices and take advantage of certain economies.
“Economists agree that building home equity is the best way to accumulate wealth and give low-income, lifelong renters the ability to break the thorny grip of poverty on their next generation,” Hosseini said.
Homes Bring Hope works with clients to help them qualify for homeownership. It casts a wide net of collaboration to help buyers who can qualify to buy a new or renovated home at cost and greatly reduce real estate closing costs, such as title services, commissions, survey work and more.
In honor of First Responder Appreciation Day, the city of Ormond Beach presented its police and fire departments with a public safety shirt.
The shirt has a similar design as the flag hoisted on Wednesday, Oct. 27, which featured a red and blue joining stripe.
Ormond-by-the-Sea-based virtual volunteering organization Dear God Are We There Yet is now distributing grants for people in the community, and it is asking for the community's help in meeting that mission.
Dear God Are We There Yet provides funds, volunteers, tools and resources to assist others in supporting, advocating and empowering social impact, according to an email. Through its new Impact Microgrants, community members could benefit from dollars to meet a social good need. For example, the grants have helped children who wished to bring awareness to speed limits and deaths in the community, a teacher who wanted to add a math tutoring after school program and a foster dog mom gathering a team to create an outreach campaign to help in finding lost animals, the email states.
Dear God Are We There Yet aims to raise $5,000 to help over 25 people, and 100% of donations go toward its microgrants.
Want to apply for a grant? Visit www.deargodarewethereyet.com/apply-for-a-grant
The SPCA of Volusia Animal Rescue is conducting a fund drive to raise funds for its medical and pet food programs.
Founded in 1977, the volunteer organization is a donation-supported, no kill, nonprofit animal rescue and welfare organization. It also sponsors weekly low-cost pet shot clinics around the county and assists the Meals on Wheels program with pet food for its clients.
The SPCA of Volusia Animal Rescue is in need of pet food and donations for the rescues in its care, as well as help for its medical fund. Every animal in the rescue needs some type of veterinarian care and often, that care is expensive, an announcement states. One of the organization's rescue is Susie, a terrier who was abandoned in a home for five days when her former owners moved. Susie was very sick when she was found, and had a skin infection, parasites and needed surgery for bladder stones.
Thanks to the SPCA, she is now happy and healthy.
For monetary donations, the organization's mailing address is P.O. Box 1411, Orange City, FL 32774. Pet food may be dropped off at A Pampered Pooch Grooming at 295 S. Yonge St.
The Capt. James Ormond Chapter of the Daughter of the American Revolution recently welcomed a new member.
Pat Wilson officially joined the DAR at the chapter's meeting in October. To learn more about the chapter, visit fssdar.com/CaptainJamesOrmondDAR/
