My Father's House http://www.familyshelter.org Helping Families...Transforming Lives Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:24:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 familyshelterhttp://feedburner.google.com Celebrating Ten Years of Serving the Homeless http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/familyshelter/~3/kNYRLDlOk-k/ http://www.familyshelter.org/celebrating-ten-years-of-serving-the-homeless/#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:20:29 +0000 admin http://www.familyshelter.org/?p=646 Has it been ten years already?  Join us to celebrate our ten-year anniversary of serving homeless families in the Portland Metropolitan area!

January 7, 2011 – Save the Date!!!

Check back for more information, or contact Executive Director Cathe Wiese at 503-492-3046, or cathe@familyshelter.org.

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3rd Annual Golf-2-Give Tournament!

The third Annual Golf-2-Give Tournament is coming!!!

** July 18, 2011 at Willamette Valley Country Club (Canby) **

Don’t golf? Join us for dinner! $25 per person.

The event will include a 4-person scramble, snacks, drinks and dinner and awards following golf.  Featured events for the day will include: Hole-in-One prizes on each Par 3, Long Drive contest, KP’s, Straight Drive contest, Mulligans, Player gifts, Silent Auction, Raffle and much more.

Registration begins at 12 noon. Auction opens at 5pm and Dinner is at 6pm. The cost before July 1st is $150.00 for an individual and for a team it is $600.00. After July 1st it is $175.00 for an individual and $700.00 for a team.

Price includes: Green fees, cart, use of driving range and practice greens, gift package, snacks, non-alcoholic drinks, Prime Rib/Chicken Buffett/Awards.

Schedule:
12:00am Check-in & Driving range open
1:00pm Shotgun Start & snacks on the go
6:00pm Silent Auction & Dinner
6:30pm Awards Presented

Images from last year’s tournament:

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Wondering how can you help? Here’s the latest opportunities to get involved with supporting My Father’s House:

1. Visit our Giving page to learn about how your financial support directly impacts families in need.

2. Visit our Volunteering page to learn about ways to get personally involved in the life of homeless families at My Father’s House.

3. Want to create your own fund-raising event to benefit My Father’s House?  Visit our Stir It Up page for more information!

4.  Our Friends at NW Self Storage are offering Friends’ of My Father’s House a great deal!

If you need storage go to www.nwselfstorage.com and find the location nearest you, tell them My Father’s House referred you – you will get $20.00 off your first months rent and we will receive $20.00 for referring you! Please note this is for new tenants only, one special per unit. Please keep this in mind and feel free to share the offer with family and friends.

5.  Give for Real” with MannaBearsTM !!

MannaBears TM are a delicious gummi-bear snack packed with the phytonutritional goodness of 10 fruits and vegetables, including Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and pomegranate juice powder.   Gluten-free.  When you purchase MannaBearsTM …
•    … malnourished orphans around the world will receive matching amounts of a nutritionally effective Real Food Technology blend.*
•    … My Father’s House will receive 20% of every purchase of any product, every four weeks, year-round!
•    … your children or grandchildren will be eating their veggies and asking for more!   Adults love MannaBearsTM, too!

Each box contains 30 servings!   With each box you buy, you give to My Father’s House, you feed the world’s malnourished orphans, and your own family enjoys yummy MannaBearsTM … for just $26.93!

CLICK HERE to download an informational flyer!

Contact Jean Backus at (541) 621-8038 or RealSolutionsNow@wildblue.net.  You can also order by calling Mannatech directly at 800-281-4469 and order as a “member” under account 2927887.

6.  My Father’s House is partnering with “Books 4 Giving”!

Books 4 Giving ( www.Books4Giving.com ) offers a simple way to help My Father’s House help homeless families all year round, and it’s easy…requiring absolutely no effort or work on your part, just a willingness to help out.  Visit our website for more information:  Books 4 Giving.

CLICK HERE to download an informational flyer!

]]> http://www.familyshelter.org/how-can-i-help/feed/ 1 http://www.familyshelter.org/how-can-i-help/ Get Your MFH Toolbar Now! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/familyshelter/~3/mhtBQt07uvA/ http://www.familyshelter.org/toolbar/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:13:09 +0000 admin http://www.familyshelter.org/?p=533 Please download the toolbar by following this link.

The new My Father’s House toolbar is free to download and allows you to raise money for our cause every time you search or shop online! Once added to Internet Explorer or Firefox, each time you shop at more than 1,300 stores (from Amazon to Zazzle!) a percentage of your purchase will automatically be donated to My Father’s House – at no cost to you (and you may even save money as the toolbar provides coupons and deals as well!). The toolbar also has a search box and each time you search the Internet, about a penny is donated to My Father’s House.

And, please pass this along to all of your friends. The two minutes it takes to add this toolbar to your browser can make a lifetime of difference for the families we serve!

Get the toolbar NOW!

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You can visit the My Father’s Profile, and read all our reviews, by clicking here.  Hey!  Have something nice to say about us?  Why not write a review yourself?

]]> http://www.familyshelter.org/reviewed-on-great-non-profits/feed/ 0 http://www.familyshelter.org/reviewed-on-great-non-profits/ Adopt a Room! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/familyshelter/~3/rWmVK-MYKus/ http://www.familyshelter.org/adopt-a-room/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:11:44 +0000 admin http://www.familyshelter.org/?p=427 Adopt a RoomOur Adopt-A-Room program is a one year commitment. When you commit to one year you will be responsible to furnish your room three to four times during the year.

When families move into My Father’s House we want them to feel welcome., and providing the new, needed items is a wonderful way to show them we care. When a family leaves the shelter and sets up their own apartment they take all the items provided with them to help them with their fresh start.

The room you adopt will have a plaque on the wall outside the room honoring you or your business. Furniture items do not have to be replaced because they are permanent in the apartment rooms. The average cost to adopt a room is $400-$500 depending on your shopping style.

Click Here to Download an Adopt-a-Room Flyer!

To adopt a room at our new facility, please contact Cathe Wiese, Executive Director of My Father’s House.

Cathe Wiese
PO Box 1147
Gresham, OR 97030
503-492-3046
cathe@familyshelter.org

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