Greetings!
Happy New Year, friends! The new 2011 e-Touch format will headline what promises to be an exciting and eventful new year. Watch for timely updates on the renovation of our new building (with an anticipated May move-in); the Spread Your Wings gala in June; community impact reports on expanded services and partnerships; and the wonderful volunteers, partners, and supporters who make this community hum. We hope you'll like it. Let's stay in touch!
LaDonna Hoy
Executive Director
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| Generous Response Fuels Campaigns
Building for Good, Sleep Out results | |
 What a community we have the privilege of serving! A community that has discovered what it cares about, and steps up when it matters most.
IOCP launched back-to-back campaigns this year, of all years, given the economy. A capital campaign set out to raise $5.5 million for a new facility that will deliver services on a whole new level. And our annual Sleep Out, to fund housing, the most critical piece in family stability.
Here's the amazing news. Because of this community's generosity, IOCP has successfully completed the Building for Good Capital Campaign. We have the funds to begin renovation on a facility that will make possible new and hopeful futures for families and children. More than 400 individual donors and key corporate support made this dream a reality.
More amazing news. Because of this community's response, IOCP had strong results to the Sleep Out Campaign, again in spite of a fragile economy. Nearly 3,000 donors contributed $1,247,000 to the Sleep Out Campaign. These funds will allow us to maintain our current level of service, which means that about 600 families will receive housing assistance. We continue to accept contributions to provide housing services for additional families.
In one short and challenging year, this community has demonstrated its resilience, its heart, its resolve. THANK YOU for all that you do and for all that your gifts make possible. |
| Waffle Breakfast
Annual Feast of February | Enjoy delicious Belgian waffles and to-die-for sausage at this not-to-be missed annual event. Join us Sunday, Feb. 20, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the American Legion in Wayzata. Purchase your tickets in advance for $7, or $8 at the door. It's always a sell out, so plan ahead to be there!
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| Adopt-a-Family, Food Shelf Brought Holiday Cheer
Hundreds of families served
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Thanks to our community's generous response, IOCP's annual Adopt-a-Family program provided gifts for 468 families. To coordinate this monumental effort, 206 volunteers contributed nearly 900 hours to ensure these families received their gifts in time for the holidays.
The IOCP Food Shelf was also able to serve 592 households at Thanskgiving and 458 households for Christmas. Kudos to all the businesses, churches, and individuals who helped make this possible.
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 The mission of IOCP is to identify and respond to the basic unmet needs of people in our community, and to assist them in moving toward self-sufficiency through the creative action of an inclusive partnership of communities of faith, schools, government, business, community groups, foundations, health systems, and individuals.
110 Grand Ave., Wayzata MN 55391 (952) 473-2436 www.iocp.org | |
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