Acts of Kindness
E-Newsletter for A New Leaf Supporters August 2010 |
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and your name will be entered into a drawing for an exciting family adventure at Brunswick Mesa Lanes
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| This Month's Financial Donations ($500 and over)to A New Leaf or our Foundation. | |
$10,000 Shutterfly Foundation
10,000 T.W. Lewis Foundation
6,700 ASU - V. Day Proceeds
5,000 J. Steve Miller
Foundation
2,000 Arizona Foundation for
Women
750 Otto & Edna Neely
Foundation
600 Girls Night Out
Shopping Extravganza
500 Connie Charlesworth
NOTIBLE NEWS!
Deluxe Financial Service employees sit in a sea of backpacks donated for A New Leaf''s Back-to-School Drive. |
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| Greetings! |
 We at A New Leaf, recognize that our human service agency is very strong. We knew that we would be facing serious challenges, along with many other businesses, in this daunting economy.
We also believed that smaller agencies, struggling to survive, would be seeking more secure organizations, like ours, to avoid disrupting the needed services they provide to the community.
Our most recent merger of A&A Cottages into A New Leaf has provided us with an opportunity to help another population in our society to turn over a new leaf...young women.
Be sure to read the article below that shows how your support is changing lives.
Keep yourselves safe from the summer heat and please continue to work with us to do the same for the less fortunate.
Thank you for all that you do.
Torrie Taj, CFRE
Executive VP of Marketing & Resource Development |
| Homeless Young Woman Living in the Desert! |
 In case you missed this on July 5th Fox 10 News website... | |
Helping Homeless Women Turn Over a New Leaf
MESA - A Valley homeless shelter is helping young women in the Valley who don't have a place to live. A New Leaf in Mesa provides girls with a chance to get back on their feet.
April Anderson lives in the 3rd bedroom at one of A New Leaf's shelters. She decorated it herself. "I had problems following my dad's rules," recalls April. When April's grades fell at ASU, her father told her she was on her own.
"I had to live in the desert...
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| A Face, A Name And A Story ...That You Can Change | |
The numbers below represent those living in our shelters every day. each has a face, a name and a story. the increasing reate of unemployment and forecloshures are adding to their heartbreaking stoiries.
With your help, we can change the outcome of their stories!
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More than14,000 Arizonans experience homelessness each day.
- 30% of Arizona's homeless population are children and teens.
- Almost 50% of the homeless are women, children or families.
- The fastest growing segment of the homeless populations is familes with children.
- 43% of children living in homeless families are under the age of 6.
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| Congressman Mitchell Helps the Children at LaMesita |
"As a former teacher, I know how important it is to make sure our youth and families have the resources and supplies necessary for learning," said Congressman Mitchell. |
Councilman Dennis Kavanaugh & Congressman Mitchell pose for the LaMesita group. |
ABC 15 covers Congresman Harry Mitchell's visit to A New Leaf's LaMesita Family Homeless Shelter
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You Can Help Others to Turn Over A New Leaf | |
August's Basic Annual Needs Drive: Back to School Supplies...
Backpacks, notebooks, paper, pens, pencils, glue, etc.
Tell your friends! Hold a neighborhood drive!
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| SAVE THE DATE! |
Expo & Concert brought to you by Premeir Media Services, Inc, Sept 17, 18, 19 at Westworld of Scottsdale. Featuring "The Guess Who", "The Travelers" and various other artists. www.greenstocksrock.com
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 Join us for A New Leaf Foundation's
Annual Camarderie Gala "An Evening on the Nile"
Saturday, February 26th, 2010
6 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Arizona Grand Resort, Phoenix, AZ |
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__________________________________________________________________________________ About Us
A New Leaf Foundation exists to provide financial support to A New Leaf programs and services. The Foundation relies on your generous tax-deductible contributions and over 17,000 volunteer hours annually.
A New Leaf is a non-profit, 501(c)3 agency Helping Families...Changing Lives through
Homeless and Domestic Violence Shelters, Youth and Community Programs.
Questions about A New Leaf? Call 480.464.4648.
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