Week Three

Another busy week with the project Tyler's House. First we would like to thank Mrs. Tamera Rooney, and Mrs. Bev Phillips from the United Way of Hancock County. Mrs. Rooney and Mrs. Phillips met with us at Coffee Amici Tuesday morning to talk about our project. They both educated us more about other non-profit organizations in our community and came up with some great ideas that we could incorporate into our project. They also recommended some other agencies in the county to contact and recommended our founder, Rob, a class offered through the Hancock Community Action Agency (HWWP) called Micro Enterprise. Micro Enterprise is a class that teaches low income individuals living in Hancock County how to build a business of their own. Rob called HWWP and enrolled in the upcoming class that starts August 4^th,. The class does not assist in starting non-profit organizations, but Rob considered his experience in website development and thought about using the class to learn more about starting his own business in website development at the same time learning more about business organization that he could apply to this project. We're very thankful for the feedback from Mrs. Rooney and Mrs. Phillips and their offer to help us with our project.

We came out with a questionnaire Monday morning provided by the Ohio Small Business Development Center. Many individuals in the community completed the survey within a few hours and we gathered the results needed to assist us in the filing of our organization. We would like to thank everyone who had the opportunity and took the time to complete the questionnaire.

We also met with Jennifer Gravitt, a resident of Findlay. Jennifer has been taking a class called “Getting Ahead” through Hancock County Bridges Out Of Poverty, one of Hancock County's partnering agencies of Hope House. Jennifer told us more about the agency and class and how it's helped her succeed. We were very impressed to hear what this class has to offer. The class teaches about generational poverty, job & interview skills for finding employment and educates individuals about the resources in our community and how to use them to lead yourself out of poverty. Jennifer's story is very inspiring, a single mother of two who has struggled to make ends meet. Her oldest son has struggled since birth with a heart defect and Jennifer has struggled with maintaining employment and finances with the difficulties of caring for a child with medical problems. Jennifer doesn't let this bring her down though, she has been actively involved in the Hancock County Heart Walk Association and the Make A Wish Foundation for the past six years. Jennifer is another individual in our community that struggles like so many others that never chose poverty. We're very thankful for Jennifer sharing her life experiences of how the resources in our community are helping to lead her out of poverty.

We have another busy week planned for next week. We're meeting again with Mr. Brown from the Ohio Small Business Development Center, Carolyn Rodenhauser from Job Solutions, and the directors of Hope House. The goal of this meeting is to learn more specifically about the organizations and resources in our community that are available to the homeless and assist with homelessness prevention and to come up with a business plan that we will use in the filing of our organization. We're anticipating our business plan to be developed and our website completed by the end of next week.

We would like to thank everyone who has participated in this project so far. It's encouraging to see the community coming together as we form an organization that has a goal of eliminating homelessness in the Findlay & Hancock County area. If anyone would like to provide any suggestions or recommendations that would help us in the filing of our organization or anyone that would be interested in meeting with us next week feel free to contact us on Facebook or email us at tylershousefindlay@gmail.com.

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