How your Gift Helps
$400-$600 prevents an eviction
$150-$250 prevents a disconnection
$100-$150 keeps the water running
$25-$50 provides transportation assistance
Give the Gift of Hope this Christmas! Pay tribute to friends, family members, and fellow employees with a heartwarming gift that makes a difference in your community. A card of acknowledgement will be sent to each individual you list that you donated in honor of!
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Your tax deductible donation will be distributed locally in the Athens area to provide emergency financial assistance for our low-income neighbors who are facing a financial crisis.
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Each gift helps working families struggling to meet life’s basic needs. The Ark works tirelessly to keep our neighbors who live paycheck to paycheck housed when they face a financial emergency. Your donation provides more than utilities, rent, food, and other essentials.
With your help, we can provide peace for the restless. Your generosity and compassion makes it possible for all of us, working together, to prevent homelessness and preserve dignity for families in financial crisis.
How to Give the Gift of Hope
1. Donate to the Gift of Hope
2. Fill out the Acknowledgement Card Form
3. Whoever you chose to honor will receive this Holiday Acknowledgement card in the mail
This years card:
4. Your gift goes will impact hundreds of low-income working families throughout the year
In the last year, rent has increased faster than it ever has on record. Due to the lack of affordable housing options, many families like Jessica’s are forced to pay higher rent and cut back on other necessities like health care and food. Jessica came to The Ark when her landlord increased her monthly rent by $400. This sudden increase made it difficult to afford her rent. The Ark was able to step in and help Jessica and her family remain housed and avoid eviction. Your gift this holiday season helps hundreds of families like hers.
"I write to you today to share about the vulnerability in our Athens-Clarke County (ACC) community that The Ark actively addresses with their services. The mission of the Athens Wellbeing Project (AWP) is to empower the Athens community with meaningful data that will lead to more informed decision making, improvements in service delivery, and greater quality of life for our citizens. Losing access to basic needs, such as housing, is a vulnerable space for families. In that time of vulnerability, families then must make other difficult decisions of cutting costs which contributes to worse health outcomes. Families having to make these difficult decisions negatively impact their quality of life. As we see these needs greatly increase, the need for support for The Ark’s financial assistance programs does too. Supporting The Ark means providing cycle breaking support to families that impact their wellbeing and also keeps families in their homes. Please consider The Ark in your giving this year."
Jessica's Story
Thank you,
Grace Bagwell Adams
Principal Investigator, Athens Wellbeing Project
YOU can be the difference between homelessness and HOPEFULNESS this winter! Every donation restores HOPE to a family experiencing financial crisis!