Resiliency Profile: Safe Haven Family Shelter (The Little Engine That Could)

SHFS Guest Blogger John Hilley

We are pleased to post a blog from a guest blogger, John Hilley. He is a Safe Haven consultant and founder & president of Patmos, LLC. Recently I featured Safe Haven in our Resiliency Profile as our “resilient organization” for actions management and board has taken to deepen its mission impact, increase its financial sustainability, [...]

A Sneak Peek: A Dream Realized

cupola and lobby

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.~  Joel A Barker   At least once a week I have been visiting our new facility – usually to take a donor, potential donor or volunteer on a tour. Many people have passed by [...]

Thank you! Your Volunteerism is a Work of Heart.

shfs volunteers

Happy National Volunteer Week!  The Webster definition of a volunteer is: “a person who performs a service willingly and without pay.” As I reflected about the many different volunteers we have at Safe Haven, so many words came to mind to describe their characteristics. Then, I thought I’d be nifty and stick it into a [...]

Motels are Homes for a Generation of Homeless Families

Paul Cho, co-founder of Illumination Foundation and Jena Kay, program director at IL program site

Orange County is one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, but it also has one of the highest homeless family populations (and homeless population). Five years ago two recent MBA graduates, Paul Cho and Paul Leon, observed this need but also observed no one else was addressing this in any coordinated way and [...]

Hike for the Homeless: November 2, 2013