A Hope Lives Here Proposal for Kathleen Sellick

A HOPE LIVES HERE PROPOSAL
FOR KATHLEEN SELLICK

“SPREAD LOVE EVERYWHERE YOU
GO. LET NO ONE EVER COME TO YOU
WITHOUT COMING AWAY BETTER AND
HAPPIER.”

- Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Dear Kathleen, COMMUNITY
I am pleased that we are fulfilling one of Father ROOM
Joe’s Villages’ most important visions together.
Saint Teresa of Calcutta Villa is the centerpiece SECOND FLOOR
of the ambitious Turning the Key blueprint, COURTYARD
which we crafted to relieve homelessness for
more than 2,000 people, by building affordable HOPE LIVES HERE
permanent housing. As a generous and loyal PROTECTS FATHER JOE’S
donor, your dedication has helped enable us to VILLAGES
provide a new beginning for many who we are
blessed to serve. The Hope Lives Here Campaign is unique and impactful.
I am honored to present a Naming Opportunity As you know, Father Joe’s Villages was able to secure
within Saint Teresa of Calcutta Villa that I the funding for the Saint Teresa of Calcutta Villa
believe is fitting with your commitment to our community through a progressive orchestration of
families and neighbors. I hope you will con- public and private funding. We are pleased to offer
sider Naming a Large Raised-bed Garden in Naming Opportunities and Recognition in this inspiring
the Community Courtyard and Garden on the community of hope, while directing campaign gifts to
second floor. critical needs of Father Joe’s Villages. These include
The large raised-bed gardens add to the repairs and maintenance of the aging Village campus,
healing environment of the courtyard with sus- funding core programs, and growing our endowment to
tainable native plants and beautiful landscape preserve Father Joe’s Villages’ vital community services
architecture. The two gardens are also envi- for years to come.
ronmentally friendly as they serve as natural Father Joe Carroll’s vision in the 1980s to create a
biofiltration systems to help capture and clean “one stop shop” of quality, essential services to better
surface water. help our neighbors overcome homelessness has
Strengthening engagement and spaces for proved to be a highly successful model. By providing
support, like the Community Courtyard and healthy meals, safe shelter, health and dental care,
Gardens, brings inspiration and dignity to all mental health care, substance use disorder treatment,
who live and play there and helps ensure that employment services, and therapeutic childcare all on
residents do not choose to move back to the one campus, Father Joe’s Villages succeeds in moving
streets. more than 1,000 people each year into permanent
Your name, your family name, or that of a housing, and provides shelter or housing for 2,100
loved one or admired person on the Trellis people each night.
Pavilion will be an inspiration for residents who
see that they are cared for, even by people
they do not know.
I am so very grateful to be on this journey with
you in a way that speaks to your heart, as we
seek to speak to the hearts of those we serve.
God bless you.
Deacon Jim

Father Joe’s Villages continues to be the region’s largest and most effective homelessness services provider,
thanks in large part to exceptional donors, like you. The original Village campus on 15th Street and Imperial
Avenue is now some 35 years old and the number of neighbors finding themselves in need of its services has
increased exponentially since it was built.
With tens of thousands of people going through its doors and halls each year, the aging Village campus is in
need of repair and maintenance to assure the safety and dignity of its buildings. In addition, the continuum
of specialized programs we provide is stretched to the brink and in need of supplemental funding to serve
people in need. Further, expanding our Legacy Endowment will ensure those in need for generations to come
will be able to access services that really work. Your generous gift will protect essential services for years to
come.

SECOND FLOOR
COURTYARD

RECOGNIZING YOUR GIFT

Kathleen, we respectfully ask you to consider a gift of $25,000 to name one of the
Large Raised-bed Gardens in the Community Courtyard & Gardens in Saint Teresa of
Calcutta Villa where residents will enjoy the healing environment to gather in friendship
and support of one another. The following are examples of how your generosity can be
recognized.

In Grateful Recognition of Kathleen and Philip Sellick
In Grateful Recognition of the Sellick Family

In Grateful Recognition of Kathleen, Philip, and Grace Sellick
In Honor of the Residents of Saint Teresa of Calcutta Villa

Commitments may be fulfilled over 2-3 years.

CONTACT INFORMATION

DEACON JIM F. VARGAS, OFS
PRESIDENT & CEO
[email protected]
619-446-2151

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