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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

CONGRATULATIONS TO CHIEF WIBERT!!! East Lansing's own Police Chief, put the Paczkis away and beat out the competition. A big thank you to all the celebrities that came out and the crowd that came to watch!! We hope to make this annual event.

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Haven House Cookbooks: Available

Haven House has produced a cookbook of tailgating recipes, including pictures of tailgaters and the stories of their tailgating activities. During the early part of the 2009 football season we visited tailgaters before the games to collect recipes, pictures, and stories. Spartan tailgaters eat well and have interesting stories to tell. These have been combined, along with pictures of their tailgating, into a cookbook that we are sure you will enjoy. The book is dedicated to the families that stay at Haven House in their time of crisis.

We have received our initial shipments of the books, and can now begin to fulfill orders. See the link above to get further information about purchasing a cookbook.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Adopt a Shelter donations of household cleaners, personal needs, paper products and other supplies provide much needed help throughout the year. These items are given to families when they move into permanent housing or are used in the day to day maintenance of Haven House. Shelter needs can be found by checking our Wish List on our Donations page.

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Monday, November 02, 2009

Adopt a Family for the Holidays 2009

Haven House's annual holiday program, Adopt a Family for the Holidays, is beginning. Adopt a Family matches a sponsor or group of sponsors with families that stayed at Haven House during the past year or are currently residing at Haven House.

It has become increasingly difficult for the families to meet basic living costs. After paying rent and utilities, the families have little if any money left for other necessities.

The goal of Adopt a Family is to provide some of these necessities as well as a few extras. A list of the family's needs and wants is provided to help in purchasing items to the sponsors. The sponsors use the list to select gifts for the family.

Please email Maresa at mtedrick@havenhouseEL.org or call her at 337-2731 to participate.

Monday, November 02, 2009

We have a new, lighted sign on our building donated by Central Sign Company.

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Benefit Concert a Big Success!!
Matthew Oelson, an MSU student who volunteered at Haven House on MLK Day, was so impressed by what he saw that day that he decided he wanted to do more for Haven House. Because he is a musician, he decided to organize a benefit concert at Martin Luther Chapel in East Lansing on May 30, 2009. It was a remarkable event!

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

The Vision, Haslett High School's Award Winning Television and Film program, hosted their 5th telethon, T5. The Vision has been creating films and helping our community for over twelve years. The past telethons have raised over $50,000 for the program and local families in need. This year they increased their contributions by raising over $14,000 and presented a $7,500 check to Haven House.

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Monday, June 01, 2009

Our remodeling project is, after what has felt like an eternity, nearly completed. We are scheduled to be completed with this part of the project by the end of January (although we know that it is inevitable that minor details will remain to be taken care of after that.) For more information about what we have done, click the link to see additional information). We will soon have more pictures to illustrate the results of all of these efforts.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Haven House was selected to be a class project for the graduate course in Evaluation taught by Prof. Rebecca Campbell of the MSU Department of Psychology. The class has worked all semester to develop the foundation for the evaluation of our services to our clients. Haven House has always been concerned that our services be as effective as possible in assisting our clients to return to stable housing, provided with new tools to make it more likely that they will be able to remain in a stable housing situation. The products of this class will give us better tools to evaluate the effectiveness of our services.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Today the students of the first grade class at the Marble School in East Lansing presented a check for $1380 to Darlene vanRavensway, our Deputy Director, to support our Food Bank pantry.

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Every fall Haven House has a program to provide new school clothes and supplies for the children who have lived at Haven House this past year. You may have happy memories (and photographs) of children in your family smiling and excited for school to begin and proud of their new outfits and school paraphernalia.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

On May 22 we had a successful Charity Golf Scramble at Hawk Hollow. Golfers enjoyed a nice day on a very nice course while supporting the activities of Haven House. Haven House was especially fortunate to have the support of two celebrities, Rick Comley, the coach of the MSU Spartan National Champion Hockey Team (2007) and Kevin Miller, former MSU hockey player and then successful professional hockey player in the NHL.

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Haven House chosen as the recipient of the 2007 Reichle Awar

Walter J. Reichle, long time owner/operator of McDonald's restaurants in the Grand Rapids area, left a bequest to the Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of Outstate Michigan. In memory of Walter Reichle, the Reichle Award was created by RMHC to be be given to a recipient of an RMHC grant. This year Haven House received its second RMHC grant, to support our enrichment program for children staying at Haven House. In addition, we were selected to receive the 2007 Reichle Award, a cash conribution that we will put to good use. On February 27th representatives of the Reichle family and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Outstate Michigan visited Haven House to see us in action and to present a plaque and a check to Angie Mayeaux, Executive Director of Haven House. We are proud to have our work recognized in this way, and to receive vitally needed support for our programs.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Rep. Mark Meadows Challenge Met

State Representative Mark Meadows challenged Mid-Michigan residents to help in the fight against poverty and homelessness in the community. As citizens heard the news they decided to take Meadows up on his offer and Haven House received $2,355 from generous donors. Meadows offered to match up to $1,000 of the monetary donations to Haven House bringing the grand total of contributions to $3,355. We would like to thank Mark Meadows and those who participated in the "Meadows Challenge".

Wednesday, May 20, 2009