
Oasis of Hope is a non-profit, community-based Christian
organization that encourages life-on-life relationships that connect
people across racial and socioeconomic boundaries. Our mission is to
demonstrate Christ’s love to an under-resourced community in Memphis by
elevating and improving the quality of neighborhood life through
empowerment and partnerships.
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Oasis of
Hope has a new partnership with Manassas High School to invest more in the
lives of our students there. Much like our partnership with ManRise and
the Football Team, we are coming alongside the baseball program at the school
to help the players develop the necessary skills to compete, in baseball and in
life. If you like the game…this opportunity is for you! Click here to view a slideshow from Spring Training. We need
fans, volunteers, coaches and sponsors to make this dream a reality by coming to games or practices and getting to know and support the players. Read on to find out how YOU can get involved or to view their Game Schedule!
Five years ago Oasis of Hope began offering Volunteer Income Tax
Assistance
(VITA) to the residents in the Oasis neighborhood. The site, located
at the Bickford Community Center helps individuals and families file
their income taxes for FREE. Statistics have shown that more than 60%
of Memphis residents do not take advantage of the earned income tax
credits available to them, and many residents have been tricked into
paying huge fees to have their taxes filed. Therefore, we began
seeking to address these injustices and provide help in this important
area where families live. Read more>>
Click here to see before and after pictures.
Meet James and Shalita our first employees! James grew up in the
neighborhood and Shalita came to us through a partnership with Bridges'
job training program. We are excited to
be providing work experience for their futures. Store hours are
Tuesdays,Thursdays and Fridays from 11am-3pm, and Saturdays from
10am-12pm. Sales are going SO WELL though that we're running out of stock!! If you have any appliances to get rid of, we need them! If
interested, please email Terrice
or call her at 527-0074. Many thanks to our head volunteers, Bill Kane
and Tom Harrison who volunteer their time to manage the store, and to
the Men's Ministry for all their hard work
fixing up the new store, and to the youth for cleaning many of the
appliances! Read more >>
Oasis is glad to report that we have received a Federal
Neighborhood Stabilization Program grant to bring additional affordable housing
to our neighborhood in North Memphis! We were awarded a $300,000 grant to
rehab up to 7 homes in the neighborhood; and the process has begun. We
have identified and purchased our first home in the community. It is
located in front of Caldwell Elementary School, in the heart of our neighborhood.
It is a sound, brick structure that has been vacant for approximately 2
years. We intend to spend a total of $40,000 on the property, making it a
quality place for a family to live in the community. We hope for
construction to begin on the home in late February. Please consider
volunteering some time to the project once it begins. Typical volunteer
assistance includes painting, landscaping, light carpentry and clean-up.
It may even be a part of our Spring Hope House projects. Keep checking
here for the latest information.
We have good news to report! Our new subdivision plan has been approved by
Memphis' Office of Planning & Development (see diagram). We are anxiously awaiting the demolition of
the current apartment buildings by Code Enforcement in the next couple of months. The initial phase is scheduled to begin this
spring (10 housing units). We anticipate
the entire development to cost just over $5 million with our responsibility to
raise approximately $500,000 in gap funding to accomplish this major goal. The development will bring quality housing at
very affordable rents to low-income families in our community, which is a dire
need. You can help be a part of the
solution to this problem. If you would
like to give to this outreach, you can donate online
or write checks to Oasis of Hope, Inc. and put
Bearwater Park in the memo. Click here or click the graphic to the left to view the blueprints for the property! For ongoing details on this project view the Bearwater Park web page.
Memphis
has one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the country. A new
documentary and panel discussion looks at this big problem and how the
community is responding. Watch this riveting story and see how some of
our staff and volunteers have tried to make an impact on this crucial
issue in our city. Click here to view a video clip. Read more >>
On Friday, February 12, our Adopt-a-Class sponsors hosted
Valentine's parties for all the classrooms at Caldwell. The sponsors brought goodies and supplies for
the students to make Valentine cards for the St. Jude patients at Target House,
and the seniors at Bickford Community Center and Magnolia Terrace. The cards turned out absolutely beautiful,
and not only did the kids have fun making them, but they also brightened a lot
of other people's lives that day! Our next Adopt-a-Class event for the year will be the
Easter Parties and Easter Egg Hunt coming up in March! Watch for details!!
There are four ways we need your help: 1) donate your used appliance, 2) volunteer to work in our store, 3) volunteer to help pick up appliance donations, and 4) shop in our store! Please contact us for details or read on for more information about the appliance store.
Sign up for your gift/customer cards today if you'd like to support our ministry without paying us a penny. This is a small act that produces big results! Read on for more information >>
As a new school year begins, we will once again be recruiting volunteers to assist us with the following: 1) Adopt-A-Class Caldwell Elementary/4 times a year, 2) Tutoring at Caldwell Elementary/M-F 11am-1pm, 3) Tutoring at Humes Middle/W from 1:15-2:15pm, 4) Read 2 Succeed (one-on-one reading with elementary students)/M, T or W 4-530pm. Looking for another way to help? Caldwell School is in need of some school supply items that were not on the school supply list, such as: Kleenex, baby wipes, Clorox wipes, hand sanitizer, Ziploc bags, etc. Any donations would be greatly appreciated! Contact Brenda for more details.
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