Each year the members of H.E.A.R.T. demonstrate tremendous generosity, creativity and compassion for women and children who have been abused. In the past year, H.E.A.R.T. members helped provide victims with clean clothes and shoes; paid for emergency housing for women fleeing violence in their homes; sent hundreds of foster kids back to school with new backpacks and supplies; guaranteed follow-up counseling for children who were abused and neglected; and created a safe place for children to heal and begin to dream of a future free from violence.
But in the past year, the number of children being seen at the Violence Intervention Program clinics has nearly doubled. We need a stronger, larger H.E.A.R.T. membership to help us protect all of these children and families.
We need 100 H.E.A.R.T. Members in 2010!
The funds raised through annual H.E.A.R.T. memberships are earmarked for direct client services through the Violence Intervention Program. VIP is very proud that 90% of all income goes to direct client programs and services.
Help us reach our goal!
Please join H.E.A.R.T. for 2010 or renew your membership today. If you have made other gifts in the past, this is the time to take the next step and become part of this powerful group of women for what we promise will be an amazing year.
daughters filled the boutique to make their own one-of-a-kind clothing. The store donated a portion of the afternoon’s proceeds to H.E.A.R.T. as well as put together special gift bags with clothes and stuffed animals that guests could buy and have given to a girl in need during the holiday season. H.E.A.R.T. Board member and actress Shiva Rose and her daughter Collette McDermott were on hand as were other H.E.A.R.T. board members, supporters and friends like Linda Rubin, Gillian Wynn, Gelila Puck, Jamie, and Elizabeth and her daughter.
The color and energy inside Fashionology was the perfect backdrop for an event intended to build up resources and support for girls who have been so tortured that they stop believing in their own future or their own self-worth.
onto, a comforting presence with whom to be sad, mad, happy, angry or scared.
You can’t build bridges, write poetry, or uncover the mysteries of the physical world without the proper tools. And so many of the children who come to VIP are without those tools. Every day more and more families tell us that because of lay offs, medical bills, and astronomical rents they are having trouble just putting food on the table. They have no idea how they will be able to get their children backpacks, lunch boxes, pencils, pens, notebooks, paper, crayons, calculators, and everything else that the schools will require them to have but not provide for them.
