10 Years Ago…
The year was 2002. Lilo & Stitch won Best Animated Picture at the Oscars; the United States won 34 medals at the Winter Games in Salt...
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sarah5365
Feb 15, 20123 min read
A Good Solution for Julie & Hanna
This year, Bridges of Hope added a new program to its continuum of services for families. Respite Services provides a regular break to...
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sarah5365
Feb 10, 20122 min read
Common Goods Treasures Go Global
Contributions by Claire Erholtz, Common Goods Summer Retail Staff; and Jim Nagy, Common Goods Volunteer ——————————————————————- Last...
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sarah5365
Jan 27, 20122 min read
Doing For Others
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal” – Albert Pike. I...
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sarah5365
Jan 19, 20121 min read
Bridge for the Arb Completed
This is a community that cares. We are thrilled to announce that our bridge project with Nor-Son, Simonson Lumber, and the Northland...
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sarah5365
Jan 17, 20121 min read
Recycle Mania
Posted by Suzanne Welch, Common Goods General Manager. Common Goods held its first two-day Recycle Mania event on Jan 6-7, 2012. We had a...
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sarah5365
Jan 13, 20124 min read
Rachel is the Living Proof
Here at Bridges of Hope, almost 100% of the clients we work with are struggling financially to some extent. One of our main goals when...
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sarah5365
Jan 3, 20121 min read
2011 Blogging Review by WordPress
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60...
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sarah5365
Jan 2, 20123 min read
Music to My Ears
For many, the Holidays are a wonderful time of year filled with family, fun, laughter, giving (and eating!). One of my favorite things...
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sarah5365
Dec 28, 20112 min read
Having Christmas Every Day
Photo by Michal Marcol http://bit.ly/freedigitalphotosMarcol This Christmas, many of us will have ventured out into stores to purchase...
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sarah5365
Dec 20, 20112 min read
We Did It…Because of YOU
This has been an incredible year at Bridges of Hope, where we have been blessed with a multitude of gifts as well as a handful of...
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sarah5365
Dec 19, 20111 min read
Campaign Nears the $60,000 Mark
On Saturday, December 10, Bridges of Hope’s Fall Campaign reached the $50,000 mark, leaving just $10,000 to raise before year-end…which...
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sarah5365
Dec 12, 20113 min read
Having an Upcycled Christmas
So my extended family has this somewhat quirky (although not completely unique to us) tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas...
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sarah5365
Dec 6, 20112 min read
Not Having to Choose Between Gifts or Rent
Christmas can be a difficult time of year for some of the families working with Bridges of Hope. Often, families have to make tough...
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sarah5365
Nov 22, 20113 min read
Thanksgiving and Christmas
For many of us, Thanksgiving and Christmas are days where we spend time with loved ones, attend a special evening service at our place of...
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sarah5365
Nov 21, 20111 min read
Giving to the Max
We here at Bridges of Hope were blown away last Wednesday, when our supporters hit the $40,000 mark on our Fall Campaign. In case you...
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sarah5365
Nov 15, 20113 min read
Carl needed help doubling his gift
You’ve probably been hearing more and more about online giving over the last couple of years. So had Carl, but I’ll get to that in a...
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sarah5365
Nov 11, 20111 min read
First Bridge Section Complete
Thanks to the quick work of the good folks at Nor-Son, the first section of our bridge is already complete! On Wednesday, November 9,...
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sarah5365
Nov 9, 20111 min read
Campaign Reaches First $10,000 Mark
Our sincere thanks go out to the 27 generous donors who have already helped us raise $12,200 in just a little over a week’s time! What...
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sarah5365
Nov 8, 20113 min read
Building a Bridge
Artist's rendering of the completed bridge Bridges of Hope is building a bridge. Yes, a physical bridge. This fall we established a new...
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