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Love Gala 2022
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New Hope for Families‘ third annual Love Gala is a fundraising event to support providing a safe place for foster children to live and grow. The event features fine food, a cash bar and a silent auction in support of local foster children.
In February 2019 the St Anthony’s Community Center, which was owned by the Benedictine Sisters and managed by Essentia Health, was gifted to New Hope for Families complete with a six-bedroom home. New Hope was able to utilize the home for one of its newly licensed foster families, providing eight additional beds to meet foster care needs in St. Louis County. The center includes a Romanesque chapel, a gymnasium and several classrooms, as well as a fenced-in outdoor playground and green space.
New Hope is working to reopen the childcare center providing eight infant, 14 toddler and 20 preschool openings. Thanks to a local private donation of $25,000, New Hope partnered with Northern Bedrock Restoration Mentorship Program for interior wall restoration. Other major restoration projects needed are a lift to make the center handicap accessible, repairs to gutters, a kitchen remodel, set up of the family visitation room, parking lot blacktop, and decking for an outdoor green space for the foster care shelter.
The goal is to raise $80,000 to cover updates and repairs and be able to create a fund to help families working to provide a warm, safe place of security and love for children who have been removed from dangerous homes.
