Home For Christmas 2017- House Families for a Year

Fort Lauderdale metro area, United StatesFire Forged Recovery

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Raised of $10,000 USD

Fundraising ended on Feb 10, 2017
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About This Project

Fire Forged Recovery is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization that helps people find a path towards wholeness by helping them to develop new tools. By getting back in touch with buried hopes and dreams lost through years of addiction, loss and trauma, people use their inner strength to build or rebuild a life free of unhealthy attachments. Since forming the organization in January of 2016, we have had the honor of watching people of ages ranging from 16 to 60 find recovery and restore talents, aspirations, joys and families thought to be long lost in the wreckage of addiction.

Our story began over 25 years ago when out founder and some members of our board worked unceasingly in their professional and family lives to help clients and loved ones find freedom from drug addiction. The years were filled with examples of unexpected delight and success, and also crippling sadness when someone's inability to achieve recovery lead to overwhelming losses- sometimes even death. We knew that there had to be more to the equation than helping people learn to get sobriety within the walls of a program, only to watch them sometime fall right back into dysfunction when treatment ended. Through combining life coaching and recovery tools, and diving right into the client's life with them, we have seen remarkable successes. With your help, we can turn these tools on one of the most intractable problems in our society-- homelessness. Together, we can house at least five homeless families affected by addiction, and provide life recovery coaching to them. Along with medical, counseling, nutritional and vocational supports, we can help the families get themselves firmly planted on a foundation of recovery that will affect the rest of their lives. You'll be giving the children of these households far more than a donation of toys for the holidays. You will be helping them to experience the priceless gifts of a home within which to play with those toys, and the joy of sober, present parenting. This gift, full of possibility, will change our world for years to come.

Use Of Funds

$10,000 Tipping Point Goal

Matched with donated housing space, the funds used will go towards covering the costs related to housing, such as repairs, utility deposits and assistance with monthly utility costs, furnishings and associated delivery fees, life recovery coaching and support services, for two homeless families, for one year.

$30,000 Stretch Goal

The funds will be used as described above, but we will be able to assist three additional homeless families for one year, thereby serving a total of five families.


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Thank You!
$10.00

Real change in a society is often made through the efforts of ordinary people like you and me, contributing what we can toward the goal. We will send you a thank you card to let you know exactly how much it means to us that you have contributed to this campaign from your own heard earned resources. We know that each dollar will change not only the lives of the receiving families, but those of everyone that the families will encounter. The ripple effect is real!

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The Lifeblood
$25.00

Along with our heartfelt thank you expressed in a card and a receipt for your tax-deductible donation, we will send you a custom coffee mug. It will be a great way to start a conversation about the amazing thing you've done.

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The Oxygen
$100.00

To thank you for your wonderful gift, we will send you a a custom coffee mug and a Fire Forged Recovery T-shirt in addition to the above gifts.

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The Heartsong
$500.00

Along with a custom coffee mug and a Fire Forged Recovery T-shirt , if you're local in South Florida, some members of our board of directors will take you to lunch (if you're elsewhere, we'd love to talk with you by telephone about the organization, and we'll send you a second shirt and a gift certificate for lunch on us).

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Change Hero
$1,000.00

In addition to all of the above, we will name one of the year-long grants to a homeless family after you. We will remember you in our donor funding history documents for the life of the organization. After all, you are a pioneer.

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The Champ
$5,000.00

We will be honored to send you all of the above, plus provide you with an award at a ribbon cutting when the families move into their homes this December.

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The North Star
$10,000.00

Along with the gifts of all of the previous levels, we have a special seat for you on our advisory board.

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