A HOME IN COMMUNITY
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May 16, 2013
AHIC provides a housing unit in a close-knit cohousing community for someone with physical disability and who lacks the means to buy into the community. It integrates someone into a village-like atmosphere, someone who might otherwise live a very isolated life. AHIC provides the financial means to enable the members of the community to then act as their best selves, taking care of one of their own in other ways. AHIC makes the cohousing complex it occupies, and the entire neighborhood around it, a better and more humane place to live. It keeps us, as neighbors, thinking about accessibility issues, when we might otherwise just not notice them.
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expand it and its model to other neighborhoods and communities
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May 16, 2013
The organization is very well run. The volunteer staff is incredibly dedicated. The cause is extremely worthwhile.
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May 15, 2013
A Home In Community (AHIC) was created to buy an apartment at Coho Ecovillage that would be rented to a person with a physical disability. I have no voluntary movement below my neck, due to Multiple Sclerosis (MS). It has been a challenge for me to be engaged in my community. I am the person that has been living in the AHIC funded apartment for the last 5 years. This has given me the opportunity to live in a co-housing community. The opportunities to be engaged in Coho are tremendous. I can simply roll out the front door of my apartment and engage with my neighbors. I can simply use my wheel chair to attend event in the community common house and neighbors homes or just go outside and talk to somebody. AHIC has made all of this possible.
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I don't believe that any changes are necessary.
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Life-changing
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Definitely
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Very Well
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2013
October 28, 2012
I am the current resident of the unit that was purchased by A Home In Community (AHIC). Living in CoHo Ecovillage for the last five years has been a life altering experience for me. I know and talk regularly with my neighbors. I feel like I am part of the community in CoHo which was never a feeling I had at the other places I rented. The community meals, community get-to-gathers such as barbeques, music events, movie nights, and work parties greatly increase my feeling that I am part of this community.
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Life-changing
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Definitely
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Very Well
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2012
May 15, 2013
What I appreciate about this organization is that all the money goes straight to the cause- there is no paid staff. When you give here you know exactly what your money is doing- making it possible for disabled people without the financial resources to buy a home to enjoy cohousing.
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May 9, 2013
A Home In Community has very effective leadership and uses its funds quite efficiently. The concept of this organization is working extremely well -- its first recipient, Mike, is very involved in the community, and both he and the community benefit from his living here, which wouldn't be possible without AHIC. In addition, I believe the friendships and interactions he gets by living here encourages and allows him to be more active in the broader community, so the benefit of this nonprofit is indirectly spread to many others as well.
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May 9, 2013
AHIC is important both for it's immediate impact on the life of its first tenant Mike Volpe and because of its promise for impacting many more similar people over time. Mike is an amazing paraplegic (from MS). He lives his life giving to others, yet without AHIC, there would be only his paid care givers to give back to him. AHIC allows him to live in a caring cohousing community. Living here he can visit friends via an easy unassisted exit out his door.
Cohousing is a growing movement world wide. AHIC's mission is to establish similar housing in other cohousing communities. Communities who will benefit from exposure to someone like Mike. Someone that will help many others see disabled folks as people with their own skills, strengths and weaknesses.
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2012
May 8, 2013
I can see the impact that A Home In Community has right here in my neighborhood. It's so important to incorporate people with disabilities into our communities and our lives.
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Definitely
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2013
October 29, 2012
Mike is a valued member of our community and all our lives are richer by having him here. AHIC has made this possible and has enabled Mike to be here and be a part of this cohousing neighborhood. People with these kind of handicaps can become isolated in traditional housing situations and AHIC, and of course, Mike, have made his inclusion as a neighbor and a valued member of the community possible.
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Life-changing
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2012
April 29, 2013
Well-run organization that has a direct impact. I've been very pleased to have the opportunity to volunteer and become involved.
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Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
A lot
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
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Definitely
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2013
April 21, 2013
A community needs a diversity of people...easy to say and often hard to do. AHIC provides an opportunity for a physically disabled person to be part of an active cohousing community. It is dedicated to maintaining this resource well into its future.
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A lot
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Definitely
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2013
April 21, 2013
It's a pleasure to have Mike living in our community. He brings such depth to our lives, and models living a rich life with a disability for all those around him. It's wonderful seeing our community rally around helping those in need...something I cherish for myself and my family.
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Life-changing
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2013
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