My Nonprofit Reviews
bobhall
Review for Mercy Communities Inc, Springfield, IL, USA
I tell my friends that MERCY is the perfect charitable agency. It would be compassionate and useful enough if we just took in homeless women and their children, and gave them a place to stay. But that would just change their environment. We want to change their lives. We provide a nice place to stay but, in return, we demand that our moms go through parenting classes and life skills classes and drug/alcohol/mental health counseling, GED classes, job training ... - whatever is necessary to turn their chaotic lives into structured, productive ones. We have been phenomenally successful in ending the cycle of homelessness and failure for our moms and, especially, for their kids. We have a solid board and a great, caring staff. It is the most time-consuming, emotion-wringing work I've ever loved doing.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
attending graduations of mothers who have completed our intensive transitional program and are ready to move on to their own apartments and jobs.
How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every week
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
