Wausau Nonprofits and Charities

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What do they do? I have asked for support several times as a legally disabled person living below poverty. I’m trying to exercise my rights. They always say they don’t have the time or resources. I see 0 reviewers of them helping low income people! And it’s the only low income legal help for the county!

NAMI Northwoods helped me understand my son's mental illness and greatly enhance my communications with him.

This recovery club is great to have for the greater Wausau community area. Especially concerning the increase need for someone dealing with alcohol or drug addiction. The club charges nothing for individuals to step in and get the support they need. In fact, they offer special events throughout the year (Christmas with Santa, summer picnic, speaker events, and other holiday events) with no expectations for donations. This group has helped to save many lives and for me it has helped connect with new friends a people who I can relate to, and allows me to share my experience, strength and hope with other. The AA Program is solidly used by groups utilizing this awesome facility. Come check it out.

We have been involved with Good News Project almost since its inception. We have travelled to the Islands of the West Indies with Good News Project and helped in the construction of over 400 houses for needy families in the Islands. This participation has been a rich experience for us. <br> <br>For many years electronic recycling has been a major source of income for Good News Project. As well as a source of funding, electronics recycling helps to keep those toxic products out of our landfills. We have helped Good News Project coordinate a recycling event in our local community for several years and the demand for these events continues to grow. <br> <br>The Good News Project is a very worthy and well run charitable organization. We are proud and pleased to consider ourselves members. <br>Our lives have been enriched. <br> <br>Carol and Bill Weber <br>Irma, Wisconsin <br>

My daughter considers TIDE her second home. The TIDE coaches provide more than just excellent swim advice, they are mentors that have helped shape my child's life expectations. Hard work will lead to results. Stay true to who you are. Make choices based on your long term goals. <br> <br>Thank you TIDE!

The gentleman from "Wise Resources" walked into my store which is closing and tells me I should be donating anything once I get down to discounting things to less than 20%. I told him I had checked with my Accountant and he had said that is not true. The gentleman then told me "Some of the most illiterate people I know are Tax Accountants" My wife is an Accountant and the guy who does my tax accounting is a good friend. I will throw everything in the garbage rather than give anything to this organization. Wise Resources INC. will get nothing from me.

My name is Norbert Alan Francis Rausch and I&rsquo;m a Vietnam veteran who through the years has lost my way. I did not plan for my present circumstances to evolve as they did. I am now a chronic alcoholic, unemployed and homeless. At one time I was an experienced journeyman machinist of 16 years. Then one morning my past caught up with my present. I literally lived on the streets for close to 4 years, eating my meals out of trash dumpsters, living under bridges, watching other homeless people being mistreated by those who felt nothing for their fellow human beings. I moved from place to place to elude the authorities. My day consisted of finding food, shelter and occasionally tobacco, including alcohol, to numb my overwhelming feelings of despair, loneliness and absolute worthlessness as an individual. This continued for quite some time until one day I overdosed on alcohol and was literally pronounced dead. Yes the good Lord was watching over me. As He has done throughout my life and allowed me to once again breathe. It was then that I thanked God; the people who I thought I had lost through the years, for their support and vowed to never let my actions interfere with the smiles on the faces of my loved ones!!! Enter Randlin Homes and the organizations founders Ralph Schlitz and Linda Larson Schlitz. Both are the guardians of God&rsquo;s people. These 2 people have more compassion and hope for individuals as myself than anyone I&rsquo;ve come across in my life. The Randlin Homes organization is committed to helping those in need of shelter, food, clothing, leadership, direction and an overall feeling of self-worth. In this organization there is now one who&rsquo;s better than the next. We feel the need to once again be needed as individuals. We once again hear the simple words of &ldquo;thank you&rdquo; for a job well done. There&rsquo;s the feeling of togetherness, working to achieve a hopeless situation into a positive result. The feeling of overall self-worth is something that has eluded many of us for years. At Randlin Homes that has become one of the most important aspects of the starting over process. Ralph and Linda are our best teachers. I cannot stress enough what Randlin Homes has done for me and others like me. I&rsquo;m once again proud of myself and what &lsquo;I&rsquo;m achieving along the way. There&rsquo;s so much to be said about a simple smile where once there was only a found!! This organization has put life back into people just as God put life back into his Son. For all that Randlin Homes has done for this community, that is to lessen the homeless numbers on the street, show compassion for those in need and feed the hungry. Unfortunately, despite their best efforts we still always run short on man&rsquo;s almighty dollar. We&rsquo;ve had brat sales, thrift store sales, clothing sales, mowed lawns and shoveled walks but it costs a lot to help others in need. Randlin Homes is the only organization I know of that doesn&rsquo;t turn its back on anyone-regardless. It is for this reason that I, and the many other residents who reside here nominated Ralph and Linda for the 2010 Red Cross Community Real Heroes award. Perhaps with this acknowledgement will come more community awareness that there are many fallen soldiers like myself that need help and that before Randlin Homes there was none here in our community. Not only will we and the many others who come after thank you but so will the Lord Ralph and Linda have done what God asked of them and would be a great example for others to follow as they have been to us. We hope that Randlin Homes will be acknowledged as the outstanding organization for veterans that it is.