As a six-year board member, I have been impressed with Bridge of Hope's steadfast commitment to several key components of effective work: 1) seeing board work as a learning community, constantly searching for the best ways to work alongside real human people, not a target group; 2) constanting keeping the women & their children as the main focus of our energies, not the perpetuation of our organization; and, 3) seeing the strengths that a woman & her family bring to the task of ending their cycle of homelessness & its attendant issues.
Bridge of Hope National has the audacity to think it can end and prevent homelessness for women and children. As a board member I am impressed with our willingness to tackle this huge issue, to use the "best board practices" in the process of our work, and to use a professional model with such a high rate of sucess in working at this challenge.