My Nonprofit Reviews

Cynthia
Review for Community Against Sexual Harm (CASH), a program of Community Pride Project, North Highlands, CA, USA
My experience with CASH started with meeting some of the staff at a three day Human Trafficking Training Seminar over two years ago. Through my work with women in my local church I was seeing more women coming off the streets and did not know how to help them obtain resources.
The Program Coordinator at CASH has been a valuable resource whenever I needed to find a referral in the community to help a woman. I have referred women to the CASH Center.
The women of my church have partnered with the CASH Center to provide clothing, hygiene items, blankets, shoes, etc. each month. We also donate a $25 gift card so that the women may have a meal once a month.
It's been rewarding to attend Open Houses and see how the staff work with such limited funding. They have done a wonderful job of creating a location for women to come off the street and feel welcomed, feel safe, and spoken to in a non-judgmental way so as to facilitate an atmosphere of trust encouraging women to set goals, and support the women when they do set goals. And provide the referrals the women need to begin a new life - away from prostitution.
The staff of CASH have spoken to the women at our church and helped us to understand the mission and vision for CASH. We were able to cry along with the speakers and it has helped our women to be compassionate, caring, and giving. When the Program Coordinator sends me an email with a need at the CASH Center, our women will come through!
We are a smaller congregation, but we have a big heart for the women who turn to the CASH Center.
I am so glad that the officers had the vision to start this CASH Center.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Hearing the testimony of the women who have been helped at the CASH Center.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Help them secure funding, grants, donations, etc. to keep the doors open. I would ask smaller organizations to consider giving a $25 gift card monthly from Costco or another store the Center shops at for the women. A lot of smaller donations will add up.