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Jan 18
2012Volunteers provide value to nonprofit organizations, but how do you measure that value?
Volunteers help serve meals to the homeless and hungry at the Jimmie Hale MissionBirmingham is a very charitable and giving community. We have lots of nonprofit organizations in our area that rely on the hard work of volunteers and the Jimmie Hale Mission is one of those organizations.
We count on volunteers to help in numerous ways and it's hard to value how much their work is worth. We do know that in 2010, we were blessed to have 8,747 volunteers help out at our ministries and we can see that that is a lot of caring individuals. (We'll post our 2011 figures soon).
Volunteers do crafts with the kids of Jessie's PlaceBut according to a recent report from VolunteeringInAmerica.gov, you can figure out what a volunteer's time is worth. According to their report, in Alabama a volunteer's time was worth $21.36 an hour. If each of our 8,747 volunteers helped only one time for one hour, that would equal over $186,000 in monetary worth. WOW!
If you'd like to see more statistics on volunteerism in Birmingham, click here. Or, if you'd like to go ahead and learn how you can help, click here!
Thank you to all of our volunteers! We can't describe how much your support means to us.
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Jan 9
2012School-aged children in the Birmingham area continue to show their willingness to help those less-fortunate...
One of the many wonderful placemats we received this past
Christmas and ThanksgivingEvery year, the Jimmie Hale Mission hosts its Placemat Project campaign. Kids from school groups, Sunday schools, daycares and home schools all participate in letting those less-fortunate know that they are cared for.
The students from Mrs. Richardson's and Ms. Loeb's classes from
Berry Middle School helped color placemats!Kids color in the blank placements and then send them back in to us. We use the completed placemats to decorate our dining halls throughout the holiday season. This lets the men, women and children at our shelters know that someone is thinking of them.
This placemat really is "yummy!"The placemats are shared at our Shepura Men's Center, Jessie's Place for women and children and at our Royal Pines Recovery Center in Blount County. These placemats help brighten up the walls of our dining halls and the spirits of those staying with us.
Dustin from Bumpus Middle School dropped
off placemats and a donation from the students!Thank you so much to all the schools, students, kids and families that participated in this year's Placemat Project. We can't wait to see what works of art we receive next year!
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Dec 27
2011The Jimmie Hale Mission received and gave many blessings this Christmas...
Volunteers from the Mission delivered meals
to local seniors and shut-ins
See CBS 42 video at bottom to see volunteers in actionThis Christmas, the Jimmie Hale Mission ministries blessed many homeless and hungry men, women and children with food, shelter and of course, Christmas gifts ("Santa" visits the children at Jessie's Place on Christmas morning). See below for the CBS 42 clip of Christmas at Jessie's Place:
Opening Christmas gifts at Jessie's Place
CBS 42 ClipBut the Mission itself was also blessed by the many caring people who donated and volunteered to help those less-fortunate. Thank you to everyone who helped make this holiday season special.
On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day we served a traditional Christmas meal to those at our three residential facilities, as well as delivered meals to local seniors and shut-ins.
CBS 42 followed one family of volunteers as they delivered mealsWe are extremely blessed to be in Birmingham, a city filled with caring individuals. If you would still like to help, it's not too late! Your year-end gift can still give a blessing to someone who needs it most, plus, it could give you a blessing in April come tax time.
Thank you, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Dec 15
2011Local retirement community finds a way to have fun and give back to others...
NBC 13 visited Town Village and covered the fundraiserTown Village retirement community in Vestavia encouraged its community to have fun while raising funds. The residential facility encouraged its members to participate in a Bingo game where all funds received were donated to the Jimmie Hale Mission.
In the end, around $200 was raised to help feed the homeless and hungry during Christmas - that translates to almost 100 people fed.
Video from NBC 13 of the Town Village Bingo Fundraising
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