Freedom Station in San Diego, California

Patriotic House Quilts for Freedom Station in San Diego, California  by by L-R  Jeannie Palmer Moore and Dorothy Stocking

Veterans First in Garden Grove, California

L-R Top - Cindy Cooksey, Jean C. Impey; L-R Lower - Pamela Price Klebaum, Jamie Fingal

L-R Top - Teresa Shippy, Julie Schlueter; L-R Lower - Michelle Flores, Felisa Lyons

L-R Top - Terry Waldron, Felisa Lyons; L-R Lower - Jamie Fingal, Anne Copeland

L-R Top - Barb Williamson, Anne Copeland; L-R Lower - Michelle Flores, Felisa Lyons

L-R Top - Felisa Lyons, Jamie Fingal; L-R Lower - Felisa Lyons (both)

L-R - Terry Waldron, Jamie Fingal

Dash 2 Design

I worked with Furnishing Hope for their on-going project Dash 2 Design

for three Marines in the Wounded Warrior Battalion, San Diego

Jamie Fingal

Veterans First Orange County

Furnishing Hope to design and furnish Veterans First Josephine Street facility

in Garden Grove, home to 22 disabled veterans

Furnishing Hope is giving the Veterans First, Josephine Street facility in Garden Grove a facelift during the month February.  Furnishing Hope coordinates and secures designers, delivery trucks, furniture, accessories, construction, plumbing and anything else the facility may need.  Some of the organizations assisting in this effort are Living Spaces, Building Trades Network, Dunn Edwards Paint, and Ben Franklin Plumbers.

It is estimated that 4,600 veterans live on the streets in Orange County.  This number is expected to increase in the months ahead as our young men and women return from their deployment.  Furnishing Hope partners with a number of veterans and active duty organizations to be ready within hours or days to make a home for as many of these warriors and their families as our funds will allow.

The Perfect Placement of House Quilts on the Walls

Habitat for Humanity - Orange County

L-R from Top - Cindy Cooksey, Julie Schlueter; lower L-R - Jamie Fingal, Anne Copeland

L-R from Top - Loris Bogue, Jane LaFazio, Jamie Fingal; lower L-R - Jamie Fingal, Anne Copeland, Jamie Fingal

L-R from Top - Pamela Price Klebaum, Leslie Tucker Jenison; lower L-R - Felisa Lyons, Terry Waldron

L-R from Top - Teresa Shippy, Vickie Valdez Green; lower L-R - Peggy Calvert, Joanell Connolly

Furnishing Hope

About Furnishing Hope

Founded in 2004, Furnishing Hope’s mission is to improve the living space for people in need, one room at a time.

Accomplishments:

• Furnished 5 homes for members of the Wounded Warrior Battalion since January 2010. These returning military sustained combat injuries in Iraq and Afganistan.
• Furnished and decorated 60 homes built by Habitat for Humanity.  Eleven homes in the San Juan Capistrano project homeowners were for military families.
• Furnished and decorated 16 apartments for Orangewood Foundation's Rising Tide Community.
• Provided complete home furnishings for three, low income families who lost their homes to fire for the American Red Cross.

Projects to be completed before the end of  2010:

• One 22 bedroom  facility for Veterans First, sheltering 30 homeless, disabled veterans in Anaheim.
• Any Wounded Warrior Battalion member needing our assistance.

Furnishing Hope, headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, is a 501c3 nonprofit corporation. For more information about Furnishing Hope of Orange County, please call Beth Phillips, founder and executive director, at (949) 640-8012 or visit our web site at www.FurnishingHope.org.