2008 House

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Each year Collins Custom Builders gathers professional subcontractors and suppliers from all over the Northern Colorado area to build a high quality custom home with discounted and donated materials and labor.  The house is then displayed during the Parade of Homes and sold via a silent auction at the close of the Parade.  A hundred percent (100%) of the proceeds from the sale of the home are donated to A Kid’s Place and the Larimer County Child Advocacy Center. 

            This year’s home will again be built “Green”, with a “Universal Design”, and will also be built to withstand a tornado with up to 250 mile winds.

Please join us in our efforts and excitement with building this home! You can watch the progress with new photos that are added weekly and you can vote on different amenities to the home each week as well by visiting  www.builditforthechildren.org .

The 3rd Annual “Build It For The Children Charity House” was auctioned September 29, 2007. The house was built under the Universal Design/Build Green concept.


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The house was appraised at $640K and was sold for $530K.  The proceeds earned A Kid’s Place and Larimer County Child Advocacy Center $91,125 each!  Thank You to everyone whose huge efforts made this possible!!

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This benefits A Kid's Place!

En • dow • ment
n. 1: a charitable savings account 2: a lasting gift 3: a permanent fund 4: a repository for other current or deferred gifts 5: a source of future income 6: a memorial or legacy 7: a charity’s best friend

Our endowment fund at the Community Foundation Serving Greeley and Weld County will provide us with financial security in the future.  Please contact us to learn more about our fund and the ways in which you can support us

A Kid's Place is dedicated to making a difference in the life of one kid at a time. Please learn about our children and consider helping our effort - somehow, someway, you can also make a difference.

Remember, our kids are the victims of circumstances not caused by them - they are the innocents who are caught-up in the court-system. 

Please help ... it feels good!!!

A Kid’s Place is Relocating
What a difference a flood makes!
Gwen Schooley, Director

MAP ... How to Help
News Release - printable

On the morning of August 7^th ,  as I read the Greeley Tribune articles on the flash street flooding in the downtown area the night before, I quickly got to work early to make sure A Kid’s Place was safe for the day’s work. I was greeted at the door at 7 am by our good neighbors at Cache Bank and Trust with the horrible news that the lower level of the building was flooded.

The force of the water had filled a door well, collapsed the steel entry door and filled the basement with close to two feet of water and most of the neighborhood mulch, quickly overcoming the ability of numerous sump pumps to keep up. The upper level of the building had also sustained water damage, with wet carpets in many directions. So began many weeks of earnest work as we utilized the assistance of so many caring and amazing volunteers to salvage what we could use and dispose of what we couldn’t.

After many weeks of arduous deliberation, A Kid’s Place has made the difficult decision to leave the current downtown building, shared with Cache Bank and Trust, for a new location at 2540 11^th Avenue. Our move is scheduled to be complete by November 1^st. 

We have been fortunate in the past few months to have received so much help when we needed it. In the first days after the flood, we were so grateful to Cache Bank and Trust, the building owners, American Self-Serv Storage, BDR Fire and Restoration, Versagy LLC,  Brad Shade and 100 members of the Residence Hall Association at UNC, Chris Mullins, Deb Calvin, Dennis Lobato and sons, Det. Autumn Dickerson from Milliken PD and friend, members of Grace Church, Bratton’s Office Equipment, WC Youth Alternatives, and especially staff, family members and friends who helped clean, pack, and haul what we could.

In the ensuing weeks, we have relocated to temporary space at United Way, the Department of Social Services and even our own dining room tables! We appreciate all the offers of help, space, donations, support and patience. We especially appreciate all the hard work from board members, staff and Friends of A Kid’s Place as we kept all our activities going and made difficult decisions.

Our agency suffered tremendous loss due to the flooding. The furnishings in both of our child interview rooms, family waiting areas and many offices were lost as well as most of our office supplies, computer equipment, donations for children, office chairs and shelving. We are fortunate that our agency insurance will cover most of our new technology and clean up costs.

Other generous donations from Kiwanis of the Rockies, Kiwanis Foundation, Trinity Episcopal Church, Frosh LLC, Resicom, LandAmerica, and other donors have helped as we look at the costs of relocation and replacement.

We look forward to the future and thank all of the professionals and concerned community members for the critical role you play in helping A Kid’s Place aid the most vulnerable of our community’s children.

If you would like to help, please call our office at 353-5970 or see below for an updated list of agency needs.

Please call ahead to drop anything off, we will not be open at the new location until late October to accept donations.

Thank you to everyone who made our:
Our 8^th Annual “Light of Hope for A Child" Fundraiser
A HUGE Success

If you would still like to donate to this fundraiser
Please see the  “Donations” link below

DONATION

The For Goodness Sake consortium includes the following agencies:
 

A Kid’s Place A Woman’s Place

C.A.R.E. Eldergarden

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SUPPORTED AND/OR ATTENDED OUR
HARLEM AMBASSADORS EVENT!

IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS & WE HOPE TO MAKE IT AN ANNUAL EVENT!

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