SHARE Update10-17-11
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Oct 17, 2011, 4:46:24 PM10/17/11
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MONDAY 10/17/11 MID DAY UPDATE
It’s been a heck of a week for SHARE:
A Quick Summary: The SHARE Gates Shelter is open, the Usual SHARE
Indoor Shelters are closed, FEMA Money has been restored to reopen
SHARE Shelters but when it will arrive is a mystery, the Harvest Time
Auction went well, WHEEL and its partners continue to pray (and
remember) the dead while fighting like hell for the living.
MONDAY OCTOBER 10TH aka World Homeless Action Day. The entire SHARE
Indoor Shelter Network closed this morning with no bus tickets and
$30,000 in debt. Fortunately, SHARE isn’t a traditional shelter
provider. SHARE is a community of homeless and formerly homeless men
and women. That means the shelters closures weren’t the end of the
story, but another chapter.
SHARE’s next chapter began at 7:00 PM that same Monday. Approximately
300 homeless men, women, and friends of all shapes and sizes marched a
mile from the SHARE Office to the World Headquarters of the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation.
On the sidewalk in front of the worlds largest charity a sleep out
began – we call it the SHARE Gates Shelter. From 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM
every night since, at least 70 homeless men and women have slept there
– together, safe, peaceful and sober.
We’ll be there every night until our indoor shelters reopen. Please
drop on by with a prayer, an encouraging word, or to spend the night
in solidarity.
If you’re curious about the Gates Foundation, read our attached
letters to Microsoft below. Ask yourself – or better yet them – why,
if they intend to spend 100 million in solving homelessness in King,
Pierce and Snohomish Counties, don’t they intend to give a dime of
that money to the largest shelter network in the Northwest?
And yes, we know Microsoft isn’t a bottomless pit of money, or the
only International Corporation in town – that’s why we wrote the same
request to 13 International Corporations based in Seattle. CHARITY AND
JUSTICE BEGIN AT HOME.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12TH. Women in Black stand for the deaths of six
homeless people who have recently died outside or by violence in King
County. They are Joseph Brown, Miguel Hernandez-Leon, Homer Pierce,
Jeffry Hilden, Amy Breeze and Gagg Ashok. This brings to 19 the
number of homeless people we know have died in these terrible
circumstances this year.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 14TH. The local Federal Emergency Management Agency
Board charged with allocating Emergency Food and Shelter Grants for
FEMA in King County reconvened. Their task: allocate 1/5th of the
money cut in late July from King County (that was 1.2 million.)
20 SHARE participants were in the Bill and Melinda Gates Community
Room at the King County United Way Headquarters as the decisions were
made. We asked for a restoration of the full $44,000 SHARE lost, and
the Local Board voted their intention to restore that full amount!
A formal decision comes this Wednesday October 19th. SHARE is
grateful to King County of United Way for making this recommendation
and to the Local Board for adopting it. Now we’ll find out how long
it takes for the $44,000 to get through the pipeline from Washington
DC – no one really knows.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15TH. The SHARE Power Lunch/Board of Directors votes
to accept a new compromise proposal over Safe Harbors – the City of
Seattle Homeless Management Information System. This will allow us
to begin receiving withheld funding from the State of Washington and
make us eligible for funding through King County next year.
The PL/BofD also votes to ask the 13 International Corporations based
in Seattle that were written to on October 3rd to either match the
$44,000 from FEMA, or provide Bridge Money to SHARE until the FEMA
Check comes. This would allow the SHARE Gates Sleep out to end, and
the indoor shelters to reopen much sooner.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 16TH. SHARE’s sisters at WHEEL co-host a Book Reading
at Elliot Bay Books for Desiree Hellegers' new book ‘No Room of Her
Own.’ The book offers personal history’s of homeless/formerly
homeless women in Seattle, including their work with WHEEL. Readings
from the WHEEL Poetry Anthology ‘Beloved Community’ closed out the
afternoon.
Sunday afternoon at 3:00 PM the highly anticipated 9th Annual Harvest
Time Auction, hosted and organized by the Shelter Board, begins.
Around 4:30 Master of Ceremonies Ken Schram took a cell phone call
from his wife: Their daughter was in labor at the hospital with their
first grandchild! Ken headed to hospital – almost at a loss for words
for once - with our blessings.
He had forewarned us the baby due date was October 16th, but Eric
Jaeger of Haller Lake United Methodist Church was still surprised to
be hosting the auction. Eric did a terrific job, was a great sport
about it, and we thank him for stepping up.
It is still a mystery why the Keynote Speaker, Ron Sims, didn’t show
up. Lines of communication do get crossed sometimes, and there is
always next year. Fortunately, Pike Market Clinic Social Worker and
Irish Troubadour Extraordinaire Joe Martin was in the house. His wit,
wisdom, passion for justice and loquaciousness seem so second nature
that he evidently doesn’t need advance warning to give a great
speech. Thanks Joe!
The Auction itself had more attendees than the year before. While the
final monetary tallies aren’t in, it is encouraging that the ‘Fund an
Item’ – Vehicle Maintenance – received over $10,000 all by itself.
COMING UP THIS WEEK:
This week Tent City3 will have a Community Meeting at Prince of Peace
Lutheran Church prior to its move there on October 29th. Tent City4
will be moving from Temple B’nai Torah to Issaquah Community Church
this Friday, October 21st.
One of these days – from FEMA, the Harvest Time Auction Proceeds, the
withheld State Money now cleared up thanks to the Safe Harbors
Compromise, or the generosity of an International Corporation based in
Seattle, we’ll have enough money to pay off our debt AND buy bus
tickets to get the indoor shelters reopened.
It’ll be a great day for Seattle.
AND FINALLY, TOMORROW 10/18/11:
TOMORROW is the Remembrance Projects final Leaf Installation/
Dedication of 2011. It will be in front of the Seattle Justice Center
at 5th and Cherry, where Women in Black stand Vigil. At 12:00 PM Noon
Leafs will be dedicated to Debbie Cashio, Sandra Lee Smiscon, Davina
Garrison, Colette Fleming, Melissa Davis, Michael Lindsay, Major Lee
Gay, Rebekah Woods, Tattoo Joe Gaerte, Robert Kotopka, Clinton Matthew
Ray, Al Farr and Isaac Palmer.
Following the Noon Dedication will be a Reception across the street at
City Hall – thank you Councilman Licata for making these arrangements.
Thank you for you support!
Call (206) 448-7889 for information and suggestions.
It’s been a heck of a week for SHARE:
A Quick Summary: The SHARE Gates Shelter is open, the Usual SHARE
Indoor Shelters are closed, FEMA Money has been restored to reopen
SHARE Shelters but when it will arrive is a mystery, the Harvest Time
Auction went well, WHEEL and its partners continue to pray (and
remember) the dead while fighting like hell for the living.
MONDAY OCTOBER 10TH aka World Homeless Action Day. The entire SHARE
Indoor Shelter Network closed this morning with no bus tickets and
$30,000 in debt. Fortunately, SHARE isn’t a traditional shelter
provider. SHARE is a community of homeless and formerly homeless men
and women. That means the shelters closures weren’t the end of the
story, but another chapter.
SHARE’s next chapter began at 7:00 PM that same Monday. Approximately
300 homeless men, women, and friends of all shapes and sizes marched a
mile from the SHARE Office to the World Headquarters of the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation.
On the sidewalk in front of the worlds largest charity a sleep out
began – we call it the SHARE Gates Shelter. From 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM
every night since, at least 70 homeless men and women have slept there
– together, safe, peaceful and sober.
We’ll be there every night until our indoor shelters reopen. Please
drop on by with a prayer, an encouraging word, or to spend the night
in solidarity.
If you’re curious about the Gates Foundation, read our attached
letters to Microsoft below. Ask yourself – or better yet them – why,
if they intend to spend 100 million in solving homelessness in King,
Pierce and Snohomish Counties, don’t they intend to give a dime of
that money to the largest shelter network in the Northwest?
And yes, we know Microsoft isn’t a bottomless pit of money, or the
only International Corporation in town – that’s why we wrote the same
request to 13 International Corporations based in Seattle. CHARITY AND
JUSTICE BEGIN AT HOME.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12TH. Women in Black stand for the deaths of six
homeless people who have recently died outside or by violence in King
County. They are Joseph Brown, Miguel Hernandez-Leon, Homer Pierce,
Jeffry Hilden, Amy Breeze and Gagg Ashok. This brings to 19 the
number of homeless people we know have died in these terrible
circumstances this year.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 14TH. The local Federal Emergency Management Agency
Board charged with allocating Emergency Food and Shelter Grants for
FEMA in King County reconvened. Their task: allocate 1/5th of the
money cut in late July from King County (that was 1.2 million.)
20 SHARE participants were in the Bill and Melinda Gates Community
Room at the King County United Way Headquarters as the decisions were
made. We asked for a restoration of the full $44,000 SHARE lost, and
the Local Board voted their intention to restore that full amount!
A formal decision comes this Wednesday October 19th. SHARE is
grateful to King County of United Way for making this recommendation
and to the Local Board for adopting it. Now we’ll find out how long
it takes for the $44,000 to get through the pipeline from Washington
DC – no one really knows.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15TH. The SHARE Power Lunch/Board of Directors votes
to accept a new compromise proposal over Safe Harbors – the City of
Seattle Homeless Management Information System. This will allow us
to begin receiving withheld funding from the State of Washington and
make us eligible for funding through King County next year.
The PL/BofD also votes to ask the 13 International Corporations based
in Seattle that were written to on October 3rd to either match the
$44,000 from FEMA, or provide Bridge Money to SHARE until the FEMA
Check comes. This would allow the SHARE Gates Sleep out to end, and
the indoor shelters to reopen much sooner.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 16TH. SHARE’s sisters at WHEEL co-host a Book Reading
at Elliot Bay Books for Desiree Hellegers' new book ‘No Room of Her
Own.’ The book offers personal history’s of homeless/formerly
homeless women in Seattle, including their work with WHEEL. Readings
from the WHEEL Poetry Anthology ‘Beloved Community’ closed out the
afternoon.
Sunday afternoon at 3:00 PM the highly anticipated 9th Annual Harvest
Time Auction, hosted and organized by the Shelter Board, begins.
Around 4:30 Master of Ceremonies Ken Schram took a cell phone call
from his wife: Their daughter was in labor at the hospital with their
first grandchild! Ken headed to hospital – almost at a loss for words
for once - with our blessings.
He had forewarned us the baby due date was October 16th, but Eric
Jaeger of Haller Lake United Methodist Church was still surprised to
be hosting the auction. Eric did a terrific job, was a great sport
about it, and we thank him for stepping up.
It is still a mystery why the Keynote Speaker, Ron Sims, didn’t show
up. Lines of communication do get crossed sometimes, and there is
always next year. Fortunately, Pike Market Clinic Social Worker and
Irish Troubadour Extraordinaire Joe Martin was in the house. His wit,
wisdom, passion for justice and loquaciousness seem so second nature
that he evidently doesn’t need advance warning to give a great
speech. Thanks Joe!
The Auction itself had more attendees than the year before. While the
final monetary tallies aren’t in, it is encouraging that the ‘Fund an
Item’ – Vehicle Maintenance – received over $10,000 all by itself.
COMING UP THIS WEEK:
This week Tent City3 will have a Community Meeting at Prince of Peace
Lutheran Church prior to its move there on October 29th. Tent City4
will be moving from Temple B’nai Torah to Issaquah Community Church
this Friday, October 21st.
One of these days – from FEMA, the Harvest Time Auction Proceeds, the
withheld State Money now cleared up thanks to the Safe Harbors
Compromise, or the generosity of an International Corporation based in
Seattle, we’ll have enough money to pay off our debt AND buy bus
tickets to get the indoor shelters reopened.
It’ll be a great day for Seattle.
AND FINALLY, TOMORROW 10/18/11:
TOMORROW is the Remembrance Projects final Leaf Installation/
Dedication of 2011. It will be in front of the Seattle Justice Center
at 5th and Cherry, where Women in Black stand Vigil. At 12:00 PM Noon
Leafs will be dedicated to Debbie Cashio, Sandra Lee Smiscon, Davina
Garrison, Colette Fleming, Melissa Davis, Michael Lindsay, Major Lee
Gay, Rebekah Woods, Tattoo Joe Gaerte, Robert Kotopka, Clinton Matthew
Ray, Al Farr and Isaac Palmer.
Following the Noon Dedication will be a Reception across the street at
City Hall – thank you Councilman Licata for making these arrangements.
Thank you for you support!
Call (206) 448-7889 for information and suggestions.
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