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2005-2006 BENEFICIARIES
When
you purchase concert tickets and season subscriptions you will enjoy a
wonderful choral experience and the knowledge that 100% of the proceeds
will help support our 2005-2006 concert beneficiaries.
Green Door
Christmas Concert
 Green
Door is a community program that prepares women and men with severe and
persistent mental illnesses to work and live independently. Founded in
1976, Green Door helps more than 900 adults each year to overcome
poverty and homelessness by providing the training, support, and
confidence they need to take charge of their own recovery and
rehabilitation. Its Clubhouse Employment Program is the only program in
the area based on a model designed by people with mental illness for
people with mental illness. Proceeds from this concert will help fund
Housing Starter Kits. The kits provide impoverished mental health
consumers who are moving into housing from shelters, hospitals, or
jails with some basic items for their new homes.
www.greendoor.org
Transitional Housing Corporation
March Concert
 Transitional
Housing Corporation (THC) is a faith-based, nonprofit partnership whose
mission is to provide housing and comprehensive support services to
homeless and at-risk families so that they can make transformational
changes in their lives. In 2003, THC completed its second transitional
housing project, known as Partner Arms II, and now serves 27 homeless
families with an estimated 27 adults and 48 children at any one time
with an array of housing and supportive services. THC's strategy is to
make more affordable housing available in the near future, not only for
the homeless and graduates of THC's successful transitional housing
program, but to other low- and moderate-income persons in need of
housing and support.
www.thcdc.org
DC Habitat for Humanity
May Concert
 DC
Habitat for Humanity seeks to create affordable homeownership
opportunities by building houses with low-income District of Columbia
families. In a current initiative, DC Habitat is working on a 53-home
development in Northeast Washington. This project is the largest ever
for the 16-year-old affiliate. Fourteen families are already living in
their new homes, five more homes are under way, and DC Habitat is
striving to reach and maintain a 10-home-per year pace of construction.
As of July 2005, DC Habitat had completed 81 homes and renovated 75
low-income cooperative units, housing nearly 300 people. They are
grateful for the 10,000-plus volunteers who have contributed toward the
construction of these homes.
www.dchabitat.org
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