CORE’s 2024 Giving Tuesday Challenge: Building the Newcomer Essentials Fund
Giving Tuesday, a global movement celebrating generosity and philanthropy, takes place on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving. This year, Giving Tuesday falls on December 3rd!
At CORE, we’ve always supported newcomers with important resources—recovery housing, transportation, toiletries, clothing, and more. Our commitment helps over 400 newcomers each year start their recovery journeys without worrying about daily necessities. But as any recovery journey reveals, life is unpredictable, and unexpected challenges often arise that threaten progress and stability. That’s why this Giving Tuesday, we’re launching the Newcomer Essentials Fund.
The Newcomer Essentials Fund is a critical safety net designed to help CORE respond to sudden, significant, and often costly needs that go beyond day-to-day support. These matters are so important that without them progress in recovery cannot even start, i.e., health issues, prescriptions, eyeglasses, dental issues, and identification and documentation, to name a few. Our mission is about doing whatever it takes to get the newcomer up and running in their recovery program and becoming productive again. This fund addresses barriers that hinder job readiness and participation in the recovery program.
On Giving Tuesday, please help us keep our newcomers focused on their recovery and moving forward without setbacks. Recovery isn’t something one can achieve alone – that’s why CORE exists. By contributing, you’re helping to provide newcomers the safety and security needed to begin rebuilding their lives from the ground up and becoming productive, civic-minded, tax-paying members of society. Your support helps build this vital fund, enabling newcomers to overcome unexpected challenges and stay on track, rather than being derailed by them.
Remember, Giving Tuesday is December 3rd — join us in making a real difference for those starting anew.