1HOPE
Our Mission: "Focusing the neighborhood, professional and faith-based energy to restore hope and transform lives."
1HOPE Uptown Recovery Fund
In response to the recent civil unrest, 1HOPE launched the "Uptown Recovery Fund." Countless shops, businesses, community centers, and other buildings were destroyed. 1HOPE seeks to unite alongside the Uptown Community to pick-up the broken pieces of the city, rebuild what has been lost, and restore hope. To date, the Uptown Recovery Fund, through the generosity of our community, has raised $39,211.41, with all the proceeds going directly to the effort of rebuilding and restoring the Uptown.
The road to recovery and rebuilding as a community will be a long one, and 1HOPE remains committed to standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our friends, the residences, business and property owners of the Uptown neighborhood, as we continue our mission – to focus the neighborhood, professional, and faith-based energy to restore hope and transform lives. We believe when all three groups are mobilized, there is nothing we can't accomplish together!
Our History
The Uptown community, which was affected the most from the civil unrest, is part of our organization's DNA. The vision for 1HOPE came after a Convoy of Hope event in Uptown several years ago, where we saw 30+ churches, nonprofits, private sector, and City & County come together in alignment to serve our community. We immediately recognized the power and potential in focusing the neighborhood, professional, and faith-based energy to restore hope and transform lives. Since 2013, we've committed our time, energy, and resources to after-school programming at Brass Elementary school.
Through the fall of last year into early 2020, 1HOPE convened faith-based leaders to create further alignment by creating a shared community narrative, which identified the biggest challenge in Kenosha is "racial division and high-economic stress." Based on conversations with the faith-based community, government, and business leaders, we recognized the most significant way to offer hope to this narrative is to channel this energy into neighborhood transformation, foster care, and mentorship. All of which deeply intersect with the root challenge identified.
Inspired by love for our neighbors, we believe that a community of people can positively transform their neighborhood from the inside out through a process of assessing, aligning, activating, and building long-term relationships. We are so incredibly grateful that we've gotten to know each of you and look forward to continue growing together to rebuild, restore, and renew.