Next Chapter Home & Leadership Development

Imagine living on the streets,

in the darkest days of your life…

Then imagine getting keys to housing, a place to call home. But that home is empty and you move in with the clothes on your back and not much else. In addition to focusing on employment and health in order to stay housed, you have to figure out how to get a couch to relax on, bath towels, kitchen items to cook for yourself; the list is endless to establish home necessities. This is the reality for newly housed persons in our region. Next Chapter provides home goods and furnishings to lighten the overwhelming obstacles of making a house a home for someone starting a new chapter in their life.

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About Next Chapter

Next Chapter: Home & Leadership Development is a two-program approach to lifting up BIPOC and underrepresented community members to elevate their opportunity to thrive in the next chapter of their lives.

Next Chapter: Home provides home goods and furnishing for newly housed persons free of charge. A shopping-type experience is provided by appointment to individuals exiting homelessness who are working with a local nonprofit, have secured housing, and are working with appropriate resources to continue building a healthy and sustainable future. This individual may “shop” for items such as furniture, kitchenware, home decor, plants, linens, bathroom essentials, pet supplies, sporting equipment, and many other items, in the Next Chapter showroom. The partner organizations work with the individual to arrange appropriate transportation for their furnishings at the time of the appointment.

Next Chapter: Leadership Development provides a six-month board development and leadership course for BIPOC persons, those who have experienced homelessness and under-represented community members at no charge. Course work includes an in-depth study of organizational practices, financial oversight, human resource best practices, and nonprofit board strategy while providing students the hands-on experience of assisting to operate a non-profit (Next Chapter: Home). Upon course completion, Next Chapter: Leadership students will be prepared to serve on other non-profit boards and have the leadership training to enhance the next chapter of their career.

Help make a new house a home

Next Chapter provides home goods and furnishings to lighten the overwhelming obstacles of making a house a home for someone starting a new chapter in their life.