Housing ...Our Future forum - #MTHforum2015

Come out this afternoon in Milton (November 21st 2-5pm) to the Forum on homelessness in our community. The forum is titled Housing ...Our Future.

It is an excellent opportunity to understand the continuum for those at risk of homelessness and the respective roles of soup kitchens, overnight shelters and transitional housing in providing support.

Brian Carney, Executive Director of Blue Sea Philanthropy – organizers of the Coldest Night of the Year walk across Canada – will be the keynote speaker. Following the keynote will be a panel discussion with participation from: one of MTH’s “graduate” clients, Habitat for Humanity, Halton Women’s Place, the Posse Project and several others.

Visit the Milton Transitional Housing Facebook page here for more details. We look forward to welcoming you at this great forum supported by a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The forum starts at 2pm at the Milton Senior’s Centre Auditorium, 500 Child’s Drive, Milton L9T 5G2 (fully accessible).

Follow the forum on Twitter through #MTHforum2015 @MiltonTH1 or @opencityinc

Fashionista Flip postponed

Our FASHIONISTA FLIP planned for Nov. 14, 2015 has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts. We will try to host this event in early 2016 instead.

Charity of the week spotlight

I have begun to do a charity of the week spotlight feature through the blog of my Opencity Inc consulting business. Understandably early on I featured Milton Transitional Housing on Friday.

Read my Charity of the week spotlight - Milton Transitional Housing from Friday, November 6, 2015 blog post

There will be further exciting weekly charity spotlights coming up and I am inspired by some of the conversations this has stimulated. You can also read more about my recent blog post A new type of social responsibility here.

The recent State of Inbound 2015 report produced by HubSpot identifies that inbound marketing is just as applicable and valued in the non-profit sector as it is B2B or B2C.

Photo courtesy of HubSpot

Come to Fashionista Flip on Sat Nov 14

Milton Transitional Housing is repeating the phenomenally popular “Fashionista Flip” fundraising event on Saturday, November 14 from 10 am until 1pm at the Italian Canadian Club, 104 Tremaine Rd, Milton.

Please donate your gently-used high-end clothing (clean out all of stuff you don’t need or wear) and then come and “shop” for a brand new wardrobe for the coming season. It’s the ultimate in recycling!

Admission will be $10 per person and every item you buy will be $2. You can’t beat that! It raises much-needed funds for the MTH core program of helping local people in housing crisis. To donate clothing and/or to volunteer to help with the event, please contact Donna – 905-699-7433/donna.danielli@miltontransitionalhousing.ca. You can drop off your clothing/ accessories donations at the MTH offices (put them in the meeting room), or at The Vacuum Store, 785 Main St E.