Holiday Giving

Holiday Gifts

Please take a look at the MITS web site made-in-the-streets.org for opportunities for "Holiday Giving". We have trips and special events planned for December. We cannot send our street kids living with us anywhere else for the holidays, and we do take a break from classes. So we fill the time with events as well as more work on the farm!! For those events we do not depend on the budget but on friends who want to give an extra gift outside of their families. You could pay for a retreat for the students, or a day at the park, or presents they can give one another, or a Christmas lunch, or a party for kids still living on the streets, or many other needs.

End of the Year Gifts

This is a great time to contribute to Made in the Streets and get an extra tax break you might need at the end of the year. We are happy to put your gift to work on behalf of street kids. Some of the special things we need to pay for now are

1. Turning our shops along the highway where our kids learn to deal with customers into a "Cracker Barrel" style shop and cafe.

2. Adding new staff to our dorm supervisor group so some of our Team can concentrate on teaching or skills training or other work, instead of having double responsibility. Usual costs for a starting Team member is $160 monthly for salary and benefits. Pay for the first year's salary (about $2,000) and we'll take care of raising funds for subsequent years.

3. The City Council has required us to do some additions to property and some repairs to plumbing, drainage and venting that will cost about $6,000. They want this before they will okay the renewal of our permit with the Children's Department to operate the boarding program.

4. CHALLENGE GRANT -- we hope to finish the $30,000 Challenge Grant by December 31. We are now at approximately $9,000. We want to build a set of 3 classrooms to go with our new chapel. A local church of Christ also meets in the chapel, which we use as a multi-purpose building.

Thank you for all your help. Send funds to Made in the Streets, 409 Franklin Road, Brentwood, TN 37027.

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