Mary’s Home Capital Campaign – Joseph & Mary's Home

Women experiencing homelessness in Cuyahoga County have no place to go to recover from significant health problems. They desperately need a nurturing, caring place to recuperate—not only from physical illness, but also the additional trauma they face from homelessness.

The Need: Women’s Medical Respite Introducing Mary’s Home The Renovation: Designed to Serve Support the Mary’s Home Campaign Mary’s Home Capital Campaign Committee Mary’s Home Campaign Supporters

The Need

Women Also Experience Homelessness and Illness—in Staggering Numbers

“The experience of homelessness can cause rapid clinical decline and accelerated aging in the women we serve. While we have safety protocols and services in place, a low barrier shelter cannot fully support women who require additional care to heal but are not sick enough to be hospitalized. We cannot wait — the time is now.“

Teresa Sanders Chief Program Officer, YWCA of Greater Cleveland

Joseph’s Home receives countless calls from hospital social workers asking for help for women with serious medical issues. Cleveland’s traditional shelters are not equipped to help women recover from surgery or other acute health conditions. Instead, when women experience a medical issue, they are rushed to emergency departments. Once they are treated and discharged back to a traditional shelter or the streets, which starts the cycle all over again. Sadly, due to a lack of space, we are forced to turn away these referrals just when medically vulnerable women need us the most. The time is now to end this tragic cycle for women.

Introducing Mary’s Home:

Serving Women Experiencing Homelessness

Joseph’s Home is embarking on a transformative project with a goal to open the doors to women experiencing homelessness by December 31, 2021.

Melinda, a certified peer recovery support specialist, has shared lived experience with homelessness and mental illness. Peer recovery specialists are trained to support those who struggle with substance use, mental health or psychological trauma and will be on staff at Mary’s Home.

Mary’s Home—a 10-bed facility that was a former school and daycare center adjacent to Joseph’s Home—will serve greater Cleveland’s population of single, adult women who are experiencing homelessness and have an acute medical condition. Medically-fragile women desperately need a special place to recuperate—not only from physical illness, but also the additional trauma they face from homelessness.

An Integrated Care Model

At Mary’s Home, women will benefit from medical supervision, nursing care, education about their conditions and treatments, medication management, nutritious meals, and coordination with health care, supportive service and housing providers. The integrated care model developed through our experience serving men will be used in Mary’s Home, with added expertise in issues impacting women’s health and well-being.

Mary’s Home:

Designed to Serve Women Experiencing Homelessness

Mary’s Home will be located at 2302 Community College Avenue, directly adjacent to Joseph’s Home.

Renovation of the Mary’s Home facility will involve the following components:

Reconfiguring spaces into furnished residential suites
Adding kitchen, dining and restroom facilities
Replacing windows original to the 1966 construction
Replacing the HVAC system
Painting and flooring
Building and equipping the medical clinic
Building, furnishing and equipping office and meeting spaces

Visual Recognition Opportunities

As a part of this historic and transformational project, we are excited to offer the opportunity to recognize yourself, your family, a loved one or your organization for support of the Mary’s Home Capital Campaign. In gratitude for philanthropic commitments to the Mary’s Home campaign, the following named spaces are available for recognition.

CAMPAIGN NAMING OPPORTUNITIES

Named Space Opportunity
Medical Clinic
Dining Room
Living Room
Meeting Room
Kitchen
Staff Office Space
Garden Space
COVID-19 Vulnerability Rooms (1 available)
Individual Resident Rooms (6 available)
Art Installation on Façade of Building
Special Recognition on Donor Wall

Philanthropic Commitment
$200,000 (COMMITTED)
$100,000 (COMMITTED)
$100,000 (COMMITTED)
$50,000 (COMMITTED)
$50,000 (COMMITTED)
$25,000
$25,000 (COMMITTED)
$15,000
$10,000
$10,000 (COMMITTED)
$1,000-$9,999

Support the Mary’s Home Campaign

Your Help Will Transform Lives

Because of your generous support, Joseph’s Home has helped hundreds of medically-fragile men experiencing homelessness stabilize their health and secure permanent housing. It has long been the vision of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine to also serve women in this same way. Now with your generosity, Joseph’s Home can make this vision a reality at Mary’s Home.

Make a Gift to the Mary’s Home Campaign

The Time is Now

We have secured commitments from Cuyahoga County, the ADAMHS Board and other funders for the staff and programming costs. With support from our partners and champions, we will open the doors to women at Mary’s Home by the end of 2021 and double the number of people we serve annually.

Let’s Open the Doors to Women Together.

How Your Help Will Transform Lives

We invite you to join fellow community leaders in contributing significantly to this important ministry. Your philanthropy, creativity and compassion are needed to help Joseph’s Home expand to provide respite care for any medically-fragile person experiencing homelessness, regardless of gender.
Mary’s Home will transform the lives of women who are confronting life’s most difficult circumstances and who have no place to turn to address their needs. Your support will provide medically-fragile women experiencing homelessness everything they need to recover from serious health conditions, obtain housing and rejoin the community with the tools and support they need to remain healthy. For good.

Giving Options

Because Joseph’s Home is a nonprofit, 501c3 charitable organization, there are many ways to partner with us on the Mary’s Home Capital Campaign. There are even opportunities to recognize yourself, your family, a loved one or your organization.

Gifts of cash, check or credit card are quick, convenient and tax-deductible if you itemize. You may find that you are able to do even more than you realize, both at the present and perhaps even beyond your lifetime.

TO EXTEND YOUR IMPACT AT THE PRESENT TIME:

IRA Charitable Distribution: If you are 70 1/2 or older and have an IRA, there is an annual required minimum distribution (RMD). That RMD is taxable income. So if you do not have a need for some or all of this income and want to reduce or eliminate the income tax you will owe on the RMD, you can direct your IRA administrator to transfer funds to Joseph’s Home as a charitable gift to the Mary’s Home Capital Campaign that will satisfy part or all of your RMD.

Marketable Securities: Stock can be gifted to Joseph’s Home and the Mary’s Home Capital Campaign via electronic transfer. It is necessary for you to contact your broker to initiate the transfer and to notify us of your intended donation of securities, so that we may provide more information and instructions.

TO EXTEND YOUR IMPACT BEYOND YOUR LIFETIME, CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF GIFTS:

Planned, or deferred, gifts will be accepted for the Mary’s Home Capital Campaign but can constitute no more than 50% of the overall commitment to the campaign (e.g. a $5,000 charitable gift annuity must be matched with a $5,000 cash commitment payable up to five years) and do require proper documentation in order to be counted toward the Mary’s Home Capital Campaign goal.

Charitable Gift Annuity: If you want to make a gift of significance now but still need the income generated by your assets, an annuity makes both possible. If you use appreciated securities to fund your annuity, you will also reduce your exposure to capital gains tax.

Rates of return vary depending on factors such as your age and whether the annuity includes a spouse. Annuity income can be deferred or directed to a third party such as a child or grandchild. Annuity donors who itemize receive a partial charitable tax deduction for the gift. Also, payments are guaranteed for the life of the annuitant(s) and a portion of the annuity income is tax-free for several years.

Irrevocable Estate Commitments: In order to honor your wishes for supporting the Mary’s Home Capital Campaign and to maximize benefit of your gifts, estate commitments made to the campaign will need to be irrevocable, or binding. Please inform of us if you are interested in making this type of gift to the campaign so we may discuss your options.

This information is not intended or offered as financial or legal counsel. Before making any of the aforementioned gifts, please consult with your financial and legal advisers. Please inform us of any gift you intend to make so that we can discuss your preferences for gift acknowledgment and designation.

Mary’s Home Capital Campaign Committee Members

Volunteer Leadership Dedicated to Making Mary’s Home a Reality

Jeanne Colleran Weaver, PhD

Campaign Committee Chair

Distinguished Professor, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
Professor Emeritus and Provost (ret.) John Carroll University

Sister Joan Gallagher, CSA

Honorary Campaign Committee Chair

Founding Executive Director, Joseph’s Home

Kristine Adams, MSN CNP

Assistant Chief Nursing Officer: Care Management and Ambulatory Services, Cleveland Clinic

Bill Denihan

Retired CEO of the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County

Mary Denihan

Retired Public Information Officer, Cuyahoga County

Lorraine Dodero

Executive Director, Sam J. Frankino Foundation

Richard C. Gallagher

Retired Banking Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Natoya Walker-Minor

Deputy General Manager of Administration and External Affairs, Greater Cleveland Regional Authority (RTA)

Lisa Zimmerman, PMP

Director of Global Business Operations, Quadax, Inc.

Mary’s Home Capital Campaign Supporters

Making the Dream of Mary’s Home a Reality

$1,287,473

Raised Toward Project

$1,300,000

Total Project Goal

Make a Gift to the Mary’s Home Campaign

Thanks to the generosity and leadership of the foundations and individuals listed below, the Mary’s Home Capital Campaign is approaching the total project cost and goal. This incredible support will provide medically-fragile women experiencing homelessness everything they need to recover from serious health conditions, obtain housing and rejoin the community with the tools and support they need to remain healthy. Thank you for your extraordinary generosity!

INDIVIDUALS

Jeanne Colleran and Richard Weaver
Kevin Gallagher
John and Eileen Gallagher
Jack and Brigitte McGrath
Julie Sullivan
John and Barbara Schubert
Peter and Rita Carfagna
Lloyd and Lydia Cook
Ray and Elanor Smiley
St. Vincent/St. Luke’s Medical Staff
Mary Ann Corrigan-Davis
Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation
Richard C. and Ally Gallagher
Chuck and Rita Maimbourg
Sam and Anne-Marie Petros
Carol Latham
Christopher and Kristine Adams
John and Lorene Bastulli
The C. Walder Parke Family Foundation
Elizabeth P. Macintyre, MD
Tari and John Rivera
Beth Graham and Nick Sojda
Heather Stoll
Rick and Mary Ann Stuhan
Lisa and Rob Zimmerman
Mark and Mary Elizabeth Cotleur
Debbie and Tony Rovito
Teresa Santin
Nan Cohen and Daniel D. Abrams Philanthropic Fund

Heather Ettinger
Margaret “Peggy” Keenan
Michael and Maria Spangler
Bill and Mary Denihan
Robert and Donna Spangler
Deanna and Geoffrey Moore
Anthony and Rebecca Searcy
Angela Abdoo
Ese Ayisire
Carrie Benedict

Phillip and Linda Catanzaro
Emily Drake
Kenneth Gabele and Beth Lucas-Gabele
Integrity Environmental
Franciska Kiraly
Poornanand Palaparty
Jeffrey Pollock
Robert E. Rzewnicki
Ted and Natalie Silverberg
Jeff Karem
Tere and Joe Koenig
Sandra L. Cook
Trudi Stuimer
Alfred Ciraldo
Desiree Doncals
Nicholas Dreher
Linda Fritts and Richard Komer Charitable Gift Fund
Regina Hauck
Phillip Khalil
Anthony Lisy
Kevin Spear (on behalf of Summa Health Urology Department)
David Zaitz
Lisa Zimmerman
Rashmi Jain
Jennifer Rodriguez
Natoya Walker-Minor and Tony Minor
Beth Smith (on behalf of Medical Mutual Pharmacy Staff)
Shanu Agarwal
Walter Stotz
Anna Maria Affan
Nichole Banks
Ramzi BenSaid
Sarah Blowers
Jeanne Burrige

Irene Chenowith
Chuck Chiemelu
Phyllis Cleveland
Chandler Converse
Amy Dawson
Mita Deoras
John Gage
Kenneth Goetz
Corey Grad
Nancy Griffiths
Ben Halperin
Jeffrey Jeney
Ana Kavtaradze
Jennifer Kenney
Alex Machaskee
Maria Miller
Katie O’Brien
Tjendrawani Ong-Dahl
Lucas Radov
Phillip Rice
Tres and Elizabeth Roeder
Marian Rubin
Kim Simpson
Neda Spears
Donald Stark
Terry and Shirley Stineman
Catherine Dcruz Swartz
Frances Tyus
Jason Wecker
Pat Angelotti
Kathryn Canaday
Holly Cicero
Dick Clough
Jim Craciun
Lukas Effman
Linda Feezel
Victoria Ifan
Ainslee Jacoby
Carol Kaschube
Idan Levy
John Lynch
Gregory Oran
Daniel Rosen
Tara Tersigni
Diana Thomas
Gregory Wyler
Maxim Noble
Tracy Fuller
MariKristy Hasinski
Richard Jason
Wade Prospere
Carl and Georgine Rak
Anita Brindza
Robert Denihan
Robert Fink
Gabriel Littman
Alexander Goldstein
Renee Hicks
Robert Brooks

FOUNDATIONS & ORGANIZATIONS

The Cleveland Foundation

Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine

Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Foundation

Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland

Corinne L. Dodero Foundation for the Arts & Sciences

Reinberger Foundation

CPPS Heritage Mission Fund

St. Luke’s Internal Medicine Foundation

Murphy Family Foundation

Catholic Diocese of Cleveland

Medical Mutual of Ohio