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 About the COC
Board Members
- Bonnie Finlayson
- Cher Stone
- Ann Riedesel
- Courtney Morgan
- Dan Sanow
- Carolyn Robertson
- Patti Sherlock
- Brent Thompson
- Mayor Jared Fuhriman, ex officio
- Paula Bendixsen
- Jennifer Call
- Raschel Hansen
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The Community Outreach Center started as a dream shared by several members of St.
Mark's Episcopal Church, who worked in the Soup Kitchen in the basement of that
same building. We wanted to move the Soup Kitchen to a bigger, more accessible location
that just happened to be next door. At about the same time in 2002, the two Episcopal
churches were making plans to merge, so it was a perfect time to sell the St. Mark's
building, buy the neighboring MPCU building and give the Soup Kitchen a new home.
In 2003 that is exactly what happened. And since there was so much extra room, we
invited four other charities to share the space at no charge. With this development,
a new Board of Directors was formed to run the newly named Community Outreach Center.
A facility dedicated to housing social service charities free of charge, so that
they could use their meeger funds on their very important missions.
With the very
generous aid of many many foundations, businesses, churches and individuals, we
have paid off the initial cost of the building and the renovation expenses. We continue
to raise money for the operational costs and for the hope of helping more charities
attain their goals. Our newest endeavor is to help launch the Emergency Housing
Exchange which will close the gap between the homeless person/family and a more
stable housing opportunity. Look for this agency to be functioning in the first
couple months of 2010.
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