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In September 2018, we moved into the building. Before we built, we decided to invest in a commercial kitchen where we could make cider doughnuts and pies.” Kerrie added, “Our lender was key in helping us move forward. But we knew in the beginning that 200 to 400 trees wouldn’t be enough to sustain a business and for families to have fun here.”Īs trees were added, the vision for a building became a reality, and in 2017, they broke ground. We basically just want to help them live a normal - and I don’t really like the word normal - but have a normal childhood after they’ve experienced trauma.“We have a high-density orchard,” Steve said. “We can plant 800 to 1,000 trees per acre, and as we added trees, we found a market for wholesale. However, our ultimate goal was to have our own building. We help with school supplies, we help with haircuts and senior photos and lots of different stuff like that. We also have a shoe voucher program which allows them to get one brand-new pair of shoes every year that they get to go pick out at Kohl’s.

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All of our services are free to the children, and that includes a clothing closet here at our office where they can come and shop for clothes, socks, underwear. So, once a child is removed from their biological home by the Department of Human Services and placed in foster care - and that can be with a foster parent who has gone and taken classes and done training to become a certified foster parent, or it can be a relative that chooses to take them in or it could be a family friend - that child can come and take advantage of our services. Q: What is Families Helping Families’ role in the community?Ī: We’re a small nonprofit that helps kids in foster care. Our annual budget is $250,000 a year, and we don’t receive any state, federal or United Way funding, so we’re always grateful for any donation that we receive. We received a donation of $2,400, which is a nice sized-donation for us. So, it’s a nice little fundraiser for us.

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Those registering for the race can also use a discount code, which is FHF10, to get a 10 percent discount off the registration fee and when they do that, we get a donation that equals 10 percent of the registration fee. All Community Events donates $1,000 to our organization to organize the volunteers and then if we recruit more than 35 volunteers, they will donate $20 for every volunteer we recruit after that 35 mark. The race does serve as a fundraiser for us. Q: Does Families Helping Families benefit from the race at all?Ī: Yes. Runners take off from the starting line near NewBo City Market for the Hot Cider Hustle Half Marathon and 5K in Cedar Rapids in 2019. From what I remember of 2019, it was a really nice, cool October morning and the volunteers had a lot of fun participating. So that’s our involvement - we are recruiting volunteers to work on race day, and it’s usually a good time. This is our second year organizing volunteers - our first year was 2019 and then, of course, there wasn’t a race in 2020 (due to COVID-19). One of the things that All Community Events does when it is organizing a race is reach out to local nonprofits in that city to recruit volunteers because the local nonprofits are local and known to the community and they usually have a volunteer base they can tap to help with the race. Q: What is Families Helping Families’ involvement with the race?Ī: So, we are in charge of recruiting volunteers to work the event on race day. Everyone will also get a T-shirt and (the half marathoners will get) a finishing medal. And, the thing that makes the Hot Cider Hustle unique is that after the race, everyone gets a mug of hot cider - and it comes in a cute little mug they can keep - and a caramel apple. … They also do the Turkey Trot, which is another big race that’s held on Thanksgiving morning. Melissa Carlson, executive director at Families Helping Families, recently spoke with The Gazette about the need for volunteers and the ways the race can benefit kids in foster care.Īnswer: The Hot Cider Hustle is a race - and there’s a half-marathon and a 5K - that is organized by All Community Events.