Get Involved

I am so EXCITED you are interested in learning more about HOPE Project! If you are looking to learn more about our vision, click here. If you are interested in learning ways you can get involved, you’re in the right place—keep reading :)

We have two types of positions we need to get filled—volunteers and advisory board members.

Volunteers (people who want to help irregularly):

·         Photographers

·         writers

·         videographers/editors

·         someone to post on our social media

·         chef, cook, people that like making food

·         waitress/waiter

·         Entertainers—can you sing? Have a band? Play an instrument? Juggle?

·         Interior designers

·         Dreamers

·         Creative people

·         ANYBODY who simply wants to help

Advisory board members: People who will be active in our business operations and will attend monthly meetings which will be around an hour long. You, personally, will be helping the homeless in Carroll County by serving on our team. We also will be providing meals during our meetings. We are looking for people who have any one of these characteristics to be on our board (age does not matter):

·         Passionate about the cause

·         People person

·         Organizer

·         People who have had practice in making an idea to a reality

·         Prior experience in the business industry

·         Fundraising knowledge

·         Number cruncher, people with finance experience

·         Someone who knows how to build an effective budget

·         People who have lived in poverty before

·         Someone with any of the volunteer traits listed above

·         Problem solvers

·         Reliable and trustworthy

We need all sorts of people to make this a reality so even if nothing applies to you but you still desire to serve, message me anyways! If you are interested in either become a volunteer or an advisory board member either comment below, message me on FB or Instagram, or email us at helpotherpeopleeat@gmail.com with what you are interested in doing and a little about yourself J

If you’re interested in a possible partnership with your company or church, send us your idea at helpotherpeopleeat@gmail.com

Also, if you are interested in giving to our nonprofit, we will be making an Indiegogo fundraiser page. So, be on the lookout and subscribe to our email list on the right hand side to get up to date information about HOPE Project!

 

 

Our Mission and Vision

Our founder, Kirstin Beck, got the opportunity in 2013 to visit Korah, Ethiopia, also known as the local trash dump. Here, she saw firsthand the emotional effect poverty had on the impoverished- from the mother who was unable to provide for her children to the daughter unable to look a stranger in the eye out of shame. Is their lack of food the greater issue or is it the fact that they feel unloved and unworthy? With that mindset, HOPE Project (Help Other People Eat) was formed, to help bring dignity back to those in poverty.

We are doing this in Carroll County by providing a monthly meal to those in homeless shelters. Instead of a buffet line style service, we provide a fancy restaurant type of service. The room is decorated in an eloquent manner. Names of individual homeless people are called and escorted to their beautifully-clothed tables with china and silverware on them. They have a menu to choose from and waiters who take an interest in knowing their name. While waiting for their meal, they get to listen to live entertainment from local bands. They are treated as royalty; they are treated like a human.

In providing meals, we are not only physically helping homeless people but emotionally too. We help show the homeless that they are loved and worthy by our actions towards them, not just our words. That is the vision of HOPE Project, that no person go to bed hungry- physically or emotionally.