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Our House Partners Celebration featured on KTHV The Brighter Side: Good News in Arkansas
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Our House Named Finalist for the 25th Annual Arkansas Business of the Year Awards
The annual awards honor small businesses, business executives, nonprofit organizations and nonprofit organization executives.
Federal Report Shows Increase in Homelessness in Arkansas
Our House Featured On NBC News
See the segment that aired on Rock Center with Brian Williams, hosted by Ann Curry, 11/29/2012.
Our House Looking for Room to Grow
Read the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article about Our House's plans for a new Children's Center, 11/24/2012.
The staff at the shelter at 302 E. Roosevelt Road in Little Rock hopes by April to raise the last $1.2 million needed to build an 18,500-square-foot Our House Children’s Center. The center, which will take 10 months to a year to build, is a $3.8 million project.
Arkansas' Homeless Children Facing an Uncertain Future find a Home at Our House
May 1, 2013
Homeless Children Face Uncertain Future
By: Jessica Dean
KARK - Little Rock, Ark
LITTLE ROCK, AR - Across Arkansas, shelters and schools are seeing more and more homeless children. The reasons vary. Often, the economy has forced their parents out of a job. Sometime their parents have made mistakes leaving the family without a home.
Six-year-old KK and her family are just one of the thousands without a home in Arkansas. In January, her mother, Teshia ...
Pair Fired Up about Our House
April 28, 2013
Pair fired up about Our House
By Michael Storey
This article was published April 28, 2013 at 4:20 a.m.
PHOTO BY JOHN SYKES JR.
Andrew and Meghan Collins visit the Terry House Butterfly Garden. On Friday, the grounds will be packed with Our House supporters for the annual Dinner on the Grounds.
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From Homeless to Home
April 1, 2013
Little Rock Soiree Magazine tells how Janis Newberry
turned her life around at Our House. This profile also details how Our House is working to increase our capacity to serve the working homeless.
Our House Partners Celebration featured in The Brighter Side: Good News in Arkansas
March 28, 2013
Our House Party
The community organization 'Our House' hosted a 'Thank-You' party for its volunteers and service partners.
'Partners in the House' was a fun afternoon of barbecue, door prizes, games -- even a photo booth.
"These are congregations, and corporate supporters who give their time and service and money to our house to help us serve the working homeless," explained Georgia Mjartan, Executive Director of Help for ...
Local Artist Supports Our House with New Collection
March 4, 2013
Faces of Hope Copy
"Mom Loves Me" 20" x 24" oil painting on canvas, by Matt McLeod.
This is the fourth painting of an ongoing series of paintings called the Faces of Hope project. Faces of Hope reveals the dignity and beauty of the residents and families that live at Our House with original painted portraits. Our House provides the working homeless--families and individuals with safe, clean, comfortable housing; food; free child ...