Center for the Homeless

For the fifth straight year, we are looking to raise money for the Center for the Homeless in South Bend. The Center does tremendous work in a variety of ways for the community - read more about them here  if you're not familiar - and after a  long, weird football season of going along for the ride it's nice to take control and do some Good for folks who could use a hand.

We didn't do this after the 2015 season and things didn't go so hot but since we launched the inaugural edition of Christmas Giving in December 2016 the football program is 43-6. Is there any karmic causation here or is it simply coincidence? Who can say, but it seems like a bad idea to tempt fate and not run this back. This year we also have Christmas Giving gear provided by Bridget Reynolds available here  . Any proceeds from purchases made at the Report store in December —Christmas Giving designs or otherwise — will go to the CFH.

Please consider sharing this with your friends, family and alumni groups. If you have any questions, please reach out via the provided contact link. For more on the CFH, executive director Steve Camilleri provided this explainer of what his group does in the community:

The Center's mission is to help break the cycle of homelessness, and it's been such a gift to see people transform their lives and get back on their feet. Like a university, guests that arrive at CFH focus on their "major," and take classes, programming, and seek the help they need in the area they need it most. As they achieve success in that area, they wrap around other opportunities, much like elective courses, that can be for personal edification, enjoyment or education. All in all, CFH tries to meet the needs of everyone that walks through her doors with dignity and respect. We have found that each guest is a gift and has so much to give, and when you hold a high expectation of them, they rise to the occasion! 

Thank you and Go Irish.

For the fourth straight year, the kind folks of the Notre Dame internet and its extended family are looking to raise money for the Center for the Homeless in South Bend. The Center does tremendous work in a variety of ways for the community - read more about them here if you're not familiar - and after a season of going along for the ride it's nice to take control and do some Good for folks who could use a hand.

I have a series of goals to target this time around. Goal one:

2,626 – Career points by all-time leading scorer Arike Ogunbowale.

Stretch goals:

3,891 – Total yards allowed by Clark Lea’s defense.

5,150 – Total yards gained by Chip Long’s offense.

Stretchiest of stretch goals:

7,363 – Would make the four-year total of donations $25,000.

We didn't do this after the 2015 season and things didn't go so good but since we launched the inaugural edition of Christmas Giving in December 2016 the football program is 32-6. Is there any karmic causation here or is it simply coincidence? Who can say, but it seems like a bad idea to tempt fate and not run this back. This year we also have Christmas Giving gear provided by Bridget Reynolds available here . Any profits from purchases made at the Report store in December —Christmas Giving designs or otherwise — will go to the CFH.

Please consider sharing this with your friends, family and alumni groups. If you have any questions, please reach out via the provided contact link. For more on the CFH, executive director Steve Camilleri provided this explainer of what his group does in the community:

The Center's mission is to help break the cycle of homelessness, and it's been such a gift to see people transform their lives and get back on their feet. Like a university, guests that arrive at CFH focus on their "major," and take classes, programming, and seek the help they need in the area they need it most. As they achieve success in that area, they wrap around other opportunities, much like elective courses, that can be for personal edification, enjoyment or education. All in all, CFH tries to meet the needs of everyone that walks through her doors with dignity and respect. We have found that each guest is a gift and has so much to give, and when you hold a high expectation of them, they rise to the occasion! 

Thank you and Go Irish.

For the third straight year (thus BK throwing up three fingers versus the traditional two above), the kind folks of the Notre Dame internet and its extended family are looking to raise money for the Center for the Homeless in South Bend. The Center does tremendous work in a variety of ways for the community - read more about them here  if you're not familiar - and after a season of going along for the ride it's nice to take control and do some Good for folks who could use a hand.

Our target donation number is 3,978, the number of yards allowed by the Notre Dame defense over their perfect 12 games. We didn't do this after the 2015 season and things didn't go so good but since we launched the inaugural edition of Christmas Giving in December 2016 the football program is 22-3 and the women's basketball team won one of the most iconic national titles in recent sports history. Is there any karmic causation here or is it simply coincidence? Who can say, but it seems like a bad idea to tempt fate and not run this back.

Please consider sharing this with your friends, family and alumni groups. If you have any questions, please reach out via the provided contact link. For more on the CFH,  executive director Steve Camilleri provided this explainer of what his group does in the community:

*The Center's mission is to help break the cycle of homelessness, and it's been such a gift to see people transform their lives and get back on their feet. Like a university, guests that arrive at CFH focus on their "major", and take classes, programming, and seek the help they need in the area they need it most. As they achieve success in that area, they wrap around other opportunities, much like elective courses, that can be for personal edification, enjoyment or education. All in all, CFH tries to meet the needs of everyone that walks through her doors with dignity and respect. We have found that each guest is a gift and has so much to give, and when you hold a high expectation of them, they rise to the occasion! "

Thank you and Go Irish, Beat Tigers.

After we spent most of the 2016 football season feeling Bad, we raised some money for the Center for the Homeless in South Bend and did some Good. It was so much fun that it seems like it would be foolish not to get together and do it again, so we’re running it back to a) Help people b) See how creative folks get with their comments.

The organization we're going to contribute to does a lot of wonderful things for the people of South Bend. Steve Camilleri, the executive director for the CFH, provided this explainer of what his group does in the community:

*It's hard to believe that the Center for the Homeless has been around for nearly 29 years. We'll celebrate that anniversary on December 18th. Even more hard to believe is that over 60,000 people have been touched by our mission over these years. The Center's mission is to help break the cycle of homelessness, and it's been such a gift to see people transform their lives and get back on their feet. Like a university, guests that arrive at CFH focus on their "major", and take classes, programming, and seek the help they need in the area they need it most. As they achieve success in that area, they wrap around other opportunities, much like elective courses, that can be for personal edification, enjoyment or education. All in all, CFH tries to meet the needs of everyone that walks through her doors with dignity and respect. We have found that each guest is a gift and has so much to give, and when you hold a high expectation of them, they rise to the occasion! "

You can read more about them here: http://www.cfh.net/about_us

Our goal is the total receiving yardage of Mr. Will Fuller's (pictured above) collegiate career. Thanks very much for any amount you can give and Go Irish.

After we spent most of the 2016 football season feeling Bad, it seemed wise to be proactive this Christmas season with doing some Good. Since we don't have to worry about paying for things like bowl tickets, let's put those unallocated funds to use with helping some people.

The organization we're going to contribute to is the Center for the Homeless, a group that does a lot of wonderful things for the people of South Bend. You can read more about them here: http://www.cfh.net/about_us

Thanks very much for any little bit you can give and Go Irish.

UPDATE: Thank you to our friends at Her Loyal Sons for joining the cause: http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2016/12/05/put-money-mouth/ They do great work and this is so awesome of them to help promote.

UPDATE #2: You all have absolutely gone above and beyond with this. Just thanks so much to everybody for their generosity and their wit and their kindness, the ND family might not be perfect but we can do some Good.