From their Facebook page…

Please join the Matt Urban Hope Center on Saturday, January 7th (9:30 am – 5:30 pm) at Natural Nails & Spa for a little pampering. By treating yourself to a pedicure and/or manicure, you will be helping to raise money for the homeless as 15% of all Hope Center sales are donated to homeless services. You will also be entered to win a Spa basket!

So bring a friend and call for an appointment today — 957-3440 and mention that you are supporting the Matt Urban Hope Center.

Natural Nails & Spa is located at 2302 Niagara Falls Blvd in Tonawanda in the plaza directly across the street from Gary Pools.

Hope to see you there!!

The HOPE Center is wonderful in all the work they do to make people’s lives better.

From the HOPE Center’s Facebook page:

Home for the Holidays is especially meaningful this year for 48 chronically homeless individuals. For the first time in years, they have a home thanks to our Housing First Program. To make this year’s holiday extra special for them, we asking the community for gift donations. Suggested gifts include men’s & women’s scarfs, sweaters, gloves (all sizes), wall clocks, movie tickets, puzzles, games, lotions for women, grooming kits for men. Unwrapped gifts can be dropped off at the Hope Center M-F 11 am – 4:30 pm, or contact Karen Carman at 716-893-7222 x301 to make other arrangements. Thank you for your continued support!

Please condsider donating…

What a great weekend I had in the neighborhood!!!

I had the privilege of participating in the Hope Center’s trunk or treat event on Friday evening and emceeing the Broadway Market’s annual Halloween contest on Saturday.

The Hope Center’s trunk or treat event was incredible.  In just one year, the event has nearly tripled in size!!!  It is a testament to the good work the Hope Center does for the neighborhood.  I brought nearly 200 pieces of candy and I ran out! Running the event in the shadow of the Central Terminal makes it special.

Next year, I am going to have to up what I did with my trunk cuz some folks put together some very awesome displays.

The Broadway Market…a totally different experience and a totally different place than the Hope Center.  But equal in its importance to the Broadway-Fillmore community.  The contest gave a lot of kids an opportunity to participate in an event that they wouldn’t be able to if the Market wasn’t there.

I loved both!!!

Alive!!!

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BFA encourages other community organizations and individuals to come out on 10/28/2011 and support the Hope Center by participating in the center’s second annual Trunk-or-Treat in the Central Terminal’s parking lot.

It is simple…decorate your vehicle’s trunk, etc. and pass out candy to neighborhood children.

This is a great way to provide B-F’s kids with a fun and safe way to enjoy Halloween.

Click here for the registration form to send in to the Hope Center—>

For more info contact:
Matt Urban Hope Center
385 Paderewski Drive
Buffalo, NY 14212
Phone: 716-893-7222 x310 | Fax: 716-783-9954

If you haven’t liked them yet on Facebook, no time like the present.

Here is the link:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/HOPE-Center/247572050724

The Matt Urban Hope Center is a great organization that provides a wide variety of services for the neighborhood.

Please join them on 08/27/2011 for HOPEfest!!!

Tickets are $12 and are available at the door, or pre-sale, by calling call 893-7222 ext. 302.

+ music + food + cash bar + basket and 50/50 raffles + door prize

Visit the center on Facebook—> http://www.facebook.com/pages/HOPE-Center/247572050724

The Buffalo Infringement Festival infringed on the Broadway Market yesterday changing up your typically Saturday at the Market.  Add in the HOPE Center’s annual rummage sale to the mix and it was really dynamic day at 999 Broadway.

One of the coolest spaces in all of B-F is the roof of the Market.  It offers a great view of the neighborhood and downtown plus is simply an awesome space to hold events like the Infringement Festival.

Downstairs…the Hope Center’s annual rummage sale was a success.  I spoke with the center’s Joyelle Tedeschi and she was thrilled with how the sale went.  Heck, I even scored an old World University Games mug.

Photos:

The Hope Center now offers FREE YOGA classes!

Get fit and de-stress with us every Friday morning at 10:00 a.m.

The yoga classes are made possible by volunteers from Evolation Yoga featuring B-F resident Amanda Hippert who sent along the photos above.

She’s  had the idea of bringing yoga to the neighborhood for awhile.

From Amanda:

I want the people around this neighborhood to get involve in it as much as possible. This is a very good opportunity for all of us as a community to start taking care and healing ourselves, this way we can take care of everyone around us.

Awesome…

Call 893-7222, ext. 310 to register for the class!

The Hope Center is located at 385 Paderewski Drive.

ALIVE!

(By Janice L. Habuda – Buffalo News) Working with the ease and efficiency of movement that comes with experience, Tasha Moore plates and then Grace Simmons serves hot meals, tableside, in the Urban Diner.

Neither works in the food service industry — not yet. And the Urban Diner isn’t your typical restaurant.

Clients of the Erie County Social Services Department, Moore and Simmons “work” three days a week in the Matt Urban Hope Center’s soup kitchen, fulfilling a federal requirement — at least 20 hours a week of community service or furthering their educations — imposed by welfare reform in the mid-1990s.

Pursuing a general equivalency diploma — which many lack — or workplace skills such as computer competency are the education options.

The three components comprise the Safety Net Achievement Program, a federally funded collaborative of the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center of WNY, United Way of Buffalo & Erie County, the county Social Services Department and the Buffalo Public Schools that began in May 2008.

Read full story at the Buffalo News—>