Bob’s welcomes all guests to contribute Bob’s Café Collections for a Cause program to benefit Operation Homefront Transitional Housing (Apartments) now through December. It’s simple to support Operation Homefront by stopping in Bob’s and visiting the on-the-house-café to contribute. Guests can also donate to the Bob’s matching campaign online here. Bob’s will collect donations made in store cafes across America and match those donations dollar-for-dollar up to $75,000 so the more you give, the more Bob’s gives!
Bob’s welcomes all guests to contribute Bob’s Café Collections for a Cause program to benefit Operation Homefront Transitional Housing (Apartments) now through December. It’s simple to support Operation Homefront by stopping in Bob’s and visiting the on-the-house-café to contribute. Guests can also donate to the Bob’s matching campaign online here. Bob’s will collect donations made in store cafes across America and match those donations dollar-for-dollar up to $75,000 so the more you give, the more Bob’s gives!
Since partnering with Operation Homefront in 2019, Bob’s has contributed more than $200,000 to support the organization’s programs and services available to military families including critical financial assistance, a variety of housing support, and meal assistance.
This year, donations from the partnership will support Operation Homefront’s newly launched Transitional Housing – (Apartments) program, which provides veterans with a rent/utilities free apartment for one year, while giving them the opportunity to utilize both employment and financial counselor services to help achieve stability and chart a path to long-term post military success.
For many veterans and military families, transitioning to civilian life presents many obstacles, including finding an affordable place to live and securing employment to support themselves and their families, explains Operation Homefront.
“Bob’s Discount Furniture and Operation Homefront have a shared mission of supporting those in need with shelter,” shared Lindsay Ruszczyk, Director of Communications and Community Outreach. “We are honored to collect and match donations that will support a worthy program like the Transitional Housing (Apartments), which aims to give service members a path to post-military success.”
Bob’s directly supported the Transitional Housing (Apartments) program last year by helping to furnish an apartment for Felicite Gray, a Navy veteran and hew new baby.
After seven years of service, which took her to Dubai, Singapore, Bahrain, and Hawaii, Felicite separated from the military with an honorable discharge at the end of her contract. Felicite, who is a new mother, needed to relocate from her station in San Diego, Calif., back to the east coast to be near family for support. Operation Homefront Transitional Housing (Apartments) assisted Felicite by providing an apartment and paid utilities for one year so she can focus on being a new mother and attend college.
“The apartment has been such a stress-reliever as a first-time mom with a newborn,” Felicite said. “It helped me get back to the east coast, and the program manager and resources have been amazing.”
Bob’s was honored to offer Felicite the opportunity to furnish her new space. She and her new baby, Aryah, were treated to a personal shopping experience at her local Bob’s where a store manager helped Felicite turn her new apartment into a home.
“It’s a blessing,” Felicite said. “It feels good to know the assistance I am getting is being done with genuine spirit. Sometimes we get so caught up in life that we don’t realize there are companies and entities that are willing to help.”
“In this challenging economic environment, we have found many more of our military families are really struggling to make ends meet,” said retired Brig. Gen. John I Pray Jr., CEO of Operation Homefront. “Which is why we are so grateful to amazing partners like Bob’s Discount Furniture, and their generous Café Collections for a Cause customers, for their unwavering support of our efforts to give this very deserving group of our fellow Americans the opportunity for a stronger, more stable, and more secure future.”
